I'm About to Lose My Mind Up in Here

Jesus came so lost people could be saved. This church is not a cruise ship where we lay by the pool. This is a battleship and for 23 years we've been on mission for Jesus. For 23 years we've been worshipping Jesus, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, reaching lost people, baptizing people, helping people know God and grow in God, discover a purpose and make a difference. We've been on the mission of Jesus. For one reason, to see more changed lives. His name is something we cannot explain. That happens when we proclaim your great name. Your great name we love to call. Your name is something we cannot explain. That happens when we proclaim your great name. Your great name. King Jesus, no other name. King Jesus, God's stronger when we call on you. Please change us when we call on your name. Thank you Jesus. Come on we sing we love. We love to call your name. Your name we cannot explain. That happens when we proclaim your great name. Your great name. Thank you Jesus. King Jesus, no other name. King Jesus, God's stronger when we call on you. Please change us when we call on your name. King Jesus, no other name. King Jesus, God's stronger when we call on you. Please change us when we call on your name. There is power in the name of Jesus.

There is power in your name. Come on can we sing this out? There is power in your name. There is power. There is power in the name. There is power in the name. There is power in the name. There is power in the name. Yes, indeed change. Say thank you. Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you. I am set free. I am set free. I am set free. I am set free. Say it when I call your name. Say it when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. When I call your name. When I call your name. When I call your name. When I call your name. When I call your name. Thank you, change. Say, when I call your name, oh Jesus, when I call your name. Come on, with every hand lifted in this building, can we give the Lord a shout of praise? He is worthy.

Jesus, we look to you. Jesus, we look to you. Jesus, you're all I want. Come on, sing when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. When I call your name. When I call your name. When I call your name. When I call your name. When I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. Jesus, when I call your name. Yes, you are finally coming. When I call your name. When I call your name, Jesus. Darkness front for cover. But still the miracle that I just can't get over. My name is registered in heaven. I believe in signs and wonders. And I have resurrection power. But still the miracle that I just can't get over. My name is registered in heaven. Yes, my praise belongs to you forever. This is my testimony from death to life. Because grace rewrote my story.

I'll testify. Why Jesus Christ so righteous, I'll justify. This is my testimony. This is my testimony. Oh, I'm alive. Come together, sons and daughters. Bought with blood and washed in water. Sing the praises of the spirit, son and father. Our God will finish what he started. Yes, our God will finish what he started. This is my testimony from death to life. Because grace rewrote my story. I'll testify. Why Jesus Christ so righteous, I'll justify. This is my testimony. This is my testimony. Oh, I'm alive. If I'm not dead, you're not done. Come on, believe. Greater things are still to come. Oh, I believe. If I'm not dead, you're not done. Greater things are still to come. Oh, I believe. Greater things are still to come. Oh, I believe. Greater things still to come. Oh, I believe. This is my testimony from death to life. Because grace rewrote my story.

I'm justified by Jesus Christ, the righteous. I'm justified. This is my testimony. This is my testimony. This is my testimony from death to life. Because grace rewrote my story. I'm justified by Jesus Christ, the righteous. I'm justified. This is my testimony. This is my testimony. Yes. I'd like to invite our prayer team to come forward. This time, we are a church that believes in the power of prayer. And if you have a need today, we'd love to pray with you, no matter how big or how small your need is, it matters to God. So as we sing this next song, if you like prayer, all you have to do is step out of your seat, come forward. Let's believe God for a miracle in your life. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. When the darkness surrounds me, I can still see your face. I will follow your cloud, Lord, or the fire by night. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. Come on, church, will you do this with us? Come on, let's lift our hands.

I lift my hand to sing out your praise. I give my song to you for all of my days. I love your voice and I love your name. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. When the darkness surrounds me, I can still see your face. I will follow your cloud, Lord, or the fire by night. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. Come on, church, let's lift it up. I lift my hand to sing out your praise. I give my song to you for all of my days. I love your voice and I love your name. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. Oh, we worship you today. Oh, we love you today. Oh, there's no one like you. There's nothing besides you. We can put our hope and our trust in you, God.

