What in the World Was I Thinking - Pastor Kipp Penrod

Thank you for listening to this message from

Lifehouse Church. This is it, man. This is it.

We've been waiting a long time. There are mixed

emotions all through the house, a little bit

of tears, a little bit of excitement, a little

bit of everything in between. I've gone through

that over the last couple of weeks, just kind

of lamenting as I pull in and pull out and all

those kind of different things. But God is on

the move. Amen. He's doing new things. We're

super excited about what's coming up in the new

space. And I really just wanted to take a moment

to thank everyone. Everybody in this house has

been part of the move. And there have been individuals

who have worked tirelessly over the last two

weeks, put crazy hours in, volunteers and staff

alike. to make the move happen. And there's still

more happening this week. But thank you for all

of you that have prayed, for all of you that

have been a part from the very beginning. And

God has just moved in so many different ways.

Someday we'll get to tell the stories of all

that God's done. And as we take this last opportunity

here, hopefully just, listen, just worship God,

right? And what God's done here. Some of you

have a lot of memories. Some of you have been

here a long time. We were thinking back through.

that. Halfway between 2011 and 2012, we moved

into this building. And it's been some time in

2016, we went to two gatherings here and began

the two gathering thing, which was a big shift

culturally. And now God's moving us to a new

spot for just Sunday a .m. We're going to maintain

this building for all the other things that take

place here through the week. But we're just excited

about opportunity for God to expand the kingdom.

That's really what this is all about. This isn't

about us. It's about him. Amen. So we're excited.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being a part.

And I'm going to get you to stand as I read the

first scripture, just as a way of honoring God

and honoring his word this morning. And I thought

this particular scripture would be fitting for

our last Sunday AM gathering here this morning.

And it's Ecclesiastes chapter three, verse one.

It says this, to everything there is a season.

Amen. Everything. A time for every purpose under

heaven. A time to be born. and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is

planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a

time to break down and a time to build up. There's

a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to

mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away

stones and a time to gather stones, a time to

embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to gain and a time to lose, a time to

keep and a time to throw away. a time to tear,

a time to sow, a time to keep silence, and a

time to speak, a time to love, and a time to

hate, a time of war, and a time of peace. To

everything, there is a season. If you would,

if you'd bow your heads. Father, we thank you

for this day. I thank you for, God, the opportunity

to come one more time in this place on a Sunday

morning and worship you together as a body of

believers. And Lord, we just give you praise

and glory. Lord, we know that there's going to

be plenty of worship services taking place here

with the youth. And God, so many things are going

to happen with, God, life groups. And Lord, we're

just excited about all the things that are going

to take place. But Lord, we celebrate this season,

this page that's about to turn. We thank you

for all that you've done. in this house, and

we just give you praise and glory in Jesus' name,

and amen and amen. God bless you. You may be

seated. I thought this verse was appropriate

to start this last gathering here this morning,

the last first gathering. We've still got one

more to go, right, after this. But I thought

it was important for two reasons, because one,

there really is a season to everything. Nothing

is forever, right, other than the Lord himself,

and one day we'll be with him. But on this earth,

everything has a season, and it's a time to change

that season to turn the page, right? But the

second reason I use that verse is because that

verse talks about about something that I've talked

about last week and have been talking about along

the way, and it's this. Life is full of change.

It is full of change. It's always shifting gears,

month to month, week to week, right? Day to day,

minute by minute, it changes. There's a barrage

of change that takes place in our life on a regular

basis, day to day, week to week, month to month,

minute by minute. It's true. And if we would

actually stop the inventory, the decisions that

we make in a given day while we're navigating

change, it would amount to, and this is what

they've checked this, this is what it averages

to. The average person makes 35 ,000 decisions

about change in a day. Wow. Go ahead, say, wow.

