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3 things to remember from last week’s message:
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Your life will head in the direction of that to which you give your thinking.
2. Stop focusing on the obstacle and start focusing on the outcome.
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You can do all things through Christ - when you focusing your thinking on the right things!
"Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life."
Proverbs 4:23 CEV
What you are living is closely related to what you are thinking.
1) We are in a battle with unseen forces.
2) The Primary Battlefield is the Mind
Note that Salvation is the Helmet
Salvation covers our mind
NIV says “with this is mind.”
The inference in verse 18 is to keep the understanding that we are in a battle with spiritual forces in the heavenly realm in the forefront of our mind.
We are to be constantly aware that the battle is against these forces.
We we forget that, we look around us for the culprit and we will find one somewhere:
Our Spouse
Our mother
Our father
Our children
The bullies at school
The overbearing boss at work
The teachers
The past relationships that blew up or fell apart
The people we counted on who let us down
The ones who rejected us
The ones who had a controlling influence over us
The ones who belittled us
The ones who left us out
The ones we counted on who walked away
The ones who broke our trust
And if we can’t find anyone else, we blame the person in the mirror
3) You stinking thinking didn’t just start start stinking yesterday.
When we experience the things above, we start to ruminate on those occurences and develop strategies in our mind to avoid them happening again - or worse, to accept them as our normal.
Examples:
I am going to keep everyone at a distance so no one hurts me again.
I will never let anyone control me again.
I will be in control or I will check out.
No one is ever going to walk away from me again.
If i get an inkling that this is going to happen, I will leave first.
There’s obviously something wrong with me or people would not have treated me this way.
We develop these thinking patterns and begin to interpret things based on how our experience has shaped our thinking.
These become strongholds in our mind.
Strongholds: old, difficult, discouraging challenges.
- Max Lucado
The term stronghold appears at least fifty times in the Bible.
It commonly referred to a fortress with a difficult access (see Judges 6:2; I Sam.
23:14).
When King David first saw the city of Jerusalem, it was an old, ancient, cheerless fortress inhabited by enemies.
No wonder it was twice called a stronghold (see II Sam.
5:7,9).
This is referring to Jerusalem - It belonged to the Israel but was inhabited by the enemy.
4) The enemy can operate out of the strongholds he has set up in territory that is not his - our mind.
The Apostle Paul uses the term to describe a mindset or attitude.
5) We have spiritual weapons that enable us to take back strongholds.
The Word
God was correcting a stronghold created by original sin:
The way this stronghold was to be corrected was by allowing the Word to wash your mind.
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