The Battle of The Mind | Pastor Tatenda Makoni | Glorious Church

There has to be value on the things of God. There has to be value on the gospel. You must solicit value. [Music] There really is no room for subjectivity in the word unless if your opinion is aligned to the word of God. [Music] Hallelujah. Let's go to second Corinthians chapter number 10. [Music] Every child of God must be filled with the spirit. Those locations, those those people who who have those churches where they don't believe in the evidence of speaking in tongues, they are going to have a very tough time in the day of judgment.

They will have to explain themselves because you read the Bible and it's very clear, very clear. And if you have relatives who go to those, you need to open them the scriptures. They need to check out from those spaces where Satan will come there and will be doing whatever he wants. Full of fear, full of anxiety. There's no manifestation of the spirit. They don't hear the voice of God. There's no direction. Hallelujah. All right. This is post Apostle Paul. He's writing to the the one of the church that gave him problem. That was the church

in Corinth. The church in Corinth. I don't know. They Yeah. They were they were just I don't know. They were just they gave Apostle Paul a hard time. All right. And every time you will find that in when he writes to the church in Corinth, Apostle Paul has to literally talk about his rank. He always you know there are people who always want to challenge the pastor. I don't know ah where people I don't know people have this thing of trying to challenge dignitaries and authorities or they want to do their own thing. That was

the church in Corinth. And we find it in the church where people want to do their own thing and you know you there's a message in the house they have their own message they they do their own thing they they have their own way of doing things. So it's it's it's it was prevalent in the church and Apostle Paul constantly had to tell them you know what in terms of tongues I speak more in tonesues more than you. I speak all of you combined. He told them because the issue they were like no there's no

one who can speak in t most of the times he had to talk to them about everything right so maybe it's maybe you have started in verse one maybe it's it's the lord who wants us to start from there but I want you so sometimes in king James it can be very tough uh to understand put it maybe in a lighter version so he's writing to them again you know they had many issues and it was the most gifted church Right? And he says, "By humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you." Right? He

says, "I what? I appeal to you." He says, "I Paul who am what? Timid." Because that's who saying that. They were the ones saying that's why it's inverted commas there. Imagine they said who I am what timid as they say, right? timid when face to face with you because they say that Apostle Paul now when you are when we you meet us you are very what timid but when you write to us letters you are what you have you're very bold so we want you to come and you know those things that you are addressing

you know we want you to tell us in our face and not knowing that it's not to say he's timid he's just gentle He will break you down if there's someone apostle Paul will break you down. He was able to withstand Peter and tell him in the face. But obviously that's why he says when I came to you I could not come to you as unto spiritual but I came to you as babes. He was gentle to them. But you see that's the problem. They thought they they had grown. They thought they were they were

not they were not what babes. You see majority. How do you determine majority? How do you determine majority? Pastor Bala was telling us majority is seen when you allow the word of God to change you. And when you do the word of God without partiality in its fullness, maturity is in the doing. Not is in the knowing. It's in the doing. It's not about the anointing. It's not about the graces upon your life. It's about doing the word. Your doing of the word determines your maturity. If you don't do the word, as much as you

are gifted and you are talented and man, you can prophesy rain and thunder, if you don't do the word, you are still a babe in the things of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It says who I am timid when face to face but bold towards you when I'm away. Let's go to the next verse. It says I beg you right that when I come I might not have I might not have to be as bold as I expect to be towards some people who think we live by the standards of this world. So he says I don't

want to you know come with my whip and deal with you guys decisively just align just what yes because sometimes you can be told you know when you can be told and some of the things that you'll be told they will really hurt you they will really really hurt you because you'll be told the truth and sometimes it's not it's as blunt and it will really gut you. Hallelujah. So he's advising them. So he's trying I want to restrain myself. You I don't want to write to you the way I would write the I spoke

to the Galatians. You remember says you foolish foolish people who has bewitched you like how Jesus Jesus wasn't like that. He'll just tell you like it is right. So put it in the King James version. Let's put it in the King James version. Right. All right. And and and let's go to the to the to the next verse. It says, "For though we walk in the flesh," that's where our message is starting from. It says, "For though we what? We walk in the flesh." It's referring to say as much as we live a daily life

