Break Your Thinking | Pastor Darren Palmer | Faith Church

If you'd turn in your Bible with me to 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 10 · chapter mention

chapter 10, we started there last week. And it's

rare that I get to preach twice in a row, and

so I'm going to preach the same message again.

No, that's not true. I'm going to preach part

two. And I want to just recap a little bit after

I read verses 1 through 6. 2 Corinthians 10.

1 through 6. Now I, Paul, myself am pleading

with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

who am present and lowly among you, but being

absent and bold towards you. But I beg you that

when I am present, I may not be bold with you

with that confidence by which I intend to be

bold against some who think of us as if we walked

according to the flesh. For though we walk in

the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,

but mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds,

casting down arguments and every high thing that

exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing

every thought and captivity to the obedience

of Christ. and being ready to punish all disobedience

when your obedience is fulfilled. Father, open

up your word to us this morning. In Jesus' name,

amen. Amen. And so Paul, if you look down in

verse 10, was dealing with people in his church

that were challenging his authority. And it wasn't,

I don't think, Paul that was so much concerned

because they were defaming him, but because they

were causing dissidence in the church and division.

And so he recognized that the speech that was

coming forth, it said, oh, Paul's bold in his

letters, but when he's here, he's not the real

deal. And that's what they were saying about

Paul. It was dividing the church because many

looked to Paul for leadership, and they were

trying to diminish Paul's authority. And Paul

was saying that, he was saying, when I get there,

I'm going to deal with some. I don't want to

have to be bold. I don't want to have to show

the confidence that I have in Christ. But towards

some of you, I will. And he refused to tolerate

within the body that which would cause division.

And so he was dealing with it head on. And he

was saying these arguments, these vain imaginations,

these fleshly carnal thoughts. that the enemy

is using to destroy the church, I'm going to

use the weapons that God has given to me, the

weapons of our warfare that are not of this earth,

they are not carnal, but they are mighty in God,

and I'm going to use them to pull down these

division -causing things. I'm not going to tolerate

division in the church. And so, We talked about

last Sunday the fact that sourcing matters. Where

your authority comes from matters. And I believe

that every one of us that have given our hearts

to Jesus Christ have authority as sons and daughters

in the house. Hallelujah. In Revelation chapter

Revelation 1 · chapter mention

1, I didn't cover this last week, but the Bible

says that you and I are kings and priests in

the world today. And a king is little K. Jesus

is the big K king. And we are the little K kings

under him that carry out his mission in the earth.

We have authority that have been given to us

by Christ. Hallelujah. Sourcing matters. And

I kind of finished with that first part. The

weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They are

not of this world. Before I go further, I want

to just list, I did at the very end, but I want

to walk through more weapons of our warfare.

We have the authority of God, which we talked

about already. We have... The Word of God. This

is why every Monday morning when we have prayer

online, in fact, you can join us on Facebook

at 805 on my personal Facebook page, or you can

come in person and you can pray with us in the

prayer room at 805. It's a powerful time, but

my mantra for that is read the Word, pray the

Word, and live the Word. Because the word of

God is a weapon of our warfare that is not carnal,

but it is mighty in God. Hallelujah. The word

of God. And so Ephesians 6, 17, part of the armor,

the word of God. And so Ephesians 6, 17 says,

take up the helmet of salvation, the sword of

the spirit, which is. The word of God. Now how

does this happen? This happens, we see it in

Acts chapter 4. Peter and John had come back

Acts 4 · chapter mention

to the church having been told by the Sanhedrin

not to teach anymore in the name of Jesus. Because

they saw a man healed at the gate beautiful.

And when the believers began to pray, this is

what they prayed. They lifted up their voice

in verse 24 and with one accord and said, Lord,

you are God who made heaven and earth and the

sea and all that is in them, who by the mouth

of your servant David have said, why do the nations

rage and the people plot vain things? The kings

of the earth took their stand and the rulers

were gathered together against the Lord and against

his crown. And so here, in the middle of their

prayer, they are praying Psalm chapter 2, verses

Psalms 2:1

1 and 2. They had read the Word, and now they're

crying out to God, praying the Word of God. Amen?

