Thoughts - Pt. 2

Welcome to the podcast.

Well, hey guys, we are at the B teaching number two in this whatever I'm doing.

Started last week talking about thoughts.

I have since our last video as far as the teaching video goes.

I have started a podcast.

I can share that information later.

I have also started a YouTube channel where these videos will be on YouTube as well as

Facebook.

Anyhow, I am open to feedback.

If you listen to my stuff, don't worry about it.

If you do though, I am open to feedback.

I would like to hear some people's thoughts or even if there are questions, maybe you

have questions you want me to dive into or whatever.

Anyhow, we are going to continue talking about thoughts.

We ended last week talking about this and this is still what I am talking about with

our teenagers.

As I mentioned last teaching video I did, all I am trying to do at this moment is take

what I teach to my teenagers on Wednesday night and then bring it to here to teach it

here to a larger audience or whatever.

I mean I don't know.

I could also use this for our teens if we ever have bad weather and can't meet together.

Then this would be an option of a way to still keep that momentum going.

Because momentum, once you get it going, it is one of those things you don't want to

let up.

You don't want to just skip a week or what have you because sometimes the momentum that

you have is harder to get back when you start missing and canceling things.

Sometimes life happens and you don't have a choice but that is just one of them.

This episode will be posted on the podcast probably in a couple of weeks.

My game plan is hopefully to do a podcast per week to get it uploaded.

I am not a professional at this.

This is something totally new.

It is a new territory for me.

So if anybody has suggestions of how to make things better, I am all for it.

I am just hoping, again, this is not something to boast me.

If I help one person then it was worth it to me.

That is really my biggest thing.

I am coming to realize I have a voice and I am going to use my voice to proclaim the

gospel of Christ.

We want to start with this.

60,000 thoughts.

60,000 thoughts.

That is the number of thoughts the average person approximately has per day.

I want to go back to the whole thing that started this and it was the idea of seeing

the Facebook post of thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits,

habits create your character and character leads you to your destiny.

So basically ultimately if you want to change the trajectory of your destiny you have to

start with your thoughts.

You have to start with your mindset.

That is again why Romans 12-2 to go back and I want to go back and read that.

So let me pull those notes up real quick.

Romans 12-2 and I am going to read the passion translation.

It simply says this.

Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you.

But be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think.

If you remember back to the last video I talked about if you have ever been around renovations.

Any type of renovations that you have it can cause chaos, it can cause stress and all sorts

of things.

I know this because my wife and I have done this in 2024 and it was chaos.

It was not saying anything bad about the company that did it.

It is just the process of renovations.

But this is how you have to renew your mind.

You have to allow the Holy Spirit and you have to come into agreement with the Holy

Spirit and allow him to totally reform your thinking to tear out things that does not

belong that is contrary to what God says about you and what the Father says about you and

declares over you and help you to come into agreement with the truth of what He says about

you.

And that is much easier said than done but I promise you the finished work of that looks

much better than where you started at.

Continue Romans 12 it says a total reformation of how you think this will empower you to discern

God's will as you live a beautiful life satisfying and perfect in his eyes.

I am sitting here reading this and I feel like maybe I should stop at some point and

maybe I do it in the next video and talk about things such as humility and pride and what

the difference would be here.

And some different wording and stuff like this maybe take a deeper dive because here

is the thing I am not in a hurry with this.

So if we need to slow down backtrack and kind of get a better foundation because foundation

is going to be key as we move forward.

So maybe get a better foundation for us as far as our thoughts and different things of

that.

That may be what I go for next.

I will just kind of take the Holy Spirit and let him kind of lead this.

So now let's pick back up from last week and let's start with this week.

I want to use Baxter Kruger's phrase again that behavior follows perceived identity.

How you see yourself and we talked about this last week how you see yourself is very critical.

That's why you need to know how the Father sees you and come into agreement with how

He sees you and how He feels about you.

That is the key to walking this out.

Is allowing Holy Spirit, walking with Holy Spirit and coming into agreement with what

He has to say about you.

This is metanoia.

Again we have the word repent in our Bibles that should never been translated repent.

It's the word metanoia.

It means to come back to your senses, come back to your original design and your original

blueprint that God has established in your life.

I read this the other day and I believe it fits for this teaching and this journey that

we're on and all that.

It said this, all sin is a belief that produces an action that is incongruent with our identity.