with our senses. When you go when you wake up, you go take a shower, you go to work, you're using your what? Your senses. You're driving, you're using your senses. is when he's referring to flesh, it refers to senses and human power or human strength. Right? He says as you walk, although we walk in the flesh, we don't walk when we obviously I'm talking about the Holy Spirit. I don't say everything you do it under the influence of the Holy Spirit like you're driving under the spirit of the spirit. No, no, no. It doesn't work

like that, right? You operate in the brains that God has given you, the intellect that God has given you. Don't try and spiritualize things that need the brains and don't try and do things that need the brain that needs spirituality. So there's always the church is always like that. When they want to manipulate people, they use spirituality. When they want to do their own thing, they use their mind. They use reasoning. Where it requires you to use faith, you use reasoning. Hallelujah. So he says, "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war."

He uses a term. He says, "We do not what? War after the flesh." So there is a war that is at hand. There is a war. Brothers and sisters, you are in war. Not just a battle in war. There is a war that you are in. Whether you know it or you don't know it. It's like what's happening in Iran right now with Israel. Whether someone in Iran knows it or doesn't know it, the the missiles are coming. The war is going, it does not stop because you do not know. If you do not know,

you will be a casualty because you will be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Apostle Paul is telling us we do as much as Jesus has died for us, he says we war, we war not after the flesh. So he's already telling you that it you cannot fight with what? With flesh and blood when So he's telling you that life is spiritual. Life is what? Spiritual. Can you just repeat? Say life is spiritual. Life is spiritual. Right? He says, "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not walk after the flesh." And

he puts those dots. You see those two dots, right? And let's go to the next verse. Says, "For the weapons, for the for the what? Huh? for the what? If you're in war, if you look at now with Israel and Iran, they're talking about weapons. They have this ballistic missile. They have this. That's the issue is now the one who's going to win the war is the one with the right weapons and is able to use the right weapons at the right time. War is won by strategy and ammunition. You can't just go say I

know we have we have some we want to fight them. We've got some few pistols. No, you can't. You have to know what type of weapon are you going to fight the adversary because your weapon must be able to deal with what the adversary is coming against you. See, for the weapons of our warfare, so we are in warfare. It is as long as in this life you will face troubles. You will face what? Yes. That's why you find what you're going through, you know, and you're like, God, if I come out of this, I'll

be fine. After that winning, that thing, you are testifying after a testimony, something starting again. It's always continuous. It's not like, you know, when you get born again is you're just going to be, you know, those songs, mata, you know, those songs at funerals where people after this thing that this battle that you're like, yo, if I'm done with this, I'll be done. You know, when you're like, if I finish my degree, I'm fighting this Goliath gold defeats. I'm fighting you know this job interview process you know when I'm done with this when I get

the offer letter you know I'm going to testify when you when you are done with that there is something that is waiting that is waiting for you warfare doesn't stop but we have a guarantee that we win in this war we have already won through Jesus Christ that has to be one thing that you know that we are going through the motions but we are going to win the fight. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. He says, "For the weapons of our warfare, they are not car." They are not what? They are not cannal. The weapons of

our warfare. So, we are in war, brothers and sisters. Says the weapons of our warfare. So, we have weapons. We have what? Weapons. So, as a child of God, you need to know that you have weaponry. Amen. You're full of weapons. And we, Apostle Paul tells us that I'm not ashamed of the gospel, right? I'm I'm not ashamed of the gospel, but it is the power of God unto salvation. Romans chapter number 1:16 is one of the weapons that God has given us. The gospel, the good news, the good news, it's a weapon. When you

receive Christ, you have come into the fatherhood of God and you have translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son. Now you're into this kingdom and this kingdom functions by light. You have you have you're separated from the trials, the misfortunes, the hurtings that the people of the world face. So number one, we have the gospel as a weapon. being born again. Everyone who has a a relationship with God, you will check in scripture. When calamity came, there was an exclusion on them. The biggest weapon is when we check out

of this world and the world has to deal with what was going to happen when we in heaven, when we out of here. So getting born again is a big flex. Amen. You see this church thing, this getting born again that you take for granted, you realize it when we are checking out of this world. The same way the people realized it when Noah closed the ark and it started raining. That's when people realize it. We never realize how important this thing is. When Jesus is coming, you've been like, "Yo, I made the greatest decision

