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In Jesus name. My man.
This is what your team did a great job. The last song is exactly in line with where I'm going to life about being dressed and ready. That's all thing for this month. As we head towards Christmas, everybody dress up for Christmas to you. Yet anybody being out in the Christmas. Do you go on spec speakers. Maybe go, special dress or suit or go special toys out we going somewhere, special. Maybe we want to impress somebody. Maybe I'll boss made, maybe I'll children.
Maybe if we wait for closing, maybe a boyfriend or girlfriend, but we dress to impress
You know what I want to say? We need to dress on the inside, so you can talk to me about this last week. We need to dress on the inside too. So please bear with me. This is going to be a pretty couch sermon. So please pricing, because I'm I'm with you in this, and I got a whole load of different versions of the Bible. But let me start with Exodus chapter 19, verses 5, and 6, but you that's us. But you are a chosen race. A royal priesthood, a dedicated Nation, God's Own purchased special, people aren't you. My set forth, the wonderful deeds and display the virtues imperfections of him who called you out of Darkness Into His Marvelous Light, which I wasn't charged. With special, that means your special. I am absolutely certain quite a few people who were listening online and who all in the room today at some point in our lives, we would have said I'm not good enough or I'm not special. Scripture says you are special your chosen.
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Why did God send us a pop? Why does he do that in Philippians chapter? 4 says, there's think God's wonderful, peace. That transcends human understanding will make the Oz known to you through Christ Jesus. So keep your thoughts continually fixed on, all that is authentic and real. Honorable an admirable beautiful and respectful pure and holy merciful and kind and fasten your thoughts. On every glorious work of God, praising him always I wonder if I said, okay for the next five minutes so I'm not going to brew cost up on the screen to the world. What she brings thinking about this week.
I'm a bit nervous. If I'm honest with you, please don't do that. Do that from time to time, but we need to keep our eyes continually fixed on what is offenses Kingdom rail. I don't want to really Challenge and explosiveness some principles. I want to explode. So Bryce your minds. Be sober circumspect, morally, alerts. Set your whole holy and unchangeable E on the grace Divine favor. That is coming to you, when Christ Jesus. The Messiah is revealed, do you know where I'm going? I'm going to challenge you. I'm going to provoke you.
Jenna? What we think? We will become an alarm. Platanus and what goes on in here. If we're not careful, we will be coming. If we keep on feeding all Minds with rubbish, rubbish look exactly the same about our bodies. If you keep on eating 10 Donuts today, Now your buddy will not be in good shape. I was listening to a podcast this weekend said you're most things. If you eat in extremes, if you eat at the stadium for the Mounds balls every week, you will probably get cancer. Yeah, probably I'm not trying to no one will ever eat a stadium full of mouth bus. But what it was saying in moderation, many things are good. If we're not careful, what we think, he's what we becoming. I want to stop by talking about off V life. The first thing I want to say is, we need to identify the thoughts that come into our minds.
Think about this morning, I think about this morning think about what you had for breakfast. Some point during the morning, you probably thought something it might being triggered by the news. It might have been triggered by the righty. I might be triggered by a phone call but now your thoughts are running. Did you call Jewel? Mines. Did you allow whatever came to go straight into your head and go? Okay, that's right.
The first thing we need to do is to identify, but there is a thought we need to identify that song. Why do we need to identify? Because we're accepting it. We're allowing it in
Let me give you an example. You're not very good. Some people thought that would, you know what, somebody might say that your dad or your mom might have said that at some point of your life and you just allowed it to drive down the freeway of your mind. You allowed in the first thing we need to do is God all mines. So just think about you. On our motivation. In the UK, we allow almost anything to drive on the Maxway trucks, Vines bicycles. Do you know what we need to God? All mines in the same way until we can allow everything that travels on the freeway of our minds. Just took to arrive and take over. So, the first thing we need to do is to identify those. We need to identify the thoughts were allowing and maybe it will only allow certain things on that, right? I didn't deciding what we're going to have a place in mind.
Two key questions. I want to offer to help us the God on mine. Number one, he's who's it from What's the score of the idea? I will talk to you and I said to you The World is Flat.
