"Who Said That? Take Every Thought Captive" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

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this kingdom that is within us, that you are bringing forth your will, your purposes

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to be done in and through us, even as it's being done and declared

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every day, all the time in heaven. I thank you, Jesus, for submitting

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to the will of your Father to, uh, let— really go from—

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leave your home in glory and come down here to be with us, to die

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for us, to give your life a ransom for ours. And I thank

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you for giving us salvation. I thank you, Lord, it is a free gift.

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I thank you. You said whosoever will can come and call, be called into

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that kingdom of yours. And you've given us power and authority and purpose and

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meaning to this life. And I thank you, Lord Jesus, for those

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promises that you have said. No weapon

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formed against you will prosper. So you've given us authority to bind and to loose,

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to forgive and to heal, to cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out

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demons. Lord, I know that we have fallen short of many of those commands,

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and I ask you today that you quicken our eyes and our minds, that we

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will see and understand and grasp how the

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enemy has twisted and tricked and distorted

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our thoughts, even our thoughts, to deceive us, Lord God. I pray that you give

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us an understanding by the power of your Holy Spirit. And we declare too that

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no weapon formed against us will prosper this day or any other day,

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that no word said, deed done, or action taken, no twisting, tricking, or perverting of

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our minds and our words will be able to be used by the enemy to

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bring forth any shame, trouble, or reproach. But we will understand his conniving

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and we will not be ignorant of his devices. So Father God, quicken our minds

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and our ears and our hearts as we speak and as we share these things,

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in Jesus' name. Amen. So our topic

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today is very interesting. Who said that?

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What are you talking about, who said that? Who said that? We're talking about our

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thoughts, and I want to read from Isaiah chapter

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55, verses 6 through 9, as we begin here today.

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Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near.

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Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous

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man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord and he

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will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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And then God goes on to say, verse 8, for my thoughts are not

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your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the

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Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my

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ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than

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your thoughts. So he says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts.

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And many times, you know, actually our own thoughts are not our own thoughts.

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Did you know that? I mean, we don't think about our thoughts as being devious

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or contrary to who we are because we think we thought them. And so

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this becomes the super confusion that Satan

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is setting all of us up into to be deceived.

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Yeah, and Psalm 94:11 says, the Lord

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knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. Oh, and evil,

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evil, and continuously evil. In Matthew 19—

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yeah, 15:19. Well, first, yeah, and he says, out of

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the heart of man proceeds evil thoughts. Let's look

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at this in Matthew 15:19. For out of the heart of man proceed

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evil thoughts. Yeah. Murders, adulteries, fornication, theft,

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false witnesses, and blasphemies. So there's something in our

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heart that— out of our heart come evil thoughts.

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Yeah, and Jesus commented on that again

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in Matthew 9:4 when he said, but the

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Lord, knowing their thoughts, said, why do you think evil in

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your hearts? Again, like you said, out of the heart the mouth

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speaks, and these are evil thoughts coming out of our hearts. So he's—

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we're We're understanding that there is a

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problem in discerning the thoughts, even the thoughts

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that we think we're thinking, because we have 2 sets of software. And we want

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to explain a little of that today and clear up a little confusion

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about, uh, the thoughts that we're thinking and how Satan uses

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our very thoughts to get us to make a subconscious

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agreement with him that those thoughts are our thoughts and that therefore

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we just automatically assume they're our thoughts and we begin to agree with them.

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And that allows the enemy to operate in them. So,

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because it's interesting, there's the soul, the spirit, and our

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thoughts drive our actions. And Satan knows that and how

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our thoughts actually— but we don't know that. We know

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that part, that our thoughts drive our actions, but we don't know how our thoughts

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can be intercepted by fear or hijacked by confusion.

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Because we think that every thought we think we thought are thoughts we

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actually thought ourselves. This is an assumption and this causes

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a lot of playing field and confusion for the enemy who opens

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up all kinds of opportunities for himself to insert the lie

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into that process. So, the question

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is, do we ever really have our own thoughts?

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Well, if we go back to Romans 8:4, we're going to talk

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about— he's talking in there about the

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carnal mind, and he's talking about the

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mind of the Spirit. So, we see that there are 2 origins,

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origins or generations where thoughts can come from. One can

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come from the carnal mind, which is part of the soul system.

