Proverbs 4:23 - Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
- What gets access to your mind eventually gets influence over your life.
Numbers 13:27-28 - We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.
Numbers 13:28 - But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.
- Great opportunities can be ruined by bad thinking.
- The goal isn’t removal as much as prevention.
Numbers 13:30-33 - Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
- Wrong thinking can talk you out of what God already promised you.
Romans 12:2 - Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
- Misaligned thinking leads to misaligned living.
Numbers 14:1-4 - That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. 2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness! 3Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”
- The biggest battle in your life may not be what’s in front of you…. It may be what’s going on within you.
2 Corinthians 10:5 - We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
- C.A.P
- C - Capture the thought.
- A - Audit the thought.
- P - Plant the truth.
- “I’m not good enough.”
Ephesians 2:10 (NLT) - For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Romans 8:38 - And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.
Colossians 3:2 - Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
- If you don’t guard the source, eventually it shows up in the stream.
