Transforming Thoughts: Capturing Minds for Christ

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Our brains are always busy thinking twenty four seven. Constantly thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking. Everything that pops in our heads from all sources. Constantly thinking. It can be quite exhausting. It can be quite frustrating. It can be quite depressive. If we're honest, it can be quite hopeless. Our thinking and our minds are so powerful. It affects how we see the world, how we feel emotions, and how we make choices. This is what makes our brains our greatest assets, thoughts, our thoughts. This is why it is essential for you and I to discern and safeguard our minds against negative thoughts." [51:24](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "One way the enemy chooses to affect our thinking is by putting in wrong thoughts. You see, he can't, he doesn't know what we're thinking. He can't read our minds, but he sure can influence them. He can suggest lies, hoping that you believe it. And the Bible says that the enemy comes as, or he is a liar and the father of lies. The truth is not in him, and he will bombard your mind with lies until you actually believe what he is saying. His goal is to destroy you. And the one way he'll do that is by getting you to believe the lie." [52:11](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Do you know what a stronghold is? Stronghold is a mental block. It's a negative thought pattern or behavior that is rooted in sin. And it has a strong grip on someone's life. And the Bible says that we are to tear them down. So how is your thought life? What are you believing? What is the enemy suggesting to you? About your situation, about your life, about your future. What are some things that you are believing? Are these thoughts keeping you up at night? Is it so heavy that you can't even begin to work your way out of? You can't even fathom thinking a positive thought. Is that a stronghold in your life?" [54:13](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "When God spoke, the universe came into existence. How many of us have said, spoken something out of our mouths and then experienced it? A few minutes later, I'll be like, I just said that. I just spoke that. That wasn't by chance. The enemy wants you to believe that. Oh, that was just by coincidence. Power of life and death are in our tongues. We've got to speak life. Be an expectation. Have that expectation and speak it out. Write it everywhere. That's why it's important to learn memory verses. Learn the word." [01:08:36](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "The enemy is vicious and clever and cunning. But because he is vicious, does not make him victorious. That day, I declared victory and I began walking in victory. I want to say that again. The enemy is vicious. He is not victorious. Now, I don't know the quality of your thoughts today. I don't know what you're thinking about. I don't know what you spend your time on. I don't know if you are in a season right now where you're feeling hopeless. You're feeling discouraged. You're feeling all of these things. Like there's no way out. But I do know that your situation, as massive as it may seem, doesn't have to dictate your thoughts. Through Christ, your thoughts can dictate your situation." [01:19:37](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "The Apostle Paul states here that our job in this battle is to destroy strongholds because the battle for sin starts in our mind. It starts in our thoughts. Always starts in our thoughts. Because if we can think it, then we can speak it and we can believe it, and then we can act on it, and then we can get out of alignment with God's will for our lives. It's that cycle." [53:39](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "So again, when you're attempted to disagree with God, you've got to acknowledge that we are wrong because it's impossible for God to lie. And when you have the power, when you have the power to know the past, the present, and the future, you can't be wrong. You can't be wrong. Dr. Tony Evans puts it this way. When you done made it all, sustained it all, and one day will destroy it all, you can't be wrong. You just can't. He can't be wrong. God be true and every man a liar. The beginning of John verse 14, verse 6, Jesus says, I am the truth, not a truth. You catch that? The truth. I am the truth. I'm not just truth amongst many. No, I am the standard by which truth is measured. That's our God. God is the truth by which, God is the standard by which truth is measured." [01:03:25](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "So now we're thinking about what we're thinking about. We've identified the lie and then we've applied truth. Okay, we ran that circumstance, we ran that situation through God's word and we've identified the lie. Now what do I do? Now we're speaking truth. How do we speak truth? By speaking life. We need to do a better job at being kind to ourselves. We've got to do a better job at being kind to others. We got to do a better job at being kind to our children. We got to do a better job at being kind to our spouse. Are we speaking life over them? You're a liar. Guess what? Yeah, they are going to be because you just spoke that over their life. Proverbs 18, verse 21. The tongue can bring death or life. Those who love to talk will reap the consequences." [01:06:43](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "I made a conscious decision in that moment. To say, God, I do not want to be this way. I do not want to be negative. I do not want to be angry. I don't want to be bitter. I'm choosing this day to follow you. I am choosing to control, to do a better job at controlling my thoughts. And as I did, over time, I was thinking about what I was thinking about. I was thinking about what I was thinking about. I was thinking about what I was thinking about. Because those thoughts didn't stop coming. They didn't. But now I know, okay, I got to measure these thoughts. What is the enemy suggesting right in this moment? All right. Verse, let's go. And then I declared God's word. I began to speak God's word. I was writing it everywhere in my house. I was intentionally memorizing verses. There's no weapon formed against me that shall prosper. I am more than a conqueror. I am created in the image of God." [01:17:29](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "I realized that day I need to fight in the spirit. Can't be lazy about my thinking. And I realized that the enemy is vicious and clever and cunning. But because he is vicious, does not make him victorious. That day, I declared victory and I began walking in victory. I want to say that again. The enemy is vicious. He is not victorious. Now, I don't know the quality of your thoughts today. I don't know what you're thinking about. I don't know what you spend your time on. I don't know if you are in a season right now where you're feeling hopeless. You're feeling discouraged. You're feeling all of these things. Like there's no way out. But I do know that your situation, as massive as it may seem, doesn't have to dictate your thoughts. Through Christ, your thoughts can dictate your situation." [01:19:37](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)