Strongholds: The Problem is Not the Problem | Pastor Benny | 082717

ii grin thien's please chapter ten verses three through five since further we walk in the flesh this day standings read the scripture together for though we walk in the flesh right and though we walk in the flesh the Bible says that we are not waging war come on according to the flesh verse four for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh or natural but have divine power come on to destroy strongholds we destroys let me say we destroy we destroy arguments speculations and every lofty thought lofty opinion raised up against the knowledge of God and take every thought thought thought notice what he says arguments opinions and thoughts what do we have to do with that that all originates come on in the mind this is not an outward action it's an inward process that it's now watching me arguments come on opinions and thoughts and we need to take them captive to the obedience of Christ to obey Christ to obey Christ and then verse six says it having you know when your obedience is complete when you do everything God tells you to do then you will see the victory in your life father thank you for your word thank you that is true thank you Lord God that we were gonna leave this place differently than how we came in in Jesus name come on somebody said amen amen you may be seated how many are Floyd Mayweather fans right here Floyd Mayweather fans amen how many you were Conor McGregor fans can I see your hand how many watched the fight last night how many don't care fantastic I care because I just wasted a hundred I didn't waste $100 and and so I'm a big fight fan in fact I fight all the time I fight on the basketball court I fight I fight with my wife I fight with my kids I'm just a born fighter and I'm a small group leader so my small group is a basketball small group come on anybody love to play basketball okay I know some of you like you think you can play like me but you really can't but you can come out so I'm changing the time of my small group which meets that Katriona Park and in sporadic just google it map it come join me tonight at five o'clock Cinco for those who that speak Spanish it was at 7:00 but then guys that have been playing there for a while came up to me and said you know you kind of messed it up because we have too many people and in Manistee can you just do it earlier and so you know what I don't mind negotiation I was gonna ask him for some money but hey they could give towards the church but five o'clock you come and play with this and then if you want to keep running you can run at seven o'clock with these awesome guys and so five o'clock and I'll be there laced up come on with my hyper dunks come on ready to do some damage hey man we're the series cult strongholds and how many even joyed this series so far stronghold we're talking about how to overcome offense and being offended then how do you make it right with somebody then we talked about finances and and really we did that for two weeks thus attendance is really down I don't know what's going on but I'm not gonna be offended over that no I'm just kidding and and we want to talk about addictions in habits so here's the title the message today the problem is not the problem write that down the problem is not the problem the problem is not the problem I have a question as anybody ever felt trapped before trapped before I'm gonna give you an example I travel a lot still and I represent the church Elvie wherever I go and one time I was traveling overseas and and we had got diverted and there's nothing worse than being on an airplane with no air conditioning on the tarmac and they tell you we don't know how long we're gonna be here the first hour I was okay chip I was good I was telling myself you're alright you're gonna make it second hour goes by I start to sweat I start to wonder what's going on my wife sees that I'm panicking she's trying to talk to me be quiet Wendy I don't want to talk right now right and they're going to do it you know trying to give water out trying to make conversation now we're past the third hour come on somebody help me it's nearly a hundred degrees come on there is no air conditioning and they still don't know when we're gonna get out does anybody like me that you don't like to be in small confined places for a long right so then I get up and I start I the emergency exit and I start feeling the temptation come out just pull the lever come on you hear me III I'd rather be arrested I gotta get out of here this is like too much and so they they they they finally opened up the front where you kind of like come into the airplane and so I got up and wife says what are you gonna do I go man I'm gonna jump out I've just I I feel I gotta get out so I went there and they're looking at me like they saw in my eyes I'm gonna jump out of this plane so the flight attendant she was really nice and she said can I help you I wanted to say yeah I'm gonna grab you and we're both gonna hit the ground but you're gonna be the one that takes the first you know that I mean and I said is it okay cuz I just got to get closer to the door it's a little hot and and and I didn't let the words come out of my mouth but they were going in my head I'm panicking and I never said I'm claustrophobic even though it was raging in my mind because I didn't want to watch make my