I want to make an announcement as a
matter of fact if you didn't know this
your imagination is under attack the
enemy is after your imagination your
imagination is the incubation place for
every great thing that you'll ever think
for any opportunity that you will create
for yourself or cease your imagination
must be active and so the enemy sets out
early in life preferably to sabotage
your imagination or can we say it this
way to imprison you within your own
imagination here's what I mean by that
your mind is the place where where all
of the the miracles that God wants to
work in your life will begin your mind
is also the place where a lot of the
miracles that God wants to work in your
life will die so so the enemy and when I
say the enemy I mean the devil and if
you don't believe in the devil you need
to have some kids the enemy will will
try to create and your in your own
imagination since where you can't stand
to be alone with your own thoughts and
he wants to make it where you don't
really like to be with yourself in other
words he wants to capture your
imagination the scripture here says that
God sends his word into your life for a
purpose and so the enemy knowing this
has to plant thoughts in your mind that
will pervert that purpose in other words
to make you a captive of your own
imagination so that he can take from you
your sense of anticipation and turn it
into anxiety have you ever thought about
this that that the same organ that
creates anticipation in your life also
creates anxiety the same imagination
that can really make you excited about
going to see Eddie Van Halen is the same
imagination that can keep you up at
night
worrying about stuff that may never
happen touch somebody and say capture
your imagination you've got to make a
decision in your life then my
imagination is a gift from God and I'm
not gonna let it turn into an IMAX
screen for the devil to just project
whatever fear and whatever insecurities
and whatever scenario he wants to
broadcast in my mind today's the day
that I'm taking my mind back if I'm
gonna get my piece back I've got to
regain the territory of my mind and this
scripture is important because the the
Hebrew people have been have been going
through a cycle that's the first word I
want to mention is cycle it is a cycle
of captivity you understand that Isaiah
is a prophetic book so Isaiah is writing
this particular chapter two hundred
years before the people would need it
he's writing it 200 years before they
would need it because they were carried
away into captivity which began a cycle
so that they would begin to think like
the Babylonians and instead of thinking
like where they were from they were
thinking like where they were trapped
and so this may have application to us
today because we we may not be in
physical captivity but I think the worst
thing in the world is to be free
physically and to be enslaved mentally
the worst thing in the world is to have
freedom to do something different but
not have the the psychological ability
to break free from old memories because
if you let the enemy he will manipulate
your memories and chop them up together
so much that you're afraid of your
future and you can't even think about
tomorrow without feeling something in
your stomach what's happening here he's
attacking your imagination and he wants
to get you into a cycle it's a cycle if
you look at most of the negative
thoughts in your life they occur in
cycles they're set off when you're tired
or they're set off when you're lonely or
they're set off in in in moments where
particular things have triggered you to
think in old ways and
and and yet as believers so often we're
focused on the symptoms than we are on
the cycle and so if we're always just
trying to pop pills to get our symptoms
to go away we'll never address the cycle
that created those symptoms to begin
with and God ends this passage talking
about the the symptoms he said the
thornbush is going to be replaced by the
juniper and the briars are going to be
replaced by myrtle and this is going to
be a sign but before you can see the
sign before the situation can be fixed
before the symptoms can go away you got
to break the cycle and we came to church
today not just to get a little something
to make us feel better about our
symptoms but we came here so the Word of
God could break our cycles that have
kept us trapped in fact I came as a
liberator today I picked up this
microphone like an anvil to break chains
in your life for every cycle that's had
you're trapped for every cycle this had
you stuck for every cycle that's kept
you awake for every cycle that's kept
you unemployed for every cycle that's
kept you single for every cycle that's
kept you in terror for every cycle
that's kept you paralyzed by pain today
is that they says God the cycle is
broken come on give him a shout somebody
and in the cycle the cycle must be
broken the cycle broken the cycle must
be broken if the cycle isn't broken
you're gonna go around and around so God
says you break the cycle when you turn
to me you break the cycle when you turn
to me let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts how
has God so smart how did he know what it
took the neurosurgeons until just a few
years ago to find out look in verse 7
this is fascinating he said that that
they have to change their ways by
changing their thoughts the waves and
the thoughts how did he know that when
they started studying our brains they
would find out that when our neurons
fire to create a thought they also over
time create paths waves neural path ways
in our brain showing us that the way we
are right now is a product of the way
that we thought up until now scientists
think they're so much smarter than God
God told you this in 800 BC that if you
think a certain way you'll be a certain
way well that's just the way I am no
that's just the way you think change the
way you think you'll change the way you
are change the way you are you'll change
the life you have but it starts with a
thought
it starts with a thought like a seat so
God uses a cycle that we can't
understand to help us understand our
thinking which we often struggle to
understand and he uses this analogy
through Isaiah of the cycle of rain and
seed and harvest and rain and falls on
sea to create harvest the rain falls on
the sea but the rain can only water the
seed that has been planted so I want to
ask you a question today what are you
watering in your life
because whatever you water will take
over your garden whatever you want water
will grow whatever you water whatever
you irrigate in your imagination will
grow interesting word to me that he said
was he said verse seven let the wicked
forsake their ways for safe that's a
funny word because that's a relational
word that's that's a word that means
that we were close and you left me you
were supposed to be with me if somebody
can't forsake you if you were never
close to them someone can't forsake you
if you didn't depend on them so this is
a word that a child would use to the dad
who left why did you forsake me it's a
relational word and could God be
addressing the fact here that we have
developed a certain relationship with
our thoughts that although we say we
want to be free of the cycle of our
negative thinking we've actually become
so comforted by that way of thinking
that we wouldn't want God to break it
because it's what we've come to depend
on for companionship
there can be cycles of thinking that are
so engrained in the way that you process
that you depend on them for survival and
so when God actually challenges that
cycle you become resistant because
you're so used to it that you'd rather
be warm with the wrong thoughts that
have to get out from under the covers of
what you've always cuddled up with and
find a new way to think but in Jesus
name today I declare that the cycle is
broken because of the Word of God God
said if you turn to me even now
I'll freely pardon you I want to
recreate your mind I want to transform
the way you think I want to break your
cycle shove somebody say break the cycle
break the Sun hey thanks for watching if
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