I talked with my teenagers about this last week about how it seems like the church wants

to go after the fruit that we see and not root issues.

I asked them, I believe it's this past week, I asked them, I said, what do you call sin?

And I'll let you think about that for a moment.

You can pause this if you'd like and just think.

If someone was to ask you what is sin, what would you begin to ramble off?

Because they begin to say things such as lying and having idols and different things such

as that, which is exactly what I expected them to say.

But those things are not sin.

That is the fruit of sin in your life.

The actual sin is you begin to buy into a lie that the enemy has spoken to you that

goes contrary and contradicts what God has said about you.

And when you begin to believe something that goes against what God has said about you,

every time that's the original sin and it will every time produce fruit that we would

call and classify as sin.

I hope that makes sense.

And I'll read it again that all sin is a belief, it's a belief in your mind that produces an

action that is incongruent with our or your identity.

Sin produces the fruit and that seems, and this is what I told them, it seems like the

church wants to focus on what is produced.

It wants to focus on the fruit and never deal on the root issues of things.

And I believe when Jesus walked this earth, when he began to speak to people, he was beginning

to speak to root issues of their sin and not just simply the fruit.

He would ask them hard questions.

He would say things that didn't make sense all the time, but I believe what he was doing

was trying to speak to the root of the problem and not just deal with the fruit that we see.

Because if you don't fix the root issue, we'll never be able to fix the fruit that

is seen in your life.

One of the things that we ended on last week was the truth that we have been given the

mind of Christ.

It's according to Philippians 2.16.

And that's something that I don't know that we understand.

I know I personally don't understand and grab hold of the magnitude of having the mind of

Christ inside of us and accessible to us and by us.

But that's the fact is we have been given the mind of Christ on the inside of us that

we can tap into if we're willing to listen.

So I'm going to go back to Philippians to learn kind of how to think tonight.

I will talk about that in just a moment.

But I'm going to go back to this 60,000 thoughts per day fact that I've learned when studying

this.

I don't know how they figured this stuff out.

I don't know what techniques they have and all of that.

But it says the average person has approximately 60,000 thoughts per day.

If you think about that, that's a high number.

The concerning part of that 60,000 number is that they say 75% of that are negative

thoughts.

It went on to say 95% I believe it was were repetitive thoughts.

So that means if you've got 60,000 thoughts, 95% are repetitive and 75% negative, you're

having a lot of repeating negative thoughts throughout your day.

And here's the thing.

You can't control 60,000 thoughts that come into your mind.

I mean if it was just 10% of that, 6,000 thoughts, I would probably, I would have to

still say you can't control 6,000 thoughts that come through your mind per day.

That is crazy to think about that kind of number.

But it makes sense now even more so of why Scripture tells us to renew your mind with

the Word of God.

Allow the Holy Spirit to totally renovate your thought process and your thinking.

Your mindset is the compilation of your thoughts.

Your thoughts again, we learned last week, ultimately lead you to your destiny.

Your thoughts have incredible power to shape your life and the lives of others because

your thoughts and interpretations of circumstances directly influence your beliefs and ultimately

influence your actions.

Think about fear.

I did some different studies as far as fear and anxiety goes.

Fear is experience in your mind.

This is fascinating to me.

Fear is experience in your mind but it triggers a strong physical reaction in your body.

As soon as you recognize fear, the small organ in the middle of your brain, I'm not in the

medical field, I'm not trying to pronounce these words.

But as soon as you recognize fear, that small organ in the middle of your brain goes to

work and alerts your nervous system, which sets your body's fear response into motion,

stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline are released, your blood pressure and heart

rate increase, you start breathing faster, even your blood flow changes.

Blood actually flows from your heart and into your limbs making it easier for you to start

throwing punches or run for your life.

It's preparing for what we call the fight or the flight.

As some parts of your brain are revving up, others are shutting down.

When that little organ in the brain sends fear, the cerebral cortex, that area of the

brain that harnessed reasoning and judgment, becomes impaired.

So fear impairs you.

So now it's difficult to make good decisions and you can't think clearly when you're in

fear.

It starts in the mind, but it affects every part of your body.

No wonder why Jesus repeatedly says, do not fear, have no fear for I am with you.

You got to get out of that cycle of fear.

Anxiety was another one.

It's yet another thing that affects the mind.

They say anxiety is considered a psychological condition with a strong neurological basis,

meaning it primarily manifests through mental experiences, but it is heavily influenced

by brain activity and neurotransmitter imbalances within the nervous system.

