Help! My Mind Is A Mess | Stephanie Ike

hey family i'm pastor torre i'm pastor sarah and listen you're getting ready to hear an incredible word for the lord i believe it's going to bless you i believe it's going to be timely do me a favor share the message if it moves you share the message and then also you have an opportunity to be a part of not only helping to spread this message but to be a part of our outreaches we're doing a lot of practical things to be a blessing to someone so feel free if god so moves you to use the information here in the video to support what we're doing we're being a blessing not just people spiritually we're being blessed to people practically we love you get into this message and change your life hallelujah family's such a blessing to be with you today before we even get into the message let's just have a moment of prayer heavenly father we thank you we thank you for this moment oh god lord get a moment that we can call upon your name is a moment for divine encounter and so lord i just pray that you would have your way that there would be no distractions oh god for what you have the ability to do in this time that we have together and so lord do only that which you can do not what man can do but bring things to our understanding lord god speak to us in a manner that is unique to each and every individual that is watching and paying attention to this lord god we pray for healing we pray for transformation we pray lord god for revival in our lives in our spirit and awakening of god of truth in the name of jesus so we thank you lord for what you have purpose to do in this time in jesus name nothing can stop what you have purpose to do i love that song that we just came into all the promises of god yes and amen actually i love there's a scripture that really talks about that about that the promises are yes and god and our amen through christ what i love about that so much is that god has already said yes to it in heaven god has already established and ordained what it is that he has purpose for your life but that this is that place of agreement that our amen that so shall it be that indeed it is so it's such a beautiful thing because this actually we will dig into this a little bit in today's message and so before we get into it let's start with the scripture so i'm going to be reading from genesis chapter 3 from verse 1 to 13. and it says now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the lord god had made first of all how many cunning serpents were they or cunning animals but he was more cunning than any beast of the field which the lord god had made and he said to the woman has god indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden and the woman said to the serpent we may eat of the where eat the fruit of the trees of the garden 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 well god didn't say you need not say anything about touching it but let's go go on then the serpent said to the woman you will surely you will not surely die for god knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like god knowing good and evil so when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and it had um it was pleasant to the eyes and the tree desirable to make one wise she took of the fruit and ate it she also gave her husband with her and he ate now this is so interesting because adam was there right adam was right there next to eve and this whole time you know i know we've been blaming e for a long time but let's just continue actually before i get back into this and it says you know so then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings and they heard the sound of the lord god walking in the garden of the in the cool of the day and adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord among the trees of the garden then the lord called to adam this is one of the a very famous scripture where are you and he said this is now adam speaking i heard your voice in the garden and i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself and then he said who told you that you were naked it's so interesting to me in this moment because adam being afraid wasn't the issue it was adam being the awareness of being naked to bring to cause him to be fearful there's something so much of this i need to just go through this scripture before we get back into it but it's so powerful to me because god didn't say to him adam where did this concept of fear come from he said who told you you were naked um it's almost like that the idea of the awareness of fear had existed even before even way back in the garden of eden it was not the awareness of fear that was the issue but it was what put what it produced when you lean into it that when we begin to lean into our fears when we begin to engage with our fears that all of a sudden it produces a different type of outcome that i was afraid we realized that we were naked we realized that oh my gosh do we feel worthy of the presence of god we were leaning into the fear of what does it mean for god to see us in this so god said who told you you were naked i need you to go to the root of this thought and then he said have you eaten from the tree of which i commanded you that you should not eat then the man said the woman whom you gave to be with me she gave me of the tree and i ate and the lord said to the woman what is this you have done and the woman said the serpent deceived me and i ate now there's so much to unpack in this but before i fully go into this story let me actually take you on the journey to a personal story you know a few weeks ago probably a couple weeks ago maybe two months ago the lord had given me a dream now one of the ways that the lord speaks to me is through dreams especially when it's an instruction that i may start questioning and so he would just lock it in a dream and say stephanie you're not fighting this one and so there was a dream that the lord had gave me and in that dream there were these instructions i knew that i was supposed to go to atlanta immediately and i knew that something about atlanta was connected to going to teleparry studios and so i was like okay this is a very interesting instruction but there are moments when you know that you know that god you are speaking