MIND WARS

Prayer Transforms Your Mind
June 25, 2023

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Week 1:

• Your thinking shapes your feelings and actions and therefore your life.

• The more you think a thought, the easier it is to think that thought again.

• What is a stronghold? Fortified Prison

We must control our mind.

We need to renew and reclaim our mind.

Week 2:

Principle One: Your thinking shapes your feelings and actions, and therefore your life.

Principle Two: You must recognize if you are thinking about anything that is inconsistent with God’s word

Principle Three: You must break the unhealthy thinking pattern.

Week 3:

Big Idea: Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts.

Identify the number one lie (stronghold) that is holding you back.

Name the truth that demolishes that stronghold.

Week 4:

Cognitive bias: A mistake in reasoning based on personal preferences or beliefs.

Reframing: Creating a different way of looking at a situation, person, or relationship by changing its meaning.

You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you frame it.

Big Idea:

Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest THOUGHTS

Philippians 4:6-9 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. ⁹ Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me — put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

John 14:1 - “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Romans 12:2 - Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Romans 8:5-7 - Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. ⁶ The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; ⁷ the sinful mind is hostile to God.

• Worry is the sin of DISTRUSTING the promises and power of God.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 - 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. 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.

Four habits:

1. DON’T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING.

Philippians 4:6 - Don’t fret or fear or have ANY anxiety… Amp

WORRY is FOCUSING on my fears instead of God.

How do I switch my focus? BY PRAYING.

Romans 8:6 - The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life And peace; …

2. PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING.

Philippians 4:6 - …but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Psalm 88:9 - “every day Lord, I lift my hands to you in prayer and I call to you.”

3. THANK GOD IN EVERYTHING.

Philippians 4:6 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 - …give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

4. STAY FOCUSED ON TRUE THINGS.

Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.

Philippians 4:7 - And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus