- Well, who's ready to hear from God's Word today? All of our Life.

Churches, it's great

to have you guys with us. We are in a message series called Mastermind, Change Your
Thinking, Change Your Life. Before we dive in, if you remember, our last message series
was called Hope in the Dark. We were talking about the book of Habakkuk. Evidently
there are a lot of people that are hurting because when my new book came out believe
it or not, this thing in stores sold out in two days, two days and so literally for three
weeks it's not been available anywhere and a lot of you have been asking how can I get
one for a friend it is now as of two days ago available again on Amazon and by late in
the week it'll be back on shelves in stores. So I'm thankful for my publishers working
hard to try to keep up with demand. If you know someone hurting, it's on Amazon now
and bookshelves later. Thank you for sharing the message and trying to help people in a
dark place. Let's dive in to today's message. We're gonna be in Philippians chapter four.
We're talking about the power of our minds. I need a little participation from all of our
churches. It's no fun to play without you. How many of you would say that even though
you may be embarrassed you often make decisions that make no sense and are
sometimes incredibly irrational? Raise your hands up right now, leave 'em up, leave 'em
up. Rest of you perfect people, you just sit there and polish your halo. I came to talk to
the real people in the house today. I can make incredibly irrational decisions, it makes
no sense whatsoever. Maybe you can relate, sometimes you make up your mind. Like
you're gonna eat good. I'm eating healthy and you do. For two days straight. And then
somebody brings donuts into the office and you eat one bite, so you eat all 12 and you
top it off with a cinnamon roll just to make sure that you go straight to nutrition hell.
You know, why do you do that? I don't know, you decided whatever is is, I'm going to
be wise financially. We're gonna get out of debt and for 11 straight days you're making
good decisions. Something breaks, you freak out. So to sooth your pain you go to the
mall and buy two pair of shoes and an outfit to match your new shows. Why is it that we
do this? Why is it so many times when we know we should apologize we don't. When
we know we should take responsibility, we do the opposite. When we know what's
right, we do what's easy. Why is it that we often make irrational decisions? To illustrate
I'm gonna tell a story. Talking about my very first car. My first car was a 1979 Buick
Century but not just a regular Buick Century, this one was upgraded with a spoiler on
the back and a hawk, or an eagle sticker up on the front. In case you don't believe me,
how cool my car was, I've got a couple of pictures. I know you're laughing at the car and
not my hairstyle, I can feel that you're laughing at the car. This one doesn't show the
hawk or the eagle on the front, see the spoiler on the back and the hawk or eagle up
there landing in the front. Do you realize how incredibly difficult it was for me to be as
cool as I was made to be driving a car like that in high school? So to up my chances with
the opposite sex I landed myself the coolest used Alpine stereo system your little mind
could imagine to upgrade my factory Buick system with an Alpine kick and rocking one
to blast and blare some REO Speedwagon. A little U2, a little one arm drummer in Def
Leppard. Somebody from the 80s is gonna help me out with the Police or whatever,
riding down the road. Some thump thump thump power power power and so I could
afford the used Alpine but I spent all my money so I couldn't afford to have it installed.
So lo and behold who was left to install it but moi? I am technically challenged to a level
you couldn't imagine. I worked all day trying to get this thing to work. I worked into the
night, it was finally dark outside when believe it or not, God as my witness, my Alpine
stereo worked. Praise God in heaven I got it to work. It worked all night long. Next
morning, it didn't work. No idea why, all day long I couldn't get it to work. Lo and
behold though, the very next night it was working again. Day after day the same thing
happened. Every day it wouldn't work, every night it would. For weeks, I couldn't figure
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about two seconds what the problem was. Why did my car not work? Because I had
crossed the wires and instead of wiring it to the proper source of power, I had wired it
to my headlights. So for the rest of the life of my Buick Century I was the guy driving
around with the headlights on at two in the afternoon blaring out The Police. Why is it
that we often make such irrational decisions? Because the wires are crossed in our
brain. We're in a series called Mastermind, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life. If
you were with us last week we talked about what happens when you think a thought.
Your brain is not static, your brain actually grows and evolves like a computer that's
programming itself every time you think a thought it becomes easier to think that
thought again. Literally your brain is creating neural pathways. A thought creates a
pathway which makes it easier to then think that thought again which is good news if
you're thinking good thoughts. The problem is we often aren't. All through life,
experiences and your thoughts is programming your brain to believe what you think is
true based on what you thought, even if the thought was not true. As a little child it's
true, if a baby smiles and the momma smiles back and says goo goo ga ga. The baby's
brain says, smiling is good. A pathway is formed, if I smile someone says goo goo ga ga.
If a baby touches something hot, ow hot. The brain creates a pathway that says hot is
bad, don't touch the things that's hot. If a baby wants a sucker, I want a sucker and
momma says no sucker and baby's like, I want a sucker, momma says no sucker and
baby cries and so mum, plop gives the baby a sucker, the baby's brain says crying is
good. That's why some of your 12 year olds are spoiled rotten because you gave them a
sucker when they were crying. What's happening, our brain is constantly evolving,
creating neural pathways. It's good news when you think true thoughts. It's bad news
though when you believe the lies because your brain basically doubles down and tends
to believe the lies more fiercely. What's the problem? The problem is that most of life's
battles are won or lost in the mind. There's a battlefield in the mind and if I can just be
real transparent, my thoughts in so many seasons have been my number one worst
enemy. I can preach good for 35 minutes about positive truth but what happens before
and what happens after in my mind can be incredibly ugly. And that's why in this
message series what I'm doing is I'm teaching what I've been learning. Very practically
how God is helping to renew my mind. We're talking about the Apostle Paul. Last week
we looked at the truth that Paul said this. He said that the weapons that we fight with,
those of you that are followers of Christ, our weapons are not of this world. They have
divine power from heaven to demolish strongholds. What's a stronghold? It's a wrong
thought pattern. It's a prisoner based on a lie of deception. God's power demolishes
strongholds. That's why we demolish, we crush, we vanquish, every pretension that sets
itself up against the knowledge of God and what do we do? We take captive every
thought and we make it obedient to Christ. In other words, we're creating new
pathways of truth. We're letting God's truth renew our minds. We're looking at the
Apostle Paul, the way he fought and won the battle of the mind inspires me. From a
Roman prison, writing from a Roman prison, when he wanted to be in Rome preaching,
he was locked up, he wrote this powerful, weighty, encouraging letter to the believers in
Philippi and he ends his letter with this word of encouragement. He says, I'm gonna tell
you one more thing but what he doesn't say is this. He doesn't say, I'm so discouraged,
will you pray for me? I'm hurting, things are bad. I never thought this would happen,
where is God? At the end of his letter he says, one more thing. Don't ever forget this. He
says, now dear bothers and sisters, Philippians 4:8, one final thing. Here's what I want
you to do. Paul says, fix your thoughts. Somebody say fix your thoughts.

