Battlefield" Pt.5 - March 22nd, 2026 - Pastor Nicoel Zantingh

Come on, church. This is the work. Some of you are so stuck and you don't know why. I'll tell you, it's probably because your thinking is not aligned to the word of God. It's probably because you've given somebody else the power. You've started to believe yourself over who God is and who he says you are. It is time to rise up. It is time to say enough is enough. It is time to take your thoughts captive and put them under the authority of Christ. If you do this, it will change your life. [01:11:28] (35 seconds)  #TakeThoughtsCaptive

I started an eating disorder, and I remember hearing a message like this just like you are at church, and it started something new in me. And I remember I had just finished eating at the dinner table, and I just gone to the bathroom, and I just thrown it all up. And I remember sitting in that bathroom, and I can remember the moment today where I heard the holy spirit's whisper, why are you believing? Their voice and your own voice louder than my voice? If you continue this way, you will die. [01:07:25] (53 seconds)  #HearHisVoiceNotVoices

There was a high price paid for that spirit to be living and dwelling in us. It means we don't have to be victim to how we just think or to conform to the the ways of the world. We actually get to step into something new. There's a power alive within you. You don't have to be in a doom loop. You don't have to stay fixed. You don't have to stay where you're at. There's more. There's more for you. There's an authority and a power that sometimes we receive when we ask Jesus to be be in our life, but we don't live in that power and authority. [00:58:49] (39 seconds)  #LiveInHisPower

Can we just pause there? If you stepped in today feeling defeated, can I remind you that the very spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead is actually living inside of you if you've asked him to come into your life? And just as God raised Jesus Christ from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by the same spirit living within you. Paul knew the power and authority actually came from Jesus and the spirit of God living inside of him. That same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead was in him. [00:58:12] (37 seconds)  #SpiritLivesInYou

But here's the hope that I wanna tell you about, is that it happened slowly over time with Jesus' voice louder than mine, me choosing to not have my voice louder than his or those other people's voice louder than his. I am here today because of that moment that literally changed my life, which was the power of God reminding me of the authority and the power to not live the way that the world is trying to conform me to live. I don't have to look a certain way. I don't have to be a certain way. I just need to come under the authority and the privilege and the thinking of my God's way. [01:09:02] (45 seconds)  #ChooseHisVoiceDaily

Here's the thing that I know about scripture. Scripture with the Holy Spirit actually does surgery on our hearts if we let it. It does surgery and cuts through our reasonings and our and our ideas and our thinking, and it cuts right through to pull out God's goodness and to reveal to us a different way of thinking and living. And I just believe that today that some of you are stuck. And I just believe that the holy spirit wants to actually show you some of those pieces today to set you free, to start a new pathway of God's thinking. [01:14:36] (49 seconds)  #ScriptureHealsHearts

There's things in my heart posture, my mind posture, where I think I actually know better. We might not even consciously think this or or consciously actually understand this, but but our but we we how we think about this, when we think about how God thinks, and then we don't actually do what he thinks, but we do what we think anyway, is actually when we think we know better than God. Here's the challenge. That's actually pride. When we actually know about what God thinks and we don't actually do it or we think that our way is better and we don't change our ways, we don't change our thinking, that's where we actually are elevating how we think over how God thinks. [01:02:22] (55 seconds)  #DontThinkYouKnowBetter

Some of you are struggling with anxiety like I was. Some of you are struggling with stepping into rooms and your calling and the ministry that's on your life, and you will never get to it unless you change the way you think and allow God to be God. We all have it. We all have thoughts that we let run wild, and we we we wonder why our life is a mess. And we choose to listen to those thoughts and those opinions and those reasonings become so loud, they keep us victim, and they create strongholds in which you are living out right now. [01:12:02] (39 seconds)  #ChangeYourThinkingLiveYourCalling