Now, I hope that in your devotions, when you

read the Word, that you don't stop by reading

the Word. but that you take the next step and

that you pray the Word of God. Hallelujah. Because

when you pray the Word of God, you are praying

the perfect will of God. When you pray the Word

of God, you are praying the will of God. Let's

all say that together. When we pray the Word

of God, we are praying the will of God. The Word

of God. I could spend the rest of the morning

on the Word of God, but let me move on. Jesus

has given us his name. And it was at the gate

beautiful where Peter and John looked at the

lame man and said in verse 6 of chapter 3 of

the book of Acts, silver and gold I do not have,

but such as I have give I to you in the name

of Jesus. Rise up and walk. Hallelujah. And I

want to declare over the church today that God

has given you His name. His name. It is by His

name. It is in His name. It is the power of His

name. Hallelujah. That is above every other name.

The name of Darren Palmer does not go very far.

The name of Cammie Palmer does not go very far.

We are people. We are people. We are mere men

and women in this room today. Our names are not

very high. But the name that binds us all together,

hallelujah, is the wonderful, powerful, eternal

name of Jesus that is above every other name.

And at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow

and every tongue shall confess and every demon

shall submit. Hallelujah. Jesus is above every

other authority and principality on this earth.

It is the name of Jesus. And Jesus taught us

in John 14, whatever you ask in my name, that

I will do. Are you under the name of Jesus? Are

you living for Jesus? Are you living in the name

of Jesus? When you speak the name of Jesus, there

is power that is released. The weapon of our

warfare. And then God has given us the blood

of the lamb. He's given us his word. He's given

us his name. And he's given us the blood of the

lamb. And I want to couple this with another

powerful gift that is not rooted on the earth,

but happened on the earth. It is rooted in the

heavens. And that is this, the blood of the Lamb.

And the Bible couples with that in Revelation

Revelation 12:11

chapter 12, verse 11, the word of our testimony.

Hallelujah. The word of our testimony. How many

of you got a story of what God has done in your

life? Lift up your hand. You've got a story of

how God has shaped you and changed you and intervened

in your life and rescued you. That is the word

of your testimony. And it is not rooted in carnality

and the things of this world. Your testimony

is rooted in heaven. Hallelujah. And so when

you were washed in the blood of the lamb that

Jesus shed on Calvary, you were given a story

and a testimony. Hallelujah. And Revelation chapter

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12. I want to read this because this is so powerful.

Hallelujah. Revelation 12. I'll start in verse

9. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent

of old called the devil and Satan, who deceives

the whole world. He was cast. to the earth. His

angels were cast out with him. And then I heard

a loud voice saying in heaven, now salvation

and strength in the kingdom of our God and the

power of his Christ have come for the accuser

of our brethren who accused them before our God

day and night has been cast down. And they overcame

the devil and his angels by the blood of the

lamb and by the word of their testimony. And

they did not love their lives unto death. I'm

getting a little loud this morning, aren't I?

Because I'm excited about this. God has not left

his people helpless. You are not helpless to

face the things in this life. You are not helpless

to just succumb to everything that comes your

way. You have weapons of warfare that God has

equipped you with so that you can fight and stand

victorious in the mighty name of Jesus. He's

given you the baptism. Of the Holy Spirit. In

Acts chapter 1. In verse 8. But you shall receive

Acts 1 · chapter mention

power. When the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

And you shall be witnesses to me. In Jerusalem.

And Judea. And Samaria. And to the ends of the

earth. Jude. The brother of our Lord said. But

you beloved. Build yourselves up. In the most

holy faith. Pray. in the Holy Spirit. Pray in

the Holy Spirit. Glory to God. Ephesians 6 .18

says, be watchful and persevere. Pray always

with all prayer and supplication in the Holy

Spirit. Pray in the Holy Spirit. Wow. He's given

us the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You know,

sometimes I don't know what to do. You don't

know how many times that I have been discouraged.