of my life. Lord, I'm so you start you will cry. You know when we were praying today when we were just praying worshiing with with with with you know in the house of God I just had a a small glimpse. Some of the things you you can't even you you you can't explain. It's important that we value this relationship that we have with God. Brothers and sisters, what be what the Lord has prepared for us. Man, if you have seen glory, you have never seen anything like that before. The the magnitude of light that is

in that space. You you walk on light. I I I don't even know how to to to to understand it. It's like it's a raw stage of lights. You're walking on light. And I mean, every time you step on on on on on that on on that space where there's like you feel you you Some of these things you you you would wish God sometimes just reveal some of these things that you are preparing for us. So the reason why some of the things that we tell you these things is for you to just to

be stirred up. Everything in in heaven has a life of its own from the source. If you step on something you feel not you you your senses are I I don't know they are quickened by that space. light. It's full of light. That's why when you are saying I am the light of the world, people don't understand what that means. People don't understand. This is the one who dwells in an ano unapproachable light. Everything is light. You feel light. You feel the intensity of the God's light when you're in those spaces. I can tell you

many things, many things, many things. But anyway, our weapons of what? Of warfare. They're right. We have weapons. All right. I wanted to look at some of the weapons, right? So, we talked about the gospel is a weapon. Um, who knows what what what other weapons do we have as children of God? What other weapons? Shield of Yes. What other weapons? Prayer. Yes. The what? Do you see these weapons? Some of you, you don't even know that you have a weapon. You are in battle, but you don't even know how to fight. You don't even

know that you have weapons. You must know your weapons. How can you be a soldier who does not know their weapons? You start using an AK for fish fish. You must know your weapons. All right. Hallelujah. Let's go to some of the spiritual weapons that we have seen in scripture. Maybe we can go to Joshua chapter number 5 verse 13. Joshua chapter number 5:13. I'm just going to It says, "And the captain of the Lord's host or say verse 13, it says, "And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho and he lifted his

eyes and looked and behold they stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand and went out to him and he said thou for us for our adversary." So we are seeing a man with a what? With a sword, right? I think in Genesis we find that when they ate of the tree and they fell, they were cast out of the garden and then the Lord put a cherubim which had a sword that the Bible says was turning in each and every direction right to guard the what the space the garden

of Eden. So we are seeing a sword. So a sword in the spirit. So sometimes you actually realize even when men of God are praying for people they act like they are doing you know it's it's not to say they they they are watching a lot of kung fu and they want to no no no no it's the spirit gives them a way to administer or a way to minister and sometimes you will find that you are using a sword in the realm realms of the what? Of the spirit. You're cutting things. You're dealing with

stuff. You're removing stuff. You're dealing with stuff. So, you find a sword. When you look at scripture, I'll show you a lot of scriptures where you see that a sword is is is one of the weapons that is found. So, you have a sword. Say, I have a sword. I have a sword. The sword of the spirit, which is the word of God that proceeded from your mouth. The word there is tomah, a double-edged sword. So you have a sword in your mouth, but you think it's just for lip gloss. That's what you just think.

It's just ah my mouth and it's a sword in the spirit. So sometimes with the negative things, we are cutting away our lives. We are cutting away our destinies instead of cutting away the negativity. We are shortcircuiting ourselves with the words that come out of your mouth. Do you see how God your mouth is is a sword in the spirit in the natural is just a voice but in the spirit is a sword. Say life is spiritual. Numbers chapter number 22:23. Numbers chapter number 22:23. It says, "And the earth saw the angel of the Lord

standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand." So you see angels you when you see that they carry swords, right? It says drawn in his hand and the earth turned aside of the way and went into the field and Balam smought it to turn into the way. So we are seeing a swore an an angel of the Lord having a what? A sword here, right? Let's go to um 2 Corinthians chapter number 6:7. 2 Corinthians chapter number 6:7 it says it says by the word of truth. All right. By the word of

truth. By the power of God. By the armor of what? Righteousness on the right hand and on the left. So righteousness is an armor. righteousness, your ability to stand in the presence of God with no inferiority, with no any condemnation, that is armor. It's a breastplate. It's a weapon. It's a spiritual weapon. Righteousness. So when people talk about righteousness, you they are trying to tell you you've got a weapon in the spirit because the accuser of the brethren will not be able to throw fiery darts against you. The righteousness armor will protect you from condemnation,

