Overcoming My Insecurities (Draft)

Draft

Outline:

Introduction

Welcome

Blast off to Surge - (Giveaways)

Message Title: Overcoming My Insecurity

Pray

Illustration/Story

Story about driving and loosing control of my car in CSTAT

We don’t like feeling out of control?

Scariest feeling: Felling out of control in our mind

Intrusive thoughts

Anxiety

Insecutity

Connect

Tension Question: Do you struggle with control over your thoughts?

Many of us Love God, but we are trapped in wrong thinking

Your Mindset determines how you live your life - Many of of are confused about our relationship with God becasue we suffer with the wrong mindsets (beleifs)

Exampe:

Imperfect father on the perfect father

Daddy issues - so you date deadbeats

You didn’t have a father in your life

Romans 7:22-24 (NLT)

22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

Law of mind - Desires God

Law of Sin - Desires war and death

We are at a constant tug of war

We are called to have the “Mind of Christ” but we slip back into the “Mind of Adam and Eve”

Last week - Victim Menality (John 5)

This week - Scarcity Mentality (Insecurity)

Insecurity - Lack of security,

Your Future - often in relation to one’s future or to one’s present position.

Yourself - This mindset is a beleif in inadequecy - your not good enough.

“What if Im not good enought”

“They won’t like that about me I need to supress it”

“What if I fail at life”

The root of Scarcity (Insecurity) is doubt...

God

Others

Yourself

Adam and Eve struggled with this

Genesis 3:1-3 (NLT)

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” 2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’ ” 4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”

The devil chose not to attack with a physical weapon

The devil chooses to attack you with an idea

Ideas and thought patters (Mindsets) are weapons...

Idea: “God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being”

Devil attacks God Identity - King or Dictator

The Lord - “YAHWEH” - Relational/Covenant

God - “ELOHIM” - HIS POWER

Devil attacks your Idenity

Eve struggled with doubt, many of us are in a battling struggling with doubt

Doubt > Insecurity > Shame = Seperation from God (Identity)

Genesist 1:27(NLT)

“27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

Insecurity robs you of your idenity. It robs you from being you

You act different around certain friends

You are one way at church but outside of here you are another

You are scared to go all in with God becuas you are hesitant in letting go of the world

Eve Thought: “What if there is somthing God can’t give me”

Eve Thought: “What if there is somthing the world can offer me that will satisfy me?”

Diagnose Your Patient:

Insecurity

Insecurity is causing students to act outside of their true identity

Intrusvie thougts - they think too much about themselves

Prayer:

Lord thank you again for another oppotunity to minsiter and teach your Word! Incredible to think that you allow me to do this, and you give me grace to sustain. Love you Lord. I pray for the listeners Lord. I pray that its isn’t just heard, but that the word is listened to and obeyed. Father I pray for wisdome and insight as I prepared your word and I lean in on you in faith Father. May students and leaders be equipped as they hear the words. Most importantly, may it all be for your glory! I pray that this message gives you glory and as it gives you glory it equips the saints Father! Thank you Lord. Amen.

Observations > Interpretations > Applications:

Observations:

“waging war against the law of my mind” - We are fighting this internal battle and the environment is our minds

We desire God and good things, but there is another aspect at work that is toxic

Law of mind (desires God)

Law of sin (wars against the law of mind)

Lack of security, often in relation to one’s future or to one’s present position. All human life is insecure, but the future of sinners is particularly dangerous and real security is found only in God.