Pastor Tim Dilena - Total Breakthrough Mind, Body, and Soul

- Thank you to Sibi and your team for what you've done to every volunteer that has served faithfully for all these. Our prayer teams, both online and in person. So my assignment, and I'm so thankful to be able to kind of finish up everything tonight when Sibi asks me, this is a great joy just to do this tonight. I'm just prepping us, getting us ready for the prayer times are gonna happen, but there's something definitively that God has put on my heart. I want you to get your phones out to take a picture of this. You just need to have this. I wanna read something that A.W. Tozer said that is so powerful. He said this. He said, "10,000 thoughts a day pass through our minds "and they try to predict what we will become." Just get that, 'cause I want you to get that and understand it. 10,000 thoughts, A.W. Tozer, the great Christian writer. 10,000 thoughts a day will pass through our minds and they will try to predict what we will become. Your mind battles are trying to predict your future. They're trying to predict your future. More specifically, mind, soul, and body really starts with the mind. Everything that you're faced with

is really begins up there. And that's why one rogue thought will try to predict your future. Just one rogue thought out of control. I wanna stop those predictions tonight from coming true by using the word of God. That your thoughts are powerfully predictive unless you fight. So tonight, I wanna talk to you about that freedom that we are dealing with. And so I wanna believe tonight that God is gonna do something special. And so I want us to pray and then we're gonna jump to a passive scripture. I may do part one tonight and I'm just praying about it and end up doing part two on Sunday. But let me just share this with you tonight of what God's gonna do and I feel something strongly in my heart. Father, in these next few moments, help these words prepare us for a powerful prayer time that God, that these words would be truth, that would lay a foundation that when people come to be prayed for tonight, it would, they would come in faith knowing that God is going to deliver set free. Not one of those 10,000 thoughts are gonna be in charge of our future. God is in charge of our future.

God is in charge of our future. So whatever those thoughts may come, we're gonna believe tonight that God, you, what you think is greater than what we think tonight. So Father, I'm gonna pray, do something special here in Jesus' name. And everybody said amen and amen. Just give someone a handshake and you may be seated. God bless you. Thank you worship team. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. All right, so I have to tell you a really powerful story. And then I have to tell you, I couldn't think of another word. I'm very, I'm very conscious of this word. I'm gonna use the word crazy, but it's really just a story of just of one of those predictive mind battles that took place that ended up putting me in a position. But I wanna take you on two stories tonight, two stories tonight that would begin just to lead us to something. When Cindy and I spent those years in Detroit and pastored in Detroit, one of the, one of probably the most incredible things happened to us, and that was, we had a woman, was one of the most exciting conversions to place. I'm gonna change her name only because I wanna do this for her own protection.

She was from Iran and her name, her made up name is Zara. Zara was raised in a Muslim home in Iran and she started having dreams about Jesus while she was in Iran. And eventually as a college student moved to the United States and she didn't know this was Jesus and she didn't know what this meant. So she was sitting in one of her university business classes and who would have thought that she would be sitting next to one of the people on our worship team from our church? And so she goes, can I talk to you for it? This is at the break on a night class. She goes, can I ask you something? Have you ever heard of Jesus? And she started to ask what was going through her mind and what this meant and what all this was. And I'll never forget her being brought to my office saying, pastor, you need to meet Zara. You need to talk to her because she's having dreams and she wants to surrender to the person she's that's coming to her in her dreams. And so I watched a woman come to my office, tell me about these dreams and what when I was hearing was this. This was so profound. What I was hearing was that Jesus was showing her the way and she goes, what do you want me to do?