Some of you might, well prove it to me. Because I want many people in the world who'd, for medi medi deck, how you stole the world was flat. If you came to the end of the world, And that's why it's Blu-ray. Schumer's was limited, but for many centuries, people were afraid you'd fall off the end of the world. Are we lost now? Because we had the privilege to have pictures from Spice. They're so us. The planet. We live on the walk dog created. The first thing is, what's the stools? The second thing is that's the a line with go to work.
I want you to imagine sitting down and having a cup of coffee is sitting down and having a cup of coffee with somebody and they stop staring at them unpleasant thing.
No experience but about somebody else. First thing we want to.
Sometimes it'll be from the enemy. Sometimes it be for the bad source is Google a good source by challenge. My students all the time, I say to them, what, what do you trust is a good source? And you had me try this many times before, but I'll quote it, again, a fantastic piece of research done out of the University of Southern California, that got a whole bunch of people to get up in the morning. And for breakfast, I read at a great text. the Bible, the Torah, The Little Prince
Another group of people, they were only allowed to read the news, the newspapers of the day. After a few months, those who read the great text to a healthier, I feel more at peace and I could keep on getting, those are reading the news. Everyday, the roller coaster, the news up and down, you shouldn't read the news. Look at the source.
Wikipedia use Virtual tricks. anybody can change it and so that we could make more if you quote, Wikipedia a negative mark What's the source question number to Align with God's word? Explore some of the lies that maybe we've had before. See if I can find them. I think I put some up here. Employees that come all way. Let me read out some of them to you. This is not meant to be exclusive. You are not good enough. You're not good enough. What's the first thing we do? Is it from, what? It might be a line with God's word.
Jesus sent his one and only son to die for you. He said he's wanted. Why would he do that? If he wasn't good enough, he's done it because you'll special unique. I've already give me scriptures. That they claim your special, your precious your unit. You've been chose People don't choose people do not good enough. You probably bring there at some point, when he was getting selected. You know, you had Primary School likes to to use two team captains, and you were the last person to be paid. You know, how about feel? I feel like I'm not good enough, but that's just a life. So we reject it on premise, number two, Another lies, it's better somewhere else. That may be true sometimes. But you know what, if we are always looking over the fence if we're always looking at something else that we have no, scripture says Don't Lie. Contentment is great gain. Being at peace with my you right now, I'm not saying it's easy. Jesus said that will be troubles in life. You did say that, but, you know, we can get through it with him. I'm so if we Stop Believing by off to tie it back, to somewhere else, with not looking about, improving where we are. We're looking about going somewhere else.
I'm not going to make it. I'm not going to finish this. What helps us enables as he fills us. Equips us. We can do all things through Christ, who strengthens us? So sometimes God will be with us. Will be with us in many different ways. I have only this week, somebody say everyone's against me. Everyone, everyone, what's for you is for you who can be against you. Something something nice, I can refute these with scripture. Very simple and that's one of the reasons I give you memory verses every week because I want to give you weapons of warfare. That means when the whisper comes in your ear. You got? No, that's not true. That's not true about me. I'm not going to accept this.
Just think about this. Someone comes to 6 and I'm thinking on the coffee drinkers, good type of tea, drinkers food, but you sit down and have a coffee inside.
I'm not comfortable discussing lineup.
I'm not talking about this in your best friends. Somebody comes and they start telling you things that you you never lies. I bet the music box need to listen to
Okay, what are we going to do? If life is not going to be from a good source,
Cuz I'm not going to sit here for 2 hours. I'm going to say if, in 2 hours and listening and allow this to continue night my mind and my heart.
Because we can change our thoughts, we can change our thoughts. And if we change our forwards, it will change our options. And if we change our actions, it will change the way we will. And if we change the way we walk, it will change the way we live.
it starts with some simple things by the way, we think my Criminal Minds,
While I went to see a podiatrist do kind of mission, my kite. And put me on machines, and maybe woke, and he said that he, and his whole bunch of a Straight Talk SIM inserts in my shoes, which I put inside my shoes, and I meant to wear them everyday. I meant to say, I meant to wear them every night at the moment, they're uncomfortable. I know they're doing me good. Do you know what? I have to choose to put the right pair of shoes on like a bomb, another pair of shoes that don't have the inserts in nothing but everything else goes out, if you have to choose for the right shoes on, put the weather like in sense, that will result in a good War, kind of good. Will result in a healthier life. I want to be here for that case. I don't about you. I want to be here for decades. Don't want to leave out my retirement, whatever. That means, when I say we, I don't mean retirement from the kingdom, but I think you were Touring that light. But yeah, when are you going to pension those kind of things don't have to go to work everyday.