from fear, from worry, from unworthiness, from looking down upon yourself. Righteousness is an armor. Romans chapter number 13:12. Look at this one, right? It says the night is what? Far spent. The night is what? I think we Jesus said someone we might have seen that in in in the days of Jesus where someone said the night is far spent. Maybe let's go and abide with you. You know, I think they were walking with Jesus on their journey to Eminence. It says the night is far spent. The day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off

the works of darkness. Says the night is far spent. Right? Let us therefore cast off the works of He says you we cast off the what? Casting is the what? It's a very strong term. We cast off the what? The works of darkness. Says let us He's talking to the church in Rome. He says let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the what? The armor of what? That's why we tell you light is important. Darkness refers to ignorance. Light refers to revelation. Light the entrance of thy word. It brings

light. It brings light. It's an armor in the spirit. The more you know, the more you are empowered. the more you're able to use the light to your advantage. That's why Jesus says you will know the truth and the truth will make you free. You come out, you will come out from whatever. It doesn't matter. Listen, it doesn't matter what disease. It doesn't matter what devil that the Satan can put on you as long as you increase the light. You don't deal with darkness by trying to cast out darkness. The darkness come out. No, you

put more light. You add more light. Intensity of light, light, understanding, knowledge. It's a light issue. It's always a light issue. If you're having something that you are dealing with, increase the light. Increase the intake of the word so that it can be able to deal with the threshold of what is fighting you. more light, more understanding, more conviction because light brings conviction. The armor of light, you know what the word of God says. You are fully convicted. So when sickness comes, you don't say, "No, you know the doctors are saying you say in the

name of Jesus, I deal with this." You're dealing with it because you are walking, you are flowing from light. Come on. Let's let's go back to 2 Corinthians chapter number 10. And and it's important this issue of knowing that we are at war and we need to know that. I think pastor Palisa gave us the the scripture where he says we must resist the devil. We are the ones who resist the devil. We are the ones who what? No, you are the one who resists the devil. But it takes you to be spiritual to be

able to identify this is the work of Satan. So you are the one who has to resist him. Says if you resist him, he will flee. So if you are resisting, you are able to identify Satan and you are speaking the word of God. You are telling Satan, I identify you. I see what you're doing in my family. I tell you, stop in the name of Jesus. I speak that no one will die before their time. I speak that sickness will not evolve. What are you doing? You're resisting the devil. Because Satan is not going

to stop because Jesus died for you and he defeated him. He will try. He's like a roaring lion seeking whom he might what? Devour. So you need to know then I need to resist him. Don't run away from him. Resist him. Amen. Don't give excuses for him. Resist him. Because that's the name. That's the name of the game. Matthew chapter number 11:12. We need to know that we are in war, brothers and sisters. We're at war. Matthew chapter number 11:12. It says from the days of what? John the what? Baptist. From the days of John

the Baptist until now, you know, from the days that John the Baptist started preaching about the coming of the Lord Jesus because John the Baptist is the forerunner who ushered the world about the coming of Jesus. says from the days of not even from the days of Jesus from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. That term sufferth violence is referring to war. Is referring to what? Yes. It's referring to war. It's a they are in warfare. And he says, "And the violent, the ones who are war ready,

the ones who are what? Who have determined in their hearts that they will be the last men standing. They are the ones who have determined that they will win no matter what. The ones who know that we don't fight for victory. We fight from a point of victory. The ones who understand what Jesus came to do." He's talking about people who have made up their minds that they are going to win no matter what. They're violent. He says they take it by force. It's a violent kingdom. It's a kingdom for militant people, not for civilians.

