Get Out of Your Head
Pastor Peter Gowesky
Question: When have you seen the way you think impact the way you live?
We are all living under the influence of something.
“Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life.” —-Romans 8:5-6
“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” —-James 4:1-8
Pt. 1
Question: What have you decided to do that you have found challenging?
“Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” —-James 4:8
“You are as close to God right now as you want to be.”
Pt. 2 Create space for
“Be still, and know that I am God.” —-Psalm 46:10
Question: What is preventing you from being in God’s presence and being still and silent before God?
“Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” —-James 4:8
Pt.3 If we’re going to experience peace of mind, we’ve got to
Question: Is there something you’ve been trying to deny rather than deal with?
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” —-Matthew 11:28