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- Paul says, fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and
lovely, and admirable. Fix your thoughts, somebody say fix your thoughts. He says, think
about things that are excellent and worthy of praise, if there's one more thing I can tell
you, don't forget this. Of everything that we've covered remember this. Of everything
we've talked about, meditate on this truth. Fix your thoughts on God's truth. I love the
way the New King James Version translates the end of the verse, it says this. If there's
any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate, somebody say meditate.
Meditate on these things. Why does this matter? Because your life is always moving in
the direction of your strongest thoughts. If a thought comes into your mind, it comes
out in your life. You cannot have a positive life when you have a negative mind. Your
thoughts matter so much. Your thoughts are shaping you. If you cannot control what
you think, you will never, ever control what you do. Why is it that we so often make
irrational, unwise and ungodly decisions? Because, the wires are crossed. That's why this
week what I wanna do is I wanna tell you one of the two disciplines that I am now
practicing regularly. I'll tell you the next one next week. Essentially what I'm doing is I
am training my mind. Training my mind. You may say, how do you train your mind? It's
very similar to training your body. If I go to the gym and I'm doing curls, what am I
doing? I'm training my biceps. If I work on my mind, I'm training my mind toward truth.
Here's what though I didn't understand for years about my physical body. I thought if I
just go the gym and kinda work hard and throw some weights around and grunt then I'll
be in good shape. What I didn't realize is that to truly be physically healthy it's not just
about what I do with my body, but it's about what I put into my body. Somebody needs
to hear that. It's not just what I do with my body but what I put into my body that really
matters and helps me be healthy. To truly be healthy, what goes in has to be healthy.
Not just what I do with it. The same is true with your mind. To truly have a God-
centered healthy mind it's not just about what you do with it but it's also about what
you put in it. My goodness, my pastor I'm preaching so much better than they're
responding. I don't know what's going on here but it's like, sometimes I'm just say amen
to myself. That's good preaching Groeschel. It's not just about what you put in your
body, it's what you do with it and what you put in it with your mind. It's not just what
you do with it, it's what you wanna put truth in it. So what I've been doing is I've been
working on focusing my mind and training it toward truth. I do curls for my biceps, I do
mental exercises for my brain. It's training my brain toward God's truth. In fact, you
know a lot of people say, well you know, how would you go about doing this? Well,
what I've been doing is I've been working on meditating toward truth. Some people may
say, you know, meditation, does that mean you're New Age, you're one with the
universe, you're chanting, you're saying ohm, all that kind of stuff? No no no no, let me
just give you the simple definition of meditation, the simple definition of meditation,
what is it? It's to engage in mental exercise, it's to focus one's thoughts. Let me give you
a couple of Scriptures. Psalm 119 verse 15 it says I meditate. Somebody say I mediate, I
mediate God on your precepts, I consider your ways. I'm focusing my thought God on
your precepts, on your ways. I delight in your decrees God, I will not neglect your word.
I'm focusing my mind on you. Psalm 143 verse says I meditate. Somebody say I
meditate.

