Preaching about RIGHT THINKING

this program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Joyce Meyer ministries the Holy Spirit will prompt you to remember what Jesus wants you to do and right there you have a choice to make you cannot keep thinking the wrong thing and do the right thing [Music] well hello and welcome to enjoying every day life are you bombarded with negative thoughts are things like worry confusion anger or even depression you know you don't have to be a slave to your thoughts any longer God wants to bring peace to your mind let me take some time to encourage you and then I'll be back to answer some of the questions that you've sent in about this important subject father we thank you for the word tonight we're so excited to receive from you we love your word love it love it love it and we appreciate it and we thank you for the power in it in Jesus name Amen we're talking this weekend about healthy living spirit soul and body how to be not a broken person that maybe has a little bit of healing in this area but don't have any healing in a lot of other areas how to be whole in your spirit spiritual health comes from first of all receiving Christ as your Savior jesus said come to me that's simple we can do that last night at the close of the meeting we had 588 Souls come to Jesus and say that's great and tonight I believe that we'll have just as many if not more people that just say I can't live this life on my own I'm tired of trying to do it alone and I just want to I'm gonna I'm just gonna come to Jesus and believe he'll take me just the way I am and help me be what he wants me to be and in addition then to receiving Christ spiritual wholeness continues as we learn to walk according to the Word of God as we learn obedience to God and we found out that we have to depend on the Holy Spirit for that to happen and that it doesn't happen all of a sudden all at once it happens little by little from glory to glory day by day so we've got to have a little bit of patience along the way and I've been teaching people for years to believe and say I'm not where I need to be but thank God I'm not where I used to be I'm okay and I'm on my way even though I'm in the middle I'm on my way to something great amen then this morning we talked about physical wholeness had a lot of fun talking about taking care of your body and not abusing yourself and got a lot of good comments about that and so I think that not only do we have a good time but some of you had an eye-opening word from God that it's time to stop being a gambler and start being an investor don't gamble that you can abuse yourself by not sleeping not eating right having too much stress in your life being overworked out of balance in every area and get by with it we're not playing Monopoly where you roll the dice and hope you get something good and then if you get in trouble think you can get out of it get a get-out-of-jail-free card and go on to the next thing where we want to be not gamblers but investors you want to invest in yourself because you're worth it not tonight we're going to talk about mental health so maybe turn to somebody next to you and say how's your mental health [Laughter] [Music] now you know that sounds a lot funnier than what it really is would you agree that probably our mind gives us more trouble than anything you know why that is because the mind is the battleground that Satan comes and attacks us on thus the book that I wrote the battlefield of the mind if you can win the battle in your mind and you can win the battle for life where the mind goes the man follows so an obedient mind will lead to an obedient life a disobedient mind will lead to a disobedient life so if you made a decision last night or at any time in in your life I want to not just be a Christian I want to be an obedient Christian I want to be a child of God who wants to do what's right and does what's right and glorifies God I don't want to be mediocre and and compromising and just see what all I can get by with and hope I can still sneak in the back door of heaven I want to love God with my whole heart and do it right and I'm sure that most of you have made that decision but a lot of times people make that decision but it never happens for them because although they made a good decision and they have a good desire they never change their mind they still think junk they have stinking thinking and anytime we have stinkin thinking we're gonna have a stinking life so amen that right so the devil constantly attacks our thoughts and but believe it or not in the beginning if you first start trying to cooperate with the Spirit of God to think right things you are gonna feel like you're in a battle from daylight till dark and you just get so tired of fighting the enemy all day you don't hardly know what to do but I can tell you if you stand your ground it gets better and better and better and better and better and you know although my mind still gets attacked there's always things that the enemy's suggesting to my mind but after all these years now practice I mean I recognize them really quickly and it's not that difficult at all to just say nope I'm not going there I've been there I've done that I know what it produces and I'm not going to think like that there are certain thoughts that we can have that will cause a lot of strife how many of you know what strife is it's like it's an angry undercurrent in your home it can be bickering arguing outright fighting yelling and screaming