to me and you want me to do this and i'm like okay you know so i bought a ticket i went to atlanta for the weekend and in my natural mind i'm like god there has to be something else that you want me to do while i'm in atlanta now this was not the first time that i had gone to atlanta on an assignment by the lord and so i'm like there has to be something else like is there something you want me to do the first time that i went um there was a friend of mine a member of our community and she had lost her nephew and i remember that morning i was it was a sunday morning i was so burdened by it and i was like god this is not okay this was a child of promise and that as i was burdened and talking to the lord about it that morning he said then go to atlanta and meet with the family i said you know what lord i don't know this family i know her i don't know her the family of the of the nephew but the lord said go and i'm gonna send you to be to represent me there were things that the lord had assigned me to do and i bought my ticket that day and i went to atlanta so again the lord is talking to me again about atlanta that i have sent you there's an assignment there's something i want you to do in atlanta and i'm thinking like okay there has to be something else right so i go to atlanta um i plan my trip for three days and so i'm out there the one thing that i knew that the lord had assigned me to do was to go to the tyler perry studios right but i'm like i'm thinking there's something that i'm actually supposed to do you know it's not nothing you know nothing that serious and so the day that i'm leaving i actually finally go to telepara studios so when i got there we were i was so confident i'm like okay we're gonna get in and then we see the signs that due to covey that it's closed i said well the lord's set you know he sent me here on the mention i'm sure we just need to talk to the security and we went up to the security say hello sir and we're here to come in he said i'm sorry it is closed i said wow this man must not hear the voice of god and we try to talk to him nothing so i said okay lord i'm here you know and we can go in so what do you want me to do here and the lord told me to just stand and look and so i started looking as far as my eyes could see i'm like wow this place is beautiful that look at the empire that this man had built now if you're not familiar with tyler perry's story there was a moment in his life where he was homeless and living in his car but now today tyler perry has built a successful empire an incredible filmmaker and this lot that i'm looking at i mean there are people there are established studios and there are lots combined there's not even equal to what this man has done in atlanta and i'm looking at just what whatever i could see from just standing outside and it's beautiful i'm looking at the different buildings that i was at least the ones that were visible to me and i'm like god what am i looking at and he said just stare at it and as i was staring at it all of a sudden there was this word that this this question that kept coming into my heart and that question said who is greater than god and i understood that this question was connected to the awareness that god you are a god of possibilities there is nothing that is impossible for you that i am literally looking at a miracle that it's not just about a studio that this is a miracle that i am watching a miracle that has unfolded i am watching the testimony of another man this this is incredible who is greater than god who can move like god who can do the things that only god can do this was the question that was in my heart as i was looking at this and it dawned on me i said god there is nothing that is impossible for you that when you speak to us when you give us a vision and what is interesting is that around this time the lord began had been speaking to me about something that he has assigned to me and it seems so big that you start questioning you start doubting god you know are you sure it's in this time are you sure and as i'm watching this i'm all of a sudden my faith is activated god who is like you when you speak a word you are able all by yourself to accomplish it all you need is someone who would believe you and as i'm looking the lord said i sent you here to remove the limits of your mind i sent you here to remind you of who i am and what i can do if you simply believe me that's stephanie i know what i've showed you i know what i've spoken to you it might it might cause you to have doubt but do not be afraid that this is not the time to engage in your fear this is the time to simply believe me you see when we think of fear the truth is that fear has many faces fear can look like insecurity it can look like doubt it can look like anxiety it can look like depression fear has many faces fear can look like even jealousy and so when we find ourselves engaging in our doubts and engaging in all of this what we don't realize is that we're losing the very thing that causes us to be believers and that is our faith that there is a place that i can engage and believe and partner with the lord when i was looking at just the the little that i could see the lord is speaking to me my daughter do not be afraid do you know that the commandment fear not is literally like the most repeated commandment in the bible fear not it we see it from the old testament to the new testament because this is the type of fear when when you engage it again it's not the awareness of this fear but it is when you engage it when you begin to interact with it when you begin to lean on it this is the type of fear that causes you to start questioning who god is the truth of jesus's identity the truth of what he's already made available to us this is the type of fear that causes us to be crippled that causes us to be crippled in the very things that god has called us to that causes us to be crippled in order to embrace the promises of god and to walk it out now earlier you might be wondering what does this have to do with the scripture that i just read right what does this have to do with adam and eve in the garden we know the problem was eve for centuries we've blamed eve but what if i told you that the fall of humanity was not about