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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Hello, friend. Have
you've been waiting for me.
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I've been waiting for you.
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I'm enjoying talking
about the power of God
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that we have on the inside
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because the Bible says in 2 Timothy 1:
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7, that God has not given us a spirit of fear,
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but power and love and a sound mind.
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And this is so important
for us to take a hold
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of this truth, especially in
the day that we live in today,
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because we want
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to not have fear dominate us so
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that we can help others with that fear
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that's trying to dominate them.
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And they see
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how good God is.
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Oh, do you remember when you,
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you comforted your child
when they were little and,
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and that love that was inside of you
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and it just cast out that
fear that was on your child?
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Well, today, we've talked about power,
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we've talked about love,
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now, today we're gonna talk about a sound
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mind.
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God has given you a sound
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mind.
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And I wanna offer you
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this 5-part video series
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or my study guide on this subject
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because it's gonna help
you get this truth down
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deeper on the inside of you
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and to come against that spirit of fear.
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Or I want you to have my
book, Jesus is Your Healer.
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This is gonna encourage you to see
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that he's not only your savior,
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but he's also your healer.
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Well, stay with me and
I'm gonna be right back
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and we're gonna see how that God has not given us a spirit
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of fear, but of power, love,
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and a sound mind.
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The Bible says in 2 Timothy 1:7,
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that God has not given
us a spirit of fear,
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but of power, love, and a sound mind.
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And today that's we're gonna, that's
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what we're gonna talk about
is that sound mind of yours.
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You know in Ephesians 6,
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where it talks about the armor of God
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and it says that you have
the helmet of salvation.
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Well, because I've
listened to my husband over
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and over again, I know that
that helmet of salvation
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that you have,
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it means you have saved brains.
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Ha, ha, your brains are saved.
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You might be thinking
about some other people
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that are acting in this
world and even in leadership
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and you're thinking, did
they throw their brain out
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the window?
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How can they even think
like that? But not you.
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You have saved brains.
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You can just put your hands on your head
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and say, I have saved brains.
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Amen.
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Because when you got born again,
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you received the power for your brains
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to work for you.
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Now, that's the truth, friend.
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I'm telling you, the salvation that came
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to us was salvation for our eternity.
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Absolutely. But it was for our body.
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And your brain is in your
body. It includes your brain.
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God's power is there for us to think right.
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And when we think right, we overcome fear.
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Fear has torment.
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But when you think, no, I
need to change the way I
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think, then you overcome fear.
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So today is gonna be
really, really practical.
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But the title
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of this lesson is called,
"Your Brains Are Saved".
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I want you to turn with me to 2 Corinthians 10:
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4,5.
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And this is gonna let you see
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how much power you have
over your thoughts, right.
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It says, For the weapons of
our warfare are not carnal,
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but mighty in God
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for pulling down strongholds;
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casting down arguments,
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and every high thing
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that exalts itself against
the knowledge of God
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and bringing every
thought into the captivity
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of the obedience of Christ.
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Now, I don't know about you,
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but there have been times
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that thoughts have come against my mind
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and I didn't want them to stay there.
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And they have to come down. Now who's gonna bring 'em down?
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Not your husband, not
your wife, not your child,
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not your preacher, not your
pastor, not your best friend.
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You are going to bring them down.
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He's given you the power
to bring them down.
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And where it says that
casting down arguments
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and every high thing
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that exalts itself against
the knowledge of God
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and bringing it into captivity,
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that actually means like you have a spear
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and your enemy is trying to
tell you what you are going
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to think, what you are going
to believe, what you are going
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to be or not be.
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And you have a spear by the
power of the Holy Spirit,
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and you're poking that
spear right in the back of
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that enemy.
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And you're saying to that enemy - Nope,
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you're not telling me what to do.
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Nope - you are not keeping me from my dream.
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Nope - I'm not bowing to you
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fear: sticking it right in the back
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of the enemy.