but many terms it's just like an angry undercurrent it's like everybody's kind of acting like praise the Lord and yet you're seething mad inside because you don't like something that went on you didn't get your way about something or whatever the case might be so you have to learn how to shut your mind against strife full thoughts and as soon as they come you need to say this is going nowhere I've been there done that and I'm going to change my mind get an agreement with God and let God take care of the situation let's look at 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse 23 it's funny how God is I meant to end with this story Here I am starting with it 2nd Timothy 2:20 3 but refuse and I love this in the amplified bible how do you refuse you shut your mind against have nothing to do with come on shut your mind against have nothing to do with trifling ill-informed unedifying stupid controversies over ignorant questions for you know that they foster strife and breed quarrels 2nd corinthians 10 4 & 5 for the weapons of our warfare are not physical weapons of flesh and blood but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and the destruction of strongholds see if you have a selfish self-centered stronghold in your mind then it's almost impossible not to get mad when you don't get your way but in as much as we refute arguments and theories reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God now watch this we and we lead every thought and purpose away captive unto the obedience of Christ the Messiah so here's the way it goes you learn the word and the word becomes like a light on the inside of you and when a wrong thought comes one that's going to lead you into trouble the Holy Spirit will prompt you to remember what Jesus wants you to do and right there you have a choice to make you cannot keep thinking the wrong thing and do the right thing did you hear me you cannot keep thinking the wrong thing and do the right thing I said you cannot keep thinking the wrong thing and do the right thing let's just say that somebody's addicted to pornography which there's lots of people today that are okay you can't sit around and look at an imagined pornographic material and hope to not have that get you in trouble nobody just suddenly falls into adultery there's been a lot of thinking that's gone on ahead of time and the place you need to stop the problem is when it first comes into your mind you bring that thought into obedience to Jesus Christ and you say God help me I am NOT gonna think like that I'm not going there in my mind because if you go there in your mind you're likely to go there in your life come on now if you don't want to overeat don't think about food all the time just that simple if you want to work out an exercise don't sit around and think about and talk about how hard it is it's so hard I just oh this is just so hard I don't think I can do this where the mind goes the man follows I got some interesting things to share with you tonight I believe we cannot have an obedient life and have a dis old in mind Joshua 1:8 I don't think anybody ever gets tired of hearing messages about our thoughts do we a spiritual mind is a mind of peace not a mind that's full of turmoil and worry and anxiety and judgment and criticism and all kinds of stuff like that now God had a great life planned out for Joshua and he wanted to use him in a great way and at the very beginning of what God was calling him to do this great thing God was calling him to do he starts out and he says verse 7 only you be strong and very courageous that you might do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you turn not from it to the right hand or to the left that you may prosper wherever you go so he's saying okay here's my words to you now you be obedient to this let it be the center of your life and do not turn from it to the right or to the left can I tell you that I'm proud of you for being here tonight many of you all weekend I'm proud of those of you that are watching the TV program right now and many of you watch it day after day after day that tells me that you love the word you're making an investment in the Word of God and I hope and pray that you're here hearing it because you intend to do it amen and I believe when we hear it there's power inherent in it that energizes us to be able to do it the only thing that's better than hearing the word is studying the word for yourself and I think that if you put those two together it becomes a powerhouse he says if you do this you'll prosper everywhere you go verse 8 this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth in other words he's saying speaking I talk all the time about speaking the Word of God I don't know if you've gotten the message yet or not but you need to talk out loud when you're home by yourself when you're in your car one of the most powerful things that you can do is confess the Word of God out loud over your own mouth the Bible says in Isaiah 55 that the world the words that come forth out of my mouth shall not return void well I don't believe God's just talked about his mouth he's talking about the mouth of those who belong to him when you speak the word of God out of your mouth it helps renew your mind and it keeps it fresh in you and it energizes you to be able to do it well there is so much power in thinking the way God wants us to think it's a battle sometimes but the Lord will help you to live in victory many of you have questions about this topic and