eve being deceived but that the catalyst for the fall of humanity was fear you see the scripture tells us i want us to go to verse 12 and verse 13 i want us to look at this again now it says that then the man said this is after the whole thing right satan you know he's right there he's he's talking to eve he's engaging eve and he's like hey you know this would be you know the lord doesn't want you to have all this wisdom right and eve is like wow this looks good you know this this looks like it's just about right right and eve takes the apple eve or not the apple it's so funny because we call it an apple we don't know what it is it could have been a mango tree it could be the fruit that doesn't exist you know if there was a fruit that was in the garden of eden it was probably a dragon fruit all this weird looking fruit right but we don't know what it is it was just a fruit and so we see that eve ate the fruit and she gave it to adam but look at this right it says that when god confronted adam and he said hey what what is going on here who told you you were naked have you eaten of the fruit of the tree that i commanded you not to look at this dialogue that happens in verse 12 it says then the man said the woman you gave to be with me she gave me of the tree and i ate and it continues when the lord now said to the woman what is this you have done and the woman said the serpent deceived me and i ate you see eve was deceived but adam wasn't eve was deceived by the enemy but adam wasn't deceived adam was right there when everything was going on and in my personal life i've noticed that when a person is silent in the midst of chaos they're thinking we don't see adam you know having any conversation with the enemy the enemy was talking specifically to eve but i've always read this scripture and i used to think that it was about you know blame shifting they were being shady they were being petty but then i realized that maybe pettiness wasn't in the garden of eden that what if adam is literally saying it like it is when god said adam who told you adam is like god you gave me a woman when i didn't find anyone that that matched me you see in in in the beginning of before eve was formed adam in the bible is naming all the animals and the lord is watching and the bible says that he was watching to see what adam would call it and everything that adam named it that was its name so adam was moving in this place of alignment with god so when adam was naming the lion and the tortoise and and the sheep and all of that what was happening was not just that adam was giving them names but adam was also in this place of discovery that they all have their own mates but i have not found someone like me that this is a lion this is a sheep this is a dog this is a cat this is all this stuff but there is no one that matches me and then finally god you gave me eve and you have told me you see adam and god had a different conversation about this tree they adam had the understanding that look if we eat of this tree we will die and if he's watching this woman this jewel that finally i have someone in my life who who matches me i'm not trying to mate with a donkey don't do that right and he's like whoo eve is here and if eve when eve ate of the fruit what if while adam was silent he was thinking could this mean that i would lose eve if i don't if i don't join her in this thing what does this mean for me do am i gonna lose my companion you see because satan is cunning that's what the scripture even tells us the very the very animal the beast that was used was a serpent and it says the most cunning of all the beasts and so what that tells us is that satan does not show his cards in the beginning eve was not his target it was not his main target all the while adam if it was his main target then he would have done it when adam wasn't even there but adam is standing right next to eve and his thinking could it be the moment that the lord revealed this to me could it be that while adam was there he was thinking about i don't want to lose this woman and in his fear he ate of the same fruit adam wasn't deceived by the enemy i don't moved from a place of the fear of loss what if this caused me to lose the very person that god you gave me you gave her to me you gave her to me and i'm supposed to protect her i'm supposed to but adam what if that meant you know you should have stopped her but was there fear in that from that very first place because you see in the beginning i talked about how i believed that fear was not the awareness of fear was not foreign in the garden of eden because the same way that satan had access to the garden of eden when god allows certain things it also shows you who you are why was it that satan had access because he was not a threat because god recognized that adam and eve have given you dominion and when you have dominion what we call a threat is not a threat because you have dominion over it and so satan could have access to the garden fear could exist in the garden but they had dominion over it and so it was normal if adam had the awareness of fear that what if this could cause me to lose eve the problem is when you engage in that fear and you act out of it could it be that fear was actually the catalyst to the fall of man you see what i'm learning because as we look at this story is that fear is a distraction to dominion now what do i mean by this i want to take you into a scripture in genesis 2 15 because before all of this nonsense actually even in the midst of this nonsense the scripture we read the first scripture we read it shows us that you know eve eats the uh the fruit i'm gonna call it an apple you know eve eats the fruit nothing happens their eyes were only opened when adam also ate of the same fruit could it be that the very thing that was causing adam panic and and fear and okay what if i lose god you gave me this woman what do you expect me to do she ate the apple or the fruit she ate it and she gave it to me what do you want me to do you gave me her but then again if adam realized that it was only open something only shifted because you gave in fear is a distraction to dominion and what do i mean by this you know many times if you've been you know if you've been watching messages and