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It's not the enemy that is in charge,
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it is you with the
power of the Holy Spirit
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able to bring down thoughts
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that come over your mind
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because you see your brains are saved.
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And we just got to,
when an enemy comes in,
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some foreign agent, it,
foreign agent, I mean by that,
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something that's not a sound
thought, fear, thought,
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anxious, thought, confusion, thought.
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We bring it down
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and the scripture says -
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every thought.
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Well, I'll tell you; you might have to be in
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that place where you've listened to those thoughts so much
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it's almost habitual.
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And so you've gotta start pulling it down
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one by one.
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You know, on another program I was talking about starting
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something and starting to recognize the power of God in you
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and starting to do something about it.
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But it's kind of like,
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you know you're gonna do exercising,
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but first you've gotta
put your tennis shoes on.
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You have to start.
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And so we can't just be
overcome, overwhelmed,
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overpowered by all these thoughts,
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but start pulling them down
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one at a time.
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Yes, you have power, you
have power to do that
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'cause the Holy Spirit lives on the inside of you.
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We've talked on these programs.
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I encourage you to,
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to look at the archives
about these in these programs
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because we've talked about the
power of God, the very power
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of God that's holding the
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the universe together, is coming towards you.
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We talked about the very power of God
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that actually gives you the
power to see out of your eyes.
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Scientists have learned that
it's absolutely a miracle
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that our eyes see.
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I heard the report from an atheist
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who wrote a book this thick and
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and he had to acknowledge God
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because as he studied the eyes, he understood
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it is impossible.
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It's impossible for your eyes
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to see without the power of God.
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Power of God's coming to you.
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Right now, we've studied how
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that love cast out fear.
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Oh, God's given us so much equipment
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to recognize that we don't
have to be overcome by fear,
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but that we can be overcome
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and be victorious with power, love,
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and a sound mind.
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And that sound mind is what
I'm talking to you about
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because you have authority
over your thoughts.
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You might be saying, oh, I just can't,
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I just can't control my thoughts.
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If you think that - now I love you -
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but I'm telling you the truth;
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if you think that, it's a lie; yes,
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you can overcome your thoughts one by one,
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you can pull down those thoughts
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and you can choose another thought.
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Look at Philippians 4:8:
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and the word of God says,
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or tells us what we're
supposed to think about.
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So here it is.
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Finally, brethren,
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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 good
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of good report, if there is any virtue,
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and if there is anything praiseworthy,
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meditate on these things.
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Now here's just clear instruction.
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Now again, the Apostle Paul,
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he's in a terrible prison.
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He's in a horrible prison.
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Historians tell us that
death surrounded him.
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He was standing in sewage.
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He was at the, in the
dungeon of this castle,
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this place where the
rulers, you know, lived and
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and had their offices and everything.
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But the sewage, the sewage of
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that building came down into that prison.
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And that's where the
apostle Paul's standing,
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and he's telling us, I
think he has authority
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to say something.
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He's telling us what to think about.
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You know, my family and I, we went to Rome
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and we went to that prison.
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And when you go in there
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and you think about the Apostle Paul
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and death that surrounded them,
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and you think about the
Apostle Paul saying,
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rejoice in the Lord
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always and again I say rejoice.
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And you think about the Apostle Paul saying,
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it's all in Philippians,
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you can read it, he says, I am
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so thankful I abound with thanksgiving.
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And now he's telling
us what to think about.
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Not to think about things
that are of bad report,
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but to think of things of
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Good report.
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Now maybe, maybe you're in a habitual way
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and your mind just
thinks about all the bad
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that's happening in the world; or all your problems,
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and you think about your problems.
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Well, he's giving us
something else to think about.
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And I just wanna be real,
real practical with you
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because it says to think
about something that's true.
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Now, there've been times
where the enemy's tried
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to bombard my mind.
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And I would think of this verse: okay, think about something
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that's true, and I would
just say out my mouth.
