Renewing of The Mind!

Lee for the first time and she I mean for the very first time both

services. So if y'all want to put your hands together for Lisa. Okay,

so y'all extend your hands towards her, you would, Now, I've

never gotten that response. That's okay, babe. It keeps me humble.

So Lord, I just thank you for your word. Father. I thank

you for first service's message. And Lord, I just thank you for peace.

I thank you for strength of her voice. And Lord, just once

again, I asked that you would just flow through her holy spirit, that

she would be the clothes that you wear. Lord, just Gideon, and

I thank you for my wife, my family, or the gifts that you've

put inside of her. And I thank you for the honor and the privilege

of running in the kingdom with her. In Jesus' name and menn Wow,

okay, Oh, I don't know why I feel a little bit more nervous

this service. I don't know. There's more faces, more people, But

I just want to say that I am really, actually thankful and grateful to

be here today. This is not something I ever wanted to do. I'm

just going to share that with you right now. But I want to be

obedient to the Lord, and he's been putting a message on my heart.

But yeah, having a platform is not anything I've ever desired to have.

But because I love the Lord, i am here. And so as I

was preparing for this message, actually probably months and months ago, I was

like, Okay, Lord, if you really want me to speak, how

do I do this? This is not something that I'm very comfortable with.

And he just said, speak to them as if you were speaking to your

boys, as a mother with a mother's heart, and I was like that

simple, like, can I really speak to you all? Come to you

today as a mother. I love my children so incredibly much and I love

y'all as well, and so I'm coming here today as a mother with a

message on my heart that the Lord's been speaking to me about. So the

Lord speaks to me in seasons. I don't know about each of you seasons

of life. And this last season that Justin and I went through with ministry

was really difficult. I know a lot of you just see us on Sunday

morning and we're happy and life looks great, but behind the scenes, it's

not always easy. And I love you all, but sometimes dealing with your

stuff is not easy. I'm just gonna tell you right now, and please

do not take offits to that. Okay, We're all going through things and

so in this season, yeah, Anthony, so yeah, So this season

has been a struggle for me. And I was like, Lord, what

are you saying to me? And He's been talking to me about the renewing

of my mind. The last song Lion of Judah is like, how do

you want to how do we get the valleys to raise up in the mountains

to come down. It's through the renewing of your mind. It's through your

perspective, It's through how you see life challenges. And so the Lord has

been speaking to me about that in my challenges in life. And one day

I was driving down this road and Justin loves to call it intercessory whining,

and so that's exactly what I was doing. I was like, Lord,

why are we dealing with this difficult situation? And these people are hurting me

and you know, all this stuff, and like all this turmoil was going

on in my heart. And so as I'm praying slash whining to the Lord,

I hear him say in my spirit. So when the Lord speaks to

me and my spirit, I hear him here? Does that make sense?

I don't necessarily hear him up here? So this is what I get this

download. He says, you can't move forward into this new season keeping your

old ways of thinking. Those roots have to be dug up. You can't

go into this new season with the fear Man. And I was like,

wait a second. So as I was driving, whining, praying, the

Lord brought to memory the new land, the new land. Some of you

are guests here and you might not know that, but the church has been

blessed with twenty five acres so that we can go from this, we can

build a campus. And we are just so humbled and grateful for what the

Lord is doing. And on this new land there was about one hundred and

fifty beautiful oak trees that got diseased and had to be chopped down, which

was really heartbreaking. But I love to go out there and I love to

walk the land. I love to pray and thank the Lord for the land

that He's given us. And so one day I was out there and there's

this huge I mean, some of these trees were massive, and so I

just did because they were all chopped down, just straight flat with the ground.

So I'm standing on a stump looking down and I'm like, huh interesting,

Like I felt like a little tree. And the Lord was like,

those have to go. Those roots have to go the land. You can't

build on the land over roots. And so that's what he was showing me

when he was saying, you can't go into this new season with the old

mindset, the old way of thinking. I was like, okay, interesting.