ginger is here with some of those questions and by the grace of God I hope and pray that I can answer them well this is so helpful because you've taught us so much and the Bible says so much about the way that we think right and so when we get into the practical situations of different things that are helping or that are impacting us in life these real specific questions I think are very helpful and they often apply to so many of us but Jean from Texas is asking how do you turn off overthinking she says I've got it bad well I had it bad - oh I know what she's talking about first you pray and I think the more you study about thoughts in the mind the more knowledgeable you become and you know you just have to keep at it until you feel like you have a victory I think one of our problems is is we believe God wants us to do something we start to try to farm a new habit and then before we know it something else comes along I think one of our big problems here in America is that we have an overabundance of the word and so you can I mean in one week if you listen to podcasts and you go to church and you know there's different things I mean you can be listening to 15 subjects in one week great and I think we need to especially things we're having a problem with I think we need to stick with it until we feel like we have the victory and I know that it sounds simple to just say well just don't think about it but to be honest overthinking causes confusion and so maybe she needs to have some kind of a little warning thing in her life like for me God showed me that that frustration equalled works of the flesh so anytime that I would feel frustrated I could say okay that's because I'm trying to make something happen that only God can make happen that's really good so if if she starts to feel confused or her mind just feels overloaded or you're giving one of these things it's just you know we're not we're gonna fit we're not going to fix our problems by thinking about them and thinking about them I'm thinking about them so I know it's not always easy but God will give you victory if you stick with it yeah that's good here's a question from Janica she says people are treating me badly I tried to think positive but people are so negative that it's difficult for me to trust them how can I stay positive well if she's around a lot of negative people which it sounds like she is then she definitely needs to put herself in a place where she can be around some positive people I mean let's just say that somebody's married to somebody that's constantly tearing them down and tearing them down and you know you're not going to get a divorce you want to make the marriage work but you can offset that by having positive friends maybe getting in a group Bible study where you know the people that are around us are very important and especially you know if if you need a lot of encouragement and you're around people that aren't giving you any it can get pretty hard but you know sometimes ginger we just have to do something for ourselves and so she probably needs to pray about it and purposely look for some people like I like to laugh you know and so I purposely have a few friends that are just funny simply because they just make me laugh yeah and so get around some people introduce some people into your life that are going to offset the negativity because you can't always control other people's negativity but you can add some positivity right good idea Joe asked this question I keep thinking sinful thoughts and I feel like I can't control how do I stop you think about something else I know that I know that just sounds to people that are big like yourself do that God will help you but for example if I'm thinking a bunch of bad thoughts about somebody the Bible says let him who has my words speak my word faithfully so I discovered a long time ago that you can't think one thing and talk about something else and so you can talk out loud I don't suggest doing it when there's a bunch of people around they don't know what you're doing but if you're in your house by yourself I mean years and years ago when God first started teaching me this if I would have bad thoughts about somebody I would maybe open my mouth and say with God's help I love everybody yeah you know so you can all you can always say the opposite of what those sinful thoughts are and also I think reminding yourself of who you are in Christ mm-hmm he's no longer a slave to sin and he can think whatever he wants to think you don't have to think everything that falls in your head when you know it's something wrong right you can think something else and you can't think two things at once so if you're thinking something bad to start thinking about something good and good always overcomes evil yeah so replacing there's lots that he's fighting was something that's not in my mind was a mess I mean I had every kind of problem you could have with your mind from the way I was raised and the abuse and bad first marriage and I had a poor self-image and I know that if anybody can have their thinking renewed if I can do it anybody can do it but I will say this it's not going to happen overnight and so you have to not give up and throw the towel in so to speak and just think well this is never going to work the Bible plainly says that we renew our mind through study of the word of God yeah this this is similar but I think it continues to help to talk more about it edie says I've struggled for years with racy thoughts looping over