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Now I'm just being real
practical with you.
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I just wanna help you.
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I'm thinking about something
that's true, okay? It's true.
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Jesus Christ is Lord,
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he lives in me.
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I'm going to Heaven. Jesus Christ
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raised from the dead saying things,
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thinking about things that are true.
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It's so powerful. Look at the 2nd thing:
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whatever things are noble,
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what can you think about that?
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You just think, wow,
that was wonderful that
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that person did that. There's so many testimonies
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of people gone before us
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and that they paid the price.
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They even paid the price with their life
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to help somebody else to preach the gospel to somebody else.
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The man Tyndale who translated the bible.
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He was so persecuted.
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He burned at the stake
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because he translated the word of God.
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That's thinking about things that are noble.
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Did somebody pay a price for you to be
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who you are today?
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You're not where you are
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because by yourself,
you're where you are today
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because of many other people.
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I'm in front of this camera
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because there's somebody
behind that camera.
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I'm not doing this by myself.
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Think about people that have done things
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and nobody knew about him.
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I know there was a man, and he
prayed and prayed and prayed
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and prayed, but he, nobody
ever talked about him,
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but he was praying for a city.
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And the evangelists,
everybody talked about him,
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but it was the prayers of
the man who was in secret
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that paved the way for
that man, the evangelist
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to speak forth the word of God.
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See, that's thinking about
things that are noble.
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Whatever things are just; oh,
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you can just think about our God.
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He is just. You don't, you don't have
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to judge everything.
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I was thinking this
morning about some someone
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and their problems,
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and I thought, I'm so
thankful I don't have judge.
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I'm not the judge, but God is the judge
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and God is just. Think about
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how just God is
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because we deserved sin, we deserved penalty.
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And if God's a just God, then
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and he is, then we would
have to pay that penalty.
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So what he did was he put that sin,
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that sickness on Jesus,
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and Jesus bore the price,
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and he became the just of fire
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because he is just,
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and we received our freedom.
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Oh, we deserved penalty,
but Jesus took our penalty.
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So that's thinking about something that is just.
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Oh, whatever things are pure, things
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that are lovely.
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Oh, think about these things, friend.
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Think about something pure.
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You know, when you look
into the eyes of a child,
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there's just, there's just no guile there.
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There's just no impurity there.
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That's why everybody loves babies
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because they're so harmless,
they're so blameless,
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and they're so pure and
and you can just hold them
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and they're just all
pure, blameless, harmless.
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Think about pure things.
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Oh, there's so much in
this world that's not pure.
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And if we're not careful,
we can look at those things,
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think about those things.
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But the Apostle Paul is saying;
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don't think about those things.
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Don't watch those things.
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Think about something pure.
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I told you this was gonna
be real practical. Lovely.
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What is lovely?
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You can just even think about the beautiful world
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that we live in.
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Just think about how beautiful that is.
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Just think about the sunset that you saw,
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or the ocean that you saw,
or the flower that you saw.
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I told you I was gonna
be really practical.
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But you know what we're doing?
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We're casting our thoughts upward.
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We're casting down
thoughts that are trying
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to attack and bring our life down
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by our own choice.
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We're thinking on things
that are pure, that are just,
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that are lovely, that are of good report.
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Bible goes on to say that if
there's any praise about it,
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think on these things.
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This is going to bring
down those other thoughts
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that are bringing you down.
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You see, you cannot say,
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I can't change my thoughts.
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Yes, you can. Yes you can.
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I love you, but I gotta
tell you the truth.
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If you say you can't,
then you allow yourself
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to stay in that place.
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But if you say, no, I can.
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Then you become responsible
for your thoughts.
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And when you become
responsible for your thoughts,
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you could do something about 'em.
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And then you become free. Isn't
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that powerful. You see, God's not given you
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that spirit of fear,
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but he has given you power,
love, and a sound mind.
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And that's what we're talking
about, that sound mind.