right? That's a big deal, right? And it could

be as simple, it could be as simple as like you're

navigating change, right? When maybe you pull

up to a red light, and it's red, and you gotta,

and it turns green, you gotta, there's a change

that took place, right? It went from red to green,

and you gotta hit the gas pedal and go, because

if not, there's gonna be three people behind

you hitting a horn, right? And you gotta navigate

that change. It could be as simple as that, or

it could be a life -changing decision of making

a decision of who you're going to one day maybe

propose, to and spend the rest of your life with,

right? An engagement that would take place. There's

change constantly taking place. And 35 ,000 times

a day, you're making a decision in the midst

of some kind of change. That's crazy. It's true,

right? Decisions in the midst of change. And

the challenge in the middle of the change is

always this. It's always about keeping my head

straight and keeping my mind on track. It really

is. Keeping my thoughts in the right place. navigating

the change, keeping good thoughts, God thoughts

in my head, and not all these other thoughts

that can come along with it, right? Keeping my

mind in a good place during the change, because

where I'm at in my head, in the middle of the

change, is going to have everything to do with

where I land on the opposite side of the change,

right? So an important thing to ask myself at

the beginning, in the middle, or even at the

end of change is this question. What, now if

you're taking notes, it's a good place to write

down. What in the world was I thinking, right?

What in the world was I thinking? Did you ever

ask yourself that question? What in the world

am I thinking, right? What was I thinking? What

was I thinking in the middle of that change?

What were my thoughts fixed on when things were

shifting and moving from here over to here, right?

Where's my head at in the middle of the change?

Chuck Swindoll says this, life is 10 % of what

happens to us and 90 % how we respond to it.

It's true, right? 90 % of how we respond to the

change. What's going on in your head has everything

to do. What in the world were you thinking in

the middle of the change? More than once, I heard

my parents speak those words to me or something

similar to those words. Come on, some of you

are laughing because you're right there with

me, right? What were you thinking? And I'm not

sure if I told this story or not when I was young.

And listen, if I did tell this story before here

at LifeHouse, here's the thing. I'm a little

gray, and that gives you a pass to say your story

all over again. How many know that's true, right?

Because old people repeat ourselves. We do that

all the time. It's okay. It's true, right? But

when I was about 14 years old, we lived on 50

acres. It was a small farm. When I was about

14 years old, my dad made the decision to teach

me how to drive a truck. What was he thinking,

right? I was 14. We had this old farm truck.

And if you don't know what a farm truck is, it's

an old pickup truck that is actually not roadworthy

anymore. It won't pass inspection. You don't

drive it on the road, but it's good enough to

haul things around on the farm and move things

from one spot to another. And about 14 years

of age, My dad decided it was good for me to

learn how to drive the farm truck. So it was

a stick shift, and he got me in, and he taught

me how to start out on a hill and on the flats,

right? And I learned how to drive a truck at

14 years of age. And to a 14 -year -old, it's

like, yes, right? It's the coolest thing in the

world. What was my dad thinking? Because here's

the thing, and some of you that are a little

bit older like I am, you're going to remember

this TV show, but me and the kid that lived down

the road, his name was Sam. friend of mine, we

used to watch the Dukes of Hazzard. Yeah, right?

And if you know anything about the Dukes of Hazzard,

right, it's not a complicated plot in that show,

by the way, right? It was Daisy Duke, Bo, and

Luke Duke. They're all three siblings who lived

with Uncle Jesse. And the premise was they lived

in Hazard County out in the middle of Georgia

somewhere in the sticks, and there was this kind

of crazy sheriff who would just chase them around

all the time in a car, right? Roscoe P. Coltrane

was the sheriff, and he would chase them all

the time, try to catch them, but he'd never ever

catch them, right? And the whole premise of the

show was, that they would jump through barns

with the car. They had this hot rod car, and

they'd jump through barns. They'd jump over ditches.

They'd climb up over hills and jump in the air.

And me and my friend Sam thought, that's pretty

awesome, right? I bet you the farm truck could

do this. So there was a property next door to

us that had a very big pile of dirt, and let's

do it. So I gave that truck everything it was

worth, and I got a good run. And I don't know

how much air I caught, but I know this. When

I landed, I tore the entire exhaust system straight

out from underneath the truck. He was laying

in a heap behind the truck, right? And unbeknownst

to me, my dad was standing up in the field watching

me. Yeah. What in the world were you thinking?