my past mistakes is it due to a lack of faith that my mind just never stops this that she can't let it go no I think she needs a real real real good Bible study or a book about new beginnings I was doing some teaching just the other day actually here in a studio teaching about new beginnings yeah and you have to be determined Paul said it's my determined purpose to know him in the power of his resurrection and I press on to get to the place where I need to be so here again it's not going to happen overnight but the devil cannot control our thoughts if we don't let him now I have times we all have times when you may be like in a season of you just feel like your mind is being bombarded and you just can't get it to stop and one of the things that I do in a time like that is just say god I've done all I know to do and so I don't believe these lies and I'm just going to wait for you to deliver me you know and he will and you know in saying all this about what we need to do pray and ask God to help you pray pray pray and ask God to help you because he's the only one really that can make it happen yeah you know the mind is the battlefield yeah still my number one book and it's where Satan tries to take us down yeah and I really have found that speaking out loud making confessions out loud I'll never change my mind about that it's not some kind of a name it claim it doctrine but we we should speak what God speaks and so the more familiar you become with the scripture I mean this morning I was doing some of my physical therapy and I just kind of muttered under my breath be anxious for nothing but in all things by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving plea so when you know the word meditating on the word keeps it fresh and it energizes you and it keeps the bad junk out of your head yeah yeah I had a thing the this morning that had I dwelled on it it would have ruined my day that's exactly and instead focusing on those things that are so many wonderful blessings around and what God's Word says and just really not allowing the little drop in thoughts to fester to change it as soon as it gets there to something else like the first time you hear in your head this is never going to change you open your mouth and say with God all things are possible that's right you know that's that's how you do warfare with the enemy it's the way Jesus did it anybody who cares to look at the first 11 verses of Luke chapter 4 you'll find very plainly the devil said to Jesus Jesus said to the devil and he quoted a scripture and he did that like four times and then I love what it says it says and the devil went away to wait for a more opportune time so the this to be honest is something we'll deal with on and off throughout our life it's not like oh oh right you know Joyce what I do about this and I give you one sentence and that fixes it the rest of your life you just have to do what I've done and what everybody wants to do that has victory you know who you are and you realize that those thoughts are from the enemy they're not they're not your thoughts unless you take them and begin to meditate on them yeah well let's finish up with this one Danielle says I like this question how do I stop counting others blessings and focus on my own sometimes you know it's like why did they get all the blessing yeah yeah you just I remember Dave saying one time and he's not the type very often that says I got a word from God so when he does you want to listen yeah and he said God just really showed me so clearly that as long as we're jealous of other people's blessings were not going to get our own hmm God will help us be happy for other people and you know you can tell when you're around somebody I can tell when I'm around somebody if they're genuinely happy for my success or something that God blessed me with or if it's just a fake you know I used to have a friend and she'd say well I wish something like that would happen to me and so really it was a statement of jealousy and so and not only that everybody has got so many blessings if they just start looking at them and if you know if you want to really fight whenever you start thinking too much about other people's blessings take some time get a piece of paper sit down and write out every blessing in your life that you can think of and just that exercise of taking the time to make a like a college class out of it and don't give up if you have to do it ten days in a row listen the devil keeps at it and we need to keep at it too until we have the victory yeah very helpful aren't you well developing power thoughts action plan and book is available to you today we can think things on purpose we don't have to just think whatever falls in our head we can develop a habit of power thoughts and I believe power thoughts equals a power life so I want to really encourage you to get this information today that the only way to win your battles is to know enough of the word that you know how to fight and so keep renewing your mind with God's Word and I think that these items will help you do that thank you so much for being with us today and remember God does have a great plan for your life everything starts with a thought our attitudes words actions even our quality of life discover how to take control of your thoughts renew your mind and transform your life through God's word with 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Length: 28min 33sec (1713 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 01 2020