- I meditate.

- I meditate God on your works and consider what your hands have done. God, I'm
thinking about your truth, I'm thinking about your presence, I'm thinking about your
goodness God. I'm thinking about your works God. I'm meditating on you. If Eastern
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about filling your mind with God's truth. Just as I train my body, I'm training my mind
toward truth. It's not just what I do with it, it's what I put into it. And so, for the past
year or so, I've been training my mind to focus and I'll tell you, my journey in learning to
meditate on God's truth, I'm not an expert at all but I just downloaded an app and I
started for five minutes at a time learning to focus my mind because my mind is not
focused and when it's not focused, it doesn't typically drift toward the truth, it drifts
toward the lies. I'm focusing my mind. I noticed the first source of improvement, one
week into meditating guess where I notice it? In the gym. What's crazy, I'm gonna tell
you about my planking which is not to brag at all because you know, if you're good at
go, you're gonna go, you're not good at it Groeschel. Admittedly my son, and my oldest
daughter can plank literally three or four times as long as I can. So anyway, if you say
you have to work on it, yes I know, I don't like planks, so hard. Okay, so I could plank
about three, three and a half minutes. Just a full plank and then I'd go out. After one
week of meditating I just decided to focus my mind on a plank and say okay, you're
gonna feel some pain acknowledge the pain, push it out, now focus and believe you can
do more through Christ. I went from about a three and a half minute record to over five
and a half minutes on one try, just in a week training my mind. So what I noticed was,
the limitation wasn't in my body the limitation was in my mind. I ask myself, how many
other places in my life is my limited mind talking my body out of doing what God has
created and called me to do? So I got serious about training my mind. My meditation
and prayer time looks like this. I'm gonna tell you a couple times 'cause you might not
be paying attention. I do my You Version Bible study every single day. I focus my brain
for just a few minutes in a direction, then I do a five minute prayer discipline. It's very
simple, admittedly simple. I put my little watch on for five minutes, my little alarm and
for five minutes what I do is I breathe in and I ask the Holy Spirit to give me a name and
then when I breathe out I just say that name. And then I do it again and if God gives me
a name and I breathe out and God gives me a name. So I might pray in, and God gives
me my friend Scott and so I take Scott before God and then he gives me his wife
Shannon. And I breathe out Shannon and then he gives me their son Reid. Reid, and so I
do this for five minutes and God always gives me a name and I'm taking it before God.
What does it do? It's taking the focus off of me. It's putting it on someone else and it's
taking them before God, then after that I do deeper prayer. What that five minutes
focus does is, is it's training my mind, it's focusing and my prayer on the other side is
really rich because the problem with me is I am admittedly an ADD prayer. I don't know
if any of you can relate. Oh man I got good intentions, dear God in heaven I love you
today and I worship you and oh my gosh I forgot to change the oil, I forgot to send that
text and bird and I'm like, oh, oh, oh, and my prayer might last like 32 seconds. And I
wonder what happened. In the same way that I'm training my body, I'm training my
mind to focus on God's truth. Meditating on truth. At the very simplest it's just focus. I
wanna focus on what is true because when my mind wanders, it doesn't wander toward
the truth, it wanders toward the lies. You're not good enough, you can never measure
up. Who do you think you are? Why do you bother trying? Your life is hard, nobody
understands, you can't go on at this pace, you'll never make it. No, no no, take every
thought captive, make it obedient to Christ. Scientifically speaking I'm creating new
neural pathways. Spiritually speaking, I'm letting God's truth renew my mind, I'm not
believing the lies, I'm embracing the truth. Let me apply this to last week. I told you
what we did last week was gonna matter and this could really be a game changer for
some of you. If you can change your thinking, you could truly change your life, your
thoughts matter so much. Two questions we asked last week. The first question we ask
is this, what stronghold is holding you back? At what point are you a hostage of a
wrong mindset? Where in your life are you? You've got the wires crossed. You're