And folks, can I just be honest with you? The worst thing that can happen is me mess this whole thing up. So I just – this was my advice to her. I said, "Do what Jesus says. Do what Jesus says is what I told her." It's exactly what she did. She became a follower of Christ. I had the privilege of baptizing her and it was just a miracle that was taking place. Well, what was also happening was her husband, and I'll call his name Ali, was a devout Muslim who was furious and would come to the office, probably have met with him about a half a dozen times, and it was very contentious. We would meet in the office before I'd preach on Sunday nights. There were heated meetings. So heated that the enemy – that the enemy took one of those 10,000 thoughts and put it inside of me. It was so intense because he was so upset that his wife was – especially when she got water baptized. There was something that happened when she got water baptized. It was like – that was the glue. That was the commitment that it wasn't just by word only. She was all in at that moment. And so I remember the last time he left the office, it was very, very heated. And now, really the – where the 10,000 thought came in. Every morning, Monday through Friday, we would have 6 a.m. prayer meeting at the church. We'd come early in the morning, and we would pray like we do here at noon on Wednesdays, but we would do it five days a week in the mornings in Detroit and pray for an awakening in our city. And this is where the thought went rogue. I was praying at 6 a.m. It was a cold. It was a January morning, and I was praying got to the church, and there was a young man that showed up, and I couldn't see who he was. He was wearing some garments that was very Middle Eastern. And I have to understand what I want to speak to, that I have to describe it this way. And all of a sudden, this clothing somehow triggered these thoughts inside of me. And this is what I actually thought. I thought that because she got saved, that they were sending assassins to kill me. And he sat in the front row, and he was just sitting there while the prayer meeting was going on, and I'm going, this is it, Jesus. I'm finished. At the end of this prayer meeting, this is the final prayer meeting. I'm done. And so I needed a check to see if this really was my assassin. So I remember I would go by and pray, and I would try to provoke something. I'd go by, and I'd go, Jesus is Lord. And so I would just go by and just do that. Nothing. Nothing. And so I'm just going, okay, I'm just, I'm going

to find what it is. And I'd come by and I'd go, Jesus rose from the dead. And so I would just, and I would lean my face over to talk. Nothing. Nothing was happening. And so I said everything. Jesus rose from the dead. I even, I'm sorry, I just go, Jesus is the only way, Jesus is greater than Muhammad. I did everything you can imagine at this point. This is how insane this thought was that was going on. And then finally at the end, I thought, okay, we're just going to do this the way it is. I said, okay, everybody, come up. I'm going to face my assassin. And so I said, everybody, come up. And, and we come up, I said, we're going to all hold hands and we're going to pray. And there may have been about 20, 30 of us. And so the young man was in the circle. And then, and then the heat came on in the building. He took off all the garments and it was one of our young adults. And he's just sitting there. He was a young gentleman. I thought he was, I thought he was out there to kill me. And so I'm sitting there and like, well, you pray, you, you, you, who's here. And I'm going, this is ridiculous. How one rogue sought, now was going to try to predict and take over everything that that morning I was paralyzed. Think about it. Mind, soul and body. My body was watching the whole time. My mind is running all these stories. And my soul is not really even communicating with God. I'm trying to provoke him to a fight. And all this stuff is going on. It was, it's went from the only way I can describe it is it went from my head to my feet. It went from my mind to, to actions. The mind battle predicted my next steps. That's what I want to view with. But I realized that was in good company. Because the exact thing happened in the Bible to David. And I want to tell you an Old Testament story and give you a New Testament principle. Because David's battle would start in his mind. And all of a sudden would move to his actions. It would affect him, mind, soul and body. And it's just as it did to me. Here's the Old Testament story. David is at the finish on his head. He's been running from Saul for over a decade, probably about this time 13 years. After being anointed by Samuel, he has killed a giant. He has been miraculously delivered by God from close counters with death. And the last one that we get is in 1 Samuel 26. It is at this moment where it looks like Saul was going to take him out thousands of men to get David. And it's a story in 1 Samuel 6 that David praised that God would put the whole army to sleep. He takes Saul's water jug and his spear, stands at a distance just to show him that he's looking for the wrong man. I'm not his enemy. The