I heard that a lot over the next day or two.

What were you thinking, right? What were the

thoughts in your head while you were going through

this change called teenage life, right? And let

me tell you something. I did not fare well on

the other side of change. I didn't. And here's

how critical this really is. My thoughts while

I'm experiencing change is so critical it would

determine who I become. That's how important

this is. The thoughts that I have, some of you

don't believe me, but I'm going to show you.

We're done, right? My thoughts while experiencing

change will determine who I become on the other

side of change. Not just where I land, but who

I become on the other side of change. If my thoughts

are fixed, on fear in the middle of change, while

I'm experiencing change, if all I can think about

is what could happen and what might happen and

how horrible it's going to be, you know what

you'll become? You will become fear in the change.

You will become fearful. It's one thing, it's

very natural to experience fear in a change.

It's a whole other thing when your identity becomes

fear in the change. Whole different thing, right?

If my mind is only fixed on loss. in the middle

of change. What I'm going to lose in the middle

of change, right? The lack that's going to take

place. Do you know what happens to you? You become

lack. You know what that means? You're depressed.

That's what it means when you're depressed. It

means something's lacking in your life and you

become depressed. If your mind is fixed on that

in the middle of change, you will become that

out the other side of the change. If you get

caught in that, if it's not just a passing thought

or something that you deal with, right? If I'm

constantly angry in the change. I will become

anger. I will become rage. I will become wrath

on the other side of the change. I really will.

If my brain's fixed on things or being out of

control in the middle of the change, I will become

chaos on the other side of the change. What we

think on in the middle of change is what we become.

It's true. Proverbs 23, 7 says this, and it's

actually a portion of this scripture, says, so

a man thinketh, so he is. I thought this was

an exaggeration, honestly. The first time I read

it, I thought, well, this is real good. But it's

true. It's completely true. What we think on

in the middle of change will become who you are.

Turn to the person beside you, tell them, you

know, you're going to become what you're thinking.

Just tell them right now, testify. You're going

to become what you're thinking on in the middle

of the change, right? Tell them that. Come on.

And listen, the apostle Paul, he gives a little

more instruction about this thinking process

and this thought of life in the middle of change.

And he does it in a letter to Philippi. Now,

Paul's letter to Philippi is not like other letters

that he wrote to Galatians and Colossians, right?

Those were more epistles and letters that were

in response to crisis. And if you read the book

of Corinthians, that's going to be more about

spiritual correction. But the Philippian church,

the believers of Philippi were actually very...

immature believers. And Paul would write them

and he would encourage them. It was the inspired

word of God that the Holy Spirit would write

and that he would pen. And it's why you hear

a lot of times, you'll hear scriptures that are

quoted out of Philippians, right? You'll hear

things like, he who began a good work in you,

right, will perfect it until the day of Jesus

or Christ Jesus, which is Philippians 1 .6, or

to live as Christ and to die as gain. You'll

hear that. I can do all things through Christ

who what? Yeah, who strengthens me. We quote

those, and Paul was writing to these mature believers.

But in Philippians 4, 6, he begins to give us

some thoughts. He begins to give us direction

on thinking in the change. And 4, 6 begins like

this. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything

by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,

let your requests be known to God. And the peace

of God which surpasses all understanding will

guard your hearts and your what? Minds, right?

Through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever

things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever

things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever

things are lovely, whatever things are of good

report, if there's any virtue and if there's

anything praiseworthy, meditate, right? Think,

focus on these things. The things which you've

learned and received and heard and saw in me,

these do and the God of peace will be with you.

Here's what it's saying. If you want to become

pure, guess what you have to be thinking on while

you're in the middle of the change? Pure things.