identity what my issue was I didn't want to say I'm a claustrophobic I'm a claustrophobic because the more I would be saying that the more it would trigger something in my life so you've heard this go to a happy place it didn't work I do it everything but what I did is I took my eyes out fell'd the jam-packed airplane and I kept looking outside knowing eventually I was gonna get out there it was probably about thirty minutes later that they actually said we ever gate open and we're gonna taxi to the gate and those of you that want to get out and stretch your legs you can believe me I was the first one out of that airplane right because I felt trapped I my mind was going crazy when I start talking about looking at me look at me when I start talking about addictions when I start talking about habits I'm talking about feeling trapped feeling like I can't get out feeling like man what's going to happen I'm like in an airplane it's a hundred degrees and I actually feel like I'm not gonna make it and I have some good news for you you have to quit looking at the cramped airplane because God is going to show you an opening and he's gonna show you that there's a way of escape somebody say amen to that the issue is always not on the outside the issue is in the inside and Paul now is dealing with this topic of strongholds the world let's say addictions or habits but the word stronghold means a fortified thought it's the way we process life and in here the Bible says in verse 3 it says tell me walk in the natural we do not do war in the natural in other words the way we walk is not the way we wore that the things that we're dealing with most of them don't have a natural root cause it is spiritual in nature so the writer says I know we're walking in the natural but we have to war not in the natural but our warfare takes plate takes place in the spiritual that there are habits there are addictions there's situations that are going on in your life in my life Church and we must recognize that we cannot deal with it just with natural tools just with natural a pieces of equipment it's not just a natural thing it's not just where I'm going to change my environment plane to change my neighborhood I need to change spouses we're gonna change this and most of the change is always on the outward but the real battle is not this natural thing that we're trying to do it is spiritual in nature and it's not more willpower it's not trying harder I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do that the problem with most of us is that I got in trouble in the first place being self occupied with myself aye-aye-aye I want this I don't agree I think it should be this way III in fact if you spell the word sin out I is right in the middle of it I is what caused the fall in the first place I is a problem that happens in your life and you're so preoccupied it's Mimi made thus the real Christian life is you die to yourself and you bi I know we don't like that let's try this one over here over here the real Christian life is I die to myself and I begin to say Jesus what you desire what you want what you say is greater than what sometimes I want and I think and I would decide and you say well that's hard to do it is impossible that's why when you come to Christ he gives you his spirit and his spirit that lives inside of you begins to give you the power and the ability to do what God has asked you to do this is called grace and so if we understand that the way we war is not the way we walk then we're not gonna be confused of how to get free from the addictions and the habits and the things that we are dealing with because if we recognize it's not a natural battle but a spiritual battle then we're gonna begin to understand something that God has given us come on spiritual weapons and these spiritual weapons have the ability watch to destroy the stronghold to destroy the habit to destroy the addiction I'm gonna push back on culture a little bit and I'm just gonna be countercultural a little bit the last few weeks I'm just gonna push back a little bit and some of you it's gonna is gonna gonna recoil a little bit but I'm gonna push back because I know a lot of people keep saying after 30 years hi my name is Benny and I'm a recovering alcoholic listen to me I understand the 12 steps I understand that it helps a lot of people but somewhere along the line I don't think your identity has to be still tied to what held you captive that you could show up and say my name is Benny Perez I'm a blood-bought child of God delivered by God and you know what Jesus is making a difference in my life but she tells somebody who has an addiction who has who has you know has an issue and it's like man I can't break it I can't help it I can't overcome it these are talks of somebody who is a powa prisoner of war make no mistake about it there's still warfare going on there's still an enemy and it's not the Democrats okay half the church's Republican so you could say hey man now let me just be fair the enemy is not the Republicans a man let's say the Democrats are more more vocal hey man yeah yeah and let me go so far it might as well create some havoc today the enemy is not Trump oh you don't know any man's on that one I got you and if President Obama was in office I would say and and the enemy is not President Obama and the enemy is not President Clinton it's not it's