So I went out there probably a few weeks after that, and the

land is being cleared. All of those one hundred and fifty roots had to

be dug out, and so I went out there and some of these roots

that they pulled out, I mean are massive. They're full of dirt and

rocks. I mean they're gnarly roots, and they left massive holes in the

ground. And so the Lord was showing me my old way of thinking,

my mindsets that are not rooted in him, to be dug out. And

it was painful, and it made me have to look deep inside my stuff,

my yuck, and look at what is it that I'm holding on too.

So that painful season, that painful situation, I was like, what

is it. That's when he said it's the fear of man. See.

In a healthy Lisa, I love people. I mean I really love people,

even difficult people. I really love you. But in an unhealthy Lisa

becomes a people pleaser because why because I don't want to disappoint you. I

don't want to let you down. But what I do, what we all

might Doccasionally we pit ourselves the face that we don't belong. It's not my

job to please all of you. It's not Justin's job, it's not Anthony's

job, Wayne's job. So in an unhealthy place, I start focusing on

what if I don't do this and so and so gets upset with me?

Or did I greet everyone at church? Oh? No, I miss someone,

they're a visitor. Maybe they're going to be offended. DC do any

of y'all recognize this in your own self? So that was a challenge.

I was going through this, and I was realizing I wasn't focused on the

Lord. I was focused on this situation. And so the Lord said,

Nope, this is painful, but you've got to uproot this old way of

thinking. We're going to start working on the renewing of your mind. And

I'm telling you it was not easy, Justin and I spent a lot of

evenings crying, frustrated, all all kinds of stuff. And so so this

is interesting because you know, I didn't really know that all of those roots

out at the land had to be uprooted. And they're like, oh,

yeah, because if you build a road over it, if you build anything

over it, that those trees could spring up again. And I was like,

okay, interesting, and I was thinking about my heart again. Why

the Lord said that these old, these roots, these old ways of thinking

had to be dug out. This is what he showed me. It's job

fourteen seven through nine. So for there is a hope for a tree,

if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its

shoots will not cease, though its roots grow old in the earth and it's

die in the soil, yet at the scent of water, it will bud

and put out branches like a young plant. Now this passage is talking about

the hope and the Lord, but the Lord was also showing me. At

the hint of me thinking oh uh, oh, did I hurt Susan's feelings

or Justin's feelings, I would go back that root that was to the ground

in my heart. I could go back at the thought, the scent of

maybe I didn't please someone, that old way of thinking would just bust right

up. Do you see what I'm saying? And that's when the Lord said,

that's why it has to be dug out. You can't leave it in,

cannot leave it in your heart. So I was like, Okay,

this is gonna be fun. I'm like, oh Lord, you know,

we say prayers like you know, I want to see the miraculous. I

want to experience God move. But that means that you have to come to

a point in your life where you're coming to a challenge an issue. I

call it like a red Sea moment. We all say, oh yeah,

we want to be a people that sees miracles, do you Because that means

that you're facing the giant, You're facing the red Sea. You don't have

anywhere to go. You have to put your full trust in the Lord.

So through this process, I'm like, Okay, Lord, I'm going to

trust you. So I want to talk a little bit about where do thoughts

come from? Where do these mindsets come from? So for years I literally

thought my thoughts were just my thoughts, nothing else, and years ago,

before we had started the church, Justin was teaching a Sunday evening class and

he was talking about thoughts and something called a familiar spirit, and I thought

he was crazy. Sometimes I still think he's a little crazy. Okay,

So he's talking about familiar spirits and how it sounds like you and I'm sitting

here and I started arguing with him. I was like, my thoughts are

my own. I don't know what you're talking about. And he's like,

no, Lucy, you don't know what you're talking about because blah blah blah

blah. And so I was like, okay, lord, I don't understand

this. So you're gonna have to show me what a familiar spirit is because

I believe my thoughts are my own. So fast forward two weeks go by.