all that stuff that you may have been familiar with this idea of you know in the fall of man satan had took dominion satan had authority over the world you know the bible calls him the prince of the age why one of the questions i've always had is you know when was this exchange when did it happen when did they give the keys of of the world to satan but then it dawned on me because when god placed man in the garden of eden this is what took place in genesis 2 15 it said then the lord god took the man and put him in the garden of eden to tend and to keep it dominion started in the garden of eden when god placed man in the garden he said now you're supposed to tend it and have dominion over it the enemy understood if i could get him kicked out of eden there would be a vacuum created for dominion and the truth about spiritual laws and principles is that there is no emptiness in the spirit and so when there is a vacuum satan has rulership satan was not cast down on earth with any form of authority his authority exists where there is unclaimed territory and so when we don't claim our territory satan says well now i have authority here where there is unclaimed territory satan is a ruler over that is why they call him the ruler over darkness this has been left abandoned it is it is exposed and now he steps in he understood adam if i can get you distracted then i can take your dominion if i can get you distracted by your fear then i can take actually what belongs to you i need you to ask yourself right now what is distracting you how is fear distracting you from the place of your dominion in god you see our pastor preached the message not too long ago he taught he talked about the the difference a day makes and it was so profound because it even enabled us if you haven't watched it you should but it gave us this insight about an understanding of the power that each day holds the power to bring manifestation the power to to you know bring forth the promise and the purposes of god each single day and some of you actually you might be watching this message you woke up this morning and you just felt like you're waiting for the day to be over you woke up this morning and your mind was under attack a warning when your mind is under attack whenever you lose inspiration for the day for your assignment for the things that god has called you to your mind is under attack and so some of you you're watching this right now and it was even a struggle for you to to to get engaged in this because you're just like god it's over i'm done i don't want this anymore your mind is under attack and you have to get to the place of recognizing this fear this doubt this disbelief it is a distraction to my dominion you see even just today while i was getting ready to come and preach the gospel i was at home getting ready and all of a sudden the alarms are going off in my apartment building and it's the the fire alarms and so in my mind i'm like okay maybe you know they found a weird time of the day to do an emerge uh uh what do they call those things when they kind of like test the evacuation or whatever you know i can't remember what it's called but yeah a fake drill right a drill [Laughter] so i'm thinking that okay maybe this is one of those random things right so i called the manager i called the apartment manager i said hey is is there an actual fire going on in the building he's like i don't know i'm going to check and so my friend also lives in the building and i call her i'm like hey what what's going on in this building i'm like do you smell smoke or anything so finally she's like oh no i smell smoke and so i had a friend in the in in my apartment with me because we were just i was getting ready we're coming here and so she opens the door and there is the whole hallway is filled with smoke and so all of a sudden the reality kicks in wait there is there could be a fire in this building and it's somewhere close to me because even just taking it in i'm like i'm i start coughing and it like for maybe about two minutes straight but i was like wait there could be a fire so my friend is literally she's like stephanie we have to go we gotta go and the only thing i'm thinking about is i gotta preach i i have a word i need to deliver there is an assignment on my life today there is a place that god has given me dominion over i can't be distracted by this fire because you see there is the narrative the enemy wants you to believe that i could be in a place of panic and say wait um i need to wait and see what happens my belongings my things these things are immaterial i looked at my home and i said the only thing that actually matters to me is that i wear something quickly i can grab my laptop actually i forgot my laptop initially and i need to get to the house of god and so i was like okay i'll grab my passport because no one wants to go through the headache of not having an identity okay and i looked at everything i said god all of this is material you could give it back to me if there's a fire which it looks like there's a fire in this building and i lose everything it doesn't matter because the day that you have made there is an assignment in this for me and i'm not going to allow the threat of destruction to distract me from dominion you see many times we find ourselves so shaken up and we don't realize that the enemy is playing us like a fiddle that i could be like oh my gosh god how could you how could how could he do what if i lost everything so what there are people that don't even have a roof over their head and they still find a way to praise god there's a scripture in the psalms that says this is the day that the lord has made i will we will rejoice and be glad in it it was a decision it was not that this is a day that the lord has made and he has favored me and i have met my destiny helpers and the doors are open not shut and i met my boo my boaz or my roof whichever one you want to have it it didn't say all of that it just said this is the day that the lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it i have made a decision with my mind that no matter the circumstance no man of the cause i will find a reason to rejoice and be glad in it because my mind is focused on the lord today could have gone very differently