not President Bush because we try and continue to fix issues that have spiritual application and if you have spiritual application you must deal with spiritual weapons that's why you know what the Bible the Bible never says to criticize our president the Bible says to pray for our president to pray what why does the Bible tell us to pray okay thank you why does about why you didn't you didn't you didn't whistle for anything else that's okay look at me watch me up what why does the Bible say to pray for those in authority because it's telling us this it is telling us that our leaders need to understand that though they're walking and leading in the natural they need a higher source a higher power and they need to appeal towards heaven come on help me now and we need to be men and women that actually watch our mature to recognize no matter if they're democrat or republican we need to lift up our president because he needs to have his ears open to hear what God says about a situation I don't agree with President Trump in everything I didn't agree with President Obama and everything and I know I'm an ethnic person I'm a minority and I should probably be leaning towards this way do you know which way I lean I don't lead towards that elephant I don't lead towards the donkey I lean heavily into the lamb I know some people are left Archer way he doesn't he's not taking out a big enough stand on political issues and you know what I want to take a stand on spiritual truth people doing crazy stuff whether you're well whatever side of the issue you're doing crazy stuff and you over there you know just just just picketing and doing crazy stuff and you don't household is out of control maybe I should start picking it outside your home come on come on somebody hear what I'm saying it's not a political issue it's so easy because we want to get distracted with everybody else's issue and never deal with our own issue you know if you keep on blaming everybody else for you announce my wife it's my wife in my husband well it's my mama my mama didn't change my diaper and man I carried around a load for so long and now I'm so angry and I'm mad I'm the hunky killer I'm the I'm the pepper killer I'm just so mad I'm so upset join the club baby everybody has something happening with area everybody whether you're white or black or brown has something and what we do is we keep elevating the issue instead of elevating the answer oh man I feel I'm just gonna preach myself and a happiness today I really am because if I'm not careful I might default mode is well you know because I'm Hispanic or I'm Latino that's why they're treating me like that I just feel a little racism with that person and it could be true it may not be true but the issue isn't them because they cannot define how I feel it always comes from the inside so I keep telling myself Who I am you're handsome okay bond that's not true but you're a man of God hey man you're righteous in your holy and you're loved and and you're significant and and and you should say the same thing my identity isn't wrapped up on how good I play tonight in basketball cuz if it was I don't have much identity you know when I was younger and I could actually dunk chew yeah I know I know you can't believe that but I could dumb YES on a ten foot cord not an eight foot one now I couldn't palm a basketball so I could never put down a basketball rubber ball and he liked that when I would jump that would be the rim they used to call me the leaping monkey and my identity was like I'm the best rebounder out there I would actually let a guy go on a fast break ahead of me and time it perfectly as you went up I would swat the ball from behind cuz that's how and I'm trying to brag I'm just this is historical truth if I base my identity on my ability now when a guy goes on a fast break I said I hope you make it when these young guys are like come on I got you like go ahead cuz I realized this is not life man I'm married I got kids I'm gonna blow my knee out to prove something now I say that but wait till tonight about 5:30 so could it be that the solution to all that we're dealing with is not really out here cuz a writer says we're not we're not walking we're not warring the way we walk but our weapons have divine power watch divine power Theo's God power to destroy the word destroy means to dismantle to to pull apart to pull down in actually indicates a process it's not an event I wish I could tell you you can be free in one moment and the issue is that you can't be free in one moment but you won't stay free unless you continue the process I'm preaching really good it's like spaghetti when it marinades overnight come on it gets better that's why I don't want to ever give up on Saturday because I'm marinating all night and then Sunday get you you get that you get that left that you get the who at the spaghetti tastes so good right now so the weapons are warfare not carnal but they are mighty through God for the pulling down of strong wants to destroy strongholds now if we understand then that the real battle right is on that outside but it's in inside because we he says he says the cause is lofty opinions arguments and thoughts that are contrary to Christ so the writer is saying stronghold the world says addiction habit biblical term is stronghold the way you destroy it watch you don't destroy the stronghold you