Who is here tonight that has learned to confess the Word of God out loud and you've seen a
radical change in your life because of that? Isn't that amazing. Well. the rest of you
that don't have your hand up, you ought to try it. "This Book of the Law shall not depart
out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it," that means roll it over and over in
your mind, and mutter it under your breath. And don't tell me, ladies, that you don't know how
to mutter, because I know that you do. ."...but you shall meditate on it day and night, that
you may observe and do according to all that is written in it..." The way that we do the
Word, is by meditating on the Word and speaking the Word. You speak the Word, you meditate
on the Word, and it gives you the spiritual strength to do the Word. .... "For then, you
shall make your way prosperous, and you shall deal wisely and have good success." How
about learning how to use your mind to help you instead of letting it be a garbage dump
for the enemy. You say, "Well, I can't help what I think." Well you see this is our problem
right here. And I thought like that for years, whatever I thought, that is what I thought.
If I woke up in the morning and I thought, "I feel depressed," then I would just go around
all day and feel depressed. If I woke up in the morning and I had this thought, "Dave
doesn't pay any attention to me, he doesn't do anything special for me," then I'd just
get madder and madder all day and feel sorrier and sorrier for myself. If that ever happens
now, which it rarely does ever happen, I just say, "That's a lie. Dave does all kinds of
things for me. He's a great husband, he's this... he's this, he's that.... he's that.
And then maybe the devil will say, "He's not that." And I'll say, "He is this and this."
Let me tell you something, the devil is going to you, you might as well learn how to talk
back to him. And I know there's people that think, probably people people watching by
TV, you think... this lady is crazy. She is talking about talking back at the devil. Well
all you've got to read is Luke chapter 4. Jesus did it first and I can do anything He
did. The Bible says that "The devil said unto Him, and He said unto the devil." There's
a lady that we had her testimony recorded and used t play it but we don't anymore. And
she said, I mean she was like some off beat, weird religion that had nothing to do with
Christianity and was just miserable and she happen to come across my program and she thought
I was stark raving mad. She said, here's this women on television screaming, "And Jesus said
to the devil... and the devil said to Jesus. And Jesus said to the devil." And she said,
but then I kept kind of coming back to the program and coming back to the program. Long story
short, she ended up getting saved, became a partner with the ministry and her life has
been completely turned around. You know a lot of things that we think make sense are stupid
and a lot of things that we think are stupid make more sense than anything if you really
begin to look at them in the right way. How many of you believe that there is an enemy,
that you have an enemy that whispers things to your mind and to your soul that are lies
from the pit of hell. They are not the truth and if you believe them you will be destroyed.
I don't know about you but I am so glad that I found this out. Because he had control of
my mind for way too long. I was a born again Christian but nobody ever told me what I'm
talking about here tonight. So I was born again, but my mind was full of junk all the time. And so, therefore,
I was mad all the time, I was upset all the time, I was jealous of people, I was greedy,
I was selfish and self-centered, but I was saved. I would have gone to heaven. I believe
that because I really trusted Christ for my salvation. But nobody ever told me that my
mind made one bit of difference to the outcome in my life. And I am asking you tonight to
take an inventory of your thoughts. What's been on your mind lately? If you're depressed,
what have you been thinking about? If you're angry, what have you been thinking about?
If you're bitter, what have you been thinking about? Oh, you guys look too innocent. I must
have the really super saved group here tonight. I don't know. Maybe I will just talk to these
poor folks on television that maybe don't have it all together, amen? We can have our
mind renewed according to the Word of God. Let's take just a second and look at Romans
chapter 12 verse 2. And I know some of you, you know these Scriptures and you've probably
got them underlined in your Bible. That doesn't make me one bit of difference, because you
need to hear them again, and I do too. "Do not be conformed to this world (this age)
[fashioned after and adapted t its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed)
by the [entire] renewal of your mind..." Amen. So how are we changed? First our mind has
to change and then our life changes. We don't think the way that we used to think but we
begin to actually believe this Book. And think like God thinks. My goodness, do you know
how many problems people have because of the junky thoughts they think about themselves?
I will tell you what, you're looking at a woman, I would be petrified anymore to think
bad, junky thoughts about myself because I know it so displeases and so dishonors
God. He sent His only Son to die for you. He loved you enough to pay an awful price
for you, and who do you think you are to have bad, terrible, junky thoughts about yourself.
If God loves you, then you can love you.