enemy is inside and he goes, "Saul, you are the king. I'm not trying to kill you." Saul would break down but would go back to trying to kill him. But then something, after this amazing victory in 1 Samuel 26, something goes awfully wrong, kind of like that Zara moment to the prayer meeting. And then something goes wrong. Something gets in his head. One of those 10,000 thoughts literally almost upset and upended the whole plan and prophecy that God had for his life. David leaves the miracle in 1 Samuel 26, that moment. God begins then to do all this incredible thing and then something takes place that folks, it wouldn't have made sense if it didn't happen to me. Let me read to you right after the miracle, right after that moment. This is what happens. This is 1 Samuel 27 verse 1. But David thought to himself, "One of these days I'll be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel and I'll slip out of his hand." So David and 600 men with him left, crossed over to a quiche, king of gas. The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines were a year and four months. This is amazing to me. You have a miracle and then a thought. You have a miracle and then a robe thought comes. You see God's incredible hand, incredible deliverance, incredible provision, and then one of those 10,000 robe thoughts get in. And how for Samuel 27 one starts is, "But David thought to himself." Instead of praising God, David begins to say, "I don't know if I'm going to begin to see tomorrow." One of the men who had been so dear to this ministry and this church, Dr. R. T. Kendall, I remember him telling me one time that one of the great theologians in the world today has gone to be with the Lord, told R. T. Kendall these words, and I get it now. He said, "So many times I will think of the most horrible things before I'm about to preach on the holiest of subjects. My mind will go to some filthy things before I'm about to preach on the holiest subjects. And folks, I can tell you, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I've told you that sitting in that seat, the mind battles that come down, that while people are singing words off a screen, I have five scriptures that I will continually quote during a service because of the mind battles that will go on. Anybody ever faced those mind battles? Oh, we're messed up in this church, right? Hold those hands up. Oh my good. Well, let me give you some verses. Get your cameras out and take these. I thought it was just me. I'm going, I'm the only run with a problem in this church. Everybody else

is holy. Let me, let me just tell you, it's been these five verses. I put them on my phone and sometimes I've got to just, so just you can take quick pictures. This is what I say. I fight with the Word of God. I say Colossians 3, 2, set your mind on things above, not on things on earth. Take your pictures. Proverbs 23, 7, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. And I would begin to say things like this, I am not, I am not unloved. I am not this. I am not that. I am a man of God." I would, I would say this. I said, I'm going to, I'm going to think the right thoughts. Listen to this one, Proverbs 4, 23, "Be careful how you think your life is shaped by your thoughts." And I would continually quote those verses. Now the, the, the New Testament ones, finally brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good. If there's any virtue, if there's anything praise worthy, here comes think on these things. So I just say, God, fill my mind with noble things, fill my mind with pure things, fill my mind with just things. And finally this, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Folks, I'm telling you, we're going to be in a worship service in poor Ricardo's going, why aren't you singing? Because we're all quoting scriptures that are etc. Here and I've done that I God, protect my mind, protect my mind, protect my mind, protect my mind. And what happens is this, David says three times in Psalm 119 that our feet are waiting to wander, wander from his word. There's always a wandering that seems to come. You can read it. God, don't let my feet wander. Don't let my feet wander. Don't let my feet wander. You can read it all over Psalm 119. And it's to wander away from those commands. That's why I stay close to the Word of God in those moments.

The mind battles for David were stronger than his miracle experience. The mind battles were stronger. That's how powerful this mind is. That's the power that was taking place. Because here are the words that it starts off with. Look at these words now. David thought to himself. David thought to himself. It's not that the mind battles won't come. There will always be battles of the mind. The battle is stopping it from going from head to foot, from going into the actions. You lose when it starts to act out what you're thinking. The head is 1 Samuel 21, 27 1. David said to himself, when it goes to the foot, to the actions, it's the next verse. So David arose and crossed over. He's going to go into gas. He's going to go into the Philistine country. Listen to what the Apostle Paul says. I want you to listen to these words. Galatians 5, 16. But I say, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. Walk by the Spirit and you'll not carry out the desires of the flesh. Paul was saying something important. He was saying desire is the mind battle that never goes away. People feel guilty because you thought something evil or wicked.