It's for militant people who are willing to fight at all costs. When Satan comes, says, "Listen, I'm ready for you any time. I'm willing to do everything. I'll use my fist. I'll use everything. If I have to bite you, I will do that. Violent. You know when someone is violent, they have no peace. They want problems. That's what the Bible. They want problems. They are looking for pro. They are looking the same way Satan goes about like a rolling line looking whom he might devour. The Christian is also looking for where Satan is and be

able to deal with him. It reminds me of the mighty man when they looked for a lion. What can I do? That's what Samson was like that. What can what how can I just be naughty and do something? Deal and find an occasion with the Philistines. Let me do something where how can you find a lion in a pit and you follow it? I mean follow a lion on in a pit and kill it. Those were the mighty men. They were violent violent men is for the kingdom. It's not for sisses, people who feel sorry.

Oh my life, oh this. You're always No, no, no. It's not for big babies. Satan will eat you for lunch, isn't it's not me who's just he's like a rolling lion seeking whom he might what? So it's you have to be strong. It's for militant, for soldiers, not for people who always think they in their fields. people who are in their fields. This kingdom is not for you. You always be in your fields where Satan is Satan don't stop for nothing. You would think Satan will stop like yo you are going through depression. You are

in ICU. I will leave you. He will follow you in ICU. Imagine you would have thought that this person is on life support. Please Satan doesn't care. So you have to be also militant and identify him and deal with him decisively. That's what Apostle Paul is saying. Says and the violent take it by force. They take it from you by force. You see because the the violent they know what belongs to them. They're violent. They know what belongs to them. They take it by force. They don't beg. They don't cower. 2 Corinthians chapter number 10.

Our weapons of warfare, they are not canal. They are not what? So, do you see that? It's referring to a mental state where this battle is won. So, it's not like going into the high mountains where you're trying to fight devils. You know, there are people say we are going to go to the gates of the nation. the gates of the city. We're going to go by the tall gates and we're going to pray. H Christians, Christians, I think they just want to travel. Brother Max, they must just say we want to go to just

say you want to travel when you tell we want to go by the gates, you know, because the the port of entries by the border that's where the the spirits are. So we have to go there and we we pray against those spirits that they will not come maybe from Zimbabwe and Mozambique to enter into into South Africa. Christians they will come up with all kinds of things. No say our weapons of warfare they are not canal. They are mighty through God. They are not canal. Mighty through God. Mighty through what? Through God. Mighty through

God. Through the pulling down. Pulling down of what? Strongholds. These are mental barriers that have grown that have been built over a long period of time. Mental strongholds, mental barriers where you build a castle around you. Your way of thought, your system of thought, mental barriers, strongholds. They are strong and they are holding the way you have grown up like ah that's who they are. They are an introvert. They are shy. Leave them alone. Don't touch you. You form mental barriers and that's how you live your life. You live your life like that and the

people tolerate you. That's how strongholds are built because they built on the acceptance of people. The kingdom of God is not in the realm of acceptance. The kingdom of God is in the realm of conforming and transforming. to the image of his son. That's the kingdom of God. But you see the world what we live in, they accept us. Oh no, he's a he's a shy person. You know, they are like that. And people have to like try and you know run around you. They have to do do all kinds of things and you know

to make you come alive. No, no, no, no. Those are strongholds where you're like I mean I have anger. I have anger. No one will talk to me. You bang the doors and people like let's not. Those are what? Those are strongholds where they will allow you to just bang the doors everywhere. They just your roommates allowing you to do that. They build strongholds. Your colleagues everywhere be like that's that's who he is. Those are this is the kingdom is the weapons is to pull down. They must be what? Not to pull them up. We

pull them what? Down. It's like a fortified city. You have built a fortified. These are walls around you where you're like, I don't trust people. I don't trust people. This is my life. How can people want to know what they're into my business? No, I don't trust people. Don't trust people. No. The kingdom when it comes, it wants to come and you want you to be an open book because that's the realm. It's in those strengths that we find outside the parameters of God's help. Those are the ones that God wants to deal with. Man,