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It's made up of the mind, will, and emotions. And the other one is coming

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from the Spirit of God, where as his Spirit is bearing witness with ours.

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So we have a biblical foundation for this in, uh,

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I'll read up a few scriptures here in Romans 8,

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starting with verse 5. Um,

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so, um, For those— let me just go ahead and read here.

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Okay. For those who live according to the flesh set their

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minds on the things of the flesh, but those

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who live according to the Spirit, the things of the

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Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death,

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but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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Let's go on, verse 7. Because the carnal mind

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is enmity against God. In other words, it's opposed to

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God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor can be.

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So, so here we're seeing that, um, uh,

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those who are in the flesh cannot please God. We know this. What does it

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mean to be in the flesh? Right. That's what we don't know. People don't explain

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that very clearly to the normal everyday believer.

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So we just are assuming that our thoughts have to be,

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you know, we have to operate according to God's word. And yet many of our

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thoughts, as Paul mentions in Romans chapter 7,

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are not, are contrary to what he wants to do. They're causing him to,

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motivating him to do actions and activities that are contrary to

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who he is. And so the carnal mind is death. It says

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spiritual mind is life and peace. The carnal mind is enmity.

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So then he says, who are those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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But if you're not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, indeed, if indeed the

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Spirit of God dwells in you. So there's, there's 2 options here. There's 2 origins.

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So how in the world do we wonder or figure out if we're

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having our own thoughts or if Satan is intercepting those thoughts?

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Uh, and how do we discern that? And how do we discern that actually quickly?

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Well, there's 2 sets of software there, right? So you have,

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you have the, the carnal mind, which sets its mind

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on the flesh or the things of the flesh. So, Things of the flesh,

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the things of the flesh, or the things of the soul, we could say.

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So basically, our flesh is basically the mind,

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will, and emotions connected with the body.

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That makes the flesh. That makes the flesh, or defined as the flesh.

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Carnally minded is where you're, you're thinking,

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you're using your emotions,

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and, and, and you're Mind, will, and emotions. So you're

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using your mind, will, or emotions to discern what

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to do, what to decide. And so

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when we're using our mouth, your mouth will always tell you

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if you're using your soul software or your spirit software, if you listen

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to the words coming out of your mouth. So when you say, I think,

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you are using your mind by very virtue of saying, I think,

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you're saying, I think. Which means I don't know for sure. I think it's

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going to be okay. So we already have an open swinging door, kind of like,

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I'm not sure. It could be this, it could be that. And same with your

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heart. You're going to say, I feel, well, that, that, that's flexible and unstable

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as well. So when we're using our soul software,

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we're going to be— the enemy is in that arena

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to insert his thoughts into our thoughts. You say, well, do we ever have any

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of our own thoughts? Well, the Bible says we are to have the mind of

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Christ. So if we're having the mind of Christ, that means we're walking in the

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Spirit and We're gonna be listening to the Holy Spirit. So when you're

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listening to the Holy Spirit, you can say, I know. But when you say,

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I know, your mouth says, I know, and the Spirit of God has communicated

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and shown you what to do, then there'll be a contest because your soul

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mind, the doubt will say, but how do you know that? How do you know

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for sure? Maybe you're just thinking that up. Maybe that's not, maybe that's not

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really your thought, or maybe this is just your, just your thought.

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And so is there a place where I just have

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my own thoughts? And what would those thoughts be if they're outside of

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the will of God and the mind of Christ? Then what other kingdom is there?

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Is there a third kingdom where I can just have my own thoughts,

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or is it either God, the origin from heaven, or the origin from

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hell? So, we are most vulnerable to

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the influence of the enemy, the thoughts of the enemy, if we're

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living in a third kingdom. Actually, if we're living according to the

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carnal mind. The carnal mind. If we're living according to our soul. Which is

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anchored, yes, the soul, the carnal mind is anchored in the kingdom

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of darkness. But our soul itself is not bad,

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but we use, if we're using the processes

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of simply our own human mind, our human

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will, and our human emotions, If we're just using those

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as the processes for making our decisions,

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which lead to our actions, which lead to our lifestyle, which leads to

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our habits and destiny, that's where

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we're the most vulnerable to the thoughts of Satan. Right. Right.