Don't feel guilty. Just start the fight. Not to carry out what's in the mind. You walk in the Spirit. It doesn't mean it doesn't come. It means you don't have to carry out what you thought about. That's the fight. So don't feel guilty that the thought comes out. The trigger should be for you to fight. Not to think like, oh, I'm no good. No, no, no. It always comes. But I say walk in the Spirit and you'll not carry that out. Paul was saying just because you think it doesn't mean you have to do it. David's battle, those rogue thoughts, it's telling him over and over again. Those rogue thoughts for David, you're going to die. You're going to die. That was 27-1. And David's answer and then David's results is something very catastrophic. David keeps silent about something which he should have confessed. David holds to himself. And I'm going to talk to you about this in just a moment. David keeps silent about something he should have confessed. People are afraid to tell of their battles because they're afraid what people will think of them. Get this down.

You're only as sick as your secrets. You're only as sick as your secrets. David is afraid to tell this. He's the one who's leading 600 soldiers, 600 men. And all of a sudden now everything is at a dangerous place. See, when you, I want to say something today and I want you to think of it this way because I think there's something powerful to this. When you confess your sin to God, you receive forgiveness. This is what it says. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to what? Forgive us of our sins. And to do what? Cleanse us from all unrighteousness. But I want to say something else. So get ready for this. If you want forgiveness, we confess to God, amen? But I think there's a part B to this. If you want healing, we confess to godly people. OK, some of you got that. Some of you are going, I don't know about. This is breakthrough, OK? Listen, if you want forgiveness, we confess to God. But I think there's healing found in confessing to Godly people. Therefore, confess your sins one to another and pray for one another so that you may be what? Heal and you've got to confess to the right people because it says the effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. So he's talking about that confession.

Keep that verse up there for a second because if you connect those two things, who you're confessing to is someone who can pray and someone who's righteous. It's not just confessing to your boo of what you're going through and just going like, man, I'm really struggling. They're going like, yeah, me too. And then both of you are messed up. You need to find a godly person that knows how to get ahold of God. That's what that verse says. When I talk to God, God is the one that forgets it. When I confess to him, but I think there's a part of bringing in the body of Christ. There is healing that comes from praying people that you're honest with, confesses when you become honest when you connect honesty or transparency with praying godly people, godly people, healing is close by, healing is near, healing is coming. And that's why we really challenge you, that whether it's through breakthrough nights, whether it's getting connected to one of the TSC small groups, whether it's getting, it's when the seats in this place, when you can get this smaller, whether it's in foundations or whether it's in two and two, all those things are so important and so key. And that's why we tell you, even beyond this, even to go onto our website for the TSC connect groups, it's just so valuable of getting the right people

in your life because what we're trying to do, there's a word, there's a phrase that I wanna talk to you about, which is the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ is not talked about often, but that's what we're always, both from this pulpit and in the connect groups and all that we're doing, foundation class, we're trying to develop and really to develop that mind of Christ. Listen to what 1 Corinthians 2, 16 says. It makes no qualms about it. We have the mind of Christ. We have the mind of Christ. What is the mind of Christ? Here it is. It's hearing the voice of God loudest over every other voice. That's the mind of Christ. It's hearing Him because some of you have other thoughts in your head, it's a supernatural way of thinking, so we walk in wisdom. Some of us have the thought, we think, well, I remember what my dad said about me. My mom said about me, what that person said about me, what they posted about me, what this one on, that professor said, that individual said. It's when we say God, what matters is what you say about me, what you have said. And we have been given this mind of Christ. The mind of Christ is found in the words of Christ. The mind of Christ is found in the words of Christ. That's why those five scriptures are important to me.

