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- Hey, it's Terri. Your cheerleader of dreams.
Today, I wanna talk to you about
how you can win the war in your mind.
Now, first, I want you to think about
what is going on in your mind.
What are you thinking about most of the time?
What do you think about when you close your eyes at night
and you lay down?
What's the first thing on your mind
when you wake up in the morning?
See, whatever you think about the most
is the direction your life will go.
Your life moves in the direction
of your most dominant thoughts.
I've heard Joyce Meyer say,
"Where the mind goes, the man follows," right?
Well, I remember hearing this quote years ago
that says, "You will never outgrow warfare.
You must simply learn to fight."
With pink gloves, of course. (laughs)
Now, the key word in that statement is you.
You will never outgrow warfare. You have to learn to fight.
Now, my personality is the type that says,
"Can't we all just get along?"
I mean, even where the devil's concerned,
why does he have to be so mean?
But I've had to learn to fight the war in my mind
and I'm gonna show you how today.
In fact, let me tell you a story about an 83 year old woman
who was dying in a hospital bed.
She was pale as a ghost, covered with IVs.
Didn't even recognize the face of her own son.
And through just a whisper,
she leaned over to the nurses and she repeatedly said,
"I've been a bad little girl. I've been a bad little girl."
Now, they never knew why she said it,
but it broke their hearts to hear this.
That elderly woman was torment
by a memory she'd never forgotten.
Well, she had gotten pregnant before marriage
as a young girl,
but here it was six decades later
and she was still tormented by the agony
of what she went through.
The disgrace, the shame, the hurt.
This woman, at the age of 83, was still defined by her past.
And that woman was also my great grandmother, Venus Savelle.
Now, every one of us have memories of things
that we did, or said, or witnessed
that we simply wish weren't there.
Think about this.
Therapists and counselors around the world
are filling up their appointment books every single day
with people who are still holding onto their past.
Counseling sessions begin with the question,
"So what happened?"
Think about it. The battle is taking place in the mind.
See, if the past is still being relived in your mind,
it becomes your present
and it ultimately destroys your future.
Just like my great-grandmother.
I have been plagued by the memories of the past.
Past experiences, past horrible decisions,
past relationships and hurts and disappointments,
guilt and shame.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard a minister say,
"Get over your past,"
and then he would quickly move on to the next point.
And I would just be sitting there thinking,
"Wait a minute. Back up, please.
You're not telling me how to get over my past."
And I would sit there thinking, "What is wrong with me?
How come everyone else can just get over their past?
How can I be fixed?
Or how will these memories ever go away?"
Well, I found out that you will win or lose in life
based on what's happening in your mind.
Your mind is the breeding ground for Satan.
He uses your thoughts to keep you chained to yesterday.
And you might be thinking,
"But Terri, I can't make the memories just go away."
It's true, memories don't disappear,
but you can stop them from consuming you
and being passive about it is not the solution, I found out.
Because when your memories are bigger than your dreams,
you need to get aggressive.
And the first part of fighting
is realizing who the enemy is.
It's not your parents. It's not your ex.
It's not your boss, your uncle,
your neighbor, your so-called friend,
or that person who violated you, it's Satan.
He is the one behind every attack, every temptation,
and every pain you've ever experienced.
And once you discover that Satan hates you
and he has a calculated plan to destroy you,
then you realize you better learn to fight
or he will defeat you.
I know, I'm real serious in this podcast today,
but the only thing on his mind are kill, steal, and destroy.
And I don't wanna scare you off.
I just want you to learn to fight.
I want you to take what's happening in your mind seriously
and stop being mad at the wrong enemy.
Get mad at the devil. Learn to fight him.
So how do you do it?
Well, the key to winning the war in your mind,
it all has to do with what's coming out of your mouth.
Now, yes, the battle is being fought in your mind,
but your mouth is the most powerful weapon you have
against the enemy.
It's the weapon in combating your own worst thoughts.
Now, let me explain.
You know, I shared on a recent podcast
how you defeat wrong thoughts with words,
not other thoughts.
You can't try to just think so hard about something else
that your bad thoughts go away.
It's just a matter of time and your thoughts
will go right back to where it wanted to be.
Now, I learned this years ago,
but it took me a while to really realize
how powerful this is in mental warfare.
In fact, listen to this quick story.
I heard this story years ago
and it was about a guy named Mike
who played football for the Miami Dolphins.
Well, he was approached by the coach of Auburn University
to help him recruit new players for the team.
So the coach said, "Mike, you know there's that kind of guy
that you hit him, you knock him down, and they stay down?"
Mike said, "We don't want that kind of guy, right coach?"
He said, "No, we don't."
He said, "There's that other kind of guy.
You hit them, you knock them down, they get back up.
No matter how many times you hit them and knock them down,
they get back up.
Mike got excited.
He said, "So that's the kind of guy we're looking for.
Right coach?"
He said, "No, Mike.
Find me the guy that's knocking everybody down."
Which, I love that. But here's my point.
That's exactly what happens
when you learn to pick up the sword of the spirit,
which is the word of God coming out of your mouth
and you shut Satan up.
You speak God's word out of your mouth.
You become the one on the offensive side.
You become the one charging after him
rather than constantly fighting to try to stay on your feet
on the defensive side.
It's all having to do with what's coming out of your mouth.
So your mouth is gonna cause you from going under the attack
to being on the attack.
And when Satan comes at you, which he will,
with negative oppressing thoughts,
you're gonna learn how to shut him up.
It's right under your nose. (laughs)
You just have to use it, right?
So that's why this week, your free download,
I wanna give you a list of the very scriptures
that I used and still use to win the war in your mind.
You can just print these off,
put them somewhere on your phone,
or even set an alarm that says attack,
and read these out loud every single day
until it gets down on the inside of you.
And they're just gonna flow out of you.
And trust me, Satan hates nothing more
than to hear you speak the word of God.
So do it even more, right?
So I want you to click the link in the description
and get your list right now.
And before we go, would you do me one favor?
Oh, and also you're download,
I'm giving you chapter three from my book
"Make Your Dreams Bigger Than Your Memories."
You're gonna love this chapter
'cause it's gonna help you win the war in your mind.
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