It's the thoughts that count - Pastor James Hooper

Okay? I feel like I need to say it again. You are necessary. You are necessary. Not as good that you're around. You're necessary. You are needed. That's something that the enemy likes to get get to us. Oh, well, you know, I'm not anybody. We've got songs that we sing, such a worm as I. No. No. No. No. No. See, I'm I'm I'm the part of the bride of Christ. I'm part of the body of Christ. [00:47:29] (39 seconds)  #YouAreNecessary

and then after that's done, then I don't talk to her. That's the way we've been with the Holy Ghost. I want it to make me feel good. I just gotta get my doodads, I gotta do all this kind of stuff and then we don't mess with the Holy Spirit the rest of the week and you wonder why you live a defeated life. The Holy Spirit, you need the Holy Spirit to go to Walmart, come on. [00:32:37] (21 seconds)  #HolySpiritEveryday

It's not denying you have an issue, it's not denying that you're having problems, it's not denying that you're struggling, but the answer is be a resource to someone and God will resource you because you are a conduit. We talked about this last week, you're a conduit, you're not a reservoir. It's supposed to flow through you, not just in you, it's supposed to flow through you. [00:36:08] (27 seconds)  #BeAConduit

Because when you're not focused on all of your needs, then you're ministering to somebody. Listen, the best way to get out of your funk is to get somebody else out they funk. That's the only way I can tell you because as long as you stay in your funk and you keep thinking about your mess, you keep thinking about it, you're going to get deeper and deeper and deeper. Listen, this is a man telling you that I used to get hyper depressed. [00:35:10] (27 seconds)  #HelpOthersHealYou

Listen, we can't change the way our way of thinking by bullying our way through it. I've heard so many preachers say, you just have to you just have to, you know, just think the right thoughts, think the right thoughts. Listen, I'm gonna tell you something. My mind has got a mind of its own. I tell you what, while I'm talking to you, there are other thoughts going on in my head. It's just the way it works. And so I I can't totally control. I can change the inputs into my mind, and I can start putting better inputs into my mind. You know the old computer term garbage in garbage out. [00:30:32] (46 seconds)  #GarbageInGarbageOut

We're gonna talk about changing our way of thinking because we have all grown up, we have all been exposed and we spend more time out in the world and in its systems and its way of thinking and so we have veered off of that course, we have veered off of the way that God wants us to think, truly the way he wants us to think. So to be able to do what God to know God's will and to be able to be perfectly in his will, we need to start thinking like God thinks [00:06:11] (35 seconds)  #ThinkLikeGod

but God just saved me. He rescued me, he delivered me because of that stuff, but I tried to be. But I was so focused on trying to be accepted that I was being somebody else. My mother would tell me, just be you, and I said, who is that? Because I've been trying to be somebody else for so long that I didn't know who I was and I wish I had learned this sooner. It took me till I was 40 years old till I learned who I was. [00:20:01] (28 seconds)  #DiscoverYourTrueSelf

So what is what is the purpose of being transformed? We'll get into the the whole thought processes and stuff like that, but the purpose of being transformed See, Romans twelve and thirteen, the context of this, he's telling the the Jewish Christians, messianic believers, and the Gentile Christians to become unified. He's talking about being unified. And so we become unified into the one new man as Ephesians two fifteen says, I'll read that here in a minute, by renewing our minds or how we think and serving one another and serving the world. [00:39:18] (40 seconds)  #TransformedForUnity