Understanding the Solution (2 Cor. 4:16-18)

Am I gonna look on that which I see or on that which I cannot see? That's our choice. So then we go home. We say, dear, I am completely overwhelmed. I am stressed out. The stress wasn't the cause. The stress was the effect of my evaluation. You get that? So when the Lord's telling you your mind is renewed day by day, he's saying, what I'm trying to do is help your evaluator. I'm trying to help you and bring into your evaluation of things that there is something greater than what you see. [00:13:32] (48 seconds)  #ChooseTheInvisible

The stress that you feel is a result. Is a result. And that's important for you to understand because if it was the cause, then there's nothing you can do about it. But if stress is the result of the process, then I can get involved in the process and change the result. Amen. Where every day I'm not gonna say, oh, I'm so under stress. I'm so overwhelmed. I'm so freaked out. I'm so this or whatever. And we think somehow because I'm saying that, these are things that are happening that we have nothing we can do to change it because it's it's something that's causing it, the cause and effect. But it's not the cause. It's the effect. [00:07:33] (41 seconds)  #StressIsTheEffect

A renewed mind possesses a bible taught and spirit illuminated belief that God is more than enough for everything we need in life. It's based on bible principle and it's based on a spirit that is working in you that has illuminated your mind to understand that God is more than enough for that situation that you're in right now. And if you feel you're overwhelmed, it's simply because you don't see God as enough. He is enough. [01:11:59] (38 seconds)  #GodIsMoreThanEnough

Because if you do not see past what you see, you will always be overwhelmed. You're always gonna have noise in your soul. You're always gonna get angry. You're gonna freak out when things don't line up for yourself. But folks, you know whose fault it is? You can blame the guy sending the bill. You can blame your broken body. You can blame all that. But you know what? Your stress does not come from those things. Your stress comes from your evaluation. [00:14:19] (28 seconds)  #StressFromEvaluation

And so your mind and your body are involved with this. But notice what it hits first. The first point of your stress is not your body, it's your mind. Now I have no doubt that the devil uses external means to cause the stress. It's never usually things you don't see. It's things that you do experience that cause you to feel the way you're feeling. The devil doesn't work from the inside out. He works from the outside in. God works from the inside out. See, he's the one that speaks to your spirit, and that's why it's hard sometimes to trust him because he's not using the circumstances. [00:09:29] (41 seconds)  #MindBeforeBody

letter a under this, and if you have you're taking notes, and I encourage you to do that, is any pressure of life is first evaluated by the mind. That means it happens here first. This is where we have to understand we it's our mind that's evaluating depression. I'll give you an example here. Pull up that next slide, guys. Notice it's the same same illustration, but I have underneath a bill in the mail. So let's say you go to the mailbox and you pull out a bill, and it's like, woah. It's a $759.32 bill, and it's due next week. [00:11:45] (39 seconds)  #MindEvaluatesLife

Now you don't have stress yet. It may be forming, but you don't have it yet. You know when the stress happens? When you begin to evaluate. I look at that bill, and then I go online with my phone to my bank account. And I look at what's in my checking or my savings or whatever I may have. Then I realize with the weight of the groceries and the bills that I have due and then this bill on top of it, I've just realized that I don't have enough money to pay this bill. [00:12:23] (33 seconds)  #EvaluationTriggersStress

Yeah. So do you see that the the first thing that happens when you feel stressed is you actually evaluate it with your mind? You're the one that brought it to pass. Now if you wouldn't be alive and you get the bill, it wouldn't affect you at all. But you're alive, and you see it, and you evaluate it, and your mind has now put it all together. And when you finally came to that conclusion, there's no way that I can pay this bill with what I have. This is where your choice comes. [00:12:56] (35 seconds)  #YourMindCreatesStress