Exalting the Word / Defeating Pride
Mind Games: Overcoming the Limitations • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Telos: We are in a warfare against the uncertainty of life’s challenges, and the effect they have on us.
They either change us or we change them!!!
Information
Doubt births from uncertainty
The mind needs certainty- Limits and Liminal space.
Law of the Lid
Every limitation you have is because what you believe.
Authority releases Ability!
Peter said I have fished all night, it isn’t working. Jesus said, let’s try my way.
Why didn’t you make work what I was already doing?
Sometimes God changes our circumstances, and sometimes He changes us before He changes our circumstances.
Inspiration
3 The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will.
4 The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture.
5 We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ.
5 We can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God and break through every arrogant attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God. We capture, like prisoners of war, every thought and insist that it bow in obedience to the Anointed One.
Revelation
Strongholds
Arguments (reasoning and imagination)
High Things (Rises up against to lift above in pride)
Thoughts
Application
Before a stronghold is developed, a reasoning existed, and before that a high thing, and before that a thought.
Our thoughts will source from 3 aspects:
Past, Present, and Future
Don’t allow what you’re going through to define you. You are who God says you are!
Victory always begins with identity.
God had to change Abram and Sarai name to get them to identify with something greater than themselves.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Transformation
If we address the thought, it will never become high thing
9 “For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
10 Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don’t go back until they’ve watered the earth, Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,
11 So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They’ll do the work I sent them to do, they’ll complete the assignment I gave them.
49 Your sister Sodom’s sins were pride, laziness, and too much food, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.
12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
Could be and should be!
Did God really say? Challenges word and exalts self.
Could deals with possibilities
3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
Should deals with authority (good or bad)
Should is the governor of our engine.
The more submitted we are the more our should become must!
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,
Identification is the key to effective action!
Identification is the key to effective action!
1. Bring the thought to obedience of Christ!
2. Submit Yourself to God
No one can steal your peace without your permission! -Peter Nielsen
No one can steal your peace without your permission! -Peter Nielsen
3 Questions:
What is God saying to you?
What are you going to do about it?
How can I pray for you?
Souls, Souls, Souls!!!!!!!!!