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believing that something isn't true. You're not good enough. After what you did, God
could never use you. You're always gonna struggle financially, everybody in your family
does, you're never gonna get ahead, you're never gonna be a blessing to anybody.
Relationally, you're a mess. You could never have true intimacy, you could never be
close to anybody. You're always gonna screw up. You oh, oh everybody in your family
battles with weight, you're always gonna battle, it's just part of who you are, get used to
it. Identify whatever that lie is that held you hostage, what is the stronghold that holds
you back. Then what I want you to do is identify the truth. What truth demolishes that
stronghold? Name it, write it down. Write it down, the truth. Well I don't know what it is.
I am not what I buy. Or what I have or who comments on my Instagram post that I
edited and put a filter on to make me look six years younger. You know, I am not a
hostage, I'm not a prisoner to that addiction. I have the power of Christ dwelling within
me and I can overcome that thing that has haunted me. My God is for me. My God is a
great provider, he will meet all of my needs, I will be a blessing to others. Whatever it is,
name that truth. I wanna need if I can get the bands at all of our churches just to come
forward. All Life.Churches and be prepared 'cause we're gonna worship. What I want
you to do is this. I want you to identify what that lie is, then I want you to identify the
truth, then I want you to write it down. Write it, think it, confess it until you believe it.
Write it, think it, confess it until you believe it. Write it, think it, confess it until you
believe it. New neural pathways, the power of God's word renewing your mind so you
don't react to the lies that you have held you hostage from the past but you respond
with truth that is dwelling within your brain. Write it, think it, confess it believe it. Write
it, think it, confess it and believe it. I don't know how this will play out in your mind but
so many of you are worried all the time. You're a hostage to your fears. You lay awake
at night wondering, worrying. What are you gonna do? You're gonna write it, think it,
confess it. Yours may go like this, here's your declaration. Because of Christ, I'm not
anxious about anything. I case my cares on God because he cares for me. I have the
peace of God dwelling in my heart and ruling my mind. Write it, think it, confess it, until
you believe it. Maybe you say, I don't know what to do. I can't make a decision, I don't
know what God's will is, I'm afraid I'm gonna mess it up. You declare it. My life belongs
to God. Daily I seek him and daily he directs my steps. I know his voice and he leads me
to his perfect will. Maybe you lack confidence, never good enough, I never measure up, I
never can make a difference, you declare the truth. My confidence is in Christ and Christ
alone. Because his Spirit lives within me, I can do everything he calls me to do. Write it,
think it, confess it until believe it. Listen, you'll feel foolish at first. You'll be saying
something you wanna believe but your life says something different. Keep on renewing
your mind. A few minutes every day, sparking the brain that God so intricately created
with new pathways of truth. Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth. Write it, think it, confess it
until you believe it. And then one day, the wires won't be crossed. I'll explain it this way.
I used to in the eighth grade I took French then I went to ninth grade, I took it again.
10th grade I did it again because it was easy. I went all the way through high school
taking French but I never tried to speak it, I just took tests. Then one day, a French
foreign exchange student moved to our school and so I thought I would try to speak
French. It was brutally bad. She was speaking French, and I would hear her in French
and I would think, I've gotta translate that to English in my mind, then I would think in
English and then I would respond in English and I would translate it into French and
then I'd try to speak French. It's a trainwreck, this went one for some time and then at
some point, something happened. Something clicked, something switched. She spoke in
French, I heard in French I thought in French, I responded in French. Somewhere in
there the training kicked in, the wires uncrossed and all of a sudden I was able to
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until you believe it. Two steps forward, one step back. Three steps forward, two steps
back. You continue, you continue, you continue as God is renewing your mind and then
one day, one day you're hip with that something and instead of reacting with the lie,
that has held you hostage for years and some of you even decades. Instead you step in
and you respond with truth. But I would love it if you stand up at all of our different
churches. Just stand to your feet, we're gonna prepare and we're gonna worship a little
bit together. I wanna be real honest with you. I'm going to show you what I do every
morning and tell you what I declare and the reason that I declare this truth is because
it's counteracting the lies that I battle with. All the time, for years and years I battled
with the lie you're not good enough, you're inadequate, you're never gonna measure up.
You don't have what it takes. Haunting my mind for decades. Here's what I battle with. I
battle with putting God first. Because I'm too consumed with what people think, living
up to others expectations. When I get overwhelmed, which is a lot here's my default.
Take Amy for granted, neglect my kids and dive into work. Work, work, work, work,