you know it's crazy because we're all running outside i'm like let me just wear some real quick and grab everything and just run because this it was crazy so we get down i'm downstairs the uh the firefighters are there and all that stuff and it dawns on me i'm like oh my gosh i left my laptop and my mindset is literally this i said god i'm looking because you know movies be messing with you in the movies all of a sudden when they escape then the fire just i'm like okay lord this is not the day so i look up the look at the windows i'm like is there any fire coming anywhere and i'm like okay lord i just need to get my laptop because i need to preach and so if there's a fire please hold it back i'm not going to die like this i need there's a word you've assigned me to my mind was not about things that were immaterial my mind was about my assignment and the moment i went back upstairs because at this point i was i was ready to leave the apartment the moment of going back upstairs and saying god whatever it is just protect me let me grab this and get out of here all of a sudden it was revealed that this threat had no weight it was actually my neighbor so this is not just in my building this was happening in my neighbor's apartment and it was just it was food that was on the stove somehow i don't know what happened maybe people were asleep i don't know and it just went really bad so in coming back upstairs and saying god i will put my life in this moment at risk for you for your people because at the end of the day if i should die i would rather die in my assignment than in my fear if god would call me home i would rather that god found me in the place of my calling and not in the place of hiding and so in that moment all that mattered to me is that god if this is what it would take i just need to grab this unless you just want me to go without knows that's fine so we can do that but i understood that this fear is this this this fire or the threat of a fire is not a threat to my life it's not a threat to my joy it's not a threat to my ability to serve the purpose of god and we have to get to a place where we would make up our mind you see there is a scripture that says with my mind i will serve the lord with my mind i would serve the lord with my mind because you see so many times we're focused on filling our spirit but the mind is that place the mind is a place of worship the mind is a place of intimacy because you see the mind is your creative realm the mind is a place where you have intimacy with the creator the mind is the place it's it's what pulls from what has been deposited in the spirit so you can be filled in the spirit but if your mind is not activated to believe what god placed in your spirit nothing happens with my mind i will serve the lord you see many of you have to make a decision today that god with my mind i would serve you that i'm not just going to serve my lust and and my unforgiveness and all these things with my mind i will serve the lord it's a decision it's when you begin to find yourself diving into the word of god god what does it mean to serve you what are thoughts that i should not even engage myself with but i should rebuke it because i realize that this is a place of worship [Music] the mind there's so many scriptures we find about the mind even when paul talks about putting on the the armor uh um the the armor of god the very first thing he talks about is the helmet of salvation the mind what protects your head what protects your mind with my mind i will serve the lord is that going to be your testimony you see i know that we came out of 2020 and you know it may seem like 2020 made us feel panicked like god what is what is real what is stable what is you know what is going to be what what can last in my life but that's the wrong perspective the wrong perspective is to look at the year prior and say oh this makes me afraid of the future it makes me afraid of of knowing if i will be stable or not 2020 should have been the year that ignites your fear of the lord not your fear of man or structures or systems it should ignite you to say who is like the lord because in this moment the only thing that i can find rest of my identity is in god it should actually reveal to you that all things are fleeting and easily passing away but the lord is going to be the rock of my salvation he is the one that i can hold on to he is the one i can lean on it is only in him that my identity can stand only the lord has the capacity to manifest who i am not a job not a person not a relationship it is through the lord what people do is when the lord can send someone who has the grace and the surrender to commit to what he has purpose for them to do in your life and if they say no god will find another person if you came out of 2020 with a fear or a panic feeling like god i don't know what i can put my trust in you missed it 2020 should have been the year that we say who is like the lord it should have been a yet that brought us closer to the place of the fear of god that only god can keep and sustain me only the lord can truly be my provider and so my things for you today my assignment for you today and if i fail the assignment i couldn't preach about it if if in the moment of thinking that my apartment would have been burnt i wouldn't be here right now be somewhere shaken up or panicking i would not even flow in the manner that i am doing right now but even when a threat came i said lord even if the fire showed up so what even if i lost everything so what you see sometimes we're so spoiled by what we call blessings and there are blessings that we we forget that the only true gift that my exceeding reward is not in what god gave me it is in god he is my exceeding reward he said that to abraham and he echoes that through every generation that came out of abraham he echoes that to you that he is your reward you're so hung up on the things you feel like you lost but you didn't lose god you didn't lose your relationship with him with my mind i will serve the lord what has fear been distracting you from you see as i was praying i said lord what does it look like to have deliverance in this area because one of the things that is that we we understand is that when a person feels bound by