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So Jesus, remember when he's scolding, he says, um, uh, you know,

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what are you thinking? You're reasoning, you're drawing wrong

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conclusions. Reasoning in your heart. Yeah. And so we

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have to understand, we have to understand that there is a,

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excuse me, a battle between your soul and your spirit.

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And that's where the devil tries to bring in the doubt and the unbelief.

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Yeah. So there's a war for the mind. There's a battle for the mind,

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for your thoughts, because your thoughts—

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let's talk about this for a minute, Marjorie, about how we,

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How we think is how, how do we interpret what's,

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what's, what our experiences are, the experiences

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and events in our lives. We interpret

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those consciously or unconsciously, but we're also being influenced in those

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thoughts and those interpretations by the enemy who presents those ideas

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through reasoning, rationalizing, through religion,

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responsibility, and all of the parameters that he set up in this

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world to make decisions. So you're going to say, well, You know, we're reasoning

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about this. We're wondering, we're, you know, trying to do the pros

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and cons, figure it out. Yes, exactly. So what's, what's this deal

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in our thinking about figuring it out? Well, then it's leaning to our own understanding.

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That is leaning to our own understanding. Right.

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So in Proverbs 3:5-6, it says, trust in the Lord with

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all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. It doesn't mean you don't

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use your understanding, but if you're depending on your own understanding

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of how I can figure something out, But that's that understanding.

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The soul, the soul apparatus for determining

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direction is inferior to the Spirit.

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God's Spirit bearing witness with our spirit. That's 1 Corinthians 2:9-11,

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where God's Spirit downloads to your spirit man what

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the truth is, what the direction should be. And then we know stuff.

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But when you're using your soul, you're going to end up with, I don't know.

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So When we're thinking, um, the carnal mind, when we're using the carnal

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mind, we're actually operating out of the soul software. Um, he said

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to be carnally minded is, is, uh, enmity. Yes.

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And to be spiritually minded. So Paul is talking about this.

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Um, but we, we don't even think that the

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enemy could be tempting us on the, on the, um,

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in the arena of thoughts. We think the

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devil is tempting us to rob the bank or to kill someone.

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We don't believe that the devil could be tempting us to be afraid or

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to doubt or to be confused. So he comes impersonating

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us. This is a very important concept that most people don't understand. Satan comes

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impersonating me to myself, to cause me to

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believe that what I am saying,

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thinking, feeling, or doing is me.

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Therefore, I am defining myself by the fear,

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the doubt, the confusion that I see myself immersed

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in. So I keep being redefined and not by the Spirit of God, but by

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fear, confusion, doubt, double-mindedness. And nobody wants

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to really stop and analyze what the devil has done here. He is

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tempting us to get us to believe that the thoughts we

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are having are our thoughts. And so when he presents

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them to us, you know, he presents that temptation to us.

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He has to present it through our words. And, or through our writing.

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So he will bring it out of our mouth. And when he brings

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that temptation, his idea, his temptation out of

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my mouth, I will hear it presented to me as I,

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not as him, but as I, I am

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sick. I am depressed. I give up. I will never make it. I hate

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my life. All of these are temptations from Satan that he's putting into

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your mind, into your soul, to get you discouraged. He'll also add feelings.

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I hate my life. And then he'll make you feel down and discouraged and

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defeated. So he adds the thoughts in your mind and the feelings you have

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to create in you an agreement with, I give

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up, for example. And so he is tempting us,

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but the main temptation, the first temptation that he

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must get us to bite onto or hook to bite

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into is that this is my thought. This is me.

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Talking to me. But we are deceived when we believe that our thoughts are our

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thoughts because we're failing to discern the treachery, the trickery of

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the enemy. And that not only can he read

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our thoughts, he is the author of most of those thoughts.

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He is the tempter and he is the one who put those thoughts into our

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minds. He planted them into our minds and brings them out of our mouth.

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So once they're spoken, now they have the creative power to

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come into being. So nothing is activated until it's spoken.

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And when it's spoken, then Satan has activated his destruction

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against us. So how can we decipher, how can we

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separate between, uh, what would be my thought or God's,

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the devil's thought or my thought or God's thoughts? How do we separate that

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out? Well, the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 4:12-13 that

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the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.

