1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you. 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 8 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and you can 9 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 1: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you 10 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. So I'd 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: like to saw it with something funny and I heard 12 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: about this archaeologist in New York. He dugged down ten 13 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: feet and found copper wiring dating back one hundred years. 14 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: He concluded that New Yorkers had a telephone network over 15 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: one hundred years ago. Not to be outdone, an archaeologist 16 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: from California dug down twenty feet and found copper wiring 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: dating back two hundred years. He concluded that Californians had 18 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 1: a communication network one hundred years earlier than New Yorkers. 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: On hearing this, Bubba from Texas dug down thirty feet 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: on his farm and found absolutely nothing, He concluded, three 21 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: hundred years ago, Texans had already gone wireless. All right, 22 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: y'all say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 23 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what 24 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says 25 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 26 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my 27 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 28 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today 29 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: about rewiring your brain. For years, scientists believe that once 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: we reached adulthood, the brain was fully formed and couldn't 31 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: be changed. There was no new growth or reshaping. But 32 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: in the last few decades they've discovered that the brain 33 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: is constantly changing. That it's not set in stone, but 34 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: it's more like plastic that can be molded in reshaped. 35 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: Every time you think a thought, it's creating a neural pathway, 36 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: like a roadway in your mind. The more you think 37 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: a thought, the easier it is to think again because 38 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: the road is already established. Repetitive thoughts are making that 39 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: path wider and deeper. It's not just mental or you're 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: developing a habit but in your brain something is happening. 41 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: These neurons are creating pathways that accommodate what you're telling it. 42 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: When that path gets so established, then it's like you're 43 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 1: an autopilot. You just follow that path. Have you ever 44 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: been driving home from work and you start thinking about 45 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: something else, daydreaming, and five minutes later you come back 46 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: and think, man, I wasn't even paying attention to the road. 47 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: Or you've driven that path for years. Those neurons have 48 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: built a highway in your mind. Now they can take 49 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,399 Speaker 1: over without all the mental energy just naturally kicks in 50 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: because of what the repetitive faults have established. This is 51 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: what proverb says, as a person thinks, so he will 52 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: become The good news is you get to choose which 53 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: pathways your brain is going to establish. Well, Joel, nothing 54 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: good ever happens to me. Always have bad breaks. I 55 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: don't think I'll ever get out of this problem. Just 56 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: imagine a big bulldozer starts to clear out that path. 57 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 1: The foreman says to his crew, we just got an 58 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: order from the command center start building, and I can't 59 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: do it. Highway, am not gonna make it. Pathway never 60 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: gonna work out roadway. Every time you think it, those 61 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: neurons go to work. It's not just your thoughts, but 62 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: in your brain cells are creating what you're telling them 63 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: to make it easier to think the next time. Over time, 64 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: it's just who we are. Here's the key. You can 65 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: rewire your brain. Some of us have all these negative highways. 66 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: Not good enough guilt. I can't forgive. I'm not disciplined. 67 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: We've been thinking this way for years now. It's not 68 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: a road. We got a four lane highway, got the 69 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: best lights, pavement, eighty miles an hour. Next time you're 70 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: tempted to think those thoughts, recognize what's happening. You're building 71 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: something you don't want. And yes, it's going to be 72 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: easy to think them because the highway you've built is 73 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: so big now it's gonna facilitate what you've been thinking. 74 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 1: You have to put your foot down and say no thanks. 75 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: I am not gonna use my mental energy to build 76 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: roads that are gonna work against me. Best thing you 77 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: can do is put up some road closure signs. That 78 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: thought comes nothing good as in my future. Sorry, that 79 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: road is closed. I don't need that path anymore. Build 80 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: a new highway. Father, thinking that my path is getting 81 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: brighter and brighter that you're taking me from victory to victory. 82 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: I can see that. Foreman thinking what in the world 83 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: is happening? He tells his workers come off that can't 84 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: do it Highway. No more construction on the always be 85 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: addicted roadway. Start building to something good is gonna happen Freeway. 86 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: It's not just being positive, it's not just quoting God's word, 87 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: which is all good. But in your brain, neurons are firing, 88 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: cells are working to create pathways for what you're repeatedly thinking. 