Come on, somebody, if you believe this, sing. Where you go, I will follow. Where you go, I will follow. Where you go, I will follow you. Follow you. Where you go, I will follow. Where you go, I will follow you. Where you go, I will follow you. Follow you. I lift my hands to sing out your praise. I give my soul to you for all of my days. I love you boys and I love your name. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. You're so easy to worship. You're so easy to praise. Oh, we praise you. Oh, we worship you. We magnify you God, oh there's no one like you, none more able, none more righteous, none more holy, God. You give life, you are love, you bring light to the darkness, you give hope, you restore every heart that is broken. And great are you Lord, it's your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise, pour out our praise. It's your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise to you only. You give life, you are love, you bring light to the darkness, you give hope, you restore every heart that is broken. And great are you Lord, it's your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise, pour out our praise. It's your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise to you only.

It's your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise, pour out our praise. It's your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise to you only. How many of you agree that our God deserves all the praise? That he deserves all the honor? In this moment we can join heaven in worship, we can join creation in worship. I don't want us to miss the opportunity. Come on, will you worship with us? All the earth will shout your praise. Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing. Lift it high. Great are you Lord. Come on, let's raise the volume in this place. Come on, lift it up. All the earth will shout your praise. Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing. Great are you Lord. All the earth will shout your praise. Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing. Great are you Lord. It's your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise, pour out our praise. It's your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise to you only. Sing great are you Lord. Sing great are you Lord. Sing great are you Lord. Great are you Lord. Come on, would you give him praise here today? Come on, he's a great God. You're a great Lord. We love you. You're worthy of all of our praise.

You're worthy of all of our honor. God, be glorified today in this place. Speak to our hearts. Lord, change us in your presence. We pray in Jesus' name. Come on give God praise one more time. Amen. Church family, before you are seated let's take a few moments and find a few faces around you that you don't recognize introduce yourself and l earn their names and take some time to connect. All right, well, welcome to People's Church, everybody. Hey, my name is Rob Champion. I'm the campus pastor here at the Oklahoma City campus. Whether you're joining us online or in the house today, we are family. So glad to have you with us today. I do want to take a moment just to welcome all of our first time guests. Come on, People's Church family. Would you show them some love today? Welcome to People's Church. Well, People's Church family, you are joining us on a very special day, a day when we're going to be dedicating some babies to the Lord. And so, yeah, so it's a great day. And so today we have one family dedicating their child to the Lord. And so as I call your name,

I want you to make your way onto the stage. We have the parents, Jason and Mary, with baby Emmett. Oh, come on, you can do better than that. Come on, show them some love. Love it. We have a beautiful baby boy here, Emmett. And so we're excited to dedicate him to the Lord and Jason and Mary today. But Church family, baby dedication is a very biblical thing. So throughout scripture, you see oftentimes there were people who were taken to the temple as a child to be dedicated to the Lord. In fact, our Savior Jesus was brought to the temple in Jerusalem by his parents, Joseph and Mary, to be presented and dedicated to the Lord, exactly what this couple is doing here today with baby Emmett. And baby dedication isn't just about the baby. Although we're dedicating them to the Lord, it's also about the parents. And so Jason and Mary today, it is a commitment that you're gonna raise Emmett in God's ways, a commitment that you are gonna model to the best of your ability, what it means to be a fully devoted Christ follower and love him the way that Christ loves him, to the best of our ability that we can through Christ working through us, through the power of his Holy Spirit. But we're gonna take a moment to dedicate baby Emmett

to the Lord. So at this time, family, you can go ahead and pass Emmett to our leader there. Church family, if you're comfortable and you wanna stretch a hand towards this family, we're gonna pray over them today as they dedicate baby Emmett to the Lord. Father, we thank you. First and foremost, Lord, we pray for Jason and Mary. We pray that Lord, you would give them wisdom. Holy Spirit, that you would fill them. Lord, that they would have insight from you, God, that they would pour out the love of God, Lord, as they lead and raise Emmett in your ways. Touch him, Lord. And Lord, we pray for Emmett, this child that's so full of potential, the God you created. He is a gift from God, not only to this parents, but Lord, for the gift to our world. And Lord, we know that there's so much inside of him. We pray that you would use him, that he would know you at a young age. And Father, he would grow up to serve you fully with all of his entire heart, and he would love you. The Lord God, with all his heart, mind, soul, and strength, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. And amen.