their mental life your mind should be your safe space not the place of opposition not the place of affliction and as i sought the lord what does deliverance in this look like what he showed me and i'm going to apply that in my life and i'm inviting you to join me in this that for the next 21 days that you become intentional and disciplined to move in the very thing that fear has crippled you from whatever it is make a decision do something each day that moves you in that direction you see the lord showed me something and it shocked me that think about this like a fast you see when we think of a fast we only think about food right most of us food or social media and during the fast we're like okay you know i'm i'm on this fast to build you know my intimacy with the lord and and to build my spiritual life and that is very good and beautiful but the lord began to show me another type of fast because just as being filled up in the spirit is important having a healthy mind is important because if your mind is not healthy it cannot draw from the spirit what god has deposited in there and so think of it like a fast for your mind i want you to look at this 21 days that god i'm fasting my insecurities i'm fasting my doubts i'm fasting the shame i'm fasting the guilt i'm fasting from jealousy i'm fasting from comparison i'm fasting from the things that are toxic to my mind i'm on a mental fast i'm on a fast that says no to toxicity and yes to truth if you can fast food i want you to fast your insecurity if you can find joy and courage and say i just did a 40-day fast but what is a 40-day fast if you literally the next day you're back in the bondage of your mind and so god is filling up your spirit with so much wisdom and so much blessings but your mind cannot receive it because it is in bondage of the enemy a mental stronghold is very similar to what happens when there is a vacuum in on earth and the and the devil takes dominion a mental stronghold they are the areas of your thinking that are unchecked the areas of your thinking that are not guarded and in those places satan has dominion that is really what the stronghold is about we have to be right now our pastor has been teaching us in a series called starting over and that series has been about equipping us to be able to manifest the promises and the purpose of god and connected to that is your ability is the discipline to guard your mind you have to be as diligent about your mind as you are about other things in your spiritual life the ability to guard your mind it is pivotal to your walk as a believer because there's a scripture i want to share with you i don't know if i gave this note but let me see if i have it in here it is in let's see let's and if i don't i would explain to you what the scripture talks about and i don't i might not might not put it in my notes because i want to give you what the verse actually is actually i do have it it's ephesians 1 and this verse 3 and it says blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in christ everything you need is deposited in what is called a spiritual blessing but if your mind is not healthy that's why i actually call this message help my mind is a mess because if your mind is not healthy if your mind is filled with the mess of fear and doubt and all of that then the spiritual blessing that has been given to you by god cannot be activated or accessed you see jesus would often say something like your faith has made you whole your faith has healed you but but what what does that mean in that moment you see that the person first of all you have been given the spiritual blessing of revelation about who jesus is that this is the son of the living god when peter said to jesus when jesus actually asked peter he said who do men say that i am and then he says to peter who do you say that i am and peter says oh you are the christ the son of the living god and then jesus said wow flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my father who is in heaven has revealed this to you but you see peter had revelation in his spirit he could communicate that revelation but then all of a sudden peter in another moment is called satan when he was having a when jesus is talking to them and jesus is talking about you know what i must go to the cross and all this stuff that he has to do and peter rebukes the lord and jesus says get behind me satan and he says your mind is focused on the things below your mind is focused on earthly matters your mind is not healthy peter you can speak revelation but your mind is not healthy to actually activate this revelation because if your mind could receive what you said you would not rebuke me in this moment you would recognize that if i am speaking it's not for you to question me in what i'm about to do it is for you to seek understanding lord what do you mean what does the cross represent this is a this is a teaching moment not a rebuke moment so you might be the person who can recite all the scriptures you might have done the the one year bible plan every year since you were 20 or 18 or seven i don't know you know if you grew up in uh your parents were pastors maybe you know you started reading with the bible but just back to focus the point is that can be revelation that you speak you can talk about what god has said about you you there's a revelation about your your identity and your destiny and you share it with your friends you're like wow you know god has set this concern in my life god has set that concern in my life but in the moment of opportunity you run because your mind is not yet healthy to activate the revelation you have received in the spirit and so join me in this 21 day you can use hashtag activate21 child you know in the beginning of this year pastor talked about how 21 is the number for deliverance and what i'm believing and what i'll be praying during this time is that during this 21 days that you run towards your fears you run towards the thing that you felt like you were too insecure to do the very thing that you felt like i'm not the one for the job the things that you feel unworthy for that as you run towards them that it would break every mental stronghold of the enemy that you would walk in freedom and that you will walk in dominion