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And able to discern what separates joints from marrow,

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thoughts from intentions. And the

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Word of God, it's not only the

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Bible, right, the Scriptures, the Word of God, but the

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Word of God that's active, where God is speaking

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to us according to the Scripture, but not necessarily giving

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us a Bible verse, but he's letting us know, leading us And it's—

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the Bible says it's a discerner. The word of God is a discerner

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of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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So there's a standard. There's a standard.

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It's just like when you're tuning an instrument, right? There's a

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certain standard that you, that you go by to

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get it tuned to a certain, what, key or note or whatever it is.

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You go to that standard and you say, okay, This isn't— this,

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the string, this, this chord in my guitar is not meeting

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the standards. So I'm going to have to tune it. And so there's

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a standard adjustment is the word of God, right? It is.

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And so how can we tell the difference between our thoughts,

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God's thoughts, the devil's thoughts? And it's very simple.

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It's by asking the question, who said that?

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Who said that? Which origin? You're identifying with that question. You're identifying

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the origin of the thought. Who is talking

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to me? Is it the Holy Spirit or is it not? And Jesus said,

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by their fruits you shall know them. Matthew 7:15, I think it is.

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By their fruits. So if what you are thinking, what's coming out of your mouth,

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what you're pondering is bringing forth peace and joy and

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goodness, love, hope, it's from God. But if it's bringing forth

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confusion, Double-mindedness, doubt,

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fear, worry. It's not from God. By their fruits you

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shall know them. And this simple question again is, who's talking to me?

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Who said that? Where are you from? There's only 2 kingdoms

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and you will not be able to discern anything until you understand there are only

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2 kingdoms, heaven and hell, God and Satan, you know, light and

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darkness. You can't serve God and mammon, Jesus said, you know, so there's only

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2 kingdoms. And so when you say, who said that?

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Where are you from? Now, Jesus said, we have the authority to demand

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that identification from that speaker, the one who's speaking through our mouth.

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Where are you from, heaven or hell? It must tell you.

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Um, and it might just, it might answer that question.

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Just me. Many people, when I say to them, who said that?

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Who's talking out of your mouth? They'll say, well, it's just me,

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but just me, is the identify— the identity

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Satan is taking to deceive you. He's talking to you as if it's you,

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just me, but me is a reflective pronoun of the I Am.

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So you are made by the great I Am. So when you say just

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me, you're actually saying, you're hearing the devil say, well, it's just me,

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but he wants you to think it's you. You get that? It's very clever,

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but once you get it, it's very simple because by their fruits you

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shall know them. Let's, let's say that you're worried about something.

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Worry is what? It's a form of— we could call it fear,

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anxiety. If you catch yourself— this is okay,

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here's the deal. We're influenced all the time from every direction in

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our families and what's going on in our world, our personal

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world, what's going on in the world

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at large. Um, if we catch

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ourselves, if we catch ourselves worrying, Right? That means

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what— who are we listening to?

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What's the fruit of worry? If we're worried

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about something, that we're fearful about something, if we're

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confused about something, it's because we have— we're

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having the wrong thoughts. Right. And we don't ever

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question that. We just think it comes out of our mouth. I'm worried. I'm confused.

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I'm depressed. We don't ever say the next thing. Who's talking

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to me? Is that from God? Does God want you worried and depressed and anxious

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and fearful? No, of course he does not. So what, where's the source

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of this, this feeling and emotion and word then? It's coming from the enemy.

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So, but we don't examine it. We just go with it. We don't,

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we just say, well, I'm worried. I'm afraid. How will I pay the bills?

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And what if my friend is sick and what's going

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to happen? And all this. Well, this is where, It boils down to, do you

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trust God to provide and be who he said he is,

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keeping his promises to us? Or do you go back into,

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it's up to me and I've got to take care of myself? If we're walking

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in the spirit, we're going to know and be resting in the truth. If we're

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walking in the soul, we will be resting in confusion and uncertainty.

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So the scripture says, what time I am afraid,

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I will trust in thee. So it's a matter of shifting

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gears here. Okay, so you find yourself worrying.