89 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 1: My father taught me when I was a little boy 90 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: that when I got up every morning, to say, something 91 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: good is gonna happen to me today. I've been saying 92 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: that all thirty nine years that I've been alive. Every morning, 93 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: Victoria will tell you, this is gonna be a great day. Lord, 94 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: thank you for waking me up this morning. Something good 95 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: is gonna happen to me. I don't have to even 96 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: think about it anymore. It's just an autopilot. It's going 97 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: to be a great day. I'm expecting God's goodness. God 98 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: let me be a blessing to somebody else. And I 99 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: know we all have different personalities. I'm naturally positive, upbeat. 100 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: I'm in this way with my whole life. A pastor 101 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 1: friend of mine told me that he's so negative. He 102 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: can take a positive sermon and preach it in a 103 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: negative way. Some of it may be natural temperament, but 104 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: that can be overridden by how you choose to think. 105 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: A man I know was always so down on himself, 106 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: sour expecting the worst. He said, that's just who I am. 107 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: He started listening to our messages on Serious XM, and 108 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: a couple of years later he said, Joel, people don't 109 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: recognize me anymore. They said, what happened to you? He's 110 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: the most positive, grateful, joyful person you could meet. There 111 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 1: wasn't anything wrong with him. He had just spent years 112 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: building the wrong high ways, creating all these negative paths 113 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: and discouraging words. As you think you will become, you're 114 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: telling your brain how to function. These repetitive thoughts are 115 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: giving the assignment. Your thinking is the command center. Like 116 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: this man, you may have created something you don't want. 117 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: You don't have to stay that way. You can rewire 118 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: your brain. You can create new neural pathways that will 119 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: work for you rather than against you. Some people have 120 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: built highways for guilt, shame, and unworthiness. The battle is 121 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,119 Speaker 1: taking place in our mind. One reason the enemy works 122 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: so hard in this area is he knows your life 123 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: is going to follow your thoughts. He'd love for you 124 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: to wire your brain for guilt and can't do it 125 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: and not good enough. You've got to close those roads off. 126 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,679 Speaker 1: You've got to put up some deeps and no longer 127 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: in you signs. Quit spending your energy building roads that 128 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: are working against you. The more you think it, the 129 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: deeper the road, the easier it is to go down 130 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: the next time. It's a self destructive cycle. You wake 131 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: up in the morning thinking, man, I don't want to 132 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: go to work, traffic's so bad, and these people get 133 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: on my nerves. Just imagine all those neurons building highways 134 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: to just what you said you gave the command when 135 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: you've been doing that for five years, ten years, thirty years. 136 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: Your highway goes from here to Botswana. You could drive 137 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: a house down that thing. No wonder when we get up, 138 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: those thoughts come the easiest. You paid the beautiful road. 139 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: Change what you're building. That's not who you are. The 140 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: enemy has hijacked your crew. He's deceived you into believing 141 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: his lives. Now your own cells are working against you. 142 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: It's time to do some rewiring, some road closures. No 143 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,599 Speaker 1: more giving life to the negative. And it's gonna take discipline, 144 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: because when we've been thinking one way a long time, 145 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna want to go back to the old habits, 146 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: like driving on autopilot. You don't have to think about it. 147 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: You're used to feeling guilty, inferior, can't break the addiction, 148 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: never get out of debt. Those are learned behaviors. You're 149 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: gonna have to dig down deep and take control of 150 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: what you think. You get to choose what you dwell on. 151 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 1: When the same negative thoughts come, you'll be tempted to 152 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: get on that highway. It's already built. It's what I'm 153 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: used to. Don't give those thoughts permission to stay. They 154 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: may come, but you don't have to dwell on it. 155 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: If you dismiss it, the thought dies doesn't have any power. 156 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: It's repetitive thoughts that build the highways. When we're constantly thinking, 157 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: it's going to be a great day. I'm blessed, I'm strong, 158 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: I'm healthy, I have the favor of God. Think of 159 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: the roads that's building in our brain. Think about how 160 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,959 Speaker 1: that's impacting our future and our self image, our confidence 161 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: verse I'm unworthy, I've made too many mistakes. I can't 162 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: hit a good break. Everyone in my family struggles. Your 163 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: thinking is the command centers. You are giving orders to 164 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: your neurons to form how your brain functions, to create 165 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: the roadways to become what you think. Paul said in Philippians, 166 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: I have learned how to be content. He didn't say 167 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: I was born this way. This is my natural personality. 