that you will begin to discover what god has assigned to your life and you would walk it out you know for me i'll tell you what i'm doing you know something i really share with people because when this happened i had this encounter a couple years ago and in the encounter i'm receiving this message that is connected to my calling but it was something that i just didn't see how it fit right at the time but but then the lord began to explain it to me so in the encounter there's a person of you know a person of faith that has gone to be with the lord that i admired so much and during his time he taught a lot about fasting and all this stuff right and so i'm seeing him he's in the gym and he's like you know lifting weights and all that stuff and he looks at me and for a second actually the whole moment i forgot that he has actually gone to be with the lord and he starts speaking to me and he's talking to me he said you know what during my time and he's he's talking to me as someone who was saying like you know obviously my time has ended but it was so the the reality of his presence was so strong that i forgot that he has actually passed on and so he was talking to me and he said during my time i talked a lot about fasting and i said yes i've watched actually watched a lot of your messages and i listened to your sermons and he said the one thing that god had called him to do but he didn't lean into was in the area of fitness right and i was like oh that's that's interesting because in in the in the encounter he was buff i said wow you know do they lift weights in heaven but i believe god was just trying to show me an image of something so he starts talking to me he said fitness was part of his call because he was talking about even the with healing and all that stuff because one of the things that i know that is assigned to my life is to reveal the healing power of god and when i when i talk about the healing power of god we all think that immediately supernatural right in the name of jesus and of course but also the discipline of what it takes to take care of our body things it's not a spiritual battle for healing some things could be a change of diet it could be working out some not everything but some things right so he begins talking to me about this that you know during his time he was supposed to do this thing and he was fitness was part of his calling and that now that one of the things that he has seen in my life connected to even when it comes to just um you know healing it was a different i'm just summarizing this conversation right and he said now stephanie i am entrusting this mantle to you and i said to who because first of all i like you know the idea of a six-pack but um i'm not sure how i feel about the reality of of making it happen and so when i came out of the encounter i was talking to the lord i said god um you know i'm cool with preaching the gospel you know i'm cool with certain things but fitness is not my place and the lord said who are you to say what is your place or what is not because at the end of the day everything i've called you to i revealed to you and so this is a place that i'm calling you to embrace i'm calling you to walk out i'm calling you to embrace the the what it means to walk in in the essence of healing not just saying you are made well but that your life communicates health and that to me if i'm honest with you i have not seen myself as someone who is worthy of that i feel like it's the people who love going to the gym it's the people who like you know when i'm talking about maybe i'm talking about stock market they're like you know what let's pound this protein shake real quick uh that's not me i don't know ram this is just my head but i have felt unworthy i've doubted myself i'm like god i'm not the person for that actually i sometimes emotionally eat i say you want me uh lord no you got a wrong and as i was even studying for this message the lord says stephanie i've not changed my mind you thought you could bury it and just forget about it but i've not changed my mind concerning what i said to you and i had to realize that that unworthiness is a distraction to a place that god is saying i'm giving you dominion and so for me for the next 21 days i'm doing no days off right sounds better than it's gonna feel i'm gonna work out every day it's very simple you thought maybe i'll say something spiritual no but it's spiritual to me because if i don't take care of my body i mean how am i going to carry out the things that god has called me to and nowadays of does not mean i'm going to be going crazy some days it could be you know a stretching party but i'm going to work out every day i'm going to be intentional about eating clean and all of that and feeding my body like i love myself and so for you i don't know what that looks like it could be that you god has called you to be a voice and you just feel like god no one wants to hear what i got to say and maybe every single day you go live on instagram or something and you have a talk whatever it is that pushes you towards the place of what you have been afraid of that maybe you're one that said god you know what preaching was for my parents i don't want to do that start preparing your message maybe there's a business you want to you you know that god has called you to and the fear of failure has crippled you start working towards it whatever it is my prayer is that god will reveal to you what is the area that has crippled you from your dominion how has fear distracted you from the place of your dominion the bible says that call to me ask of me the nations ask of me and i will give you the nations as an inheritance but who has the boldness who has the courage who has the belief that god in a pla in an area in an industry in something that i'm not even familiar with and something that i could be a baby in you can give me authority and dominion because that is just who you are who is greater than god who can do what god who can do the things that god can do who can who i mean we're talking about their stories i read in the bible and when i realized the reality of it that god would look at the sea and cause it to part so that his people can walk on dry ground so i'm walking on dry ground and right and you