2020.02.09 Victorious Secrets Part 1: Change Your Mind

how good to be back

butterflies

time away, learned a bunch about myself, it was grueling

all types of people there

my journey isn’t done

i have you to thank-not once did i think about “I’ve got to get back to manipulate them”

your support of my wife.

my children are the best - Jordan coming home

Introduction

My assumption is that you want to win. You’re here today because you want victory in an area of your life in a task overall.

I don’t want to impress you w how amazing the brain is.

Romans 12:2 NKJV

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Philippians 4:8 NKJV

8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

Romans 8:6 NKJV

6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

He’s thinking about your future why aren’t you

to plan (devise) v. — to make or work out a plan for; devise; concieved of as sowing seeds

Colossians 3:2 NKJV

2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

Matthew 22:37 NKJV

37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV

5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

he’s thinking about your future why are you

λογισμός, οῦ, ὁ (Thu. +).

① the product of a cognitive process, calculation, reasoning, reflection, thought in our lit. in pl. W. ἔννοιαι thoughts and sentiments

The Mind

“We demolish 'logical conclusions’ and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

You can’t want victory w your heart and your soul is ok taking a ‘L’!

Play Video

You’ve got to change your mind!!!!!

If your thinking is too, high/low, off center, misaligned, infected or faulty, you need to change your mind.

The Mind

hone in on how the brain plays the role. in the soulish dimension you have mind, will and emotions

your mind is where your thoughts are formed. Those thoughts are impressed and therefore register on the brain.

it’s in your mind that you think, feel, will.

Explain Synapses

arousal->converted to energy (a spark) ->picked up by synapse->jump over the cleft

This establishes a pathway. “fire together wire together.

Demonstration

Gideon

If a failure has been fused into our brains, we’ve got to get more excited about our victory than we do our failure. Put another way, you’ve got to change the way your brain has been responding to the pain of the failure. Put another way, you’ve got to create some connections between w new synapses. And then, re-enforce them.

Slide: Knowledge Does Not Equal Understanding

Do you believe God will catch you - WHY WON’T YOU JUMP

Do you believe God wants to bless you - WHY WON’T YOU PUT HIM FIRST WITH YOUR MONEY

Do you believe God wants to use you at your job - WHY DO YOU KEEP ACTING LIKE YOU HATE YOUR JOB

Do you believe God wants you to like your spouse - WHY DON’T Y’ALL DATE

Knowledge Does Not Equal Understanding

Christina Reeves Energy Psychologist

This is How You Can Control What Gets Deleted from the Brain

It’s the synaptic connections you don’t use that get marked for recycling. The ones you do use are the ones that get watered and oxygenated. So be mindful of what you’re thinking about.

If you spend too much time reading theories about the end of “Game of Thrones” and very little on your job, guess which synapses are going to get marked for recycling?

If you’re in a fight with someone at work and devote your time to thinking about how to get even with them, and not about that big project, you’re going to wind up a synaptic superstar at revenge plots but a poor innovator.

What you focus on prevails! You literally craft your own mind by choosing what you pay attention towards.

Of course, you can hardly control what happens to you throughout your day, but you can control how much it affects you. To be more specific, you can choose WHAT affects you and construct your own neural connections.

Instead of focusing on things that hold you back, focus on things that make you a better human being. Instead of imagining scenarios that will most likely never happen, meditate. Clear your mind. Bring your mind to the now and use your mental energy toward things that benefit you. -Christina Reeves Energy Psychologist

https://themindisthemap.com/neurons-that-fire-together-wire-together/

“Pastor this sounds good. Great job explaining the brain, but I just don’t know.”

Slide: “Children have more neuroplasticity than adults.”

translation, you can tell a child something and they 1st believe what you tell them 2nd the act on what you tell them.

Matthew 18:33 NKJV

33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’

Matthew 18:3 NET

3 and said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

QUIT THINKING LIKE YOU USE TO THINK AND 1. BELIEVE WHAT I’M TELLING YOU 2. ACT ON WHAT I’M TELLING YOU!!!

When you worship, you’re saying I agree with everything you’ve said.

sometimes when people worship, they even build altars. Gideon had an encounter w God chapter 6

Close

Brene Brown “Say it whether you believe it or not.”

Kinda sounds like to me “call those things that are not as though they were.”

Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and has been shown to be highly active in important executive functions such as motor control, cognition, memory creation and reward- directed behavior.

When you worship, you’re saying I agree with everything you’ve said.

sometimes when people worship, they even build altars. Gideon had an encounter w God chapter 6

Take away:

1. your victory requires your participation

2. your mouth and your mind matter

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