Sawyer. In 2 Corinthians 10:5. I'm going to read from the message. Now, I just love this version it. We use our powerful God, given tools for smashing philosophies tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God. Fitting every loose stools, an emotion and impulse into the structure of Life shaped by 2. Corinthians 10:6 from the message version.
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We talked about it. Have you gotten ugly? That's boring. I'm not interested. Some of you will go. Well, I'll humor you sometimes we talked about things cuz we want to email the person who's speaking lies to us.
Can we change the subject? And you want perfectly at Liberty to change the subject. And if they don't want to change the subject, maybe you want to say,
About six or seven years ago, I remember going to a kitchen of a couple who have I've known for many, many, many years, they lived in Europe for a number of years in different countries, and then they came back to the UK. I went into the kitchen, And I was talking to them. I'm done any bust into tears. I honestly nearly burst into tears because we were having the same conversation. We had probably 10 years before. I was stuck in a rut. So I was still stuck in a runt I haven't made any other choices to move differently. Even though I try to save some scripture into them, they were still stuck in the rightness of thinking about family relationships. You know what I mean? When the family's pulling out with another part of the family and then you get these kind of questions. So whose side are you on?
But you're my general answer to most people. Decide whose side are you on his. I'm on anybody's side right now. All I'm doing is listen. But I'm listening for the truth. I would like to test. What's the score of the Family Guy? And I'll switch this off and I'll just sit in on Northern. I don't think you're being helpful, allowing them to talk. Change the conversation. Sometimes people do need to unload the people of grieving, they do need to unload, that kind of stuff. Whenever someone in the funeral of an oblique Anthony, Lyft Office Tallahassee passed away number weeks ago. And I have to prove anything to anyone. Talk to his family and some of them.
Yeah, well, I just left, but you know what, I what I was looking for was okay. I won't pretend this conversation around. I want to take this somewhere else than what I wanted to stay in that grief. And what I have the privilege and I've said it to a number of you, is whenever I take the funeral not taken quite a few over the years sometimes, I don't know, maybe I need my mom and dad used to come to your church or to a senior citizens. Luncheon thing, would you be willing to do that? Be and when I say yes, if we never want to go to celebrate a life, I'm going to celebrate a life on my interested number to we sign. Farewell is that grief is very much the prices, but the important as a message of Hope, I've been to funerals by there is no message of Hope at all. Just let you walk out that your heads down. You're looking at the floor, no one's talking cuz you don't want to say, I'm ready to leave. We need to go to needs to help us to take things to a greater place and sometimes that's about number one, was it from babies, not from you can find polite ways of saying this
But you know what? Time we move the conversational. What we allow in, we need to go to hearts and Minds.
How do we do that? Well, let me quote Romans 12, chapter 2, chapter 20, verse 2. I'm do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that she might prove, what is good and acceptable and perfect scripture describes what I'm talking about that. I need to practice this one scripture and you going to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, second-by-second vices, and they're all cells that are dying. Their sales are being reproduced. Now the neurons firing. That's the great thing that I do. Like to go to the ocean from time to time. Romans 12:2 do not be conformed to this world this age. Fashion doll, Throne adapted to this external superficial customs. In my perspective, Kingdom principles, that will be things that were things that Danny was off to do. He would not bow down. There are plenty of examples in scripture where they said, no, I'm not going to do that. Maybe a time in your life when you have to say no to an official. I'm sorry I'm not doing them.