And I haven't always won those battles, but sometimes

I do win those battles. And when I win that battle,

do you know one reason why? It's because I begin

to pray in the Spirit. I begin to pray in tongues.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit. God has equipped

me and empowered me with a prayer language that

he wants to equip you and empower you with your

prayer language by baptizing you in the Holy

Spirit. And when I'm baptized in the Holy Spirit

and I begin to pray in the Spirit, oh, that thing

that gets on me, does that thing ever get on

you? It tries to just weigh you down. It tries

to steal from you. I begin to walk. I like to

walk and pray in the Spirit. I begin to walk

through my kitchen and through my living room,

and I begin to pray in tongues, and I begin to

lift them up, lift up my prayer language to the

Lord, and it isn't long before that thing is

broken, and it just lifts up off of me. It's

a weapon of my warfare that is born in heaven

that the enemy cannot steal from me. I want to

wrap this portion up, so let me just list them,

the gifts of the Holy Spirit. In 1 Corinthians

12, they come from heaven. They are not sourced

in carnality. Here's another one. We sang about

it this morning. Praise. I want to say it again.

Praise. I want to say it one more time. Praise.

Shake your neighbor and say, Praise! Praise!

Praise is a weapon of our warfare. Let the high

praises of God be in their mouth and a two -edged

sword in their hand. Praise is a weapon. The

enemy wants to silence your voice. But when you

lift it up, In praise. God has ordained praise.

Even in the mouths of children. He has ordained

praise. Well, you don't know what I'm walking

through, Pastor. You just don't know what I'm

walking through. I'm telling you that if you

will lift up your voice in praise, no matter

what you're going through, Oh, if you will lift

up your voice and shout unto God with the voice

of triumph, hell will tremble. Hell will begin

to say, what is happening here? What is going

on here? It's just like in Acts chapter 16, when

Acts 16 · chapter mention

Paul and Silas were in prison, and they were

going to be executed the next day. But at midnight,

Paul and Silas were praying and they began to

sing hymns to God. Hallelujah. And the prisoners

were listening and suddenly there was an earthquake,

a great earthquake, so that the foundations of

the prison were shaken and immediately all the

doors were open and everyone's chains were loosed.

It happened because of praise. I want to challenge

you that are convinced that, well, my calling

is to love the Lord my God with all of my mind.

And so I'm just very cerebral in my relationship

with Him. But there's three other parts to that.

We got to love the Lord our God with all of our

mind. We got to love the Lord our God with all

of our heart and all of our soul and all of our

strength. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And so I just

want to challenge you in the midst of your hardship,

in the midst of your struggle, keep. praising

God. Do not let the enemy steal your praise.

Do not let him silence the weapon of praise that

is sourced in heaven. Hallelujah. You keep praising

God. You keep praising God. Earth might do what

earth is going to do, but I'm going to praise

the Lord. I'm going to give glory to the King

of Kings and to the Lord of Lords. That will

set a person free. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

Glory to God. And there's more, but I want to

end with this one. God has given us the weapon

of one another. Look at the person next to you

and say, you're my weapon. You're my weapon.

You are my weapon. You know, marriages in this

room, you are each other's weapon. I've seen

too many marriages agree together to move away

from God. I'm believing for marriages that agree

together that say, hey, we're going to go after

God with all of our heart. We're going to lift

one another up to the Lord. We're going to stand

together in Jesus' name. Friendships in the house.

We stand together in Jesus' name. There's too

many people that are carnal and just dragging

each other around. You don't have to get that

close to God just so you go to church. No! What

did Jesus say? Again, I say to you that if two

of you agree on earth concerning anything you

ask. It will be done by my Father who is in heaven.

For where two or three are gathered together

in my name, there I am in the midst of them.

I want the power of God to flow through my friendships.

I want iron to sharpen iron. I want us to draw

each other closer to the Lord, closer to the

Lord, closer to the Lord. I got a need. I've

been praying on my own, but I haven't seen breakthrough

yet. So brother, will you join with me and will

you pray with me? Because the Word, I know God

is listening to me when I pray on my own. But

if you'll join with me, then we'll fulfill Matthew

18, 19, and 20. And we'll agree together in the

name of Jesus. One puts a thousand to flight.