We were going to a church in Fredericksburg and it was Sunday morning.

We woke up. Everybody's in a good mood, the kids have gotten ready

for church, and I am about to blow dry my hair. Y'all are

gonna love this poor Justin. So Justin comes walking into the there I'm like

you would normally do getting ready, comes walking in and I look up and

I look at him, and this thought hits my mind and it says,

he is so annoying. Why can't I ever have any privacy? And I

went, yeah, he is. And then I lashed out at him and

I literally verbeted him, said you are so annoying? Why can't I have

any privacy? And then the Lord said that is your familiar spirit? And

I went, oh, my gosh, and his eyes got real big,

like what did I do? And I said, I said, I am

so sorry. Please forgive me. I don't even know why I did that.

And the Lord was showing me like, this is what he was talking

about. Not all your thoughts are your own. But did you see that

the thought came to me. I came into agreement with it. I said,

yes, Justin is annoying. And then I attacked. Okay, and

I'm like oh, I was like, oh, I'm so sorry. So

let me read a Fusion six sixteen. So it says, in all circumstances,

take up the shield of faith, which with which you can extinguish all

the flaming darts of the evil one. So in this passage, Paul is

comparing the attacks of the enemy to flaming darts. Right so flaming darts or

arrows. They could represent temptations, doubts, lies, or other spiritual texts.

Can any of you relate to this where you're just minding your own business

and all of a sudden boom a thought comes and you're like, what the

heck is that is that me? I'll give you another example, and this

one was hard because I thought something was really wrong with me. Is two

weeks old, my oldest. He's now nineteen. I'm a very happy,

peaceful person. I've never dealt with depression, thank you lord. Yes,

I've had bouts of sadness and things like that. So I have coal and

I had gone upstairs to get in and as I'm walking down the stairs,

I am bombarded by this thought, drop him, drop him. And I

thought, oh, oh my gosh, this must be postpartum depression. There

must be something wrong with me. I did not realize until years later.

And of course I did not drop him, just so you know I had

not dropped him. I was like, oh, no, something's wrong with

me. No, that is a fiery, fiery arrow that enemy wants to

still kill and destroy. Where does he start The battle is for your mind?

If he can get you to come into to agreement with him. It

becomes a thought and then it becomes an action. Does that make sense to

you? Okay, okay, So let's go to Second Corinthians ten three through

six. So this is how you're going to combat this. So it says,

for though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according

to the flesh, For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh,

but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments in every lofty

opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey

Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete. So

how do you battle this? You have to take every thought captive. You

have to take your thoughts. You have to I think about your thinking first

of all. Then you have to take your thoughts, and you have to

say, well, Lord, is this you? What is the voice of

the Father love peace. He's gentle, he's kind, he's encouraging. What's

the voice of the enemy. He accuses you, he shames you, he

instills fear in you. He tells you you're not good enough. Weigh that,

then you've got your own voice as well. You have to start learning

to know the difference between the voices in your head. Yeah. Not every

thought is your thought, okay. And so when a thought comes in,

like I said, you have the choice you can come into agreement with it.

When you come into an agreement with the voice of the enemy, the

thoughts of the enemy, you start building strongholds. Okay. So with stronghold

holds, that's like a fortified city. It's like a castle that you're building

around your heart in your mind. I'm not good enough. I'm not good

enough. Guess what You're gonna live the rest of your life believing you're not

good enough? Or parents, I gotta talk to you. The Lord convicted

me big time. When Micah was eight years old, michaeh, you gotta

stand up this kid right here, Come on, stand up. Look at

this now you can well, you can stand up right there. This kid

right here, This is Micah. This is my youngest. He's fifteen.

But when he was eight years old, woo. Those of you that knew

Micah, there's quite a few of you that knew Micah when he was little.

