Day 19 -Thursday - January 26-- Prayer Focus - OUR LIVES - Freedom
Focus today is Freedom in Jesus!
Everyone needs freedom.
Freedom is for everyone!
If we’re going to be effective for Jesus, we need to find freedom.
Where is it found? It’s found in our mind. Freedom begins and ends in the mind.
Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you.
We need to win this battlefield - what we think about has power over each of us.
When we think a thought, it creates a neuro pathway. Every time you think a thought, it’s easier to think that again… and it’s harder to think what is opposite of it.
We have likely created some bad stuff into our minds (stinkin’ thinkin’)
It’s been said that 78% of our thoughts are negative.
But this year, a new year, let’s create new neuro pathways.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NIV)
3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Strongholds: prisoners locked by deception, living life by something not true.
We are going to demolish strongholds. There are so many hang ups that are strongholds in our life (list some)
If we embrace 3 steps we can find freedom.
1. See the lie.
Lord reveal to me what is false.
2. Speak the truth.
Verse 5 - we are demolishing every argument by speaking the truth of God’s word.
Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
God’s word helps us separate feelings from truth.
It helps us get rid of old neuro pathways and establish new ones based upon His word.
3. Seal the promise.
When you think multiple positive thoughts you build stronger neuro pathways.
So let’s think and speak multiple truths about God’s Word. This some might call bundling the truth to seal the promise.
So let’s this year - in 2023, surrender our thoughts to the Lord and enjoy the freedom that the Lord has won for us.