Yeah, put your hands together. All right. So family, we have a small gift on behalf of the church. It's this baby's first Bible. Our prayer is that as you read this Bible to baby Emmett, that you would be reminded to just raise him according to God's word for the rest of his days. Amen. And we're gonna pray with you and your family as they exit the stage today. Come on, would you put your hands together one more time? Celebrate this amazing family. Amen, amen, amen. Well, church family, it's been amazing seeing how God has been moving and changing lives here at People's Church. At the end of 2025, we saw over 3,200 people water baptized over the last three years in our church. And then in April, we saw thousands of people come and attend our services on Easter weekend, and hundreds of people give their lives to Christ. And after Easter. We've already seen 148 people get water baptized, and so I want you to check out this video. I had been going through some stuff in life where I had strayed away from my relationship with God and, you know, I wanted to restart that journey. I thought that my life was over, you know, with no job, two kids. I was somebody who struggled for a very long time with depression and just going through bad things in life, and I was very mad at God for a very long time. Like, I come to church on Sunday, but Monday I'm back doing what Ashley wanted to do. And I have been feeling empty, and I couldn't quite understand where the emptiness was coming from.

The closer I got to God, the more I started to understand the things that I was going through. And as I got deeper into the church and deeper into my faith, that emptiness went away. Growing in this relationship, I have to be obedient. I have to follow in what He's asking me to do. And they were talking about baptism, and it wasn't even a decision. It was just something that I know I had to do. As I was going in the water, I was very anxious and overwhelmed. As I was coming out, I felt very loved, and I was overwhelmed in a different manner. I didn't hesitate to go under that water, and it feels great coming up. It's an overwhelming feeling of just, like, joy and being calm. I don't know. It just felt like a hug. It's just like a ring. It just signifies that you're publicly doing this, and you're committed to what God is asking you to do. I'm all in. Like, I thought I was all in before, but I'm all in this time. Just do it. Just allow God to move in your life. When you're ready, that there will be so many people here to be there for you when you are. Come on, church. That's what it's all about. Come on. It's all about more changed lives. And we are so excited for all of you who are going to be taking your next step in following Christ and going public in your faith through water baptism next Sunday during Mother's Day. Hey, we know that God is going to move powerfully in your life. And, church family, I just want to say thank you for faithfully giving so that we can continue to see more lives changed. Father, we thank you for all the lives that have been changed. And, Father, we pray for all of those who are going to take their next step to go public in their faith next Sunday. God, I pray that you would help them, God, to stay committed and devoted, to declare to the world all that you've done in their life. Lord, I pray that you would bless them as they take their next steps and continue to serve you as Lord of their life. In Jesus' name. Amen. ♪ Music ♪

Well, hello, People's Church family. How are we doing today? Are you doing good? It's really good to see you. It really, really is. Success starts on Sundays in God's house. Lifting up the name of Jesus. Hearing the Word of God preached. Your week's going to be better because you started it off in God's house. Lifting Jesus up. Welcome to all of our locations today. We're so glad to have you with us. It's a special season at People's Church. I love this time of the year. As a matter of fact, my daughter has finished up her freshman year of college and she's on her way back home right now. Praise the Lord. Can't wait to see my baby girl. Today, we are continuing our series titled, Saved But Struggling. Today, I want to talk to you from this thought. I'm about to lose my mind up in here. Up in here. A couple of weeks ago, we studied Romans chapter 7, verse 22 and 23. If you missed that teaching. If you missed it, listen, this series has been powerful. Get on YouTube and watch the messages. I unpacked Romans chapter 7. Today, let me read verse 22. For in my inner being, I delight in God's law, verse 23. But I see another law at work in me, Paul says, waging war against the law of my mind. Against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. You see, you can be saved but still struggling in your mind. You can be saved and your mind still be in bondage. be saved and your life still controlled with carnal worldly thinking. You see when you come to faith in Christ you're immediately saved but you still have your old worldly thinking