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Well, God's going to take care of it. But how do you— how do you—

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how do you shift? You shift from worry,

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uh, worrying, worrying and fear to

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trust. How do you do that? How do you do that shift? How do you—

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how do you fight that battle? Catch those thoughts and say,

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no, this is— well, the Holy Spirit is there to help you catch the thoughts,

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but at the same time, you're gonna have to take some action. You're gonna have

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to say This is not from God. This is fear. This is worry. This is

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anxiety. This is not God. Jesus says, I've come that you might have life and

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life more abundantly. And then the oh no's and what ifs and all of the

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apprehension about the regret from the past and the apprehension about the future.

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Satan is just playing us like a, like a harp singing

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to his own evil melody. So we have, we must have,

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and we have the, this is where we make the choice. This is where we

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make the decision. This is where we make, use discernment. Um, to just,

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who's, who is talking to me now?

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And at the same, it can be interesting because both God and Satan are in

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the same place at the same time. So both God and Satan can be talking

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to you at the same time. And this is many a times, this is another

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way that the devil deceives us. Uh, and so which one's

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louder? Which one are we going to listen to? Which one's getting our attention?

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Um, so we become divided and tormented and division and torment,

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and pain and doubt, double-mindedness, uh, that bring confusion.

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The fact is that Satan is trying to mingle his words, his plan,

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his temptation with God's plan in your life. And so

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when they mingle together, now we have again more

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confusion. For example, the religious spirit can come

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to you and say, you should read your Bible more, or you should

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go to church, or you should, you know, um, be, uh, I don't

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know, whatever, more, more, whatever, never, never enough. You should.

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And, but God says, I am with you. I will never leave you or forsake

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you. So you can have 2 things coming out of your mouth, one from God

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and one from Satan at the same time. When the fear comes in and says,

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what are you going to do? Jesus says, I'll never leave you or forsake you.

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That's coming from your spirit. And then from the, from the enemy,

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from the soul, the carnal mind is saying, but I don't know where

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he is and I don't know what's going to happen. So you see, they can

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both be crashing together in your,

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in your decision-making life and you're at the same time.

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So you must, number one, know the word of God and

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trust him and know that this is a battle for your soul and call out

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the enemy. Not every thought you think you thought

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you thought are thoughts you thought. Some of the thoughts

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you think you thought are thoughts the enemy

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wants you to think you thought so he can get you to believe them as

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if they're your own, and then you'll act on them as if they're your own.

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And so this is the complication, but it's not very complicated

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if you just stop the whole process and say, wait a minute, who's talking to

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me? Are you from heaven or hell? Yeah. Another thing too, in Philippians

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chapter 4, uh, verses 6 and

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7, and maybe we'll move into 8 here as well. He says, be anxious for

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nothing. Okay. Don't worry about anything,

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right? Is what he's saying. But if anxiety comes along,

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here's how you shift. But in everything,

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by prayer and supplication— prayer means general relationship

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with the Lord, and supplication means specific

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requests— with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known

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to God. So you catch, okay, I'm getting worried here. Wait a

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minute, I'm going to bring this to the Lord. I'm going to bring it to

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him specifically. I'm going to be thankful because God is good

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and he's taking care of me. Let your requests be made known to

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God. And then he said, what's going to happen here? And the peace

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of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard

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your hearts and what? Minds through Christ Jesus.

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So you go from worry to peace.

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You go from worry to supernatural peace.

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Which surpasses understanding, right? Peace which passes all

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understanding will guard your heart and minds through Christ Jesus.

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So if you're in that place of peace and wholeness in

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your thinking, I mean, the peace of God is

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going to guard your mind, right? It's a guardian

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of your mind. But, and then it says in verse 8,

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finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble,

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whatever things are just, whatever things are pure,

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whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report,

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if there's any virtue, if there's anything— that's the fruit of the

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Spirit. Yeah, he says meditate on these things. Now what we

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have going on in our world is just the opposite of those things.