If you want to become truthful, you've got to

speak and think on the truth. If you want to

become noble in your life in the middle of change,

you've got to think noble things. If you want

to be just or lovely or of good report or you

want to be something that's going to be virtuous,

someone who's virtuous out the other end, you've

got to be thinking on these things in the middle

of the change. Because I become what I think

on in the middle of change. The thought that

your brain parks on is what you become in the

35 ,000 plus, right? 35 ,000 plus decisions that

you're making in the middle of change every single

day. It's true. Dr. Caroline Leaf, who wrote

the book Switch On Your Brain, says something

like this. And if you don't know who Dr. Leaf

is, she's first of all a communication pathologist,

an audiologist, and a clinical neuroscientist

specializing in research in psych neurobiology.

You can look all that up later, okay? She's very

well credentialed. But she says this in her book.

She says, our thoughts, imagination, and choices

can change the structure and function of our

brains on every level. molecular, genetic, epigenetic,

cellular, structural, neurochemical, electromagnetic,

and even subatomic. Through our thoughts, we

can be our own brain surgeons as we make choices

that change the circuits in our brain. We are

designed to do our own brain surgery. The science

is this. Our thoughts physically change our brain,

literally change your brain. It's not your brain

that changes your thoughts. It's your thoughts

that literally reconstruct, rewire your brain.

In simple terms, my brain becomes what I think

on. It literally becomes what I think on. So

when I become, you know, when I'm in the middle

of those 35 ,000 plus changes each day that take

place, what I'm thinking on is actually what

my brain is becoming. What my thoughts are fixed

on in the middle of whatever experience is going

on. That's what I become. It is true. Science

always proves what God's word says. Always, right?

And man, have I found this to be true, you know,

during this change that's been taking place,

going from this location to the next. Because

how many know it's really easy for fear to get

in there, right? It's really easy for fear to

sneak in. You know, when this all started and

we started looking at this and it got serious

and we voted on it and the church said, yes,

we're going to go do this, you know, I started

thinking all kinds of crazy thoughts like, what

if we make the change and everybody hates it?

You know, how many of you always go with the

worst case scenario, right? All couple hundred

people are just going to absolutely hate this.

You know, and they're all going to leave, and

they're all going to hate me. You know, and you

can go on and on, right? You can get lost in

that. Or what if it changes our culture and who

we are? Or what if we don't like this? Or what

if we don't like that? And you can get caught

in the fear. And you start to build. You start

to build in your brain these neurons, right?

You start to build circuits. And you begin to

think on. All the time. And if you don't stop

that loop, how many of you got a loop in your

brain? Circuits tie together. You start looping

in your head these thoughts, and they start going

back around. How many of you loop enough, you'll

wake up in the middle of the night thinking the

same thoughts, right? You wake up in the middle

of the night, got to go to the bathroom, and

you're thinking, why am I thinking this? Right?

Stop it. You're just going in your head, going

around and around. What in the world are you

thinking in the change? What is the loop in your

brain fixed on? Look at the person beside you

one more time. Ask them, what's looping up there?

Come on. What's looping up there? You might not

want to know, right? What's looping up there?

And can I take this just a little bit further?

Because here's the thing. A sinful thought looping

up there? sooner or later you'll become the sin.

You know, what you're fantasizing about, the

sin that you're fantasizing about or longing

about, sooner or later you become that. How many

know that always starts in the mind? The six

inches between your ears. Sin doesn't start down

here, down your feet. It starts in the six inches

between your ears. And the longer you dwell on

it, the more you fantasize about it, you will

become that sooner or later. You'll land in a

place that you don't want to be. You'll stay

longer than you want to stay because that's what

sin does, right? And you'll pay more than you

want to pay. That's what sin does. It's true,

right? What in the world are you thinking? What

in the world are you thinking? Because you're

building real estate. Up in your mind. I don't

know if you know it or not. Whatever you're thinking

on, you're building real estate up there. You're

building circuitry up there. And if it's not

a good thing, if it's not a God thing, if it's

not a righteous thing, can I tell you what to

do? Just confess and repent right now. Not to

me. You can do that to Jesus. I mean, if you

want to confess to me, I'm glad to listen. But

just confess and repent. Repent means to change.

You've got to begin to change. You're going this

way, and if I repent, that means I'm going that

way. You've got to change what you're thinking.