Two puts ten thousand to flight. What can an

entire church do? I believe that there is so

much. Power locked up in the church that has

not been released yet. It's time for it to be

released in the name of Jesus. These weapons

of our warfare, they are not carnal. They are

mighty in God. Woo! Hallelujah! What's the most

powerful thing in Logan County? It's the church.

But she is suppressed and silent. But it's time

for the church to arise. And I don't mean politically.

It's time for the church to rise in the power

of the kingdom of God and see souls set free

in Jesus' name. Breaking down the lies of the

enemy, the things that are not true in Jesus'

name. And then the final thing, I was... I believe

that every one of these things has to be touched

by this one. This one is not a standalone. When

you speak in the name of Jesus, you have to couple

it with this one. When you plead the blood of

Jesus, you have to couple it with this one. When

you agree with your friend, you have to couple

it with this one. When you praise, you have to

couple it with this one. And this weapon of our

warfare that touches every other weapon of our

warfare is this. It is, in fact, Paul said in

the armor, he said, and above all, above all,

take up the shield of faith. Hallelujah. The

shield of faith. We have to have faith in God.

We have to have faith that when I pray in the

name of Jesus, he will do what I ask. We have

to have faith that when I agree with my brother

and my sister that God is going to move. May

the Lord increase the weapon of faith among us

in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

Okay. The weapons of our warfare. God's called

us to use them. Oftentimes, he's called us to

use them to tear down carnality. Paul was tearing

down carnality in the church because he refused

to tolerate it. I'm not going to let carnal thinking

supersede the God kind of thinking. And oftentimes

in our own lives, We tolerate carnality. Things

sourced from the earth. Carnality. Since this

word was given a couple of weeks ago, this verse.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. I

have been seeing in my own life carnality. By

that I don't mean gross sin. That's not what

carnality is. Carnality means of the earth. Limiting

myself. To humanness. I have not repented so

much before the Lord as I have in the last two

weeks. I've been seeing desires in my life that

are for my own gain. I've been asking God to

cleanse my heart of things that... I have begun

to do subtly and really not even notice them.

First, I did them because God told me to do them

and He put them on my heart. But subtly, a shift

happens and I do them to gain notoriety among

people. Among Christians. I've been seeing so

much in my heart that I've... That I've just

said, God, I need a thorough, thorough cleansing.

The details that surround what brought this all

out, I don't have time to share this morning.

And God has done a partial work, but even yesterday

I had thoughts and I had to confess them before

the Lord and say, God, wash. me clean. My biggest

enemy to overcome by the weapons of our warfare

is not the devil, but it is the thought processes

and the things that enter my own heart. And I

fear that oftentimes We tolerate the kinds of

thinking in our lives that limit God. Some questions

I wrote down. Is my decision -making process

more led by human reasoning? Or is it soaked

in prayer and listening to the heart of God?

Am I envious of the lifestyles that others enjoy?

Am I envious of the positions, even in the church,

that others enjoy? Do I resist the things that

feed my spirit, finding it easier to give my

time and resources to feeding my flesh? Am I

generally, when I really step back and pause

a moment and look, am I generally unsatisfied

with the life that God has given me? Am I argumentative?

Do I have a constant need to be correct? Do I

crave the accolades of men? Do I crave what others

think of me more than what God thinks of me?

These are all things that are tied to carnality.

When a Christian is carnal, they open up the

door for it to lead to things that are not just

of this world, but to lead to things that are

actually evil and sinful. Carnality will lead

you down that road because it is void of God.