don't destroy it you don't focus on it whatever it is but you dismantle it piece by piece you you you have to understand that the habit the addiction whether it's alcohol a chemical whether it's maybe food maybe it's it's emotional whatever it is you must understand that that is just watch me that is just the outward expression of a thought a thought pattern a system in your life so now what we must understand is that the way that we get rid of that is not dealing with the problem or the habit I'll say to you this way the problem is not that habit but in the mind the habit or the addiction or the stronghold is the expression of the thinking so to fix the habit or the addiction means that I have to fix the thought associated with it God trying to help somebody are you hearing me because what we do is we keep we keep going back to the bottle and we keep we keep well I'm not gonna do it again I'm not gonna do that again and your will powers okay for a while until you get under stress until you feel like man I can't handle this so you go back to your default mode the issue isn't the alcohol the issue is not the porn the issue is not the heroin the issue that is not the issue there is just an expression of the thought pattern that is now telling you that that is your only way out and until you change the thought pattern you'll keep going back over and over again to that but that's why we have divine power come on now to destroy this stuff whatever stuff is so now we know that because is the mind and the expression is the addiction or the habit so now we know the cause what's the cure while he gives us this as he begins to say again and second Corinthians he begins to say okay this is what you need to do go back to second Corinthians please and and he says this out we destroy and he doesn't even use the word stronghold he says we destroy arguments lofty opinions and everything else raised up against the knowledge of God so here's what the Bible's saying the Bible is saying we need to attack the foundation of the addiction because if we dismantle the foundation and the structure come on that house must come down so so he says let's deal with these speculations these arguments these lofty opinions I say to you this way it's like when we tell people you know we believe the weight of financial freedom is by giving God the first 10% and the immediate reaction is that and make sense okay let's go someplace else because you're still processing from two weeks ago uh we believe the Bible teaches that you should should forgive your enemies love those come on now that actually do bat against you and say all manner of evil against you for my name's sake and people say what that doesn't make sense okay let's keep going here so what we do is is now instead of taking God thoughts and starting to implement those in our mind we keep going with what we think well I think this is the way it should be well how is that working for you Henry how is that working for you come on Benny how's that working for you Debbie how is that working for you uh uh uh uh what's your name Gary how's that working for you come on Miguel how's that working for you binaya I gotta work with benaiah because benaiah at nine thinks he knows a lot come on cut me and somebody give me an amen does it frustrate you as a parent that's your fifteen year old your fourteen year old thinks that they know more than you can I see your hand for a second right now come away from hand at me okay because you as a parents say I know more than you I've been around longer than you I know how this rodeo is gonna end and it's not gonna end good because I been around a long time and you get frustrated because your children aren't listening to y'all you know where I'm going if you're a preacher I Got News for you you've got a heavenly father that says to you you're my child I know a little bit more than you I've been around a little bit longer than you I know how to handle relationships and finances better than you but you say no no no God I know better and you as an earthly parent you sit there and you want to say I brought you into the world I could take you out come on right you know I'm talking about but you because if your great love you say I wish he would listen to me I wish you would listen to me I know it's not gonna go well but when it doesn't go well a good parent doesn't say haha don't you slow that's not a good parent a good parent hurts has pain and you embrace some and I said this is what I was trying to save you from so what happens is it's when I preach it to you from the Word of God and the father is saying come on just listen to me Jia just listen to me Michael just listen to me windy because I'm trying to save you from something oh but you went your own way you went your own lofty opinion your own speculation your own argument but it's okay because when it doesn't work out I'm not here to shame you or condemn you I'm here to pick you back up again and say it's okay I'm still here haha oh I'm your speaking tongues right now it feels so good because the issue it's not that screen that you keep going to it's it's not that bar oh you're drinking too much of it is it's not the prescription medication that was just to help you with your pain management but now you're addicted that is not the issue the issue is the speculations and the lofty opinions and the arguments