and worldly thinking leads to a worldly life. Defeated thinking leads to a defeated life. Many people never, I've seen it, been serving God many years, pastoring for many years, many people never truly understand the power of their thinking. So they live saved but they also live defeated and a worldly life because what controls your mind controls your life. This is not my opinion, this is what the Bible teaches us. We can see it here in Romans chapter number eight, that very next chapter, verse number five, Paul writes, those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires but those who live in accordance with the spirit have their minds set on what the spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death but the mind governed by the spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile toward God. It does not submit to God's law nor can it do so. The mind controlled by the flesh produces a life of death and defeat but the mind controlled by the spirit, Paul writes, produces an abundant life, a life of peace. Notice Paul does not say life and peace come from your environment or your bank account or your opportunities or your connections. No, no, no, no, no. He said it comes from your mindset. If you don't like the direction your life is going in, the first place to check is your thinking. The battle is not out there, the battle is in here. The direction of your life is determined by what's controlling your thought life. That's why you can love God but still live a struggling life because you've given God your heart but you have not given God your mind. You're saved but you're struggling with your old thinking patterns. You're struggling because your thoughts have been shaped by the environment you grew up in. Your thoughts have been shaped and you're struggling because they've been shaped by the experiences you've had in life. You find yourself saved but struggling because your thoughts have been shaped by culture. You find yourself saved but struggling because your thoughts have been shaped by the words people have spoken over your life. And your life will always move in the direction of your strongest thoughts. Wrong thoughts equals wrong direction. Wrong beliefs equals wrong behavior. I think about my own life. After I got saved, I still had wrong thinking and I had my life because I had wrong thinking, my life was headed in the wrong direction. I remember after I got saved, I thought I would always keep looking at pornography. There's no way I'll get out of this addiction, saved but struggling. After I got saved, I thought I had to live with shame and guilt the rest of my life. I thought I would always carry around shame and condemnation because of all of my past mistakes. After I got saved, I thought I had to earn God's love. I did. I thought God, I thought

God really loves me when I do good but when I mess up, God is mad at me and he doesn't love me as much. I thought I could never like myself. God, you made me. I don't like myself. I don't like my personality. I did not believe I was fearfully and wonderfully made. I was saved but struggling. My thoughts were keeping me in a mental prison. God wanted to bless my life. He wanted to bless my future but my thinking was keeping me from experiencing God's best for my life and some of you are exactly where I was. God wants to bless your life. He wants to bless your relationships, your finances, your career, your future but your thoughts have you trapped in a mental prison and your poor thinking is keeping you from experiencing God's best for your life but I've come with good news today. As a Christian, you can live with the mind of Christ. Paul writes to the church at Corinth in 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 16. He says, for who has the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But he says this to Christians, but We have the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ means the Christian, through the power of the Holy Spirit, can think God thoughts. Paul also writes in Ephesians chapter four in verse 23, to be made new in the attitude of your minds. God's plan is for your life and my life to be made new in the attitude of our minds. Instead of constantly thinking negative, sinful thoughts, you can be made new and start thinking positive and holy thoughts. You don't have to live with a mindset of fear. I know there's a lot of chaos in our world and a lot of fear in our world, and maybe even in your life, there's a lot of chaos. But you can be made new in the attitude of your mind and have a mind of faith and joy in the midst of all the chaos around the world and in your life.

You don't have to live with a mind of anxiety and worry. You can be made new in the attitude of your mind and have a mind full of peace because you are Christian. You can be made new in your mind. You really can live with the mind of Christ. Today, what I want to do, I hope that you'll take some notes today because I want to give you four practical steps to be made new in your mind. I truly believe that these points, there's going to be some revelation and insight that's going to help change the attitude of your mind and change your life. So today we're going to study another letter Paul wrote addressing our mind. And today we want to study 2 Corinthians chapter number 10. 2 Corinthians chapter number 10. I want to pick up reading in verse number three. Paul writes, for though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. And we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Jot this down, jot this down. First thought. We must fight mental battles with spiritual weapons.