I said something strong here. It's in those things that we f we we find strength in that are not given to us by God through his word that those are the ones and they've built you to become the personality you are in today. And the world has accepted you but according to the kingdom standard that is not enough. It might be enough to your boss, but in the kingdom of God, it's not enough. Because you have to conform and to be like Jesus. So those are the strongholds. You have to build because that's your safety

in your you when when you are triggered, that's how you quickly behave. You go into that space, you take out your spikes. God is saying I don't want you to take you don't when you when they harass you you don't take no spikes you relax you are full of love you are full of patience and you're willing to conform that's the Bible says don't conform to this world but be transformed when the Bible is saying be transformed is telling you that you are not a fully developed vessel you have not transformed says be transformed by

the renewing of your mind so that you may be able to what? To experience the good will, the acceptable will and the perfect will of God. That's what God is concerned about. You conforming to his will over your life because your relations with human beings in the corporate setting, that's that's not the will of God. It's just your your dealing in the flesh, in the natural, in the canal going to work. God wants his purpose and he knows if you conform to the image of my son. Everyone has to conform to Jesus you'll be able

to fulfill his mission 100% the way Jesus did it. So so all of us we have to be like all of us will be like little Jesuses in our personality so that we can meet the requirement of what God requires. These our weapons they are not mighty through God. Do you see not through your personality, not through your philosophy, from vit not through from your rich background. He says through what? Through God. You put everything is God. You through the Holy Spirit. You see, if you can change your mind, you can change your life. There's

no spirit from Limpopo. Don't lie for people. Don't lie to people. They are not words spoken over your mom or whatever. Don't lie for people. Change your mind, man. Change your mind, transform. It's light. That's why I'm telling you the armor of light. Even if there was a witch who spoke and did a concoction over you, when you introduce light into that space because everything bows at the name of Jesus. Jesus is the light of the world. Everything will bow. Everything bows. But it's your cooperation. You have to cooperate. You have to know I'm developing.

I'm not a a fully polished vessel. I'm willing to transform into the image of his son. If the Bible says rejoice with them that rejoice, rejoice. If the Bible says dance, follow people who are doing well. If you have seen people with humility, follow them. Go and give a gift, a grace. That's what we used to do. I don't know how you generation do things. When we would identify graces, we would go amongst the brethren. We would not even go to them. We would go and say, you know, I see something that is in this

person. Let me give this is someone something even a dollar something to partake of a grace. But you guys you see graces amongst you. You see perfections amongst you and you treat them cheaply. You don't understand spiritual things. You don't understand that a tithe removing your time giving to a brother can turn you into another individual. You you see spiritual you have to learn to transact spiritually. Learn to transact spiritually. Be spiritual. Don't be canal. I know technology has brought so much canality. Everything is so canal to you. Transact spiritually. Learn to do that. We

used to do that. Now I see this. There's a virtue here because how long how many years is it going to take for me to be able to be at this level of patience? and I need it for my life because most of the challenges I have is issues of patience and it hurts me inside and I'm mentally affected. I need to partake this grace. He says for the weapons of our warfare they are not but they are mighty through God through the pulling down of what strongholds. Why? Why is it the battle is in

the mind? Why is it so? Because that's the only place that Satan knows that you can turn your brain off. Nah, you're too slow for me. Because you see that that's that's where most of the attack because your brain is always working. Your brain is always working. Your brain is always working. That's why you find me most of the times, pastor, when I have clients when when life has has dealt with them in the wrong space, they end up saying I want to go to be checked at a why because they can't compute anymore. Their

brain is tired. So they trying to find a space where they will just live outside their brain. That's what they want. They just want where there are no issues, where their brain doesn't have to exercise, where their thoughts don't have to function, where they are nothing. They just in a vegetative state, where they given those drugs so that they can be eat so they don't think because that's the realm where Satan attacks. That's why there's so much emphasis by Apostle Paul. What does James say? Where is it? James chapter number is it James chapter number

three? Let's look at James. I want you to see this. I want you to see James chapter number one. Can you put it in the NLT? I want you to look at this. Mimi. James chapter number 1 21. I want you to look at this. Oh boy. Right. It says this is profound. He says, "So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, right? And humbly accept the word of God, right? And humbly what? You have to be humble." He says, "Humbly accept the word of God." The word God has planted in

your what? For it has the power to what? So do you see that there is soul salvation there? Do you see that the soul has to be saved? Yes. So, do you see that the soul has to be saved through the word of God? The spirit man has been saved by us accepting Jesus as your Lord and personal savior. The soul has to be saved. He says, "Work out your what?" The soloulish salvation. You can't work out the Jesus one because it's already been done. The soloulish one. Cuz that's what you get to deal with

every day. As much as you are born again, you have to deal with your mind. You have to deal with your life. Everything functions through your brain. And that's what he wants to attack so that you can collapse inside. Our weapons of warfare, they are not carnal. They are mighty through God through the pulling down of strongholds. Let's go to the let's go to to to our theme scripture. 2 Corinthians chapter number 10 is in the mind. Weapons of warfare they are not carnal but they are mighty through God through the pulling down of strongholds.