And there is a huge battle between flesh and

spirit. And your pastor is not immune. And I

have been asking God to give me a thorough, thorough

cleansing to not cut the work short. I don't

want to just come to the altar and say, Lord,

forgive me, and then leave. I want a thorough

cleansing and a washing in my heart and to gain

a victory over carnality. Now, I want to read

some verses to you. Are we doing good? Is everybody

okay? You feeling good this morning? You feel

good, all right? All right. I want to read some

verses to you to let you know this morning that

you are not alone. Now, these first two are both

from the Gospel of Luke. The first one, the disciples

had been walking with Jesus for two years in

person. And so they had lived with him and done

ministry with him and experienced an incredible

amount of ministry. Now listen to this. Then

a dispute arose among them as to which of them

would be the greatest. Godly from heaven or carnal?

Carnal. No question. And Jesus, perceiving the

thought of their heart, took a little child and

used a child as an illustration. But then, up

to a year later, this was right before Jesus

went to the cross. In the same gospel, in Luke

Luke 22 · chapter mention

chapter 22, so this is not a crossover scripture.

This is a year later after that conversation.

And it says in Luke 22, 24, now there was also

a dispute among them as to which of them should

be considered the greatest. It was still going

on. The carnality that they were dealing with.

And Jesus said to them, the kings of the Gentiles

exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise

authority over them are called benefactors, but

not so among you. On the contrary, he who is

the greatest among you, let him be as the younger,

and he who governs as he who serves. Be the servant

of all. That's what God sees. You see, Jesus

flipped it all upside down. I want you to listen

to Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. This

is chapter 3, 1 Corinthians 3, verse 1. And I,

Isaiah 3 · chapter mention 1 Corinthians 3:1

brethren, could not speak to you as spiritual

people, but as carnal. Babes in Christ. I fed

you with milk and not with solid food for until

now you were not able to receive it and even

now you are still not able for you are still

carnal. Wow. For where there is envy, strife,

divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving

like mere men? When one says, I follow Paul and

another, I follow Apollos. Are you not carnal?

And so, this thinking of carnality was pervasive

to the twelve disciples. It was pervasive to

the church of Corinth. Do you think that you

and I are immune? We're not immune. We have flesh.

And as long as we're on this side of eternity,

there's coming a day where you don't have to

fight it anymore. Hallelujah. But there's coming,

and that day is not here yet. And so now we have

to wrestle with ourselves and carnality. Carnality.

We have to wrestle with ourselves. It desires

comfort and convenience, the feeding of the flesh.

It desires praise and the recognition of men.

Jesus constantly taught us how to battle it.

Deeds before men. Listen to what he said about

the Pharisees. All their works they do to be

seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad

and enlarge the borders of their garments. They

love the best places at feasts, the best seats

in the synagogues, greetings in the marketplaces,

and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But you

do not be called Rabbi, for one is your teacher,

the Christ, and you are all brethren. It's what

they love to be seen by men. And I have to be

honest with myself and ask the question, is any

of that in me? Did you know the opposite is true

too? We like accolades and we like to feed our

flesh. But the opposite is true too. We have

entertained thoughts. That are not from God.

I'll never arrive. I'll never get filled with

the Holy Spirit. I'll never have enough money.

I'll never lose weight or be healthy. Did you

know that those kinds of thoughts are also rooted

in pride? They're carnal. They're what? Idols.

High places. Come down. That's a word from the

Lord right there. Some of you have had things

spoken over you. By authorities. You'll never

amount to anything. And that thing takes root

in your heart. And it becomes a part of your

identity. But it is carnal. It is sourced not

from God, not in heaven. It is sourced from the

earth. It is sourced in your own mind. It is

sourced from the generations that have gone before

you that have spoken those things over you. It

is sourced in the earth. And the whole reason

for these weapons that we just spent 20 minutes

shouting about. is to defeat and tear down these

kinds of carnalities that have to be done away

with. I'll never be free. I'll always be addicted.

No! Why is it wrong? Why is it sinful to entertain

those things? Because God did not. Say them.

