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Become a Warrior
Become a Warrior
Body, Mind, and Spirit
To prepare for a day of fasting and prayer.
My father was a high-school football coach: Natural Athletes (Eye hand coordination, speed (speed is born not made).
His job was to take these natural athletes and develop the skills they would need to become successful football players.
But he would also take these natural abilities that they had, and improve them.
He would physically and mentally push them until they became stronger and faster.
Becoming a warrior for Christ.
God takes our natural abilities that he created in us, and indwells us with His spirit.
But he also pushes us, through trials, to become mentally stronger.
Mind is our greatest power and our biggest weakness.
God created us with superior intelligence
Physically we are inferior to most animals on the planet.
But because of the intelligence of humans, we have, in part, subdued:
Land: Motorcycles
Sea: Boats, ships, submarines
Air: Airplanes and even gone into space.
Humans have gone into space,
Greatest Inventions/discoveries of all times
Fire
Wheel
Nail
Optical Lenses
Compass
Paper
Printing Press
Electricity
Steam Engine
Internal Combustion Engine
Telephones
Vaccinations
Cars
Airplane
Rockets
Penicillin
Nuclear Fission
Semi-Conductors
Personal Computers
But man also created terrible things:
Gunpowder
Guillotine
TNT
Agent Orange
DDT
Sarin Gas
Land Mines
The Atomic Bomb
With the mind we can comprehend the existence of our creator, or we can be duped by a John Jones where in 1978 909 people committed suicide at Jonestown.
The Power of the Mind
Tibetan Monks: Meditation have been able to drastically lower their heart rate and regulate body temperature.
4 monks were put into a room at 39 degrees covered in wet blankets and were able to raise their body temperature to just over 100 degrees.
Another monk was able to make one hand warmer than the other.
The Placebo Effect: In 1957, a man named Mr. Wright hounded his doctor to allow him to try Krebiozen, even though he did not qualify for the experimental trials, because Wright was convinced the drug would cure him.
His doctor finally consented and injected him with the cancer treatment.
Wright immediately began to improve, and one journal article quotes the doctor as saying Mr. Wright’s tumors shrank “like a snowball on a hot stove.”
However, Wright got wind of the failures of the drug, and soon after his tumors shot up in size.
Worried for his patient, Mr. Wright’s doctor convinced him that there was a newer, better version of the drug which was guaranteed to work.
Mr. Wright consented to trying Krebiozen again, but was actually injected with a syringe full of water.
His condition immediately improved.
Unfortunately, Wright then learned that Krebiozen had been declared ineffective by the American Medical Association and died soon after.
Nocebo affect: itching just talking about lice or bugs.
Visualization: Air Force Colonel George Hall POW 7 years.
Every day played golf in his mind.
Played in the New Orleans open and shot a 76.
Pain Management: Jack Schwarz was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.
To withstand the torture he faced, he practices meditation and prayer.
He could poke himself with a needle and stop and start the bleeding.
Hypnosis: Stop smoking, lose weight, turn babies in the womb.
Automatic processes: Riding a motorcycle
What the Bible says about meditation
Meditate: Ha-ga: to growl (like a lion) give serious thought to.
Ponder.
Psalms
Phil
So why does God want us to meditate on His word?
God knows how suggestible we are.
Don’t think about an elephant.
People can manipulate that characteristic.
Go to buy a car/bike.
Do you have that one thing that will set your off?
Offer you something
make you feel that you are losing out if you don’t buy now.
Make you sit quietly alone.
Bathroom habits.
There are worse things than car salesman!
2 Timothy 3:1-
Do you have that one thing that will set your off?
Story about giving the middle finger.
Thinking about God can save you from yourself.
Renew your mind
Prepare for the battle
Picture the Elephant.
Spend some time in meditation.
Meditation is not prayer.
Prayer is communication.
Meditation practice: picture your sin, picture the Christ on the cross.
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