work, work, work, work, work. The pressure of accurately communicating God's truth in
a way that engages a disengaged and disinterested generation is a weight that I feel
every single day of my life. The weight, speaking of weight, of leading a church that God
is blessing and staying submitted to his Spirit and getting right and dealing with all my
confusing emotions and the complexities of it, is a burden that never ever goes away.
So what do I do? I wake up, and I renew my mind. I take in God's word everyday. It's not
just what I do with it, what I put in it. I take in God's word. I focus, I train it to focus. I
declare some truths about me from God's word and I pray for those around me. This is
what I declare about me and it's based on the lies that I've believed and God is renewing
the truth. So everyday I say this. Jesus is first in my life. I exist to serve and glorify him. I
love my wife and I will lay down my life to serve her. My children will love God and serve
him with their whole hearts. I will nurture, equip, train and empower them to do more
for the kingdom than they ever thought possible. I love people. And believe the best
about others. I am disciplined, Christ in me is stronger than the wrong desires in me. I
am growing closer to Jesus everyday. Because of Christ, my family is closer, my body is
stronger, my faith is deeper, my leadership is sharper. I am creative, innovative, driven,
focused and blessed beyond measure because the spirit of God dwells within me. I
develop leaders. That's not something that I do, it's who I am. Pain is my friend. I rejoice
in suffering because Jesus suffered for me. I bring my best and then some. It's what I
bring after I bring my best that makes the difference and then I declare, the world will
be different and better because I served Jesus today. The world will be different and
better because I served Jesus today. Why do I confess it? Because my life is moving in
the direction of my strongest thoughts. Your life is moving in the direction of your
strongest thoughts. You cannot have a positive life when you have a negative mind.
What comes into your mind comes out in your life. What are we gonna do? We're
gonna recognize the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world. Ours
have divine power to pull down to demolish strongholds. We take every thought
captive and we are renewing it by the power of God's word. At all of our churches those
of you who would say, I need some help renewing my mind there is a battle in my mind,
I'm not always winning. God help renew my mind with truth. If that's you, lift up your
hands right now. Lift up your hands right now, leave 'em up if you will, leave 'em up if
you will. Listen to me, if it's a problem for you do something about it. Do something
about it. Don't lose the battle, if you need to get in shape, change what you put in, and
change what you do, if you need your mind to get in shape, change what you put in
with it and change what you do with it. A few minutes a day, let God renew your mind.
Father I pray that your truth would set us free. God help us to focus our minds, to
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word. God call it what you want. New pathways are renewing our mind God. Help us not
react with a lie. But God help us respond because your truth dwells within us, we pray
for a victory. God we pray for renewed minds. What I want you all to do if you will, all of
our churches look up here at me. Every head up, every eye open, everybody looking
around. There are those of you, you've been believing a lie for way too long spiritually.
Way too long. What's a lie? God didn't care about you. God doesn't love you. After what
you've done God could never use you. Let me tell you the truth about our God, our God
is love. Love isn't just something that he does, love is who he is. And I want you to know
the truth, our God loves you. In fact, you may be here today not by coincidence but by
the providential hand of a God who's reaching out to you. The truth is we need him.
Who is Jesus? He is the Son of God, born of a virgin and he never ever sinned. He in his
perfection and holiness, he became sin on the cross as the perfect sacrifice for the
forgiveness of our sins. He died in our place, the lamb of God slain for the sins of this
world. On the third day when the stone was rolled away let me tell you what, our savior
Jesus, he was not there. God had raised him from the dead. Why? So that anyone, and
this includes you who calls on the name of Jesus would be saved. Write it, think it,
confess it, confess it, confess it, confess it, declare it. Scripture says this, if you confess
with your mouth and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you
would be saved. Confess it, confess it, confess it, confess it. At all of our churches there
are those of you, it's time to cry out. I'm gonna ask you to cry out in front of everybody.
Just to say, I need him. God just said this, if you confess people, for people, I'll confess
you. Jesus said, I'll confess you before my God, if you don't, if you're embarrassed, you
don't wanna be embarrassed by Jesus. I need his grace, I need his mercy. When you call
on his name, God will forgive your sins. He will make you brand new. All of our churches,
those who say I need him, I confess my need today. I give my life to him, lift your hands
high now. Right in front of everybody, lift your hands say, yes I need his grace, I need his
grace. Hands going up everywhere. Hands going up all over the place. I need his grace, I
need his grace, I give my life to him. All of our churches, as we see people come into
faith in Christ, I need you guys with me right now. We're going to pray, we're all gonna
pray aloud together. Just nobody prays alone, pray heavenly father.