They are sourced in the earth and God's called

you to a new place, son. He's called you to a

new place, daughter. He's called you to believe

his word in your life. He's called you to believe

his promises in your life. He's called you to

believe what he says is going to happen in your

life. He's called you to believe his will for

your life. Hallelujah. And it's time to tear

it down in Jesus' name. It's time to say, no,

it's not going to happen. This is a struggle

worth engaging in. And for two weeks, I've been

laying myself before the Lord saying, God, get

these things out of my heart. Using the weapons

of my warfare. One time in the last two weeks,

I laid my hand on my head and I just began to

plead the blood of Jesus over my thinking. I

began to plead the blood of Jesus over my thinking.

Hallelujah. Glory to God. I will. When I was

35, I went through a health episode. Had to do

with an infection that was in my head. And I

gained victory over it. It took me nine months

and a lot of work. It's a whole God testimony,

which I'll spare you of this morning. But after

that, when I would go to run, it was like there

was space in my head that was left behind. And

I could feel, this sounds crazy, I know, but

I could feel my brain clicking when I would try

to run. And I would go a mile. And I'd have to

stop and I would feel like I was concussed. It

was like there was now space in my head and my

brain was getting sloshed around. And so that

was when I was 35. It's now 18 years later. And

I had convinced myself that I would never be

able to run again. And I would never be able

to get to the place where I wanted to be physically

again. And two years ago I started running and

I really got serious about it this year. And

I want to tell you something that God has delivered

me and healed me and completely set my body free.

Hallelujah. There is right now, I know I'm tall

and skinny and I've always kind of been tall

and skinny and so I don't say this to... Exalt

myself. But I have, I think I've lost 25 pounds

since I started running this past summer. I feel

better than I've felt in two decades. I see a

physical transformation happening in my body.

But it is not just that. It is that coupled alongside

of that, there is a spiritual transformation

happening in my body. And I'm beginning, in my

spirit, and I'm beginning to believe the things

that God has spoken over me. And I'm believing

that that's going to trickle down, not just to

me and to my wife and our family. She's always

been a health nut. And now I'm thankful for that.

I've kind of like, never mind, I'm not going

to go down that road. Because she's going to

listen to this. And then I'm going to get it.

I'm going to get it. Paybacks are never good.

she means more to me now than she ever has. There,

I'll just say that. And some of the things she's

given herself to mean more to me now than they

ever have. And the blessing that is coming upon

me and upon her is coming upon this entire body

in Jesus' name. And this morning, we're going

to break some of that wrong thinking. I will

never be healed. I will never be able to fill

in the blank. We break that in the name of Jesus.

We plead the blood of Jesus over our thinking.

Hallelujah. We plead the blood of Jesus right

now. over every weight that has hindered us in

the name of the Lord. Everything that is rooted,

not in the mind of God, but in carnal type thinking

that has allowed things to take root and determine

our destiny. We refuse to give our destiny to

the enemy anymore in Jesus' name. We refuse to

let... Let the lies of the enemy. I love that

song that Candace led. Get the liars out of the

way. They don't have the final say. There is

only one. Sovereign and supreme. Every word he

speaks is holy. Hallelujah. The Lamb of God is

overcome. My testimony is his blood. Hallelujah.

Glory to God. These are the weapons of our warfare.

They are not carnal. They are mighty in God.

Hallelujah. Friend, you are not meant to be the

tail wagged around by life for the rest of your

days, just having to suffer at every turn and

helpless and just having to just take it all

the time like a punching bag. You are not the

tail. You are the head in the name of Jesus.

God created you and he's gifted you. to operate

in power and authority and all of the things

that God has given to you in Jesus' mighty name.

And so I want to call you, friend, to two things.

One, to brutal honesty. To stand before the Lord

and to say, God, I just recognize, and to not

be afraid to admit and recognize, I have been

a carnal person. I have thought things I shouldn't

think about myself and about others. I need you

to come and cleanse me, God. I need you to wash

me. I plead the blood of Jesus. I thank you that

you have put your name on my life. You have called

me to a higher place than this. And you get brutally

honest and say, God, I have been content to stay

on this plane and just stay here for the rest

of my life and just wander and meander through

life and just let all of these things happen

up until now. And I ask that you would forgive

me for that because I don't want to stay here

any longer. I want to come up to where you are.