know nemo is somewhere we finally found him right he's right there in the water we said where is nemo he was at the red sea just you know swimming along dory was somewhere crying [Laughter] but the thing that you fear who is greater than god in my head god if you can part a red sea if you can if you can cause the sun to stop simply because your son believed it there was a man named joshua who called who asked for the son to stand still and god listened to him simply because joshua believed god you see when it says god listen to him god listened to the belief god listened to his faith it was not just empty words joshua knew that what he was asking for with his whole self he believed in it don't be one who just says things be one whose mind is healthy enough to activate it because if i can believe it i can become it you can't talk your way into becoming you believe your way into becoming what has god said about you and is fear distracting you from dominion no more join me in those in the next 21 days i'll be sharing my journey you know the days where maybe i will have a chicken leg walk i don't know but whatever it is if you're joining me just put in the comments right now i'm in i'm in i'm in family i'm going to be praying for you i believe that god is going to do mighty things i believe that every lie is going to be broken because i recognize that in this moment you have to make a decision that your actions have to back up the posture of your heart to say god i don't want to stay in this any longer i don't want to be crippled by this fear any longer i don't want to be crippled by this thought because you see the threat has no power i believe that god even allowed what took place the enemy thought if i didn't have the right perspective he could have used this for his agenda but the lord understood stephanie this fire is actually just a threat this smoke is a threat there's no fire there's no fire this is just a a a deception [Laughter] it's no fire and family guess what even if there was a fire so what god is with me [Music] god is with you even if you fail so what you have to have this mindset that even if my fear is failure and i fail but you have to realize that then failure in the hands of god is not failure in my life it may look like failure but if i put my failure in the hands of god then i would hold on to the promise that said he uses everything to work together for my good so even that failure god will look at it and say hey actually you can learn something from this this can be and this could equip you it could teach you something you have to come to the place of shadrach meshach and abednego that says even if he doesn't save us from the fire it's all right you know you have to get to that place with your mind you will serve the lord with my mind i will serve the lord my mind is a holy ground that is why the enemy i'm just getting this the enemy attacks a lot with the place of things like pornography things like lust because it is to distract your mind your mind is holy ground your mind is spiritual with it you will serve the lord not serve the desires of your flesh not not open doors for the enemy to just come in and say you gave me access jesus said something he said the satan comes to me but he finds nothing in me there is nothing that he can use as an open door in my life that he finds nothing in me there is no hole there is there is nothing satan what you want because it ain't here and i'm praying that for you and so heavenly father we thank you lord jesus for your word we thank you lord god that we are making a decision today that with our mind we will serve the lord that we are going into a 20-day fast for the mind a 20-day fast from our insecurities and our fears and our doubts and the lies and the narrative that comes straight from the pit of hell that we are taking a fast away from everything that is toxic to believe and to hold on to what you know about us thank you jesus thank you jesus i'm just sensing that there are some of you that you've been having there are two people that god has shown me some of you you've been having dreams this reoccurring dreams of being pregnant reoccurring dreams you keep seeing yourself pregnant and it has no natural um no no no no literal symbolism to you like in the in your natural life it doesn't mean anything to you in regards to you know you might not even be in a relationship so you're like god why am i seeing myself pregnant but it's because and the lord is showing me that you are over to deliver what he placed in you and you've allowed fear to you but this is the day that you choose to say no more that you choose to fight back that you choose to take territory where the enemy has been taking dominion because you left it unchecked this is the day that you fight back you said no no no it's my mind it is the mind that god has given me and the only thing that should have influence over my mind is the mind of christ it says take on this mind the mind of christ should be in you that is the only thing that should influence me thank you lord thank you lord and there are some of you you're watching this message and you haven't yet made a decision to follow jesus you know him you talk about him but you haven't made a decision to follow him so you still dabble in other things you know jesus and you know that but on this day you feel a conviction in your heart you feel a burning in your chest you you you understand that i want to know you more i don't want to live this flimsy life with your mind you will serve the lord but it begins by following the lord in order to serve him and if that is you just put in the chat i'm coming home i'm coming home i'm coming home i'm coming home and just say these words with me lord jesus i believe that you are the son of god you died on the cross for me and when you were raised up i was raised up to on this day i say yes to follow you and you alone i will serve you with my mind i will follow you with my life i surrender it all to you make my heart your home give me the mind of christ in jesus name amen amen family we love you you

Channel: ONE | A Potter's House Church

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Length: 60min 42sec (3642 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 05 2021