- Heavenly father.

- Let's pray heavenly father.

- Heavenly father.

- Forgive me my sins.

- Forgive me my sins.

- Make me brand new.

- Me brand new.

- Jesus forgive me.

- Jesus forgive.

- Transform me.

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- Transform.

- Fill me with your spirit.

- Fill me with your spirit.

- So I could follow you.

- So I could follow you.

- For the rest of my life.

- The rest of my life.

- Renew my mind.

- Renew my mind.

- That I could walk in truth.

- That I could walk in truth.

- Use me to show your love.

- To show your love.

- My life.

- My life.

- Is not my own.

- Is not my own.

- I give it to you.

- I give it to you.

- Thank you for new life.

- Thank you for new life.

- Now you have mine in Jesus' name I pray, will somebody celebrate big, somebody
worship loud, somebody give God some praise. Somebody tell him thank you, don't
ever take it for granted. His spirit is moving, our God is with us. Our God is here, we're
not praying for revival church. Look around you, look around you. We're living in the
middle of one, the goodness of God, the move of God. His power, his spirit, his glory
transforming lives. I wanna give you a chance to worship but before you do that I wanna
declare truth over you. I wanna declare truth over you. Just as a pastor and as a friend, I
think I understand some of the lies that hold you hostage and so I've written some
declarations for you. This is truth from God's word, if you are in Christ this is for you. All

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of our churches today, if you're comfortable you may just, may just put your hands
down in a posture to receive, some of you who are kinda crazy you may put your hands
toward heaven. But this, this is God's truth for those of you who are in Christ. I want you
to feel it, I want you to receive it. I want you to think it, confess it and believe it. Believe
it, believe it, believe it. Let me tell you who you are. You're strong and mighty in Christ.
You have the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwelling within you. You are a
weapon of righteousness in a dark world. You are not your past. You are not what you
did. You are not what they think you are. You are who God says you are. And my God
says you're forgiven. He says you're redeemed, he says you are free. You are not a
hostage to your unhealthy thoughts. The weapons that you fight with are not the
weapons of this world. They have the power to demolish strongholds. You have the
mind of Christ directing your thoughts. You have the word of God guiding your steps.
Worry is not your master. You trust in God, his peace guards your heart, guards your
minds and guards your souls, in Christ Jesus. You have not been given a spirit of fear
but a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind. The Lord is your helper. You will
not be afraid. You are not a slave to your habits. You are not a prisoner to an addiction.
You've been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the Kingdom of
God's light. You are empowered, you are called, you are chosen, you are the
masterpiece of God created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in
advance for you to do. Your God will bless you abundantly. So that in all things, at all
times, having all that you need you can bring him glory. Your God is for you, your God is
with you. No weapon formed against you will prosper. Nothing church, can separate you
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Not angels, not demons, not the
present nor the past not any weapon will separate you from the love of God which is in
Christ Jesus. Step into the truth, you are who God says you are. The battle rages but
you have won the war. The battle rages but you have won the war. The battle rages but
you have won the war. Lift your hands, lift your voices, declare the truth and walk in it.

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