I want to walk the way you've called me to walk.

I want to be who you've called me to be. I want

to become who you've created me to become. I

won't forfeit my destiny anymore. I want to tell

you something that I know isn't true, but it

was the way I was feeling, and I told this to

Cammie a couple nights ago. I said, I fear that

there are things in life that have already passed

me by and are too late to recover. And I told

her, I said, I know that's not true, but I'm

telling you that because that's how I feel right

now. Do you know you can be honest? And I want

to call you to honesty before the Lord because

that's how we get those things out of us. In

James 5, it says, confess your sins one to another

and pray for each other that you might be healed.

Amen? And so you say those things not to glorify

those things, but to get them out in the open

and so they can be defeated in the name of Jesus.

They can be gone in the name of Jesus. There

is nothing that is irredeemable. You are redeemable.

You have not gone too far. You have not that

God can't bring you back. You have not sinned

too much that He cannot forgive you. He can restore

and set free and heal in Jesus' name. And then

the second thing, so I want to call you to brutal

honesty. And then the second thing, I want to

call you to radical obedience in taking up the

weapons of our warfare and using them in Jesus'

name. You're not denying your humanity. You're

honest before the Lord. but you're also taking

the gifts that he's given to you and the weapons

of your warfare, and you are using them in Jesus'

name. They are mighty in God. Hallelujah. Oh,

somebody give God praise right now. Give God

praise. Give God praise. Hallelujah. Thank you,

Father. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father.

Just begin right now. I'm going to ask the worship

team to come. We're going to do that song again,

So Be It, Hallelujah, in just a moment. That's

going to be our celebration moment. Before we

engage in that song, I just want to have a moment

of repentance and a moment of... Just turning

to the Lord and responding to the Word. One of

the most beautiful words in my life before the

Lord is the word repentance. Because when I confess

my sins, 1 John 1 .9 says that He is faithful

and just to forgive my sins and to cleanse me

from all unrighteousness. Repentance is a beautiful

thing. If you've had thoughts that you've entertained,

some of them have defined your life, repent,

turn to God. Say, God, I believe you. Let's just

bow our heads all over this room. Is there anybody

here this morning that would say, Pastor, I've

heard the word and really I'm under conviction?

Because I've tolerated carnality. If that's you

all over this place, just lift up your hand to

the Lord. Yeah, yeah, all over the room. You've

tolerated carnality. But right now, God says

no more, and you need to agree with him in Jesus'

name. In fact, just put your hand on your mind

right now. And just... Use the weapon of the

blood of the Lamb and just say, Lord, wash my

mind and my thinking in the blood of the Lamb.

Lord, we break every word curse right now in

Jesus' name. Lord, we thank you for victory over

every vile thought, every thought that diminishes

God's plan for our lives, God's ability in our

lives. We break it off in the name of Jesus.

And we plead the blood of the Lamb over our minds

right now. We tear down thoughts that exalt themselves

against the knowledge of God. We tear them down

in the name of Jesus. We take up our cross daily

and follow God. Hallelujah. We use the weapons

of our warfare. Oh. Jesus, we call on your name

right now. And we thank you, Lord Jesus, for

redeeming our thoughts and a new training to

come into effect. Because tomorrow morning we're

going to get up and those thoughts might still

be there, but we're going to plead the blood

of Jesus over them and command them to leave

in the name of the Lord. We're going to lift

up our hands and we're going to praise you. And

we're going to say, God, I am going to fulfill

the calling on my life. I am going to walk with

Jesus today. I am going to think the way you

want me to think today in Jesus' name. God, I

thank you for victory in the name of the Lord.

That these weapons are mighty in God, but if

they stay on the shelf, they do nothing. God,

help us to use these weapons that you've given

to us. to govern our own lives, to move away

from the carnality that we all carry more and

more and more and more. We wrestle. It's this

battle between flesh and spirit, but God, we

refuse to just wander through life letting flesh

dominate. God, we believe your word. And we follow

after you. In Jesus' mighty, mighty name. Hallelujah.