1 Timothy 2:6 He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone.
76% of people who have been in prison will return to prison within five years.
mindsets
The battle for freedom is fought in your head.
My thoughts control my life
Proverbs 4:23 Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.
Romans 8:6
#1. Guard Your Mind
Hebrews 4:12-13
Isaiah 59:19 When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
flooding
Isaiah 59:19 When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
remembrance = to cause to remember, to recall to mind.
#2. Free Your Mind
“Free your mind and the rest will follow” - En Vogue, 1992
Proverbs 4:23 your life is shaped by your thoughts.
2 Corinthians 10 3
A stronghold is a train of thought.
We take captive
captive means - taking by force.
obedience means - to listen under
God’s Word has the final say on our thoughts.
James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
#3. Feed Your Mind
John 17:17 Thy word is truth.
Word = LOGOS - “the moral precepts given by God, the sayings of God”
Matthew 4:4 “People need more than bread for their life; they must feed on every Word of God.”
Psalm 1:1-3
#4. Keep In Mind
Step 1. Confess what you believe, not what you feel.
Step 2. Celebrate the process
Step 3. Make Room
Deuteronomy 6:6-9 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
Step 4. Expect miracles
Step 5. Don’t Quit
Philippians 3:13-14 One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,14 I press on
James 3:2 Indeed, we all make many mistakes.