are raging your mind I just deal with one word in the text here when he says lofty opinion that a synonym for that synonym for that in the English language will be a partition something that divides we have portable portable partitions that that we could set up and divide we have curtains these curtains are partitions that divide the room what he's saying is we have to destroy the things that are dividing us in our mind he doesn't say remake redo repurpose if you leave the thing in the room you end up using it you got to destroy it because when a partition a curtain what it does it watch it blocks the flow thus if you see our curtains we have mesh in the middle so that the back of house can actually see me but if we actually use the curtains the proper way which is actually to block totally and we would just pull the curtains totally and they were it would block their view from me and I block my view to them so what he's talking about spiritually speaking is the enemy comes and start setting up partitions to break the free flow of spiritual truth into your life now I know this because if you know the tactic of the enemy the enemy watch is the Prince of Darkness and in darkness is how he traffics and he doesn't traffic truth he traffics lies so the enemy says I'm going to set up a partition a lofty opinion that is raised up against the knowledge of God and so what happens is he knows if I could keep this partition in your mind in your soul in your spirit it will block spiritual truth because the way you overcome darkness isn't a focus under the darkness it's to turn on the light when you turn on the light there is no battle you don't find a battle the lights paddling darkness and darkness is winning and light is winning and who's gonna win it's the ninth round looks like floyd mayweather is finally gonna prevail and there are no friends go into any room and if you turn on the light the darkness flees darkness only dominates when there is no light in the room let me say to this way darkness only dominates in your mind when there is no light that is coming in are you hearing me somebody say Amen that's why geez watch Jesus has the audacity to come and say in John chapter 8 John chapter 9 that I am the light of the world and in him there is no darkness and so Jesus is saying the more you embrace me the more you allow me in the more you take my word here the more you allow the light in the darkness cannot stand against the light it is horrible to try and walk through a room that is totally dark that you're not familiar with your little toe will tell you when you have messed up you do not have the equipment watch me now to operate in darkness you know predators have the equipment we're talking about lions and cats and they have the ability to see at night like you can't see at night thus if you go on safari which I've been on safaris is that the lions do not hunt during the day why because the people what the things they are hunting can see they're coming so what they do is they hunt mostly at night because they have the ability to see at night when the prey have no ability to see at night you got to be careful your enemy can see at night but you can't see at night so now instead of cursing the night you just turn up the light you got to turn off the light this is good preaching you got it sounds like I gotta do something you don't have to do something you just need to receive something so good we should show this I don't know if I could reap reach this is better I'm just gonna say ten o'clock 11:45 get ready I'm coming via screen is this making sense anybody so what what has almost done what the writer does is he's making a huge implication the way you destroyed the habit the addiction the thing you can't break the thing that you said you'll never do again and you keep doing it over and over and over again and you get South occupied with that thing you get self occupied with that with that think and what what you need to understand and I've been enough counseling I've been in enough counseling I've been enough therapists and they always tell me that's not the issue Benny that's not the issue the issue is what Linda's what he told me Randy told me this he goes what were you thinking before you did the action I said I I don't remember can I be honest with you then he told me something that that really was one of the keys that changed my life he says because if you believe something for so long it's actually gone it's actually gone sub-conscience that you now begin to operate from a realm in your mind that is controlling you without you even knowing it's controlling you he says if the enemy can do that in your life what could happen if you continue to renew your mind to God's truth then you begin to operate out of a subconscious level and people say man why are you doing that in you go no no you know it I don't even think about tithing anymore I just it's just part of my nature I don't think well I'm a pastor I should probably live by hands and worship it's my nature the more you believe your true nature the more your true nature will manifest in your life so the writers the writer says this he goes on to say to say you're gonna dismantle it and the way you dismantle it is believing what God says even though it's ridiculous is greater than what you see with your own eyes arguments I I start putting down playing down