He was a handful and I literally was like, oh Lord, help

you here. I was like he was so much fun, so full of

life, but he he had some behavior challenges. Any parents can, can

you you know, relate to that, and so, you know, he

would make a mistake or he would have a little fit and I'd be like,

Micah, why are you doing that and just like go to the negative,

you know, punishment or whatever. And the Lord was like, stop

it now, and I was like ooh, and he was like, start

speaking life over him. Change the way I see his behavior, see him

through a new filter, a filter that the Lord sees him. Who is

he? Who is he becoming? And so the Lord instead of you know,

Michael would maybe have a little meltdown and I would get down and I

would say, hey, Michah, this isn't who you are. You are

kind, you are gentle, you are patient, you know, and I'd

go through speaking the Father's heart over him, and he would just look at

me like didn't I just do something really bad? And you know, I

just started speaking life and to see how that has changed his life, because

once you speak the power of life and death, it's in your words,

it's in your tongue. If you speak oh, you're such a naughty kid,

or you're you know, I don't know, whatever it is, you

can fill in the blank. There's so many things you're not good enough,

you'll never succeed. And here's the thing, a lot of this comes from

our own inner voice. How many of you tell yourself you're not good enough,

you're broken, you're never going to whatever it is. That's not the

voice of the father, y'all. So we know that strongholds, they're not

built overnight, and they're also not torn down overnight. These strongholds, like

I said, they come through repeated thoughts, experiences, and influences. That's

why I'm talking to you parents. It's so important, y'all, that we

build godly beautiful thoughts in our children, not the strongholds that the enemy wants

us to instill in them. So I want to talk to you again about

how do we break these strongholds so even though they might look and feel like

they're unbeatable, that they're going to be like so difficult to overcome. We're

talking about all the stuff, all your life challenges. This is what as

followers of Christ again Second Corinthians ten four, we possess the authority and power

to tear down these strongholds through the weapons of our warfare, which are not

carnal, but in God for pulling down strongholds through prayer, worship and the

truth of God's word those empty places. So once you dig out those roots

of bitterness, whatever it is, you've got to fill that back in.

You can't leave it empty. So you do that by the Word of God,

by prayer, worship, and through that we can demolish every argument and

pretension that sets itself against the knowledge of God. How by taking every thought

captive. Okay, So I want to talk about this story because I was

like, man, sometimes I feel like I'm not very good at doing this,

and I get struck, you know, I get kind of like down

on myself. And the Lord had me watch a teaching by Bill Johnson and

he was talking also about mindsets and things, and so I love this story.

It's Matthew sixteen five through twelve. So this is the Disciples. They

had just seen the Lord. I mean, he's done all these miracles,

healings, he's fed the four thousand, he's fed the five thousand, and

now they're headed to another region. Okay, So when the Disciples reached the

other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. Jesus said to them,

watch and beware of the loaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And

they began discussing it among themselves, saying, we brought no bread. This

makes me laugh. I'm like, y'all, they were just with Jesus when

he fed the thousands with a few loafs and a few fish, and they're

literally having this discussion about not having bread, and I'm just like, oh

my, So Jesus says, Jesus is aware of this, and he says,

oh, you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the

fact that you have no bread? Do you not perceive? Do you not

remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you gathered,

or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you gathered?

Yeah? How many times in our life do we go through a situation,

a scenario and we make it through, and then we're going back around the

mountain and then we get to the situation again and then we start stressing out,

freaking out, going, oh no, I don't have enough money for

the bills. But wait, didn't the Lord just provide for you back here?

Yes, and you're walking with the Lord and you're with him here,

you're facing your red seat. But yet do you not perceive? Do you

not see? I laugh at I'm laughing with Shay right now because she and

I am. If you're a visitor here, we have a amazing little nonprofit

Come Mercy Gate Ministries that walks with beautiful women that have gone through really hard

things, and so Chae and I it's our responsibility to make sure that it

stays afloat by raising funds. And let me tell you, neither one of

us enjoy raising funds. Okay, we did not do this to raise money.

