Transforming Inner Conversations: Aligning with God's Truth

1) "Our life is supposed to be the overflow of the life of God in us. What happens is if we're not protecting that conversation, then we're busy in the Christian life trying. The Bible says that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. And so. Things don't just happen. They happen as a result of the meditation or conversation we're partnering with. One of the things I want to talk about is the power of agreeing with God. That we are actually created in the image of God. Right? Which is not just looking like him, but thinking like him. We receive the mind of Christ and we're supposed to multiply. And fill the earth with his image." [07:32] (56 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "We're by design created to think in alignment with God. To think in agreement with God. That might be not the easiest and the most comfortable place. But that is the most fulfilling and life-giving place we can be. Is where we agree with him. Amen? And so we're going to look at a few different passages. But this is our inner world. This is where all of our feelings, emotions, response, abilities. This is where our actions come from. It's this inner world called our thoughts. And this is our secret life." [08:30] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "You would think that after everything they saw, they would have faith to agree with God in what he's saying as they looked at the promised land. But the Bible says that one bad report from the ten spies, and they cried all night saying, I wish we never left Egypt. You know, later in that chapter, they actually decided to stone them and pick new leaders that will lead them back. And you know, whenever we respond like this, because Hebrews talks about and references this point, and it calls this unbelief evil. A form of evil. In other words, it's evil because it's destructive. Because we can't say yes to the promise of God. And yes to the real lies because a double-minded man is not able to possess the land, possess the promise, possess the miracle." [17:24] (62 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "Have you ever been there where God healed you before? And you experienced some kind of infirmity or sickness or pain. And all of a sudden, you're crying all night. Forgetting. Forgetting what he just did before. And that's what happened to them. They forgot the God of Israel who rescued them. look at it look at verse 9 only do not rebel against the Lord nor fear the people of the land for they are our bread you see how Caleb is calling this rebellion it's rebellion because they are disagreeing with what God said you would think like oh I'd probably react the same way I'd probably respond the same way but they had a word from God as they faced that promised land they had a word from God and it wasn't that God was expecting them to fight he was expecting them to agree he was expecting them to believe and to trust him the same way they trusted him when he was leading them out of Egypt" [18:32] (86 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "And you know, the model or the key in Ephesians 6 is to stand. It's... When everything is against you, when circumstances are against you, what do you do? You stand. You don't switch your conversation. Because I feel like in life what we often do is we have experiences. We start with pure faith and then we have experiences. And here's truth and here's our experiences. And we're reducing truth to the level of our experiences instead of elevating experiences to the level of truth. And so he says, above all, stand. This is the warfare. It's to not move from this place. And this conversation that we're having is one of the most important conversations." [23:49] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "The Bible actually uses this language that she said to herself. You know, we're all having that conversation. 50 to 70,000 thoughts per day. We're all having this conversation. And what we experience in life is the direct result of your mindset. When you always feel defeated. When you always feel trapped and stuck. It's a result of the conversation. We could pray. We could break things. We could cast out demons. But listen, the greatest enemy is not the enemy. The greatest enemy is the one we see in the mirror where we have agreed with something. And because of that agreement, right, we're stuck. We're defeated by the situation that God has never permitted to defeat us." [25:35] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "And so he says, the word in my heart that I received, in other words, I put it in my heart. I made this the meditation of my heart. I made this the conversation. And he says, I'm as strong today as I was when I first heard it. I'm as strong today as I was when I first heard it. So many of us, we move on. You know, after a year, two, three. You know, after a year, two, three. You know what we need to do? We need to get stuck in that conversation and never move on. You know why? Because God didn't. God will never move from his word. Never. He put his word above his name. And some of us, we move on because ten years pass by. Well, for the woman with issue of blood, it was 12. But she kept stewarding that conversation. He's my healer. He's my healer. He's my healer. He's my healer. And when that opportunity came, she was healed." [26:31] (92 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "The devil tries to shape our thinking one lie at a time until we become a prisoner of deception. Just like the entire world. nation was a prisoner of deception that they believed didn't experience what God had in store for them. And now we're going to skip to Joshua chapter 14, verse 7. This is incredible. I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. Say it with me, in my heart. As it was in my heart. And we'll skip to verse 11. As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me. Just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going in or for going out and for coming in." [21:44] (71 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9) "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. There is a battle happening. There is a war happening. and the the battlefield is our mind and and we're supposed to recognize that there is someone speaking lies there is someone who's called the father of lies and so though we walk in the flesh we don't war according to the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in god for pulling down strongholds casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of christ to the obedience of christ we're going to pray and i believe that god's anointing is going to come and just break uh strongholds break agreements that we've made because they've become they've become a foothold for the enemy these agreements have become legal right that the enemy access in our life in our mind in our in our physical body because you know even even anxiety guys is a result of pride why because anxiety is agreeing with the lies it's a lack of trust and so the enemy has access through those agreements and he begins to like a form of evil be destructive to our life it was not god's will for the israelites to die in the desert god did not lead them out of egypt so that they could die god's intention for them was to possess the land and so what i want to say to us is we're a lot more in charge than we think we've we've been given power to take thoughts captive" [33:17] (122 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)