Paul says in verse three and four, we don't wage war as the world does. We have spiritual weapons that the world cannot utilize. We can use God's word to fight spiritual battles. God's word is a weapon. Ephesians chapter six, verse 17 says, take the helmet of salvation, talking about the armor of God and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. The Bible is not an ordinary book. It's inspired by God. It's a spiritual sword that can cut away wrong thinking. Hebrew says the same thing in chapter four and verse 12. It says the word of God is alive and active, sharper than a double edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit and joint and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. The word of God can cut away wrong, negative, impure, crazy, carnal, worldly faults. It's a weapon that we must use so we can have the mind of Christ. You gotta use the word of God. A dusty Bible always leads to dirty thoughts. You gotta use the sword of the spirit. Number two, we must demolish mental strongholds with spiritual weapons. Demolish strongholds with spiritual weapons. Paul says in second Corinthians chapter 10, verse four, that our weapons have divine power

to demolish strongholds. A stronghold is a deeply rooted pattern of thinking that actually opposes God's truth and controls our behavior. A stronghold is a lie that you have believed and is controlling your life. And Paul says this, he says, we must demolish these mental strongholds that keep us in a mental prison. Let me give you some insight about your brain. I'm not a medical doctor, but I know how to Google and research. Let me give you some insight about your brain. Seriously, that will help you demolish strongholds. Your brain is made up of billions of neurons and your brain creates neural pathways. A neural pathway is a connection in your brain that forms when you think, feel, and do something repeatedly. It's like a trail in the woods. The first time you walk through the woods, it's hard because there's no path. But if you keep walking the same path, the grass starts to bend. And if you keep walking it daily, it becomes a trail. It becomes a pathway. Over time, if you keep walking the same pathway every day, there's a default path because there's a clear pathway. So you just default to taking that pathway because it's clear for you. And before you were saved, you created neural pathways based on your daily sinful faults and behaviors. You formed neural pathways based on your habits that you formed over time, and these pathways become strongholds that keep you in a mental prison.

So you daily think fear. You daily think lust. You daily think hate. You daily think negative, anxiety, worry. You daily think greed, lying, I'm a loser. So you created neural pathways, and now what happens to people, they get saved, and they believe they have to think like this because you have a clear pathway, and it's hard to think differently. But Paul says, hey, hey, church, you don't have to continue to think this way. You're now a Christian, and you have spiritual weapons to demolish these mental strongholds. You can demolish them. How do we demolish mental strongholds? I'm going to come back to 2 Corinthians in a moment, but I want to take a quick jog over to Romans chapter 12 and verse number 2 and connect these scriptures together. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, the lies of this world, the thinking of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. And you'll be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, his pleasing, his perfect will. You must renew your mind to demolish strongholds. Paul is teaching us that the stronghold, the old ways of thinking, the old pattern of thinking, it can change. This is key to understand. The old way of thinking can change. You do not have to stay stuck in a mental prison. Let me give you another medical term, neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is your brain's ability to change, adapt, and rewire itself based on what you repeatedly think, repeatedly experience, and repeatedly do. Neuro equals brain. Plasticity equals ability to be shaped or molded. Understand this.

So your brain is not fixed. Your brain is changeable and moldable. Your brain builds and rebuilds neural pathways. It strengthens repeated ones, and it weakens unused ones. Your brain is constantly being shaped by your thinking habits, so you are not stuck. I don't care if you've been thinking that way for 40 years. You can actually change how you think and how you live. And the way Paul says it is, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. If you do not renew your mind, you will live with the same mental strongholds, saved by struggling. You will follow the thinking pattern of this world. A pattern means that you just automatically default to a way of thinking. How many of you have ever been driving in your car, and you ended up at home or ended up at work, and you thought, how did I get here? You ever done that before? Because you were thinking about the grocery list. You was mad at one of your kids. You was mad at a co-worker, and you just driving mad, just not thinking. And all of a sudden, you ended up at home, because your brain automatically followed the pattern that it's used to. You've created a neural pathway. And in life, you can automatically default to a pattern of insecurity, a pattern of worry, a pattern of anxiety, of negativity, a pattern of complaining and addiction, a pattern of fear. Hey, church, when you constantly, every day, think fearful thoughts, that fear pathway gets stronger and stronger. You constantly think anger and you wake up every day and you just think bitter, self-hatred thoughts. The pathway gets stronger and stronger. And the more you repeat something,