Right? And do you see that he he puts those dots that semicolon and he puts a bracket right and what does he say? Casting down. Casting what? Down. Not casting up. Casting what? Casting down. What? Imaginations. Imagine. Casting what? Imagine what? Imagine. Imagination. [Music] It's a whole world because you think in picture. We think in picture. Casting down imaginations. Oh boy. Because most of the times every thought crystallizes into an image. Every thought that you think about if fear just comes to you, it will not just come without without a what an image. It will

always come with images. And we are in that realm. If you think of getting fired, you just see what what what is the image? You don't see them saying I fire you. You just see yourself or going back to on foot. You see yourself by the border. There's always you always see because that's that's the realm that we are in. Casting down imaginations, images. They cast down negative images. And do you see that it's you you you don't entertain you what you cast it off the way you'd cast what devils you don't negotiate say you

know you demon you know I I I I I beat you you know please behave no you cast you're violent so it says there are images that come to you that's the same way when a snake comes into your house you just say Oh, you know, it's a python. You know, man, you you take out everything. You're willing even to take a laptop and hit that thing. You're willing to take everything, the most important thing, cuz you know this thing can't stay. We can't be in the same space. You don't care what if it's a

phone, you say, "Listen, iPhone 16, it was good having you. But as for now, I will deal with this thing. You're cutting out images." That's the same way. You you do not entertain. This way Americans don't entertain terrorists. When they hear there's a terror attack they they throw they escalate. So if there is a thought that comes to you an image of worry of you doing you don't just entertain it. You see that's how people are depressed because most of the images that have come to them they have entertained. Now they have more voting rights

in your mind. So even anything even if a bed is fine fear will just come like but guys how can I just be afraid of a bed because the fear has more voting rights in your mind casting down images. These are thoughts. These are thoughts of the mind that create mental pictures. Your imagination is very important. Your imagination because your imagination is important for conception to conceive things in the spirit. your imagination. It's it's when you read Isaiah number 26:3 says, "He will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on the Lord." That

term mind, there's the same word for imagination. Your mind is your imagination. The things that come to you and is responsible for conception, for birthing stuff, it is the womb of the spirit, your im your imagination. That's how things are birthed into the realms of the spirit for them to manifest on the face of the earth through your conception, through your mind. So it's important to allow the word of God to dwell in you richly so that you are word of God minded. So that you are what? Word of God minded, not negativity minded. Some

people are just full of fear. They are full of worry. They are full of anxiety. They just think their life is not going on. How do they come? No, they had the wrong thoughts. They had the wrong thoughts coming into them. Wrong thoughts. And what happens is maybe Genesis chapter number 6:5. So what happens is when when you look at how thoughts work is Jesus gives a a parable and because the term imaginations there is talking about negative imaginations when we're reading in 2 Corinthians these are demonic imaginations they are images that are influenced by

devils. So people sometimes they don't know how Satan is working against them. They just think maybe there's a dragon, you know, that's going to come and, you know, most people who are being used by Satan, they don't even know because they don't know how he operates. When we saying he's a roaring lion, you think you're going to see a roaring lion trying to devour you or whatever. He uses the realm of thoughts. When you remember when when when when you read in Genesis when he went to Eve, one of the first things that happened is

he said that, you know, did God say don't eat of the fruit? He says no. Did God say don't touch of the fruit? And then she responded and whatever she communicated to her through the senses through a a sense of what of hearing, right? So she spoke and one of the first things that the enemy did when you read that chapter in chapter number three, he says, "No, if you if you eat of the tree, you will not die." Yeah. Right. So he's using the sense of what? Hearing. So it's important for you when Satan

wants to come and try to attack you, he will use your hearing because it's also how faith comes. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. So negative things also which is the contrary of faith that is doubt, worry, anxiety and all the other cousins that come with it. They come by hearing. Yeah. So it's important. That's why God says don't be unequally yolked with unbelievers because unbelievers don't speak the word of God. They don't have belief in their system. God is very important in terms of what you hear. That is the first