H we do not like it. So twice a year we have a

fundraiser and each year we whining complain because we're like, not again, not

again. And so Shaye and I were having a moment and we were kind

of whining and complaining, maybe one more than the other, I don't know,

and She's like, ah, this is not gonna be good, blah

blah blah blah blah. And I was like, wait a second, didn't

we say this the last fundraiser? And look what the Lord did? He

blew it out of the waters. It was the best fundraiser we had ever

had, and I was like, oh, look we're going around the mountain

again. We're here again. So now we have a choice. So now

we have a choice of trusting the Lord or taking that control, stressing out,

freaking out, throwing a little hissy fit, whatever we do, because

that's kind of what I do. And so you're gonna get chance after chance

after chance. Wouldn't it be easier on you, your heart, your mind,

your emotions if the next time you get to that place you go,

oh, I remember. See. This is why it's important to have a

book of remembrance journal. Start writing down all the beautiful, miraculous things that

the Lord has done in your life. So when you get to that place,

you can go, oh, I remember when, and look how the

Lord showed up. He did it. Then he's going to do it again.

It's not always going to look the same, but it's okay. So

I'm going to share this today. I have a little bit more time than

what I had last time. I'm going to quickly share the story that I

didn't share in the first service because one of my biggest struggles has been trusting

the Lord with finances. So back in two thousand and eight, well maybe

it was two thousand and seven, life was good. We were building spec

homes, we were building custom homes. Life was good. Didn't have many

worries at that time. Financially, well any of you that know. Back

in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, the economy just crashed,

so Justin and I were left with two spec homes and all of our

savings just being poured into keeping those afloat. I got really sick with a

health a couple of health challenges, and it felt like we were being punished

because honestly, we lost everything, and so much so that we had to

move to Colorado because Justin couldn't even get hired for a job anywhere here.

I'm now pregnant, so I go through a health challenge. The doctor says,

hey, you've got this, and I hope you have insurance and do

not get pregnant. And I was like, oh no, my life is

over, okay, And then now I found out I'm pregnant, and now

they can't help treat whatever I was going through. Not that I would have

done it anyways, because I was not going to do their protocol. So

we have to move to Colorado, have to leave my family, my safety

net, my friends, to go to Colorado with a five month old baby

and a four year old and I'm stuck in this little bitty apartment justice work.

Justin's working his tail off and he's doing a night shift and he was

coming home and I was like, you look like death worn over. I

mean, he was pale. I was like, this is not how I

want to live. We were there eleven months, but I'm just gonna tell

you I was mad. I was so angry. I felt like I was

being punished. I felt like God wasn't showing up for us. I was

like, what did we do to deserve this? And I wasn't getting along

with Justin all that well, because Justin's my safe person. If I'm going

to be mad at someone, it's gonna be Justin. Poor guy. I'm

getting much better, but you know, you understand marriages, right, So

the Lord's working on me because we'll like it feels like maybe we can pay

our bills. And then the next month, because then he started working a

job with commission and we're down to nothing. So I'm like, it's a

repeat, it's the cycle. I'm going around that mountain. So what happened

in Texas? Now here we are again in Colorado. But I don't have

my family, I don't have my friends there. And I remember I'd gotten

a card in the mail and my Nana, my sweet little Nana, had

sent me forty dollars. That was the only money we had, forty dollars.