168 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: That's why I'm content. He said I had to learn this. 169 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: I had to be disciplined in what I think. I 170 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: had to guard my mind. Some of us have learned 171 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: to be discouraged, learned to be insecured, learn to expect 172 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: the worst, recognize what's happening. If you can learn to 173 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: be offended, learn to be discouraged, then you can learn 174 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: to be happy. You can learn to stay in peace, 175 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: you can learn to have faith. It all starts right here. 176 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: Paul said it this way. You can be transformed by 177 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: the renewing of your mind. When you start thinking the 178 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: right thoughts, it's not only affecting you mentally, but your 179 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: brain is creating new pathways, pathways that were for you, 180 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: not against you. I was on my phone the other 181 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: day flipping through Instagram, and I usually click on the 182 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: sports highlights and watch clips from ballgames. But this video 183 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: popped up of these two men in a grocery store fighting. 184 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: It was real small on the phone, so I had 185 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: to click it to make it bigger. It was so bizarre. 186 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: In the middle of the store, they were throwing each 187 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: other up against the shelves, and cans of food was falling, 188 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: and you know, cereal boxes going everywhere, rolling, punching, going crazy. 189 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: I was just going to watch five seconds, then twenty 190 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 1: seconds went by, then a minute, and it went from 191 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: bizarre to entertaining. Althought, this is better than sports. But 192 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: finally I moved on to something else. A few seconds later, 193 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: there was another clip of fighting, then another, then another. 194 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: Before long, ninety percent of my feed was fights. I've 195 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: never seen so many crazy people. You know what happened? 196 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: The algorithm kicked in all this data and calculations identified 197 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: me as a person that likes fights, so they fed 198 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 1: me more of what i'd been watching, the same principle 199 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: in our thoughts, you're going to get more of what 200 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 1: you've been thinking because that pathway has been developed. You've 201 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: told those neurons to build this highway, so it's gonna 202 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,199 Speaker 1: be easier to think that way. It's gonna create habits. 203 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: If you get up in the morning and think, something 204 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: good's gonna happen to me. Lord, I thank you that 205 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great day. You're gonna see more 206 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: good things. That algorithm, so to speak, is gonna kick in, 207 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: and you're gonna enjoy your children. You're gonna thank God 208 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: for your job. You're gonna stay in peace under pressure. 209 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: You're getting more of what you clicked on. And just 210 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: the opposite. If you live worried and stressed over your 211 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: job and upset at your neighbor, fraid your child will 212 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: get off course, you've created pathways to make all the 213 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: negative easier. Like that algorithm, you're gonna have plenty of 214 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: reasons to worry. You need to put up some road closures. 215 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: No more clicking on the worry, the fear, the what is. 216 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: Here's how you create some better highways. Get on that 217 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: algorithm of favor. Father, Thank you that I'm in the 218 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: palm of your hands. Thank you that your plans for 219 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: me are for good. That you're fighting my battles. Lord, 220 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: I don't see away, but I know that you have 221 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: a way that's creating pathways of peace, pathways of trust 222 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: where you can enjoy each day. You have to take 223 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: control of your thought life. If not, the enemy's gonna 224 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: have a heyday using that negative algorithm to bring more 225 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: of what you don't want. And the scripture says to 226 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: meditate on God's word day and night. Meditate means to 227 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: think about the same thing over and over. It's not 228 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: passive like traditional meditation, like I'm gonna sit here and 229 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: think about nothing silent. Scriptural meditation means to continually think 230 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: about what God says about you. Well. God says you're 231 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: a masterpiece, fearfully and wonderfully made. When you meditate on 232 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: that all through the day in your thinking, I'm valuable, 233 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: I'm a master, I'm crowned with favor, I have seeds 234 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: of greatness, the DNA of Almighty God. Think about what 235 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: your neurons are doing. Think about how your brain is 236 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: being wired, how it's programmed to function. Imagine the highways 237 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: being built to make it easier for you to think 238 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: that way again, here's the masterpiece highway already been built. 239 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: Easy to travel down that one. Here's the valuable highway. 240 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: You have four lanes on that one. Here's the crown 241 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: with favor, the talented and gifted highway in your brain. 242 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: These pathways are getting deeper, longer, more established as you 243 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: think you will become. Now here's the question, what are 244 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: you meditating on? The truth is, we're all meditating on something. 245 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: There are certain thoughts playing in our mind over and over. 246 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: I'll never get well, i can't break the addiction, I'll 247 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: always be lonely. Those repetitive thoughts are building the highways 248 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: that you're going to travel down. You need some road closures. 