Winning The War in Your Mind – Part 1

Winning The War in Your Mind – Part 1

• If I change my , I can change my .

Romans 7:18-25 (NLT) – 18 I want to do what is right, but I can’t. 19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. 

2 Corinthians 10:3-4 – 3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

• A stronghold is a so long that it .

2 Corinthians 10:5 – 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

• My life moves in the of my thoughts.

Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV) – 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

• If you you , you .
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• what you .

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Question of the Day: Are you excited about the direction your thoughts are taking you?

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You cannot what you don’t .

Neurons that together, together.

If I believe a lie , I’ll live as if the lie is .

Romans 12:2 (NLT) – 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

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John 8:32 – 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

John 17:17 – 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

2 Corinthians 10:5 – 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Ephesians 6:11-18 – ….. and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

• What’s your ?

Colossians 1:22-23 (NLT) – 22 Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault. 23 But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News.

Crush the (automatically negative thoughts)

Capture, Question, Replace.