Hijacked Joy Pt. 4

Meditate on it day and night. Why? What happens when we're meditating on the word of God? Well, then it tells you, you will be careful to do according to all that is written in it. Then, you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. As you're meditating on what God says, and you're thinking about what he tells us to do, we're able to make the decisions that please him. We're able to make decisions that honor him because we're having it present. And when we honor God, success follows. [00:11:41] (34 seconds)  #MeditateOnGodsWord

We must set our mind to the things of God. We must set our mind to the things of God. This is an intentional purposing of setting it to the right frequency. Okay? Colossians chapter number three, you write it down. It's gonna come up on the screen. Colossians chapter number three verse number two. And this is what it says, set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth. Set your mind on the things that are above. [00:15:16] (30 seconds)  #SetYourMindOnHeaven

Thoughts come like a flash. The thoughts come in like a flash, but then we've got to decide to keep it or reject it. They come in super fast, and then you choose, keep this thought, meditate on this thought, or reject this thought. We can't stop our head from thinking. It just happens. But we can prevent us from chewing on it. We can choose what we're gonna chew on. And when the thought comes in, you could be at Publix and a thought comes in, nope, that's not god. Nope, that's not this. I'm not gonna think about it. [00:20:44] (39 seconds)  #ChooseYourThoughts

when we turn on the TV, when we turn on the radio, when we go into the office, when we go into the grocery store, when we go to places we see and hear what's going on, it begins to affect our thoughts. It begins to affect our mind. So we need constant renewal to get back to the place of what God has us or wants us to be thinking about. Our mind needs renewal. So then comes the question, how do we renew our mind? How do we do this? How do we deal with our thoughts? And if ruminating is not the issue, but what we ruminate on, if that's the issue, how do we do or chew on the right thing? Here's number one. We must meditate on the word. [00:09:22] (39 seconds)  #RenewYourMindDaily

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. How many of you know that it's very, very, very difficult to speak something different than what you were thinking at the moment? It's why sometimes we have conversation with somebody and when we started thinking of what we're gonna respond, we totally missed what he was even telling us. Like, you ever rebuttled somebody and they tell you, I just told you that. Were you not listening? And I wasn't. I was trying to think about what I was gonna say next. Alright. Anyways, do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth. [00:11:05] (35 seconds)  #SpeakTheWord

What God says about our family. What God says about our children. What God says. That's what we need to ruminate on. And in order to be able to do that, we gotta read it first. We gotta know what it says. We've gotta pay attention to it. And then we've gotta purposely set our mind to it and think about God, think about what he says. Why? So that then we can produce the proper fruit. [00:22:54] (25 seconds)  #RuminateOnGodsPromises

What did God call you to do? God called you to do x, y, or z, go do it faithfully and honor him doing it, he'll take care of the rest. What area, what arena did God call you to be in? Did God call you to be in a hospital? Did God call you to be in the courts? Did God call you to be in a school? Did God call you to be in the grocery store? Did God call you to be in the mechanic shop? Whatever God gifted you with as a talent, as a gift, and you do it to honor him, you walk in joy. [00:29:07] (39 seconds)  #ServeWhereCalled

I can't tell you how many professionals I've met that when they ask you what you do for a living and say, oh, I pastor a church, and they're like, oh. And it it gets they're like they just assume that you maybe probably weren't educated because there's lot of people that think that only uneducated people are the ones that need God. No, bro. Like, the reality is that all of us need God, and the more education you got, the more you need him. Sorry. It's another sermon. We can get so caught up in what do people think? What do people say? What do people do? No. No. What does God say about you? [00:28:23] (43 seconds)  #WhatGodSaysMatters