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It's evilness, evil and wickedness and so forth. He says shift gears

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from that, shift your focus from that. Instead of meditating on

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how bad things are, meditate on how good

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God is and be thankful unto him. But what we're meditating on,

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many times we don't even check out what we're meditating on. We're thinking and pondering

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and allowing the enemy to reinforce the

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negative things that have happened in the past because we're still programmed by the fear

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and the trauma of those things. So to break out of that trauma of loss

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and poverty and death and sickness and tragedy, we have got

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to turn the corner. We can't just keep letting those things roll. And remember,

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an example of this, thinking your thoughts and taking action is

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when Jesus and John and James were going through Samaria and James

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and John, the sons of thunder, wanted to call down fire on the Samaritans

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because they did not want to pay attention or were not paying attention

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to Jesus. And Jesus responded to James and John. He says, you do

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not know what manner of spirit you are of. You do not know where

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those ideas are coming from right now. You don't know where those words of

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bringing down this fire on them, you aren't discerning where they're

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from. They're not of me. And Jesus kept on walking. It wasn't Jesus,

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it wasn't time, it wasn't the right time. It was the anxiety or the

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ambition of James and John to see some action here and

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to call down fire on these people. And Jesus said, you do not know

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what spirit you are of. At that point, they were not walking

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in the Holy Spirit or the will of God. They were walking in their carnal

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minds. And so we have to understand that This

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is a very real thing. And most people have not been taught this through the

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word of God because they haven't really examined it that well or deeply.

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But it's this simple device of, a very simple

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device for quick sorting out of this, the voices in our heads, the thoughts

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in our minds and hearts is simply spoken, can be

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done through our mouths. Who's talking to me?

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Who said that? And you know, the thing is a lot of times Christians

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are so confused into believing that the devil can't be in that close

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proximity them. Well, how can he be in my mind? And I, when I love

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the Lord and I seek God and I want his will, the devil is always

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in your carnal. He's always in the carnal part of us,

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uh, the, the flesh part of us. Because why? Because he can be.

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But we, but the whole point is walk in the Spirit and you'll

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not fulfill the lust of the flesh. So how do you do that? You have

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to deliberately sort out the thoughts, the temptations,

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the influences of that fear and

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death and destruction are having upon you. And those thoughts don't

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stop just because you become a Christian. They don't stop just because now you love

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Jesus. As a matter of fact, they might increase because the devil's putting

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more pressure on you to pull you back into that place, that wilderness

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of, I don't know, and I'm confused. And you say, well, how do I know

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if the devil's telling the truth? Well, Jesus said he gave us the authority.

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He says, You, he says, I give you authority to bind and to loose,

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to forbid and permit. Why don't you just,

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if you don't believe that this works, why don't you just give it a try?

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And in your authority that Jesus has given you,

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something comes out of your mouth and you already know it's

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leading to discouragement, anxiety, fear, whatever. So you already know it's

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from the kingdom of hell. You don't even have to be smart to know that.

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Well, it's making me worry. It's making me confused. Well,

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you could say, who said that? And call it to the light. But you

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already know in your spirit, if you pay attention to your spirit, that this

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is disturbing you. This is frightening you. This is making

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you worry or anxious. And so there's

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only 2 kingdoms. If you start running your life, your words,

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your actions, your decisions based on that concept of there's

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not 3 kingdoms. Satan wants you to think there's a 3rd kingdom

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of just me or me or, the junk box of, I don't know,

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and the junk, we throw everything in there like mental health and,

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uh, or mental illness or, um, you know,

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accidents, you know, bad luck. Like a third kingdom.

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Yeah. So we throw everything in there and then we don't deal with it.

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We don't sort it out. We don't determine where it's from. Then it sits there

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and it poisons your confidence in God and it discourages

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your walk with God. So you become double-minded. And the Bible says,

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James, a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways.

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Let not that man think that he'll receive anything from the Lord. So when you're

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double-minded and God says in his word, uh, he sent his word and healed

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them and you need some healing and now you're still having the symptoms and you're

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feeling worse and everybody's talking to you and they're giving you diagnoses and

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they're sending you here and there to try this and that, you know, double-minded man,

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double-minded, you're not going to get what you're asking for unless you can stand

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and having done all to stand in faith, believing God and declaring the word of

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God over the situation. But you will, if you're double-minded, you make no progress.

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You just dig a rut. Does that make sense? And if you're passive, one of

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the most deadly attitudes that we can have in our hearts is

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just be passive. How do you know if you're being passive?