thing because evil communication corrupts what? Good morals. Evil what? Communicate. It says communication. This is we are in the telecoms business. I feel so rich right now. He says we are in the what? In the telecoms. He says what? So there was an audio media. There was a what? There was an audio that came to Eve. He says when the audio came says you know you will not die. You will be actually good. You'll be like God to know between good and what and evil. And then he says after the audio came there was a

visual. And then she saw the tree. She could not have seen the tree before she had. She couldn't have seen the tree before she watch. It says when she saw the tree then the thoughts now began to crystallize in her mind. So she says when she looked at the true tree it was able it was able to make one wise. That's the imagination. That's imagination is at work. And then once the imagination has come Satan will just remove himself and then will do like this. And then because he knows that he has planted the im

the imagination because imagination enables you to do that's why Einstein says he says he says he says knowledge is powerful but imagination is better than knowledge it's more powerful because once it's in your mind it will cause you to do as a man thinkketh in his heart. That's what we call imagination. as a man thinkketh his imagination right now if I say that's how quick and it's so quick at the speed of light where were we and he says and and God so what what I was trying to say he says once that thought has

come Jesus then talks to the disciples how the demonic kingdom works he says you know when a spirit has been cast out of a man what happens is the spirit the evil spirit will go out into the wilderness and it will come and what and check. Uh if guys you need to understand how the realm of the spirit operates. It says it goes out into the wilderness. Let's say there's a deliverance here. It says it will go out into the wilderness and it will wander there, right? And then it will come sometime to check. It

will come to what? To check. He will come to check to do some checks to see how is this person because what happens is when that spirit has come away when he's coming to check he's coming with the same temptation. Hey, I think I need to be paid for this sermon finance brother job because he says it will come. It will come and it will go and it will come and check if that place has been occupied. It comes to check if the place has been what? Occupied. So you have to occupy yourself with what?

the word with another spirit because the words that I speak to you they are yes and two two men can stay in one household that's how it works so so it goes and it checks but it says if it comes and it sees that you are still doing the same thing you are not changing there's no transformation what it will do then now is it it will go out you know and it will The devil is a bad devil. What it will do? It will go and fetch. It will do a broadcast to say guys

we have found a location. It will fetch stuff that you didn't even have issues that you didn't have to worry. So when when it does that it will fetch more and then there will come more. It says what? Seven seven more demons. So it's telling you how the kingdom of God operates. When thoughts come into your mind unchecked, there's a tendency of keep on having the same thoughts. They keep on growing. That's why you see says and the God saw the wickedness right of men was great on the earth and every imagine every imagination of

their thoughts of his heart was only was only evil continually it was just flowing they were cruising nicely because that's how that kingdom operates because it will see that oh no you when you entertain fear but I think worry can deal with you as well. I think I think you because my cousin worry can be able to deal okay worry has come like ha but okay anxiety can also a death a sickness. Ah guys this this is a good this is a good place we we are fine here. How how do you explain that a

man had 4,000 demons? How do you explain that a man had 4,000 demons? How do you explain that? Because them boys kept on coming. The boys came on coming and there was no defense system. There was no defense system that you see that that's how it operates. So that's why it's important to have the word of God. That's how it operates. When they fell, you saw one of they were they heard the voice of God. They was afraid and then they saw that they were naked and ashamed. I mean in a small space of time

them boys were already there every imagination that's how it works negative imagination dangerous you think when you see someone eventually committing let's say suicide or someone shooting someone it it's not that day or when someone jumps off the tower it's not that day there was a day where thoughts come and they also come very subtle they will not say I want you to kill yourself no no no no no no he won't do that it comes over a long period of time very patient very he's a very patient individual we lack patience we lack endurance

this is and and so so so it's one of those things that uh you find in the scriptures. Hallelujah. Are you still there? So imagination is very important. So the battle that we have with Satan is the battle of the mind, right? The battlefield is the mind. So you have to change um the way you think. Hallelujah. Let's go to the back. Let's let's anyway. Thank you for watching. We hope that you were blessed. Please feel free to like, to comment, and to share the content with your friends and family. If you'd like to partner

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