You've got to change it, right? Control the brain

loop or the brain loop will control you. You

got to control the brain loop or it's going to

control you. I taught on this a little while

back. I can't remember which message it was,

just a few messages ago, but let's dive just

a little bit deeper in it because Paul's writing

to Corinth right now. And you gotta remember

just a little earlier, I said when he was writing

to Corinth, it was more in a correctional nature.

And you'll hear that tone in this portion of

scripture. But it says this in 2 Corinthians

10, verse one. It says, now I, Paul, myself am

pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness

of Christ, who in the presence am lowly among

you. Being absent, I am bold. toward you. So

he talks about being lowly among you. Then he

talks about being bold. That's how Paul does.

He jumps back and forth, right? He's like, I'm

lowly, but when I get there, I'm going to tell

you how it really works, right? But I beg you

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

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 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 and being ready to punish all disobedience

when your obedience is fulfilled. Bring every

thought into captivity in obedience to Christ

Jesus. So what he's saying is you got to take

those rogue thoughts, those things that dip you

into fear or anxiety or lack or even sin, any

of those things, and you got to take that thought

and you got to imprison that thing. You got to

take it captive, right? You take it at gunpoint

in your head. That's the only thing you should

ever take at gunpoint, right? You take it in

your head. You capture that thought. You bind

that thing and you lock it away so you never

hear it again. You bring it into obedience to

Christ. It's true. You've got to take it captive.

And if I could give you a good rule of thumb,

so this isn't just preaching and theory and what

God's Word says, a good rule of thumb is this.

Anything that you think of, if you had to verbalize

that standing in front of Jesus, would you ask

yourself, do I need to take this captive and

pack this thing away so I never think about it

again? Or am I perfectly comfortable saying this

in front of Jesus Christ? Right? Am I comfortable

because this doesn't violate God's word in any

way? It doesn't violate his holy nature and righteousness

in any way, right? Is this good and right in

his eyes? So if you can take whatever thoughts

in your head and you could verbalize it in front

of Jesus and Jesus would be okay with it, you

don't have to take that captive. You can let

that loose. You can speak it into the air. But

if it is something that you would not say in

front of Jesus, it's something that you would

not go there with him and you know it's unrighteous.

and you know it's unhealthy, or you know it's

sinful, you need to capture that thing. And you

need to lock it up. Amen? It's true. You need

to imprison it. Because you will become that

if you dwell on it. If you stay there in the

change, as you shift through life, you will become

that thing. And I know it sounds radical, but

it's not. You need to take thoughts captive.

God's given you the power. He really has. And

let me jump back to Switch on Your Brain by Dr.

Caroline Leaf. How many know the science always

catches up with what God's word has to say? It

says this, getting your thoughts disciplined

and under control is one of the first steps in

freeing yourself of burdens of the world and

begin to enjoy life despite the burdens of the

world. When you objectively observe your own

thinking with the view of capturing rogue thoughts,

you in effect direct your attention to stop the

negative impact. and rewire healthy new circuits

into your brain. You literally rewire. Capturing

thoughts and taking them captive, and you begin

to think on the right things, you will rewire

your brain. Romans 12 .1 bears this out. It really

does. Very familiar piece of scripture, right?

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies

of God, that you present your bodies a living

sacrifice, holy and acceptable God, which is

your reasonable service. And do not be conformed

to this world, but be transformed by the renewing.

You can put rewiring in there if you wanted to.

By the renewing of your mind, that you may prove

what is good and acceptable and the perfect will

of God. You got to rewire it, man. You got to

renew it. You got to revitalize your thoughts.

You got to take captive what is dragging you

down. You got negativity spewing out of you.

I guarantee it's what's looping up in your brain.

Amen? You got to grab a hold of that thing. You

got to say no, right? You got to take authority

over your thinking. I know it sounds weird, but

we've got this unique ability as human beings

to stand outside and examine our own thoughts.

Isn't that crazy? You can think while you're

thinking. Isn't that awesome, right? It's kind

of like a matrix kind of thing. I don't know.

It's wild, right? But we can. And we got to start.

