Don't listen to the lizard.

You see how we get intoxicated in the age we

live in? There's so much information coming at us. We're

drunk and 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 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 lying 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 where.

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. Devil's a lion.

But he does not say, watch out for the lion.

The devil is not a lion. What's it say? Your

enemy prowls around like... He's not a lion. He's loud

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've got a flat tire.

It's the devil. That was a nail. It was a

construction site. They're building houses across the street. I ate

a donut. It was the devil. No, it was delicious.

It's the devil. It's the devil. It's the devil. I'm

under attack. A spiritual warfare. The devil's attacking me. What

do you mean the 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 wrapped patience in a package that looked like your.

Mother-in-law, and she's about to get FedExed to your doorstep.

God delivers. That's not the devil. So now 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 stay

in their own lane, but I did hear something about

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 son's in here. But she does

have a little advantage.

Over the boys because she's always had to stuff it

up to keep up, you know?

And she's superior by virtue of being female. So she....

Worked in my pulpit, went in some points. She wanted

to go all the way across the pool and hold

her breath, which her brothers couldn't do until they were 10.

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

I could do it. I could do it. I said,

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 triune 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. 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 going to die, but you're not going

to die.

Just don't listen to the lizard.

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. 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 bruise your heel, but you're going to crush his.

Head in the name of Jesus. I am going to

make it. I shall live and not die. I'm going

to raise my kids. I'm going to make a difference

in the world. taking my mind back.

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