the stronger the pathway becomes. Your brain is wired to repeat what you rehearse. It will repeat what you rehearse. This is why Paul teaches us that we must be transformed by the renewing of our mind. God designed our brain to change. Let's dive a little deeper and demolish some strongholds today. Number three, we demolish mental strongholds by taking every thought captive. That's what Paul teaches us in 2 Corinthians 10, verse five. He says we must take every, that's a key word, take every thought captive. In other words, you don't need to think about every thought that you think. Just because a negative or impure thought comes through your mind doesn't mean you need to meditate on it. Before you think about the fault, you need to think about the fault. You need to evaluate every thought and ask yourself, is this coming from God? Does this thought come from God? Is this thought a blessing or a curse? Is it positive or negative? Is it faith-filled or faithless? Is it pure or impure? Don't let your mind run wild with thoughts that are not from God.

When your spiritual enemy comes and he tries to feed you lies like you're worthless, you won't ever amount to anything. You'll always be addicted. You'll always be lonely. Your kids will never serve God. When the spiritual enemy comes and he starts feeding you lies like, you'll always live defeated. Your life, your career, your business, it'll never thrive. God can't use you. You've messed up way too much. You must learn to take those thoughts captive. You need to recognize the lies of the enemy and then you must take those thoughts captive. The battle is lost when you entertain what you should have ended. Take the thought captive. Number four, we demolish mental strongholds by replacing lies with truth. Back in 2 Corinthians chapter 10 in verse five, Paul says, we demolish arguments, every pretension that sets itself up against that knowledge of God. We take captive every thought, now catch what he says, and make it obedient to Christ. Taking thoughts captive all by themselves will not demolish strongholds. We must make our thoughts obedient to Christ by replacing lies with truth.

Mental strongholds are not demolished unless you replace them with the truth of God's word. We replace these lies by reading and memorizing God's word. It's the sword of the spirit. You do not stop old patterns of thinking by just saying, stop! You're not gonna deal with these mental strongholds by just saying, stop thinking anxious thoughts. You stop thinking fearful thoughts. Stop thinking those negative thoughts. Stop thinking those impure thoughts. You just stop those self-hatred thoughts, stop! No, no, no, no, no, no. You gotta recognize the lies. Then you take the thoughts captive. But then you must replace the lies with the truth of God's word. That's how you renew your mind. You must allow God's word, the sword of the spirit, to remove the lies that you've believed. And here's what happens. When you start replacing lies with God's truth, your neural pathways start to create a new trail. When anxious thoughts start flooding your mind, I want you to begin to take those thoughts captive. And I want you to start thinking and meditating on God's truth. Scriptures like Isaiah chapter 26 in verse three, he keeps in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him. You'll start creating new trails and pathways.

When thoughts like I'll never move my life, my relationships, my business, my career forward, when those bad negative thoughts come, start taking those thoughts captive. And then start meditating on the truth of God's word. Scriptures like Jeremiah 29. In verse number 11, I know the plans God has for me, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me a hope and a future. Start meditating on the promises of God's word. The enemy will attack you. The thoughts will come into your mind, but you can demolish those thoughts with the truth of God's word. Recognize the lies, take the thoughts captive, and then replace them with God's truth. Let's dive a little deeper. We replace lies by speaking God's truth. Another way that we renew our minds, that we create these new neural pathways, is by speaking God's truth. So when a lie enters your thinking, here's what I want you to do. Take that thought captive. You replace it by thinking on the truth of God's word, and then speak the truth of God's word. There's so much power in your words. I can take you scripture after scripture after scripture. Don't have time today, but let me give you one. Proverbs chapter number 18, verse number 21.

The tongue has the power of life. Your tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. There's divine power to demolish strongholds when you declare God's word with your own mouth. Here's what I want you to start doing. I want you to start today. I want you to write out three or four scriptures. Five scriptures. Say, pastor, I'm new to the faith. Okay, I don't know the Bible that well. Google the scriptures, amen. Just say, God, give me some scriptures. Google, give me some scriptures on peace. Google, give me some scriptures on joy. But I want you to get three or four or five scriptures, and I want you to put them on your desk at work. Put them in your bathroom, on your bathroom counter. Put them in your car. Put those scriptures in your kitchen. Put it in your living room. And I want you to begin to declare scriptures out loud over your life. I want you to begin to do that every day. Scriptures like Ephesians chapter number one in verse three. I'm blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. Like Romans chapter eight in verse 31. If God is for me, who can be against me? First Corinthians chapter two in verse 16.