249 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: Pay attention to what's playing in your mind. That's why 250 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: we say every service, i am blessed, I am healthy, 251 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: I am strong, I'm disciplined, I'm equipped, I'm empowered. We 252 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: are meditating on what God says. Now I read where 253 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: the average person has over forty thousand thoughts a day. 254 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: Ninety five percent of those thoughts are repetitive. It's the 255 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: recording that's been playing in our mind since we were 256 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: a child. It's defining who we are and how we 257 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: view the world. Here's the startling statistic eighty percent of 258 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: the average person's repetitive thoughts are negative. That means eighty 259 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: percent of the time are neurons are building highways that 260 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: are working against us, wiring our brains for things that 261 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: are limiting us. We wonder why we don't feel good 262 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: about ourselves while we live stressed, why we can't believe 263 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: for our dreams. Maybe you've built the wrong highways. Maybe 264 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: you've trained your brain to work against you and not 265 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: for you. The good news is it's not too late. 266 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: You can rewire your brain. You can build new pathways 267 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: that'll make it easier on you. Pay attention to what 268 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 1: you're thinking, especially the repetitive thoughts, what you're telling yourself 269 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: all through the day. If that recording is negative, you're 270 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: defeating yourself. The scripture says to guard your mind. That's 271 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: the command centers by what you're thinking. You're building highways 272 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: that are either going to help you or hinder you. 273 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: When I was eight years old, my younger sister, April 274 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: and I were out riding our bikes down the street 275 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: and we lived in the country, a lot of open land, 276 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: and next to the street there was a ditch for 277 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: the water to drain in and it was empty and 278 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: we were kind of bored, and I said, April, let's 279 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: get down in the ditch and ride there. That'll be 280 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: more fun. It's about five feet deep. And we walked 281 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: our bikes down and started riding through the ditch and 282 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: went about fifty yards. Then we came to this culbert 283 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 1: with the ditch stopped and we couldn't go anymore. Thought, 284 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: no big deal, let's get out. But we tried to 285 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: get out, but it was deeper than we thought. April 286 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: crawled up the side and I tried to push my 287 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: bike to her, but she wasn't strong enough. We switched positions. 288 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 1: I got out, still couldn't get the bike out. It's 289 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: too heavy. It was easy to get in the ditch, 290 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: but it was hard to get out. Sometimes in our minds, 291 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: we're in a ditch. We've developed these mental ruts from 292 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 1: years of wrong thinking. I'm a victim, I've been through 293 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: too much, I'll never get well. We're living in a 294 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: mental rut that we've created it. We didn't realize through 295 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 1: negative thinking, we were building something that would limit us, 296 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: paving a road that would keep us stuck. April and 297 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: I couldn't get out of the ditch by ourselves, and 298 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 1: this young man came driving by. He nicely stopped, got 299 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 1: down in the ditch, and lifted both of our bikes out. 300 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: The difference in our story is you can get out 301 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: of your ditch. You can break any stronghold that's held 302 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 1: you back. The forces that are for you are greater 303 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: than forces that are against you. When you get in 304 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: agreement with God and start meditating on what he says, 305 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: now your repetitive thoughts are full of faith and hope 306 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 1: and victory, you will come out of those mental ruts. 307 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: That's what it means to be transformed by the renewing 308 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: of your mind. No more, I'm a victim. I've been 309 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 1: through too much. That's going to keep you in the ditch. 310 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: How about I am a victor. God always causes to 311 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: try out, but I'll never get well. Joel, you should 312 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: see the medical report. This sickness is going to be 313 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: the end that's going to keep you stuck. How about 314 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: God is restoring health back into me. The number of 315 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: my days he will fulfill. That's not just being positive, 316 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: is not just having faith. That's rewiring your brain, that's 317 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 1: building new highways. That's what's going to bring you out 318 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: of that middle rut and allow God to do what 319 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: only he can do. You need to examine your life. 320 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 1: Are you in any ruts? Have you built roads in 321 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: your thinking that are easy to go down, but it's 322 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 1: not where you want to go. You've got these highways 323 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: leading to discouragement. Can't do it? Not valuable, that comes 324 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: natural to you, but it's limiting you. That's a learned behavior. 325 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: You've learned to be unhappy, learned to be offended, learned 326 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: to not believe in yourself. That's okay. You can relearn. 327 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: You can rewire your brain. Pay attention to the repetitive thoughts. 328 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 1: Are they positive building you up? Or are they guilt ridden? 329 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: Can't do it? You're the command center. You're giving the orders, 330 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: telling your neur runs which pathways to build. Make sure 331 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: it's a pathway leading you somewhere you want to go. 332 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: I talked to a lady who had been through a 333 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: very difficult and hurtful divorce. It was ten years ago 334 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,479 Speaker 1: at that time, but she was still so bitter and 335 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: so angry, and her husband had left for someone else 336 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: and caused all this heartache and pain. I know it's 337 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: not easy, but at some point you have to move forward. 