I'm telling you we were probably negative. I don't even know because I

refuse to look in the bank account. So I've got forty dollars and I'm

like, we need gas in the car, and I need milk for the

kiddos. The church that we went to, those of you that know Rich

harais it was his church. We met on Saturday nights. And I show

up, Justin's playing the drums and I've got my forty dollars in my purse

and I'm like, okay, I'm getting gas and milk. That's what I'm

doing with this forty dollars. Well, the Lord's putting on my heart give

it away. And I'm like, no, I mean, I know it's

only forty dollars, but that's all we had. Jobs Like, I am

not giving that away you know that battle. It was like, no,

give it away. So I take my forty dollars and I'm like, I

cannot believe I'm doing this. I march myself up. They had baskets and

I throw that forty dollars in there. I'm like, great, I don't

even have gas to get home. So Justin gets done with the drums and

he comes and I said, hey, do you think the Lord could fill

up my gas tank? And he goes, what do you mean. I

said, well, I gave away our last forty dollars and he goes,

well, did the Lord tell you to? And I was like, yeah,

I think so. I wouldn't have done it. And he was like,

then just let it be, so service is over. I'm literally putting

Micah because Micah was still a baby in a car seat. I'm putting him

in the car seat and Justin comes over and taps me on the shoulder and

he goes, here you go, and it's forty dollars. And I was

like, oh my gosh, you went and took it out of the basket.

That's what I thought he did. And he was like, no,

I didn't do that, and I was like, whoo okay, good.

I said, well, where did you get Where'd you get this forty dollars?

And he said, Lisa, you see that lady over there, I'm

like, yeah. She came up to Justin and said, hey, the

moment your wife walked through the door, the Lord told me to give you

forty dollars, and I just lost it. I went up to this lady

and I said, you don't understand, Like I didn't even know walking in

that it was going to give the forty dollars. But the Lord knew that

he was going to give me the challenge. He was going to give me

the challenge. And then I had a choice. Do you see that?

Like you all have challenges and you all have choices to make. So in

that moment, even though that was the hardest thing for me at that time,

because I had my precious little boys and I had no idea how we

were going to provide for them, but the Lord gave me a challenge,

and I said, Okay, Lord, I'm going to choose you and I'm

going to trust you, and I gave him everything we had. He had

already provided a way to meet our needs. Yeah, it was just forty

dollars. But you have no idea. Had it been one hundred dollars,

I don't think it would have been more impactful than the forty dollars. Y'all.

It meant everything. It changed my life. And have we had struggles

since then? Absolutely we have. But God is so good. So each

challenge that we come up to, I'm like, oh, I remember,

I remember when the Lord did that. I don't have to stress out.

I can trust him with it all. Do you understand giving everything is more

than the wealthy and the Bible when they were giving, you know, they

could give a lot, but it was the widow in her might that the

Lord said, this is more than anything, because it's all that she had.

Now I'm not even talking about finances here. I'm talking about your heart.

It's giving your everything, your heart to him. He's gonna challenge you.

See, my treasure was in the finances. My security was in the

finances, not about forty dollars. Is very secure, but that's all I

had. Okay, So okay, I've got to share this. So in

that teaching I was watching with Bill Johnson, he says, once you have

seen supernatural supply, you have lost any right to start any thought process with

what you don't have. Let that sink in. Yes, once you have

seen supernatural supply, you have lost any right to start any thought process with

what you don't have. So miracles they require change, change of mind,

change of thought, change of perspective. Right, So instead of I'm so

sick, no, I'm healed in Jesus' name. He paid for my healing.

He bore our stripes. Okay, I don't have enough. No,

he supplies all my needs. So listen to this bill says a renewed mind

is like the banks of a river. So it creates a place for faith

to flow in. Right, and it always works with faith. So faith

sees faith perceives in the renewed mind will always function in the perception of what

faith sees. The renewed mind makes possible for the miraculous. You know you

have a renewed mind when the impossible looks logical. Does that make sense?

I'm at the end of my rope. There's no way, we have nothing

left. We only have forty dollars. What are we gonna do? Oh

no, that's a lie. He supplies all of my needs. Period.

The renewed mind is anchored in God's word. You can't have a renewed mind

if you're not going to the word of God and hearing his truths. Wash

over you, wash over you, in you, and get rooted in your

heart. So Proverbs twenty three seven it says, for as a man thinketh

in his heart, so is he. Do you see why it's so important

to think about what you're thinking about? How are you thinking about yourself?

