Today we're going to talk about mindsets, strongholds and seven types of minds the
Bible talks about. You know demons are cast out instantly and they come in immediately
but strongholds are broken down gradually and they are built gradually. Demons we cast
out ; strongholds we cast down. Strongholds is pretty much a house of thoughts. It's convictions.
These are beliefs and certain things that we have in our mind that are deeply rooted
in our subconscious mind, in our mindset. It becomes a way of thinking, an attitude,
certain imaginations that took root. We must understand that our life is headed in the
direction of our most dominant thoughts. Once in a while even the person that's most negative
can have a positive thought. What makes their life negative is that their dominant, strongest,
consistent default thoughts are negative. Your mind is very important because as a man thinks so
is he. Scripture many times tells us to meditate on certain things; to choose our thoughts because
they will determine where we're gonna be. You know mind management is the most important
priority of every overcomer because winning for Christians doesn't start from the outside,
it starts from the inside. So let's dive in. Seven types of minds. So these are particular mindsets,
strongholds that could exist in a person's life. Number one mind is, the right mind. Mark chapter
5:15 When they came to Jesus and saw the one who had been demon possessed and had the legion.
Sitting and clothed in his right mind. So you can have a right mind where your dominant strongest
default thoughts are right. You can also be in the mind that's not right. If there's a right mind
that means it's possible to have a wrong mind where the constant thoughts are not right,
they are wrong and so the first mind we see is the right mind. The second mind is the sober
mind. Titus chapter 1:8 It refers to people in leadership position. And it says, "but hospitable,
a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled." Sober-minded, so this speaks of
a mind that's not intoxicated. As Christians we abstain from being drunk. The scripture says,
"don't be drunk with wine but be filled with the Holy Spirit" but I wonder how many times
we don't drink alcohol with our bodies but we allow lies to intoxicate our mind. When your mind
is not sober; it's intoxicated. When your mind is not sober it can't think straight, it exaggerates,
it sees things that are not true. For example you know when a mind is sober, you know, you can look
at a bad day and realise it doesn't mean you have a bad life. You can even look at the bad month
and not come to the conclusion that you have a bad life. You can have, you know, a bad season in
your marriage, it doesn't mean that you have a bad spouse. But an intoxicated mind begins to take one
bad day and says, "you're a bad person, your life is bad, God left you and God abandoned
you." What is that? It's mental intoxication. It's exaggeration. It's just a person forgets
all the good things God has done. Person forgets all the good things God is doing. That person is
drunk. And so God wants us to have a sober mind in the good times, to remember His goodness in
the hard times, to remember His faithfulness, to be sober in our mind. Not that you have sober
thoughts once in a while but that you have dominant strongest thoughts that are sober.
Sober minded also could mean that you are a person that lives not treating life as a game,
not treating life as some kind of a playground but as a battlefield and you approach life with
seriousness. Your thoughts are sober, they're stable and they're serious. Mind number three
is sound mind. In 2 Timothy 1:7 it says, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power
and of love and of a sound mind." The opposite of sound is sick. You know when you are sound in your
health you're healthy. So sound mind is really a mind that doesn't allow offense, negativity, envy,
jealousy, resentment and bitterness to take root. It's impossible to go through life without being
offended, without being hurt, without being overlooked, without being underappreciated or
without being over criticized or rejected. It's the lot of life the Bible says in this world
there's gonna be offences but we choose if they take root or not. And what the enemy wants to do
is he wants to use a weak moment in your life, a negative moment and turn it into a mindset.
But God wants us to endure those moments, suffer them as good soldiers of Jesus Christ and not
allow them to define us but allow them to refine us so that those moments do not become mindsets.
First person went through negativity and then they became negative and now that's all they are. They
no longer have negative circumstances but they remained as negative people. They remained as
a negative person. They continue to have this negative mindset and so the enemy wants to use
the moments of weakness to make your mind weak. He wants to use the moment of rejection to make you
a person that was rejected and therefore God wants us to have a sound mind. Mind that's
void of these external things that we go through; that they don't take root within us. That we let
God's Word define our mind. That we let God's Word take root in our mind, nourish our mind
and build a stronghold of our conviction, belief in God. The mind number four is a spiritual mind.