Fill your mind with the word of Christ. Why is this important? Because you fight satanic thoughts just the way Jesus did. It is written. It's the way He fought when the enemy came and to bring. And that's why I love the way that this one version of Philippians 2 gives us, right? Take your pictures, I know you're using your phones constantly. Get this down, Philippians 2.5, I love the way it says it. And think the same way that Jesus Christ thoughts. That's what we're supposed to do. That's so important to us. David didn't do that. It went from healing to damage. And when you choose not to do this, the magnitude of the damage of this rogue thought now is going to begin to affect not just the mind. Now it's going to begin to go rogue, and now it's going to deal with soul and spirit. That's what I want to just kind of get us towards the end with. David, the Bible says, crossed over, but not just David, 600 men and their families had to go to. David's mind, where this rogue thought, when David thought to himself, I'm just going to die. Saul's just going to end up killing me. No thought about the miracles of the past. No thought that God has just delivered him in chapter 26, delivered him in chapter 24, delivered him in 25 from murdering a man just aimlessly. God just kept delivering him, but somehow a rogue thought

nullified all of that. And not only did it affect David, but it affects 600 men and their families. When we have no one to stand with us, then folks, it is not just us that go into this crazy region. We take everyone that's around us with us. That's what's so important to understand here. We either confess to that godly person, James 516, or we'll take those unsuspecting people into those regions, spouse, children, family, coworkers, or the roommates. So a mind battle has now affected his body. Think about this. I have a thought. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. Now it runs to his body, mind, body. And in just a moment, I'm going to show you how it affected his soul. Now his body is crossing over into, this is what's amazing, you have to see this. He crosses into a place called Gath. I called it a crazy region, Gath. Do you know what Gath is? Do you remember the name of the giant that David beat up? What was his name? That wasn't his full name. He was called Goliath of Gath. He is showing up at the giant's hometown who he decapitated. Can you imagine, of all the places to go in the whole region,

you go to Gath. That's how crazy the thought, the rogue thought became. You end up in Gath. David's thoughts took him and 600 families to Gath, home of the Philistines. And I wonder how that's going to play out, all because he wouldn't start by connecting him. I have to believe there would have been one of those six hundred men that says David wake up We've just been delivered. We've just been suffering sometimes some of us need someone to go wake up God's done great things in your life. You're not gonna die. God has a plan for you and It's always looking for something. I Don't think I've told this story for probably over a decade And it just hit me today, and I want to I want to tell it so much 30 years old It happened in 1997 I knew it was this this road thought was trying to get in my mind One of the one of the great men that preaches from this pope. It is our friend from Montreal pastor Claude Hood. I was pastoring and Pastor Claude invited me to come in to Montreal to speak and it was my first time there staying at a Right in Montreal is right across the street from the Expo Center where they had the olympics and It was a holiday in right across the street and I was remember staying there and I got in on a late flight flew from Detroit to to Montreal Duvall airport landed Got in I was gonna speak for three times the next morning and I remember putting my suitcase out I turned on the TV all just because it was Montreal everything was in French everything So I just I left it on the station. I think it may have been the hockey game. It could have been anything So I'm taking a suit out putting hanging clothes up This is the this is the the honest truth Didn't touch anything on the on the TV. It's just left it right there And I was told about this that at a certain time I must have been 11 o'clock at night. It was a Saturday night 11 o'clock at night at 11 o'clock at a Soon as that happened the TV went off The the game went off something happened and it went to pornography

Nothing I did nothing and I'll never forget that And I'm sitting there going what in the world and this thought hit me you are going To get connected to this this rogue thought was trying and I'll never forget That I had these wrote like it was it was like all 10,000 thoughts hit me at the same time 30 years ago I felt I felt this is a moment that you can almost hear the chains wanting to wanting to clamp on and There's no cell phones. There's no there's no computers and At that moment I remember turning it off Falling on my knees and saying god I'm mind it just feels feels so dirty right now folks. It maybe was 30 seconds 40 seconds and Nothing could have been more vile than those 30 seconds And I remember the first after praying I called my wife. I said you need to know what's happened This is what took place. This is exactly and then before I would even preach on Sunday I went immediately to pass your clothes. I said let me tell you what happened. He goes Tim I forgot to tell you it switches to that at nighttime on Saturday nights on public TV And I said clothes I said as your friend. They said I just wanted you to know exactly he says let's just pray right now Let's just ask God and I'm telling you what happened was something so powerful at that moment because I started to realize that when you begin when you confess You're taking the legs out from something that wants to grow bigger You're you're cutting the legs off when you confess you're shedding light on lies That can incubate in darkness When you confess you're building trust from vulnerability not portraying invincibility That's why this is so important when I began to realize this folks that what I started to see is Something so important in even my own life because I wanted to live out in a sense a life of Making sure that nothing is ever hit that that I'm living this out. I want you to understand this I started to see I'm living this out for the second most important relationship in my life Which is after Jesus is my wife Cindy? And I've got to make sure that I don't cross over from these thoughts crossover like David did because I've got I had four