What do you think about your spouse, your children, your job situation,

your parents. Yeah, life is hard. We're all gonna have a lot

of challenges. I'm never gonna tell you it's gonna get easier, but guess

what, it can get easier, and here it can get easier, and

here you're gonna have challenges regardless. The Lord didn't say he came to take

away all your challe You're never gonna struggle in life. No, He's given

us a way to face the challenges. It's him, it's his word.

So I I don't know about y'all. Any of y'all have heard of doctor

Caroline Leaf? Anybody you knew what? Okay? I love this woman.

She is amazing. In fact, sometimes I have to put her on like

like slow mode. Because she's so smart. She is a brain scientist.

So she talks about the brain and thought and what positive thoughts they literally form

trees. They form trees in your brain. Negative thoughts form really gnarly,

nasty, black, dead looking trees. So she says, it takes your

brain twenty one days to create a new thought pathway. And Kylie, I

know you know a lot more about this. In fact, I think it

would be amazing if maybe one day you teach on some of that, because

it's so deep. I can't even get into it. We don't even have

time. I've got four minutes, but it is amazing. So here's my

challenge to you is I want every single one of you here to live an

abundant life. And if the battles for your mind and you're not having an

abundant life in your mind, in your thought life, how are you gonna

live an abundant life. If you're constantly dealing with the negative, I'm never

gonna amount to anything. We're always gonna be broke, I'm always gonna be

sick. Well, guess what you're setting yourself up for? That you really

are. So when you change your mindset, there's power in that the Lord

said he gave you the mind of Christ. You have the Holy Spirit inside

of you. You are able and capable of changing all of that. So

my challenge to you is, I want you to take the next twenty one

days. I print off a calendar. I just went to Google. I

printed one off for myself, and I want you to take one thought.

I don't want you to go into all the thoughts that you're battling with.

I want you to go take one thought. In fact, take a moment.

A lot of you probably already know what that thought is that you struggle

with. I want you to take that one thought. I want you to

be so mindful of it that when it pops into your mind, you say,

no, I do not receive that. I do have enough. I

am healed, whatever it is. And I want you to go day by

day and check off, did I take my thoughts captive? Did I change?

Did I flip the way I was thinking about things? And in twenty

one days? It takes twenty one days to create that new pathway. It's

like a river. It's a new pathway the way that you think, and

that is what's going to give you the change. Okay, So here's here's

some things. One of the things that the Lord has me do when I'm

really struggling in an area is speaking. Like I said earlier, the power

of life and death are in your tongue. So if you're battling something,

make a declaration. So here here's an example. So if I'm battling the

fear of lack, my God shall supply all my needs according to His riches

in Glory by Jesus Christ. I reject the lie of lack, and I

embrace the truth of abundance as Jehovah Jirah meets and exceeds every need and expectation.

So do you see how if you're battling with lack, you speak the

life over you. So I'm asking are y'all willing to do this challenge?

Are you willing? Do you want areas of your life to change? Okay?

So twenty one days I'm challenging you to do that, And could we

get the prayer teams to come on up. I want y'all to take a

moment just in silence, and I want you to think about what is it

you're struggling with it? What is the battle in your mind right now?

What is that thought that you need to take captive and bring it into the

obedience of Christ. If you have something you're struggling with, you don't have

to do it alone. There's hope, y'all. His name is Jesus,

and he changes life. And you've got people all around you that are willing

to walk with you, encourage you. Call a friend if you're battling and

you're like, I can't do this alone. I've got my friends. I've

got Jill, I got Jay, I got Carla. We got friends all

around that I'm like, help me. And friends bring a new perspective.

They can love you right where you are, but they can speak hard truth.

But because you can trust them, you know that you can share your

heart. So don't do this alone. But if you want change in your

life, go after those bitter roots, those deep rooted things, and be

willing to let the Lord dig them up. So I just I'm so grateful

that I was able to speak. I'm going to close in prayer, and

then as you need prayer up here, just please come so heavenly Father Lord,

we just thank you. I thank you that you are such a good

father. I thank you that your mercies are new every single morning that you

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