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You're going to say things like, it is what it is. So we're

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just— we just kind of let things go. We give it agreement. We don't,

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you know, we don't— we just— we don't stand up to our enemy.

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Right, right. As he presents himself as us. So God calls us to

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be not passive but proactive. And so He says,

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test your heart, examine your hearts,

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test your hearts. But he also says out of the heart— prove all things.

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But he says, test all things. Yes. But out of the heart, he says,

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proceeds corruptions, adulteries. So you can't use your heart

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to decide. Their final decision has to come from the word of God,

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the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit of God bearing witness with our spirit. So,

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um, again, this is— I, I know this is not that complicated,

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but simply ask the question, let the Holy Spirit guide

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you. We've said a lot of things today that you might want to relisten to

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this podcast a couple more times, because it's very important.

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If you don't get this basic thing, you will always be doubtful,

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double-minded, and indecisive, and you won't accomplish— the Bible

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says, stand in having done all. Stand. Where do you stand? We stand in the

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word of God, no matter what it looks like, no matter what it feels like,

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no matter what your experiences have been. So we're— I'm recommending that

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you pursue this more fully. And I, there's several

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books we've written on this. I think one of the first ones was, Taking the

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Devil to Court. And in that book, we talk about that. We call them the

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first-person impersonators who impersonate us to ourselves and get us

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to make decisions that are fearful and double-minded and destructive.

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Let me just share a little illustration. When I first went to Bible college,

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we had just an amazing schedule. I thought, how am

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I going to get all this done? And one of our instructors gave us

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a chart where you could put, you could fill in every half

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hour of the day. And it's like,

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oh man. So I did that at first. And after a while it's realized,

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okay, I don't need to do this. I don't need to use this chart

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because I just, it helped. The chart helped

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me to use the time well.

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So I'm not thinking about, I had to.

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So the chart, I didn't need the chart, but the thing

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is, if you just get, what I'm saying is that you get into this habit.

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So I got into the habit of using the time really well,

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not in a legalistic sense, but just flowing through,

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and there was great freedom in that. So if we just, like Margie is

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saying, if we get into this habit, is this revolutionary?

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It's a way of life. It's a way of life. A way of life.

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It's not even a habit. It's the natural Holy Spirit coming into you.

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Something you do unconsciously. You test the things. Who said

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that? Where's that from? If you just say

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that in your heart in every situation,

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at work, at your home, what's going on with your kids, in your conversations,

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even listening to other people's words coming out of their mouth, you can question,

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who's talking to me here? Is this the Holy Spirit out of your mouth talking

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to me, or is this not? And so again, going back to lists are laws

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and legalism. And, but we are, God wants us to walk and flow and be

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and abide in the Spirit of God. And we can do this. So Father,

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please, I praise you and thank you for showing this concept

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to us, your people, and that we can take captive every thought

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and make it subject to the obedience of Christ by just simply asking,

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who's talking? Who said that? Where are you from? So I pray today that this

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will, you will turn the light bulbs on and give the revelation to the people

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so that they will not be walking in doubt, double-mindedness, and confusion anymore,

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but they're walking in the confidence of your Holy Spirit bearing witness with

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their spirit that they can know the truth and walk in

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the confidence of that truth. In Jesus' name. Amen. Yeah.

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Again, you mentioned Marjorie, Taking the Devil to Court. That's a,

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I would say, a primer. Primer.

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First, it was one of the first books we wrote. One of the first books

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you wrote. And it's a good place to start as far

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as recognizing what the enemy's doing. These are not new

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concepts, but they have been consolidated into an understanding.

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These things are scattered throughout the word. Of God. And many people,

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you know, look at a piece of it here and a piece of it there,

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but they never put the concept together to make it anything

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that works. You know, you may be trying to fix a bike and you have

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a tire over here and you have a pedal over here and you have a

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handlebar over here, but if you don't put them together, you will not ride the

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bike. They're all good and important, but you need to put them together

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so you can ride the bike. So let's do that. Holy Spirit, help us.

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Put all— put you— it's— we're depending on you to put all this together

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that we can live in victory and power in these days. In Jesus'

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name, amen. I have an emergency. What is your location?

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3, 2, 1.

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Rescue radio, 'cause there's a war for your