Essentially, it's a complex interaction between the mind and the brain, or the body and the

mind.

So fear and anxiety, that's just two examples guys, two examples of things that can attack

you in your mind, but it affects your entire body.

It affects all sorts of parts of your body and internally, different things that, I

mean it just messes you up.

But it helps us understand why God tells us to renew our minds consistently.

We don't see Jesus walking around in fear.

We don't see Jesus battling anxiety, so there has to be something that we're not getting

here to cause us to become more like Christ to where fear and anxiety does not get to

dictate our lives.

And again, a lot of this stuff is easier said than done.

It's easy to talk about people that have anxiety, but until you've actually been around somebody

and understood that it's not a choice.

I mean it can cripple you just like that.

And it's not something that they're excited about.

It's a stronghold, it's something that messes with them.

And you can't beat people down because they deal with it.

I mean come on now.

Take my glasses off.

I want to read Philippians 4, I'm going to read 68, I'm going to read starting with the

Passion Translation and what kind of take it from there.

But it says, it says, don't be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing.

Be saturated in prayer throughout each day.

And this goes back to a conversation I've had with teens before when the Scripture talks

about praying continuously.

We all know we can't go through our days praying out loud consistently.

But what you can do is consistently walk with an attitude of prayer.

You can consistently saturate your life in prayer so that you have a prayerful mindset

throughout your entire day.

Keeping in communication with heaven and allowing Holy Spirit to have, and people that

have walked with the Spirit and know there's a lot of times you can have an internal dialogue

with Holy Spirit.

In fact, in my past, you're even preached about this recently or said this in one of

the sermons.

While you're talking to someone, you can have an internal dialogue with Holy Spirit in that

same encounter.

If you're ministering and preaching, you can have an internal dialogue with Holy Spirit

while you're ministering and you're preaching.

And it says, be saturated in prayer through each day, offering your faith filled requests

before God with overflowing gratitude.

Tell him every detail of your life.

Then God's wonderful peace that transcends human understanding will guard your heart

and guard your mind through Christ Jesus.

Keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real.

This goes back to the heaven, that attitude of prayer as you're walking through your day

and you're battling these thoughts.

Keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real.

It goes on to say, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful

and kind, and fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God praising him always.

Now to kind of wrap this up, there's other scriptures I could read.

I've got, um, amplify, let me read this out of the mirror too, I think this is powerful.

Let no anxiety about anything distract you.

Rather translate moments into prayerful worship and soak your request in gratitude before

God.

And in this place of worship and gratitude, you will witness how the peace of God within

you, echoes the awareness of your oneness in Christ Jesus beyond the reach of any thought

that could possibly unsettle you.

Just like the sentry guard secures a city, watching out in advance for the first sides

of any possible threat, your deepest feelings and the tranquility of your thoughts are fully

guarded there.

Now let this be your conclusive reasoning.

Consider that which is true about everyone as evidenced in Christ.

Live overwhelmed, and I'll catch this, this is powerful, live overwhelmed by God's opinion

of you.

Teach yourselves, with the revelation of righteousness, realize God's likeness in you.

Make it your business to declare mankind's redeem innocence.

Think friendship.

Discover how famous everyone is in the light of the gospel.

Mankind is in God's limelight.

Ponder how elevated you are in Christ.

Live overwhelmed by God's opinion of you.

Now let's go back to that 60,000 number.

And again, I would take just 10%, the 6,000.

You can't control 60,000 thoughts that come through your mind.

That's something you can't do.

So stop trying.

Just because you had an ugly thought come through, don't let that define who you are.

It's just part of living, part of humanity.

You can't control the thoughts that come in.

What you do get to control, what you do have responsibility of, is what thought you actually

dwell on.

That is your responsibility.

You get the choice to make each and every day as those 60,000 thoughts flood your mind.

You get to decide what thought I'm going to dwell on.

And when you're thinking about that, you need to take the thoughts that come in.

And when the thought begins to try to attach itself to you, put it to the Philippians test,

as I like to say.

Let's go back to the Passion and look at it.

Is this thought authentic?

Is it real?

We play a lot of what if games in our mindsets.

What if, what if this, what if that, what if this goes wrong?

What if it don't?

What if actually everything works the way it's supposed to?

What if we actually understood that he who began a good work in us is faithful and just

to see it, to see it to completeness?