338 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: You have to give it to God and trust him 339 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: to be your vindicator. People can't pay you back, only 340 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: God can. She was trying to get from her ex 341 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: husband what only God could get. He wasn't going to 342 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: be happy until he was unhappy, but he was out 343 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 1: enjoying his life. He had remarried and moved on. It 344 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,640 Speaker 1: may not have been right, but if someone has hurt 345 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: you once, don't let them continue to hurt you by 346 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: holding on to it. She was here at the altar 347 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: for prayer and she said, Joel, I can forgive him. 348 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: He hurt me too badly. I understood what she meant 349 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: because she had held on to that unforgiveness for ten years. 350 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: That's all she thought about. Do you know how deep 351 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: that rut was? How long? How wide that highway? I 352 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: wasn't four lanes, had like sixteen lanes. It was easy 353 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: for her to be angry, offended. She'd built an incredible pathway. 354 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: And I told her, of course, what I'm telling you. 355 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: You have to change what's happening here all through the 356 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 1: day when it comes up, instead of thinking bitter, angry thoughts, 357 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: how about Father, thank you that you have beauty for 358 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: these ashes, Lord, you said, what was meant for harm? 359 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 1: You had turned to my advantage. Father, Thank you that 360 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: I have the grace to forgive. She began to rewire 361 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,959 Speaker 1: her brain. I saw her a couple years later out 362 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: there at the visitors. She was like a different person, happy, beautiful, grateful. 363 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: What happened. She started building new highways. She started meditating 364 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: on the right things, not the hurts, not the injustice. 365 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: The enemy would love for you to keep building those roads. 366 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: He knows it'll keep you in a rut, stuck in bitterness, 367 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,199 Speaker 1: stuck in defeat. Or do like she did, put up 368 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: some road closures. No more going down those paths. That 369 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: algorithm is going to keep feeding hurts, feeding discouragement. How 370 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: about rewiring your brain. Send some new commands of hope, 371 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: faith and victory. That's how you get out of mental ruts. 372 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: What Gideon had to do in the scripture, he was 373 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 1: hiding in the wine press, afraid of the Midianites that 374 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: were surrounding the city. An angel came to him and said, 375 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: mighty hero, the Lord is with you. You are to lead 376 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: the people of Israel to defeat the Midianites. Well, Gideon 377 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: was taken aback. He said in a fact, that's not possible. 378 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: I come from the poorest family. I am the least 379 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: one in my father's house. He didn't get that way overnight. 380 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: That was a mental rut that took years to develop. 381 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: He was, no doubt told that he wasn't up to part, 382 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 1: he wasn't talented, he couldn't do anything great. He let 383 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: circumstances convince him that he was at a disadvantage. Those 384 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: thoughts played over and over. His neurons went to work, 385 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: did what they were created to do, built paths, ways 386 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: of inferiority and not enough. That's who he became, this angel. 387 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: He owed up and told him who he really was, 388 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: A mighty hero, well able. He spoke victory, blessings, favor 389 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: over his life. Here's the whole key. It was up 390 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: to Gideon as to what he would do with it. 391 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: Would he continue to meditate on the old limited too small? 392 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,679 Speaker 1: Or would he change what he was thinking? Would he 393 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: send out some new commands. I'm a mighty hero, I 394 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 1: am well able, I am strong in the Lord. He 395 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: began to change his recording. He came out of that rut, 396 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: and he went on to become the mighty hero. God 397 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: called him to be. He's listed in Hebrews eleven as 398 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: one of the heroes of faith. This would have never 399 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: happened if he had not rewired his brain. He'd kept 400 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 1: thinking all the negative, defeated thoughts. He'd stayed in the rut. 401 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: We wouldn't be talking about it. Pay attention to what 402 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: you're thinking, especially the repetitive thoughts. Do they line up 403 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 1: with who God says you are? Mighty, hero, talented, valuable forgiving? 404 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: Is that what you're meditating on building pathways that you 405 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: want to go down? Or are those neurons working against 406 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: you building roads that you don't want to travel. Perhaps 407 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 1: you need to rewire your brain, change those negative patterns 408 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: that are pulling you down. Don't go the next thirty 409 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: years stuck in a mental run. You're in charge of 410 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: your command center. You get to choose what you think about. 411 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: Get up in the morning and set your mind for 412 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: victory all through the day. Meditate on what God says 413 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: about you. Get on the right algorithm. If you'll do this, 414 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: I believe and declare any strongholds that are keeping you 415 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: back or being broken. Right now, God is going to 416 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: help you rewire your brain. 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