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I wanna talk to you just for a few seconds
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about your imagination.
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You say, oh, well, that imagination,
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that's just for children.
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No, it's not. If you are worrying, you're imagining:
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you're imagining: you're using your mind,
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you're using your heart,
you're using your soul.
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You're imagining. You're worrying.
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You see, you see, oh,
what if that happens?
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Oh, what if that happens?
Oh, what if I do this?
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Oh, then that's gonna
happen. You are worrying.
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You are using your imagination.
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Well, what if you use your
imagination for good things?
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What if you start thinking - You know what?
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This could work out. God could provide.
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God has provided for me before. I could be healed.
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God has healed me
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before. I know His word says that I am healed.
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And you start thinking
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and imagining yourself healed.
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What are you doing? You
are creating a sound mind.
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I know a woman who had multiple sclerosis
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and she had lost one of her eyes already
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and half of her body was paralyzed her.
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Some of her friends
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and some of her family said,
you just need to give up
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because you're just gonna die.
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But her husband said, no,
honey, you're not gonna die.
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And he fed the word of God
to her, fed the word of God
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to her, and she be began
to imagine herself.
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She loved tennis. So
she would just, instead
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of imagining herself in a coffin,
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she would imagine herself playing tennis.
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She saw herself in
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that little tennis outfit out
there in the sunshine playing
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tennis.
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Do you know what happened to that woman?
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The word of God coming
in, coming in, coming in,
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coming in her own imagination.
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No, I'm not gonna imagine my funeral.
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I'm gonna imagine that I'm playing tennis.
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Do you know what happened to her? Within two years
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that woman was completely healed,
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completely healed and played tennis?
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Don't put down your imagination because you're using it.
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If you're worrying, you're using it.
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Imagine that God,
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what he could do for you.
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Oh, it's so powerful.
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Imagine what God says about you is true that you're the head
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and you're not the tail.
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You are above only,
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and you are not beneath:
that you are his beloved.
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That you are the elect of
God, that you are holy on the
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inside, that the love
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of God has been shed abroad in
your heart by the Holy Ghost.
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What am I doing? I'm
imagining, I'm thinking about
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how awesome I am on the inside.
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That's the power that you have to use,
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your saved brains.
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Well, I want you to stay with me.
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I'm gonna come right back and
we are gonna pray together.
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2nd Timothy 1:7 says,
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For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power
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and of love, and of a sound mind.
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Fear may come your way,
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but you have been blessed
with the God-given tools
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to prevent it from dominating
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I've enjoyed being with you today.
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I told you it was gonna be really practical,
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but you see, for us to enjoy our saved brains, we have
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to make decisions.
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We have to decide: no, I'm not gonna let that
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that thought stay in my mind.
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I'm gonna pull that down.
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I'm going to use my mighty
spirit of the Holy Spirit
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and I'm gonna poke the devil,
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and I'm gonna say, no, you are
not talking to me that way.
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I'm taking authority over you.
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You see, you have that power
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because when he saved you, he
gave you those saved brains
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or to just to choose like
the apostle Paul did.
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Choose to think about things
that are pure or lovely or
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or of good report
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to use your imagination like my friend did
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was, I mean, she was so sick.
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Can you imagine blind in one eye
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and paralyzed on the other side?
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And she's imagining playing tennis.
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That's how powerful your imagination is.
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So if you start worrying, just turn it off
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and just say, now, God, what could you do?
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And start thinking about
what he could do. I love you.
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That's why I'm talking to you like this,
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because God wants to use
us in these last days
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for his glory, and he's not
giving us a spirit of fear,
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but of power and love and a sound mind.
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Father, I pray for my friend right now
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that they will recognize that sound mind
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that you gave them at salvation
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and to pull down any stronghold that would steal from them.
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And I pray in Jesus' name - Amen.
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Well, it's been my great privilege to be with you,
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and I want to see you on the next program.
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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prayer of salvation with us,
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