I have the mind of Christ. Ephesians chapter one in verse number seven. I am redeemed through the blood of Jesus Christ. Ephesians chapter one verse 17. I have the spiritual, God has given me spiritual wisdom and revelation. First John chapter three in verse one. I am a child of God. Psalm chapter 139 verse 14. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Second Corinthians chapter five verse 17. I am a new creation. Philippians chapter three in verse 20. I am a citizen of heaven. Ephesians chapter three verse number 17. I am rooted and grounded in love. Romans chapter eight in verse number 37. I am more than a conqueror. First Peter chapter two verse 24. I am healed. Joshua chapter number one in verse number eight. I am successful and prosperous. Come on, start quoting John chapter eight in verse 36. Whom the son sets free is free indeed. Start declaring God's word. Start speaking God's word. It's a weapon. It's a sword of the spirit. Your thinking and your life will change if every single day you start speaking God's truth.

Because you're speaking stuff. You're saying some stuff. It's just not truth. But pastor, the reason I say that stuff is because I don't feel like I'm blessed. I don't quote scripture because I don't feel free. I don't feel healed. Well, we don't live by our feelings. Feelings are indicators, but they are horrible masters. I thought pastor Tiffany did a great job last week teaching us that we cannot let our feelings drive our life. You must let God's word drive your life, not your feelings. So start speaking the truth of God's word no matter how you feel. Because if you'll speak the truth of God's word, eventually your feelings and your thinking will start aligning with God's word. You will create these new neural pathways. You'll change the way you're thinking. You'll renew your mind. Let's dive one step deeper. We replace lies and demolish mental strongholds by repeating the steps. This is key. You do not demolish mental strongholds by doing these steps once or twice or three times. Renewing comes from repeating. Renewing comes from repeating. Renewing comes from repeating. The lies in our thinking, they become obedient to Christ.

When we connect with Christ, when we repeat the process, new neural pathways come from what you repeat. So I want you to repeat it. Pastor, what do I do? Recognize the lie. Take the thought captive. Replace it with the truth of God's word. Speak the truth of God's word. Recognize the lie. Take the thought captive. Replace it with the truth of God's word. Speak the truth of God's word. Recognize the lie. Take the thought captive. Replace it with the truth of God's word. Speak the truth of God's word. You don't have to do it 20 times a day. Repeat. 50 times a day. Repeat. 100 times a day. Pastor, you've been a little extreme. No, I'm not. 100 times a day. Repeat the process until your mind is made new. I think about my own Christian journey. I've renewed my mind by repeating the process over and over and over again. I've gone from worldly thinking to biblical thinking, from defeated thinking to victorious thinking,

from being controlled by impure thoughts to now thoughts of purity, from disliking myself to not liking how God made me, from not trusting people to having close, trusted friendships. I've renewed my mind. I've been a Christian for over 33 years and I still repeat the process. I have verses on my phone and some of them I've memorized and I constantly quote them every single day, sometimes multiple times a day, like 1 Chronicles 4 and verse 10. I just speak it every day over my life, over my family, over our church. Listen, God, bless me indeed. Enlarge my territory. Put your hand upon me and keep me from evil. Lord, I pray that over my wife and kids right now. I pray it over our church. Bless us indeed. Enlarge our territory. Put your hand upon us and keep us from evil. I pray it every day. I repeat it. Psalm chapter number 27 and verse number 13. I pray this all the time, every day. I remain confident of this. I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

I thank you that Tiffany, Kel, Kate, Kara's case, they will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. I thank you that my people, church, family, I thank you every person that attends, they will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. I just quote it constantly, day after day after day after day. I quote Jude chapter, Jude 24, Jude verse 24. I quote it all the time. I thank you, God, that I will not stumble. I thank you that you're able to keep me from falling. I thank you that I will finish this race well. I thank you that I'll finish with my integrity intact. I thank you that I'll love one woman the rest of my life. I thank you that I'll be a good dad and a great grandpa. Lord, I thank you right now that you're gonna keep me from falling and stumbling. I just quote it day after day. You gotta have some scriptures that you quote, that you speak, that you renew your mind, renew your thinking, renew how you talk. Come on, renew it. Speak the truth of God's word. It's a sword of the spirit. Come on, cut away that junk. Cut away that impurity. Cut away those lies with the truth of God's words.

