Build a fortress in your life.
Hearing God’s voice in your mind
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Not All the thoughts you hear are yours
Matthew 6:6a Recognize the four different sources of where thoughts come from.
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Remove distractions
Matthew 6:6b Take your thoughts captive and punish evil thoughts.
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Intentionally meet with God the Father in your mind
Matthew 6:6c What God tells you in your mind and what you tell Him in your mind, is a secret.
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God the Father wants to talk to you
Matthew 6:6d God wants to meet with you and reward you every day because He loves you.
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Place yourself under His authority each day
Matthew 6:10 In heaven you stand in His presence always and ask Him things and He answers.
Forgiving removes burdens
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The burden of your unforgiven sin
Matthew 6:12a Ask God to forgive you each time you disobey. If you delay, this burden leaves you vulnerable to sickness and oppression.
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The burden of not forgiving others
Matthew 6:12b Forgive those who’ve sinned against you. If you don’t, this burden leaves you vulnerable to sickness and oppression.
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Help remove the burden you caused
James 5:16a Help those you have sinned against to forgive you. Ask them to forgive you. Pray for them to be healed from your mistakes.
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The burden of hiding your sin
Matthew 6:13 You’re on the fence. You’re good in the daytime, and evil at night. The burden of secrets can destroy you.
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The burden of God not forgiving you
Matthew 6:14-15 God can’t forgive you, if you won’t forgive others. You’re rebelling against God’s purpose. This burden leaves you vulnerable to sickness and oppression.
Intercession: The prayer fast God chooses to answer
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Pray and fast secretly with God
Matthew 6:17-18 There’s a reward for prayer fasting secretly with God the Father. Don’t fast to get attention, or you’ll miss out on the reward.
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The prayer fast God chooses to answer
Isaiah 58:6a If God says that today He wants you to fast for someone, you can expect freedom.
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Short term relief, but the burden is still there
Isaiah 58:6b Fast and pray to loosen the burden of evil. It’s not complete freedom from evil yet, but initially there is relief. God’s goal is to break off all slavery to sin. Story: 2 Japanese girls
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The burden isn’t tied to them anymore
Isaiah 58:6c Pray the way Jesus tells you. He knows what binds sin to the person. It’s the binding that is a type of slavery. Not forgiving or denial, can often times be what makes them bound. Story: a crying senior
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The burden of past sin is removed, but familiar sin can come back
Isaiah 58:6d The enemy will try to deceive them into repeating a familiar sin. The Holy Spirit warns them, but they still struggle with rejecting evil thoughts. Story: Stephanie’s sunglasses
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The burden is broken off, and you can defend yourself
Isaiah 58:6e The enemy will try to deceive them into repeating a familiar sin, but the truth is there from the Holy Spirit, and, the sin is more easily cast off each time, until the devil gives up trying.
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Spiritual hunger for more of Jesus
Isaiah 58:7a When freedom from the weight of sin comes, what follows is a hunger for more of Jesus. He doesn’t want them to go right back to evil, for lack of spiritual food. Story: the gospel removes blindness so they can eat and be healthy
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A need for spiritual family with Jesus
Isaiah 58:7b When freedom from the weight of sin comes, what follows is a need to be sheltered in the family of Jesus. He doesn’t want them to go right back to evil, for lack of spiritual family. Story: A homeless man asked for food.
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The longing to be clothed in the Spirit of Truth
Isaiah 58:7c The goal of God is to clothe them with the Holy Spirit forever. He doesn’t want them to go back to evil, for lack of spiritual covering.
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Don’t hide from impossible situations
Isaiah 58:7d You are not to turn away from someone in an impossible or difficult situation. Ask Jesus to show you how to fast and what to pray, in order to bring them relief. You might have to pray for years.
The prayer of faith for healing
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Faith is defined this way
Romans 10:17 and Hebrews 11:1 God speaks in your thoughts, you hear Him, and decide to believe. Then with assurance that it was God who spoke you wait patiently for Him to fulfill His word.
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The sick who ask to be healed
James 5:14 Not everyone wants to be healed. For those who want to be healed, they should be anointed with oil by elders who are mature believers who are trustworthy and follow Jesus wholeheartedly.
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If Jesus reveals His plan to heal, He will heal them
James 5:15 Without Jesus speaking and someone hearing, then there is nothing specific to believe in. He can reveal His plan to anyone.
If Jesus reveals His plan to heal, then pray exactly the way He tells you.
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Ask for forgiveness, because it can heal you
James 5:16a Confess your sins with the ones you’ve sinned against. Ask for forgiveness, because forgiveness can heal a person of many things.
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Effective prayer: Jesus speaks, you hear and decide to believe Him
James 5:16b-17 Elijah is no different than you. He just simply heard God speak to him in his thoughts and he obeyed.
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A prayer that Jesus tells you to pray, is always answered.
James 5:18 A prayer that Jesus tells you to pray, is always answered. Sometimes there are conditions given by God before an answer is given.
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Ask Jesus to show you what to pray and do to lift the fallen.
James 5:19-20 Jesus wants you to help turn around those who have fallen. Ask Jesus to show you what to pray and what to do.
Deliverance from demonic oppression and possession
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You decide which thoughts you cast off or pursue.
James 4:1 There is a reason that conflicts happen. The source is a list of thoughts that are accepted as personal desires. This list of possible desires is almost endless.
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Challenge the source of your thoughts
James 4:2 It’s easy to just accept any thought as your own. Did you ask Jesus what to do? Did you hear the Holy Spirit warning you in your mind?