What if we actually believe that?

What if this actually works out this time?

What if the promotion actually comes through?

What if the healing actually happens this time?

What if the breakthrough is actually happening while you're talking right now?

We can play the what if scenario, but flip the what if scenario to the positive side.

So is it authentic?

Is it real?

Is it honorable?

Is it admirable?

Is it beautiful?

Is it respectful?

Is it pure?

Is it holy?

Is it merciful and kind?

And if it's not guys, that's the key.

If it doesn't meet that criteria, if it doesn't meet God's opinion about you, if it's having

this beat down mentality and looking down on yourself, then it's not God's opinion of

you.

Then that is the thought that you kick to the curb.

This is the thought that you get rid of and you find the next thought, the thought that

declares his goodness over you.

The thought that comes through and proclaims who you are in him.

The thought that comes through and proclaim who you are, how he sees you.

That's the thought you begin to breathe on and give life to.

The other thoughts that come through and don't line up with this, stop dwelling on it.

Move on.

Get out of your own head.

This is how important thoughts are.

I don't know if I got to this with our teenagers last Wednesday, but I'm going to get to this

and then I'll wrap this thing up.

If you look at 2 Corinthians 10-3-5, it says, for although we live in the natural realm,

we do not wage a military campaign employing human weapons using manipulation to achieve

our aims.

Instead, our spiritual weapons are energized with divine power to effectively dismantle

the defenses behind which people hide.

We can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God and break through every arrogant

attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God.

We capture like prisoners of war.

This is the key I want you to hear.

We capture like prisoners of war every thought that is in and that's not right.

Every thought that insists that it bow in obedience to the anointed one.

We capture like prisoners of war every thought and insist that it bow in obedience to the

anointed one.

When those thoughts come through, you have the responsibility as a child of God to capture

every thought that comes in.

And if that thought does not line up with his word, like a prisoner of war, you insist

that it bow to the obedience of the anointed one.

You insist that it bow down to the Christ in you and don't give life to it.

That's the key guys and that's where I'm going to stop this video tonight.

I feel like that's enough to chew on for a whole another week until I get to do another

one of these.

That's enough to chew on.

Take the thoughts that come in.

Go read Philippians.

Go study it for yourself.

It's Philippians 4 6 through 8 that tells you what to think about.

Keep your thoughts continually fixed on things that's authentic, a real, honorable, admirable,

beautiful, respectful, pure, holy, merciful and kind and fasten your thoughts on every

glorious work of God praising him always.

Every thought you can't control.

So stop trying to do that.

Get out of that.

You can't do that guys.

You can't control the thoughts that come through your mind, but you do get to control

what thoughts you dwell on.

You get to control what thoughts you give life to.

You're talking to someone I have no idea clearly.

I think I said this beginning.

I have no idea what I'm doing as far as a podcast and even this I have no idea what

I'm doing.

I'm just trusting the Holy Spirit to lead me to guide me to help teach me.

That's all I know to do.

And no, he's given me a voice.

I'm just trying to use it and I could sit here and allow myself to be defeated and think

I'm not good enough for this.

Trust me.

Why my wife does have to hear that sometimes and she has to kick me and remind not literally

kick me, but has to remind me who I am and that I am capable of doing things such as

this.

I was so proud.

I believe it was Friday night when I actually did the whole podcast thing.

Actually downloaded my own podcast on Apple Podcast.

I was quite proud.

You can say what you want, but I was proud of myself.

Leave me alone.

My podcast.

But anyhow, take your thoughts, renew them, get in his word.

You can't, this goes back to last week.

You can't change your thoughts if you don't change what you're putting inside of you.

Find out what he says about you.

How does he see you getting along with him?

Pray, say, Lord, show me how you see me.

What do you see in me?

And let him answer you guys.

Then every thought that comes through you begin to take control over it.

You decide which one you give life to.

Father, I thank you.

I thank you for every listener.

I thank you for anyone who watches this and has kept up with this.

I pray that you would infiltrate their minds with what you say about them with God's thoughts

today.

Show them how you see them.

Reveal yourself to them in them.

And we praise you, Jesus.

You guys be blessed.

Have a blessed week.

I hope this minister's to you.

Give me a like, love, whatever the things they're called, just so I can know that there's people

watching this.

If it meant something to you.

I appreciate it.

And if it makes a difference in one person's life, then it's worth every moment I spend

right here at this desk.

Keep blessed guys.