And listen, I understand this is a process. You're

not going to rebuild. How many know if you've

got a rewired house? Now, how many of you have

ever rewired anything? Like three of you. Okay,

let me explain this, okay? If you've got to rewire

a house, here's what you have to do. Like anything

you're going to redo, you've got to get the old

stuff out first, right? You've got to pull all

the old stuff out. You're going to have to tear

some things down. You're going to have to pull

some down, some plaster, and you've got to pull

out the old wiring, right? You've got to pull

down the drywall, whatever you've got to do.

There's a process. You've got to tear some of

that out. That's taking it captive, right? And

you've got to tear that thing out. And then you

start putting the new stuff in, and all of a

sudden, the light. starts coming on, right? And

things begin to work and things begin to switch

on in your brain. It's a process that God walks

us through. And it's the renewing of your mind.

A lot of people want to know what deliverance

is all about. And God can instantly deliver.

That's a miracle. That's called a miracle in

scripture. He can deliver you in a heartbeat,

but nine times out of 10, he's walking you through

the process. And you're going to come out the

other side, delivered and whole and free. But

you got to go through the process. You got to

tear out the old and you got to come in with

the new. And when you begin to renew your mind,

all of a sudden, you begin to rewire a new real

estate building your brain. And what you were

up here is no longer there, and you become something

brand new. The world will not tell you this.

The world will tell you you are captive to your

mind, and what you were, you always will be.

And that is not what God's Word says. He says

you become a new creature, a new creation. Amen?

Inside out. Mind on out. How many know what your

brain does? The body follows. It's true, right?

It's true. Last thing I want to leave you. Man,

this is the last thing I'm going to leave you,

literally. Last point, right? At Terrace Avenue

location. Jesus is the one who can change the

loop in our lives. He really is. In John chapter

John 4 · chapter mention

4, Jesus is sitting by a well that borders. It's

actually within the borders of Samaria. And a

woman comes to the well to draw water. And Jesus

uses what's close by, which is the well, to get

into a conversation with this woman. And because

he's Jesus, and Jesus always was led by the Spirit,

and he knew things because of the Holy Spirit,

Jesus knows that this woman has been, she's been

married five times, and she's currently living

with a man. He knows this, right, because the

Spirit left him know this, the Holy Spirit. And

he calls her on it. He begins to expose the relationship

loop that's been going on in her head where this

woman's been thinking. He calls her on it, right?

Five husbands that now live in, and she's had

this bad relationship. loop I call bad juju in

your brain. How many know that that's a thing,

right? You get bad juju in your brain. She's

had this bad relationship loop going on in her

brain, and she's seeking something among all

these men that she's been with, and she's not

finding it, right? She's stuck in this cycle

in her mind that has now led her even into sin.

And Jesus, in a moment in time, begins to change

the loop in her thinking. In John 4, 14, he says

this, but whoever drinks of the water water that

I shall give will never thirst, but the water

that I shall give him will become in him a fountain

of water springing up into everlasting life.

Jesus, in a sense, was talking to this woman

and saying, what were you thinking? You found

nothing in the stagnation of following relationships

the world's way, right? You found nothing. It's

left you empty and dry, or it's stagnant. How

many know stagnant water is no good to drink,

right? bitter. It's unhealthy for you. And he

says, but if you follow me, right, let me tell

you where the relationship ladder should start.

It should start in me. If you start in me, if

you start with the Messiah, if you start with

Jesus, rivers of living, that's what he talks

about in another place in scripture, rivers of

living water will come out of you. You'll be

a fountain of new life that will come out of

you. And he's talking, it's the Savior talking

to her, and he starts to change the loop in her

head. He interrupts, right, the thought process.

that was there, and he starts to put something.

He begins to rewire her brain right there on

the spot. And because he's Jesus, he speaks,

right? And he says that all those relationships

will not be your all in all. I am. Amen? It's

true. I tell young couples this all the time,

doing premarital counseling or something. I tell

them, look across the table. That person you're

looking at is not going to be your all in all.

You're lucky if they're going to be your sometime

in sometime. It's true. Come on, all the married

people are laughing, right? It's true. Jesus

is your all in all. Don't put that kind of pressure

on a person. Amen? That's above their pay grade.