In Romans chapter 8:6 it says," For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace." Spiritual mind is the mind that is fixed on the things of God. In Isaiah 26;3
it says, "for you will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts
in You." Now this is more than just a few of my thoughts are fixed on God, my mind is stayed on
God. Meaning the state of my thoughts, my dominant and strongest thoughts, my attitude is fixed on
God and I can do that, you can do that. If you walk in the spirit, set your mind on things of
the spirit and then you will develop a spiritual mind. So that your mind will be constantly looking
to God into spiritual things. It will become the state of your mind, not just once in a while, you
know, you have a moment with God but really you're thinking about the Lord ,you're meditating in the
Lord day and night. You're automatic. These kind of like, background, behind the scene thoughts,
dominant thoughts, they're about God. That's amazing! That's like having a good stronghold of
spiritual mind. Now let's look at some negative minds. So mind number five is an anxious mind. So
it's the mind that's anxious. Luke chapter 12:29 it says," And do not seek what you should eat, or
what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind." So this is not just having an anxious moment,
an anxious thought. You're past that. You've had so many of those thoughts that they took root
and they produced a fruit. The fruit that they produced is now the default thinking,
the stronghold if i could say. The strongest thoughts, the dominant thoughts are anxious
thoughts, fearful thoughts. Thoughts of worry, thoughts of you're not gonna make it. And
this person continues to live in perpetual torment inside of their own head and it's
not necessarily the demons. Now demons probably had something to do with it because you know,
they send these arrows, they send these negative thoughts. We took them in and then you know,
we build with those thoughts a house of thoughts that is called mindset. And now we have an anxious
mind meaning we think anxious thoughts regularly, consistently, continually only anxious thoughts,
always anxious thoughts. God doesn't want you to have that kind of a mindset. He wants us to have a
sound mind, sober mind, a right mind, a spiritual mind not an anxious mind. Another mind is debased
mind. In Romans 1:8 is "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them up to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting." This word means
rejected. The word debased means cast away, not standing a test. It means not approved. That which
does not prove itself such as it ought. It's like when the car goes through a test and it fails the
test. So this mind is very interesting because the Bible says, because people didn't choose to
keep God in their mind that God gave them over to a broken, failed the test, not approved, rejected,
it's kind of like whatever goes mind and it's a dangerous place to be in. It's a dangerous mind
to have and mind number seven is a carnal mind. Romans 8:6 "For to be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God;
it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be." So as with spiritual mind it focuses on
spiritual things, carnal mind focuses on the flesh it, focuses on the pleasures of life,
deceitfulness of riches. The carnal mind focuses on entertainment. The carnal mind consumes just
the carnal things and then after a while it becomes a habit, it becomes automatic
and now the person only thinks about carnal things. And the Bible says it's dangerous to
have that kind of a mind because you can have a brand new spirit from God but because your mind
is at opposition, constant conflict with the things of God and you can't grow and be changed
because the Bible says that we are transformed by the renewing of our mind. So the Lord cannot bring
transformation in our life. We can be justified in our spirit but we can't experience transformation
until our mind goes through renewal. Through changes and those changes are brought forth by
the scriptures. That's why the Bible says, "you shall know the truth and the truth will set you
free." See it's the truth that you know that sets you free. It's not the truth that is present. Like
the presence of truth doesn't make you free any more than the presence of soap will not make you
clean. You can have a truckload of soap in your house. If you refuse to take a shower and apply
that soap on your body that soap will not make you clean. You will still stink like a skunk. So a lot
of people have stinking thinking and the reason why is because even though they're justified in
their spirit but they're not transformed in their life because the gap between justification and
transformation is renewing of the mind and that's why we need to study our bibles. That's why we
need to read our Bibles, that's why we need to memorize the Bible, that's why we need to live in
the Bible, that's why we need to be in the Word. why? Because the Word is what renews our mind,
layer by layer, thought by thought, attitude by attitude, fantasy by fantasy. Different things
begins to break down and I have another video that deals specifically how to change your mind
practically. But it does take time; there's a process. It's not an instant thing. God bless
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