But be transformed Changed by the entire renewal of your mind. That's the biological stuff is going on in there. Why is new ideas and its new attitude so that you might prove for yourself cuz we need to know ourselves but if she's good and healthy and just the Podiatry sing to me, it'll do you good? And when I did a check out with me, and how's it going? I said it's pretty painful to be honest. Yeah. But look at the way you walking differently so I can see the benefits like going to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym and other people like me or not. So good. Now there is benefit in doing that there's benefit in making right choices. You may prove to yourself what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Even the thing, which is good and acceptable and perfect in his sight for you. Full steps. I want this to tighten number one. He's identify this tool.
now, if you think about it, when you cross the road, the first thing I say, stop Look right. Look like if you were looking for traffic. Let me encourage you if you aren't comfortable in a particular moment, you're about to go to come play and sing. Okay, what's coming? What is coming my way? Sometimes you will have a particular conversation, you got to meet somebody hug. I know why this is kind of guy. Are you take a deep breath in that deep breath all skill to help you. So, number one, identify the thought, never to speak to the sword.
And if you think I'm nuts here, I regularly see people walking around the street, speaking to themselves out loud, while I'm working more than I ever used today. I didn't used to do it because I thought. Somebody's going to label me as a bit nuts cuz I'm walking down the street and I'm talking to myself. And then I realized
I look like I'm on the phone with you. You have been annoyed just like like being annoyed when someone's on the train and I talking on that phone on the earbuds and you can hear the whole conversation. You think that I don't want to hear about what you having for dinner tonight. But we can use them like that.
What we talk about is what we become. So speak to those stores address. Those allowing to your mind, what is important? But it's something out once we've been said, what does the Align? So, the gods were faced. Truth, we can claim. That's true. I can do all things through Christ. Who strengthens me? We know that to be true. We know it's, the Bible says that Can we claim is true, for me is true for me now. Besides the difference between having a truth and claiming a truth. So I want to encourage a slight slight hold of that truth. There's some of those lies about. Let's clean some of the truth. Some of the words, we just sang. There's no Shadow. You one lights up. There's no mountain. You won't climb. And there's, nobody won't kick down coming off the main view. Jesus talks about. He left the 99 to go for the one. That's what a Shepherd would do. The lost sheep, we will go and find that lost she, so let's claim that truth. And then once we cleaned inside, that's true for me. But I don't like to choose to walk it. I know you don't want to hear about my podiatrics their duties, but this is the reality, the reality is, every guy I need to, I need to make a choice gun. OK, the advice that I've been given he's good. I can feel the benefit of a pie in a bit but I'm going to climb that truth and I am going to walk in that true. I'm going to walk in that true that I'm getting better and better. Now that might not be true about shoes for you. What scripture talks about putting on the full armor of God, the belt of truth that holds everything together, the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of salvation, the feet shod, with the Readiness of the gospel of peace.
One of the things about shoes is it takes you somewhere? I've been told the empathy means walking in somebody else's shoes.
And I literally took that story one so my dog can get a chance of somebody else's shoes on now, I don't think fate. I got size 12 shoes. So when I try and put my wife's Garden shoes on, I put my toes in and I walk around like this because I can't be bothered to look for my shoes are just going to go out and I'll do it in my wife shirts and I'll put my clothes in the shoes and pretty strangely. And if somebody's watching me,
Benefit for me, they're not designed for me. Whose shoes? Are you wearing? Cuz if you empathize with someone you'll put shoes on like them and if you walk the way they walk you will find that you will find. You are looking at the world from that perspective. That's why if we allow some of these thoughts into our minds, we will find ourselves in places. We don't want to be not supposed to physical and spiritual. There are places that people can take as if we're not careful 1, Peter 3:10 or he who loves life and sees good title song from Evil and his lips from speaking to see, it won't be allowing is often what we speak out.
I find myself often closing things, I've heard in the week, somebody said something and I think I'm going to use that.
we're doing a Bible study at the moment and if you want to join us or we can get the book still, got some books, Call Dawn Muse by Pete greig. It's a fantastic real journey through talking about difficult things.
These are some of the things that Eliza need to be that way. I used to watch seems like he's not answering a prayer. Anybody understand the full letter acronym, fomo. You know what it stands for. Fear of missing out. It's probably one of the biggest fish in the world today. We feel we're going to miss out so we hold back I'll give you a really simple example is true in church life you put an event Sunnyside people last night with you coming cuz we need to buy the meat or whatever is what happened to Bobby. Do we need to buy the main Some people will respond, some people burn something. Some of us will think it will something better might come along. So I don't want to come in for something like back to my come along.
Fear of missing out. Am I the enemy wants to keep on coming back to us, something better on the other side of the fence.