They can't hold up to that. They really can't.

Your relationship. And Jesus rewires this woman's

brain. She starts to understand that it is the

Messiah standing in front of her and that he

is the first relationship. And how many know

if you get the first relationship, right, all

the other relationships start to straighten up.

It's true. It's true. Rewire your brain. I'm

going to ask you to stand. As the worship team

comes. What in the world are you thinking? What

in the world are you thinking? What were you

thinking? What are you thinking? Because you're

in the middle of change, whether you realize

it or not. You know, you're heading towards halfway

through the day. You've got thousands of decisions

and change that were already made just getting

here this morning. What are you thinking? Where

are you at? What's your mind in the loop, right?

What's going on in the loop in your mind? What

are you feeding yourself? What are you rewiring

in your brain? Because you're building real estate,

whether you realize it or not, whatever you're

dwelling on, whatever you're building up is staying

in your mind. You're building blocks of things,

amen? And sometimes you got to rewire the house.

You got to tear out what was there. That woman

at the well, in that moment in time when Jesus

realized she had some bad wiring going on up

here, right? Bad juju going on up here. And she

needed the wire pulled out. And Jesus began to

rebuild, began to rewire her thinking. Began

to show her a new way. So I want you to bow your

heads this morning. I want you just to examine

yourself. Where are you at? Where are you at

in this? This is one of those messages where

we got to, listen, this is going to have everything

to do with who you become and where you land

on the other side of it. It will have everything

to do with where you land and who you become.

That's how important this is. What's looping

up there? What do you got to shift? What area

of your life? Is it fear? Right? Is it jealousy?

Is it anger? Is there some other place? And if

it's not, man, just keep dwelling on the things

of God and let God rebuild and rewire and bring

you to a place of authority. We heard it a little

earlier, right? Just walk in the authority of

God. That's where he wants you, right? Let him

do that. But if not, you got to realize it because

first of all, God won't fix what you won't name,

what you won't confess. You've got to confess

it. So confess it to Him right now. Whatever

the area that is, it's messed up in you, and

it's messed up thinking, and you know it. You've

been looping on that thing a while. Right now,

you just confess it to Him. And then you've got

to speak out, and you've got to tell Him, I'm

willing to repent. So Lord, start ripping the

wiring out. Start pulling it out. I want rebuilt.

I want some new wiring in my house. So just right

now, just speak it out to Him. Pray to Him. You

don't need me to lead you in this. You can pray

to Him yourself right now. Just speak, ask Him

right now in this moment. Just as they're playing,

I'm going to be quiet for just a minute. I want

you just to focus on Him. Jesus is the one who

will rewire. Jesus is the one who will renew.

Jesus is the one who will begin to shift everything.

What you're thinking on in the change is what

you'll become. Just take another minute to pray

with them. Just you and Jesus. Just you and the

Lord. Just Holy Spirit speaking in you and through

you. Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit connecting

with you this morning. Just take a moment. Ask

him. You got to ask him, Lord, rewire me. Lord,

rewire me. Lord, change this in my head and in

my heart. Rewire me this morning. Change it up

in me. Lord, I thank you. Then begin to thank

him. Lord, I thank you. I'm believing right now.

God, it's going to shift. It's going to change

because I named it. And Lord, I've committed

to repent. God, I've named it and I committed

to change. I've committed to shift something.

I'm not going to stay there any longer. I'm going

to start taking captive. When that thought comes

in my head, I'm going to grab that thing and

I'm going to hold it up and I'm going to stick

it in a cell. I'm going to duct tape its mouth

shut and it's going to stay there. And I'm never

going to look at it again. I'm starting the process,

Lord. Rewire my brain. Rebuild it. Rebuild it.

Lord, I thank you for each one in the house,

Lord. God, I pray that you constantly rewire

us, Lord. Help us, Lord, to see and to know and

to walk in your authority. God, greater and greater

every single day. Lord, we give you praise. We

give you glory and honor in Jesus' name. We pray

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