these partitions I start destroying those partitions let me give you a good biblical illustration of this as we land the plane Joshua's is being spoken to by God and Joshua chapter 5 and they're gonna take this stronghold called Jericho Jericho is a walled city it's a fortress it literally is a physical manifestation of a stronghold it's never been taken double walls about 20 to 30 feet in between that was the Deadman zone so if you got over the first wall the archers would kill you before you even get to the second it was so widely used to do chariot races around the city of Jericho and the Bible says that Jericho is tightly shut up because the children of Israel Joshua is a warrior since his youth he is a trained warrior he's an assassin's Creed warrior come on help me this guy is amazing he is leading now three million years rewrites and now he's a he's a man of war and he comes to the city and he's figuring out how can I take the city but you cannot take a stronghold with natural power it is too big for you it is too strong for you it is bigger than you so God shows up and got messes with this military mind and he says this I'm gonna take the city Joshua what you're gonna do is you're gonna march around the city you and all the people once for six days and you're gonna march around the city and what are you gonna do now watch how powerful this is what I want you to do though is not just march around the city but I want you to put the Ark of the Covenant and the priests at the very front of the line and as the people march have them look watch at the Ark of the Covenant have them look now at the priests let their attention not be on the stronghold but on God himself and as you're walking around the stronghold you're not looking to the stronghold you're marching forward you're marching with your eyes forward you're marching with the Ark of the Covenant and the Ark of the Covenant was far enough in the distance that no matter where you were you could see off in the distance you would be straining and you'd be saying oh yeah I see the Ark of the Covenant let's keep walking and let's keep looking at the presence of God let's keep looking at the presence of God let's keep looking at the presence of God don't say anything towards the city don't say anything as they're mocking us don't say a word that's what he says you don't say a word don't respond don't fight naturally against 8 a a city a stronghold that you have no ability to take naturally if you are military mind you're like well that don't make sense I mean maybe we need to create some like ladders and and when you do this but God oftentimes well violate your mind and what you think is logical to get you to a place of true faith and trust in a supernatural God that says with me come on all things are possible so good I begin to study this and see this I'm gone how many years I've been preaching and I've missed this hi I've missed it because if you know because Oh God because if you go I'm sorry I'm just having these these moments with floor because listen to me if you go to chapter five what it's Joshua doing you Bible scores what is he doing it says that he has his eyes towards Jericho he has eyes fixed on this stronghold on this addiction not this habit and who shows up Jesus shows up himself the age of the Lord and distracts him from the addiction distracts him from the habit distracts em from the stronghold and judgment how pulls out his sword and he's gonna fight this man because he understands that thing is too big for me he never pulled out his sword and say here I come Jericho I'm gonna take you because he recognized he had no ability to defeat that city but he assumed he could defeat one man and so that man says don't know I am not who you think I am I'm the angel of the Lord and he bowed down and began to worship and he realized this is Jesus in the Old Testament what am I trying to tell you the addiction is Jericho your habit is Jericho it's too big for you and your little sword but that's why Jesus is showing up because he wants you to focus on him how can I feel something oh I wish some Pentecostals would shout and clap for me just for a moment [Applause] [Music] can I feel this I feel why are you preaching this because I got a stronghold and I got stuff and I man it's like rushing hell with the squirt gun I'm gonna distinguish you so you give up on your marriage give up on your job you just give up now what does God tell him to do feel for a moment you're here Joshua and they're cheering you and they're saying we thought I three thought you're Joshua the great leader of the nation of Israel aren't you a great warrior what are you doing and the enemy will actually jeer and try to humiliate you when you begin to take up the only weapon that could defeat him listen to me and he goes you think that's really gonna work do you think that's really gonna help you in your life do you think that's really gonna set you free do you think putting God first in area of your life is gonna do anything it's just a money-making scheme it's just MLM multi-level marketing it's just kind of like that scheme they do do you actually think that forgiving somebody he's gonna change the situation do you actually think if you do it God's Way that's what he did to Eve in the garden I love the opinion the reason means make no mistake about I said this when I was at a conference