Let me pray over your mind right now. Father, I thank you right now that you're touching hearts. You're touching lives. I pray right now that you renew minds right now. I pray right now where the enemy has created stronghold. I thank you for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I just command the enemy in Jesus' name and by the authority that I have in Jesus, take your hands off God's people. You've been tormenting some people. There have been some people right now, God, that they've been going through a terrible time and they're struggling with suicidal ideation. They're struggling with being tormented in their mind. I thank you right now for victory in their mind. God, I thank you for a hunger to renew their mind according to the word of God. I thank you they'll get into God's word. They'll study scripture. They'll meditate scripture. They'll quote scripture. They'll take thoughts captive. And God, I thank you for renewed minds in this house. God, I pray your people walk in victory in their thinking and it will produce a godly life. In Jesus' name I pray. His eyes are still closed and heads are bowed. I'm talking to some folks today that you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You've never given him your heart.

You've never given him your life. You're following your thinking, your ways. Today's your day to say yes to Jesus. You find yourself in all types of addiction. You find yourself in all types of relationships that are not good for you. You find yourself abusing substances. You find yourself with no peace, no joy. Today's your day to give your life to Jesus. There's somebody here that you used to serve God, but you've allowed your thinking to pull you back into the world. And today you need to rededicate your life to the Lord. Come home. Let God change you from the inside. If that's you today, you want to give your life to Jesus or rededicate your life to the Lord. So I count to three. Just shoot your hand high in the air. And I want to lead you in a prayer to say yes to Jesus, one, two, three, just shoot it high, right? Right now. Thank you. See your hand. See your hand there. See your hand there. See your hand there. See your hand there. That's it. Midwest City, Northwest, Edmond, Indianapolis, online.

Just lift your hand high. Are there others today? See your hand there. See your hand there. So awesome. I'm going to ask for every hand that's raised to pray this prayer with me. Confess it with your mouth. Believe it in your heart. Wash away your sins. Pray with me now. Heavenly Father, I turn away from my sin and my way of thinking. Today I turn my life over to Jesus Christ. I believe he's the son of God. He died on the cross. He rose again. And I give Jesus Christ my heart, my mind, my body. And I confess Jesus is my Lord and my Savior. I will serve him the rest of my life. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen. Come on. Give God some praise right now. I'll turn it over to all of the campuses. Just remain seated. We'll close in just a moment. Come on. Give God praise. Praise the Lord. We are rejoicing with every one of you who said yes to Jesus today. And you know, church, pastor shared a powerful truth today about the weapons that we need

to tear down strongholds in our life. And the word of God being one of those weapons. And another weapon is the weapon of worship. And worship has the power to help demolish strongholds in our life as well. And I'd love for us to just take a moment before we leave to use this weapon of worship and proclaim and declare the holiness and the amazingness of God and watch him help us tear down strongholds in our life. Would you stand with me all over this place? Come on. Would you use your weapon of worship today? Come on. Would you pour out your praise today? Come on. Let's worship him, church. Pour out our praise. It's your breath. Come on. Let's worship him, church. So we pour out our praise to you, oh. It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise. Pour out our praise. It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise to you, oh. It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise. Pour out our praise. It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise to you, oh. Come on, was it a good word today?

Are you encouraged, amen? If you're looking for a home church, I hope you don't need to look any further. You are among some of the kindest, most loving people in all of Oklahoma. Give us a year of your life. Really get plugged in and watch what God will do in your life. Here, we're family here at People's Church. Come on, would you shout it with me on three? One, two, three. We're family. God bless you, church. It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise to you.