X-factor
• Left you hanging but at least it awakens you to
what you want in life
• In future or right now!
• How would you describe yourself, what defines
you?
• How is love shown/expressed?
Talk 2 – How to get what you want
Youth Retreat, Ovoca Manor, 2006
Influence
Have you got what it takes
• You are what you eat! – who says that?
• You are what you think
Proverbs 23: 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
• I want this, I need that
• I can’t do it.
• Watch how you speak!
Have you got what it takes
• Rom 12:1,2
renewed
transformed
know
Thoughts
• Get the thinking RIGHT!
Thoughts
Emotions
Decision
DESTINY
ACTION
Character
James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted
from God; for God is incapable of being tempted by [what is]
evil and He Himself tempts no one. 14 But every person is
tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his
own evil desire (lust, passions). 15 Then the evil desire, when
it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully
matured, brings forth death.
Evil
desire
sin
death
Thought life
Belief
TRUTH
FREEDOM
LIES
BONDAGE
John 8:31 So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in
Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and
live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples.
32 And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you
free.
Isaiah 26:3 You will guard him and keep him in
perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its
inclination and its character] is stayed on You,
because he commits himself to You, leans on You,
and hopes confidently in You.
4 So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him,
lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the
Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].
Mind set – rom 5
5 For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy
desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but
those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the
Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.
6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy
Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here
and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both
now and forever].
Flesh
SPIRIT
Ephesians 6: 12
Mindset
• I’ve got my mind set on you (
Col 3:2 And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things),
not on the things that are on the earth. 3 For [as far as this world is concerned] you
have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. So Vs 5.
Thoughts
Emotions
DESTINY
Decision
ACTION
Character
Types of mind
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Wandering, wondering mind
Cannot concentrate
Too tired
I wonder this, I wonder that
Wondering leaves the person into
indecision and indecision leads to
confusion.
• Wondering, indecision, confusion
cannot receive from God.
• Brace it -1Peter 1:13
• Mark 11: 23-24
Mark 11: 23-24
23Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up
and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart
but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for
him. 24For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in
prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you,
and you will [get it].
Confused mind
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• Cousin of wandering
mind
• James 1:5-8
• Reasoning
• Rationalising
• Trust God, not human Proverbs 3:5 Lean on, trust in, and
be confident in the Lord with all
reasoning
your heart and mind and do not
rely on your own insight or
understanding.
Unbelief
• Israelites in the
wilderness
• What stopped them
getting into the promise
land.
• Harden hearts
• Hai meh
• Miracles in China
• Rom 4:18-21
18 [For Abraham, human reason for] hope
being gone, hoped in faith that he should
become the father of many nations, as he had
been promised, So [numberless] shall your
descendants be. 19 He did not weaken in
faith when he considered the [utter]
impotence of his own body, which was as
good as dead because he was about a
hundred years old, or [when he considered]
the barrenness of Sarah's [deadened]
womb. 20 No unbelief or distrust made him
waver (doubtingly question) concerning
the promise of God, but he grew strong and
was empowered by faith as he gave praise
and glory to God,21 Fully satisfied and
assured that God was able and mighty to
keep His word and to do what He had
promised.
OPPOSING FORCES
FAITH
UNBELIEF
Negative mind, I’m worried
• Negative mind- I can’t
• Trust
• Apart from God –
nothing, John 15:5
• Rethink – Phil 4:13
• Worried
• 1 peter 5:6-7
Mind of Christ
1 cor 2:16 For who has known or understood the mind
(the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide
and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have
the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the
thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.
Ezekial 36:26 A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I
put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
27And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk
in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.
• Rom 12: 2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age),
[fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial
customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire]
renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude],
so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and
acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is
good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
• Jeremiah 29:11
• Prosper you, not to harm you, give you Hope and a future
Promises
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Heb 13:5, never leave you or forsake you
Jeremiah 20:11, future
Mt 6:33, all these added to you
Phil 4:19 And my God will liberally supply ([i]fill to
the full) your every need according to His riches
in glory in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Cor 5:17, new
1 Cor 2:16 But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the
thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.
Questions
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What determines how you turn out (destiny)?
Do you believe that thoughts are important?
What are you thinking most of the time?
Am I telling myself lie? If so how can I change it?
What are you worried about? Write it down and
cast it to God. Can He help you?