Somebody came up to me about nine years, nine years ago, they said I've been given this prophetic word network and I just like to understand what you think about it. Is it okay? Are white is in the copyright to the companies. I was baking them.
City of what did, what did I say that you have is not the whites that God has for you? What has a better wife for you.
I don't know what you decide when that would share with you. I said, number one, do you trust the person to share that with you? What's the school's principal that I want to give you some space with somebody else being present? What would they have done? Again. You interesting the day off to share it privately with me. Nobody private me. Just me and them.
Are all prophetic words that are very personal and private but not private enough to ask to be 121. And if anybody and suddenly here, I'll see if anybody ever says you, I'll go to Preparing, but you need to speak to you again. If someone says a better word for you, and they won't bring my friend. Can bring my husband, can you bring my wife? Thank you very much.
It needs to be accountable, needs to be tested. It needs to be and you know what you want to hear?
That's why we live in the molten ihy. You can record stuff is great to go to record stuff. Well, when the spirit started moving and revivals in Wiles, I had Sprite to sense of the front of Judge and wrote down every prophetic, work in a fountain pen. 50 matches. Not if you went to prepare to go to, go to write ready quickly and you don't remember her bow. And we have to prove it is now going to record and listen to it again and again and again, do you trust them as a source?
We is church have to do is if we share a prophetic word. We said we would stand on this issue again, teachability. I think the Lord is going. It's not because he's in perfect because I'm in perfect. Corinthians. Talked about we prophesy in part in my life when something has happened just before meeting cannot be traveling. Something happened at the strong ones are going to email that was Rudy, got a problem. Take another time. Somebody came and stopped fronting at me. Just let me know what they want mentally. Well, but I didn't know that and they kind of renting at me and then I've been in a good place. So, some of the things that I promised, I'd probably carried a little bit. I know. Is this enough?
Prophesy in part. That's why we need to make ourselves to ourselves apart. People who preached? Make sure you're in a good place. People who prophesied, make sure you give me to go to pray for someone. Make sure you're in a good place. Number one, I'm going back to this. What is prophetic word? Weather going to be accountable and then align with go to work.
Just about to text you a lot and I said I would just say. Thank you very much. Bye, bye. I wouldn't even allow it in. I wouldn't even talk about it cuz he doesn't line up. We go to work.
Embrace set this which I love in the Book of Ruth 1:16 recite for me to leave. You don't make me go home, where you go. I will go where you live. I will live your people and my people you'll go out is my daughter. You know what map do we need to? Body up together inside you know what? I'm on the same page as you and I want to do this together and that's all I want to do this together. I want to encourage us to be of good courage, to Samuel 12:10 ends with it. I'm going to end with his good courage and let us be strong for our people. And for the cities of our God and may the gods do what is good in his side. What are we allowing? Is what we allow in will probably linger and if it lingers, it'll probably have an effect. Think about not washing your Footprints properly, think about a strong flavor and Chevy's Curry, Chili's, you haven't washed your Soul's been quite properly. You didn't go and make rice pudding. Is rice pudding. Taste the titties. What is that? Cuz he's contaminated by something that went before.
Good time in rub. Nice love it, I love it. What do you allow in? Let me go back to those four questions. You want to bring them up.
Identify number one identify the tools. Please stay inside. Please be very wise by the conversations that you have.
Identify the question.
Second speak to that fool, the truth will count the truth, the truth, and then walk in that true.
I'll give you some lies on what got to go back to them again, cuz I don't want to give them any more with each other. Not already given him like him too much, but it was, but I think I wanted to go that because for some people that would have been true for some people that might be true that you have to like I'm not good enough.
God sent his one and only son for you. And for me I'm going to do that back to wish it now. And we have room to minister now and one of the one of the reasons for ass I'm moving here was to make room for Ministry. We have a Big Slice of the front now we have people who are happy to come and pray if you need prior to die if he's allowed. So since your mind that you need to get rid of maybe there's some that stuff, maybe there's a thought Lee, you caring for decades and now is the time to present as we worship God as examine our house. So let me pray. Father, thank you for loving us. Thank you for loving us. So dearly father, help us do a write up as the others to do that to the light of Your Love of your spirit, the Manifest of your presence in our world, to change us. Move a lysosome releases for Freedom sight in Jesus name. Amen.
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