yesterday with Mack Brock leading worship and Benny Perez preaching he was heaven I said this and something spiritual bomb went off in San Francisco I said the real battle is not black versus white it's not gay versus straight now I went off like a bomb in San Francisco it's not married and unmarried the real battle the spirit of our ages the spirit of reasoning is at battle against the spirit of Revelation the revealed truth of God's Word and the humanistic philosophical rantings of men and women's minds and for thousands of years we have not solved the racism issue because it was in Jesus's day you keep getting financial advice from your broke uncle who tells you hey I got the next stock tip and when we tell you to put God first and stay out of debt [Music] because you bought into the spirit of reasoning it's gonna get quiet you know every time I lose my temper and I'm doing better at 52 than I did at 32 well that guy did that to me and and and now I'm learning it's like no there's a there's a there's a thought then I look at guys that are controlled on the basketball court on a football field and they go it's just a game man just the game but she didn't understand when I was growing up I had to fight for everything I show up and they go look in him he can't do anything a skinny that guy is and I proved him wrong on that because I had to prove myself and when I go into default mode I I try and prove myself instead of saying I'm okay I'm significant God loves me does that make sense so I got in because of time and but I just I just felt like the Lord just redid some things in me last night I was watching the fight it was interesting that I'm talking about warfare and I'm seeing a fight you know what they said they said Conor McGregor would not last more than four or five rounds he lasted what nine ten and here's what Dana White said Dana White in the post conference said Conor took me off-guard he didn't come out the way that I thought he was gonna come out he changed up the strategy and if he didn't get winded he may have had a chance to actually take it 12 rounds Conor McGregor didn't I Mayweather didn't really believe that he was gonna come out the way that he did they thought it was just gonna be a mauler and just kind of just maul him but if you watched the fight he was actually more technical than fighter so can I tell you this the enemy thinks you're gonna walk out of here with a strategy but you're gonna walk out of here with a god-sized strategy so let me give you your strategy and we're gonna leave here write this down it's gonna help you number one you very simply have to identify and capture wrong thoughts pastor how do I know it's a wrong thought because it doesn't line up with God's Word that's why you need to know more of God's Word to identify what thoughts come on don't line up with him capture them let me give you some simple ones you're not loved you're not seeing him no I captured I thought I am love I am significant I'm a son of God a child of God a daughter of God if you're a follower of Jesus my significance isn't base in what I do it's base in Who I am so I capture wrong thoughts write that down capture wrong thoughts the next thing I do is is you do is that you begin to recognize now that I need to declare what God says so capture wrong dots and then out of your mouth declare the opposite of what those negative thoughts are saying when you feel like you're not loved you're not significant you left out your overlooked no God has a plan for my life no I am loved you speak God's Word because it is a two-edged sword and then lastly when you have those thoughts that I can't do this I'm too weak I am a drug addict I am an alcoholic I am this way you need to stop and say no God's grace is sufficient for whatever that I'm facing God your grace actually works more powerfully in my weakness and so I lean into God's grace and God's grace now leans into me and now by God's grace who is grace grace is not a principle it's a person and you say Jesus you're more than enough Jesus you're helping me Jesus you're saying to me something Jesus I'm accepting all that you're doing in my life I I don't want to promise your timetable I don't I want you so bad I'm a parent and I see my kids growing up and I'm like God I just I want I want them to mature so quickly and a man a man I bring this I see to say it but then I start controlling I try to control my kids god help me because at the root of it I'm not trusting God I could guide them by the end of the day I gotta trust that God loves them more than I do and my job is to give them the light help them use the light but they have to receive the light can save somebody saying him in your control issue isn't just kids like to control it's because probably you were controlled when you were younger but that's a whole nother stuff too let's just keep going but I want to pray for you I want to pray for the 10 o'clock 11:45 or pray for you because I feel such a grace on me right now you know this works in relationships so my friends have been married and divorced three or four times always blaming the other person marrying like hot-looking women like great-looking women like yeah she's the one and then a year later nah let's destroy the argument that will dismantle the strong Hall

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Published: Mon Aug 28 2017