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Start by asking Jesus what He would like you to pray.
James 4:3 If you pray for your own desired outcome to please yourself, you’re praying with the wrong motive.
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A double minded life brings mental problems.
James 4:4 In order to defend your thoughts to pursue an affair with the world, you will act out against God. You’ll be hostile toward Him.
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You can’t secretly run off, if God lives inside you.
James 4:5 God lives inside you who love Jesus. God is jealous for the Holy Spirit who has to endure your evil choices.
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God is against pride because it’s the veil that blinds your mind.
James 5:6 Humility brings your defenses down, in order to hear Jesus speak to you in your thoughts.
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Submit to Jesus
James 4:7a Humble yourself and go to Jesus for answers. Do exactly what Jesus tells you to do.
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Resist the devil
James 4:7b If you resist the way Jesus tells you to resist, then there will be a quick result.
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satan is forced to leave
James 4:7c If you submit your decisions and actions to God, and resist the way Jesus tells you to resist, then the devil has to leave.
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For long term freedom, confront your double-minded life.
James 4:8 Jesus can set you free from a thought life that might love God, but also loves the world.
Wife submit to your husband.
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Submit to one another
Ephesians 5:21 The wife submits to her husband, and the husband submits to his wife.
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Paul was being intentional to connect verse 21 and 22.
Ephesians 5:22a The phrase “submit to one anther” connects with the phrase, “wives to your own husbands as to the Lord.”
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A wife is not to submit to all the husbands in the church, just her own.
Ephesians 5:22b “As to the Lord” means that Paul includes submission to Jesus first as the condition to serving one another in marriage.
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Responsibility for health of the marriage is on the husband.
Ephesians 5:23a The word “head” does not mean head of the household. It means the actual head of a body. In this case the symbolic marriage body. Jesus is the head of the household.
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The man is not the head of the church body, and he doesn’t save anyone.
Ephesians 5:23b. Men and women should submit to Jesus as the head of His church, then serve one another the way Jesus tells them.
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Each person is the head of their own physical body. This never changes.
Ephesians 5:24a You are still the head of your own body, and every day you are to willfully choose to submit to Jesus first.
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Wives should submit to Jesus’ direction first then serve their husbands.
Ephesians 5:24b The oldest copies of this verse don’t include the phrase “ought to be”. This phrase increases the emphasis on the husband, when the emphasis is truly on Jesus first.
Husband submit to your wife.
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Submit to one another
Ephesians 5:21 The wife submits to her husband, and the husband submits to his wife.
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Husband, empty yourself. Don't hold on to the title.
Ephesians 5:25 Become a bond-servant who willfully chooses to die to yourself in order to serve your wife. Husbands who do this look like Jesus.
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Draw her to Jesus, by your sacrifice.
Ephesians 5:26 Your sacrifice to serve your wife, and not yourself, will draw her to Jesus.
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Why die to yourself? Why lay down your title?
Ephesians 5:27 The goal is to see her presented to Jesus, with all the glory of the Holy Spirit inside her. The Holy Spirit should shine, out of her.
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You are to love your wife as an equal to yourself.
Ephesians 5:28. Loving your wife is the same as loving yourself. That’s a statement of equality.
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Take care of your wife, like you take care of yourself.
Ephesians 5:29-30a. You feed yourself when you are hungry, and take care of yourself even when life is tough. Take care of your wife, like you take care of yourself.
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Mystery: you are bound as one because Jesus lives inside each of you.
Ephesians 5:30b-32. Jesus is to live inside each of you as you make your covenant to one another. It’s a mystery, but you are bound as one because of Jesus living inside each of you.
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You are to love each other as equals.
Ephesians 5:33a. This is another statement of equality. After all that has been said, you are to love your own wife even as yourself. You are equals. If one suffers, you both suffer. If one is honored, you both rejoice.
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Treat your wife as your equal, so that your wife respects you as her husband.
Ephesians 5:33b. Even though you sacrifice for her and serve her, what earns her respect is when you treat her as an equal from your heart.
Foundation playlists
John 5. Jesus' Name and identity
Matthew 11. Jesus makes an offer
Matthew 6. Pray like Jesus
Builder playlists
John 14. Don't be troubled.
john 16. direct access to God
James 4. submit to God, then resist
Ephesians 5. Submit to one another
Defender playlists
Isaiah 58. prayer fast God chooses
James 5. prayer of faith for healing
Isaiah 58. Forgiving removes burdens
I don’t have enough of what I need
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I don't have enough
Matthew 6:11 Jesus can give you what you need.
watch story: ileana, don’t buy clothes. watch story: my daily bread
Are you struggling with Jesus‘ identity? Jesus explains in John 5.
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Jesus' true identity
Go verse by verse. The foundation of your personal fortress is built on the true identity of Jesus.
Do you know what you are signing up for with Jesus? Jesus makes you an offer in Matthew 11.
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Jesus makes you an offer
Go verse by verse. The foundation of your personal fortress is built on taking the offer Jesus presents to you.
Are you worried about your future? This is what Jesus says in John 14.
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Worried about the Future?
Go verse by verse. Your fortress is built on God living inside you. Then, God works through you to do the work that Jesus did while walking on the earth.
Do you feel distant from God? Jesus says you can have direct access to Him in John 16.
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Do you feel distant from God the Father?
Go verse by verse. Your fortress is built on God the Father giving you direct access to Him. Your fortress is also built on praying in Jesus’ name.
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