Don-t-listen-to-the-lizard

You see how we get intoxicated in the age we

live in.

Is so much information coming at us.

We're drunken, we don't even know it, and we can't

defend ourselves, and we're getting eaten alive. God gives us peace,

and the enemy eats right through it. Because he's a lion.

At least that's what I always thought. I thought I

thought he was a lion. And this week I slowed

down and read the verse, and I realized that the

Bible never says the devil is a lion.

He's a liar. I know he's a liar.

Yeah, you can know when the devil's lion when he's talking.

He's a liar, but he's not a lion. Give me

the verse. Peter says watch out. One translation says pay attention,

wake up, or be alert and of sober mind. Here's

why your enemy the devil, your enemy, God's enemy is pride.

Your enemy is the devil who wants to fill your mind.

As if we don't already suffer enough, as if we

don't already have enough to deal with today. He wants

to put you in a hypothetical.

Tomorrow where things.

May or may not happen or put you in a

past replaying what you wish you would have said to

the person who offended you, and how many come up

with great comebacks about three weeks too late.

God, let me see them again.

Please let me see them again, and let them say

it just like they said it.

I'm ready now. Ah. The devil's a lion, but.

He does not say watch out for the lion.

The devil is not a lion. What was to say?

Your enemy prows around like he's not a lion. He's

like a lion, but he's not as powerful as a

lion unless you let him be in the realm of

our mind. That's where the attack happens. We've been looking

for a lion, but it's not a lion coming to

attack us.

It's our minds.

It's in our minds, and we've been calling the wrong

stuff the devil.

I got a flat tire as the devil. It was

a nail. It was a construction site. They're building houses

across the street. I hate a donut. It was the devil.

No, it was delicious. It's a deevil. It's the Devil's

a devil. I'm under attack a spiritual warfare. I need's

a devil's attacking me. We mean devil's attacking you. Well,

my mother in law is coming to visit. That's not

the devil. That's your prayer request. Remember when you asked

those women to pray that you would have more patience. Well,

God wrap patience in a package that looked like your

mother in law and she's about to get FedEx to

your Dorsetew, God delivers. That's not the devil. Somehow he's loud,

but he's not a lion.

What is he?

I remember hearing years ago about the part of our brain. Again,

bear with me. I know there's like neurologists in the crowd.

You don't make me feel bad about that. I won't

make you feel bad about the Bible. We just agree

together that everybody's saying their own lane. But I did

hear something about in the phrase got my attention, called

the lizard brain. And I wrote a book one time

about the chatterbox, and I think I was trying to

talk about what they call the lizard brain. And I

just remembered it the other day because Abby wanted to

show her brothers she's our youngest child and our only daughter,

our smartest child.

I'm just kidding my sons in here.

But she does have a little advantage over the boys

because she's she's always had to stuff it up to

keep up, you know, and she's superior by virtue of

being female.

So she.

Work in my pulpit when in some points she wanted

to go all the way across the pool and hold

her breath.

But your brothers couldn't do till they were ten, and

she's seven. So she's like, I could do it, I

could do it, I can do it, all right, let's

do it. And she wanted everybody to see her.

And I said, you could do it, but just know

that the lizard, the lizard brain, is going to be

telling you that you can't do it. But the lizard

is lying. She said, there's a lizard in my brain.

I said, no, baby, and I you know, she's seven.

So I just pretended to be an expert. I said,

the human brain, the human brain, and I gave her

some outdated theory on the tryune brain that probably isn't

even accepted anymore. But I was talking about that thing

that is real in our brain that doesn't process at

the level of wisdom and doesn't process at the level

even of emotion, but processes at the level of fear.

And they call it lizard brain, or they called it

lizard brain because it's no different than a reptile, a snake,

or a lizard. And so when I told her don't

listen to the lizard, I was explaining, you're going to

go down and you're going to think that you're gonna die,

but you're not going to die. Just don't listen to

the lizard. And she went down under that water and

she swam clear to the other end, and she came up.

She took the biggest gasp, the biggest gulp of air,

and she was so proud, and she said, man, that

lizard is loud. I said, well, what did you say

back to him? She said, I told him, shut up, lizard.

I'm doing this now. Hold on. I know the enemy

has been telling you some stuff. I know he has because.

That lizard has been talking to me too.

But I came to tell you.

Today that lizard has no power over you. He might

gru sore heel, but you're gonna crush his head. In

the name of Jesus, I am gonna make it. I

shall living, not die.

I'm gonna raise my kids.

I'm gonna make a difference in the world, taking my

mind back.

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