I have four children that I need to make sure living and love Jesus That's why acts 24 16 is so important when Paul said because of this I try with all my strength always to maintain a clear conscience before God and before man see, when you confess a mind battle, you incorporate health. There's no healing in hiding. The healing comes in confession. If I confess to my spouse, if I tell her, we think these lies, this is what's happening. If I tell her what's happening tonight, if I tell her this, she'll leave me. If I tell her this, she'll hate me. If I confess, she won't respect me. If I expose what happened, my marriage will be through. How can something that God has ordained confession of the soul be destructive? It's impossible. Those are the lies. If I say something here, it's going to hurt my life. Listen to what David says. When I kept it all inside, my bones turned to powder. My words became day-long groans. The pressure never let up. All the juices of my life dried up. Then I let it all out. I said, I'll make a clean rest of my failures to God. Suddenly, the pressure was gone, my guilt dissolved, and my sin disappeared. Hallelujah. Listen, listen to him again.

Psalm 38, verse 17, I'm on the edge of losing it. The pain in my gut keeps burning. I'm ready to tell my story of failure. I'm no longer smug in my sin. Tell the story and take the legs out of those thoughts. That's what happened, because when you deal with it here, then it doesn't move to body and soul. That's why this is so important for us to understand. Let me finish with this. To get the mind and to fight those mind battles so they get the body and the soul. To get the mind is to get the body and the soul. Think about this. David's mind battle is I'm going to die. David's body battle, I'm going to move to gas, and let me close with this as Willie comes. David's soul battle is this. He hasn't talked to God for 14 months. You can read from 1 Samuel 27 all the way to 1 Samuel 30. And the only time it's in chapter 30 that David inquires of God. He doesn't talk to God at all. 1 Samuel 27, seven says the number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. And he doesn't pray until he gets to verse eight of chapter 30, that David inquired of the Lord, saying, shall I pursue this ban? Shall I overtake them? And he said, pursue for you will overtake them

and you will rescue all. David went and his 600 men who were with him, don't miss that. And they came to the brook of Bezor where those left were remained. Isn't that amazing? Look at those words again. They'd be quiet of the Lord and God says, go recover what he was talking about was, in this journey, because he was in the wrong place, he lost not just his family. The enemy came in, the Amalekites, and took everybody's family. And he goes, what do I do God? What do I do? The first time you hear David pray in three chapters in 14 months, I'm 16 months, all of a sudden David prays and God goes, go get him, you'll recover it all. And here's what's amazing. When you look at that verse, who is going with him again to the right place? Those 600 men. The 600 men who he brought to the wrong place, now he prays and he's taken him now to the right place. This is incredible, don't miss this. David took them to the wrong place, now David took them to the right place. Now watch what happens. Then in the second Samuel, 1-1,

and it came about after the death of Saul, when David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, that's the recovering at all, then David remained two days in ziklak. That's what's so important here to keep this in mind. So the moment David prays, which was gonna happen tonight, the moment David prays, what do you want me to do? God goes, you go on a fight, you fight this enemy. Get your family back. Here's what happens, when David prays, two days, two days, all of a sudden, God is about to change everything. In fact, it was on day three, David prays again after he comes back. He goes, man, the first prayer got my family back. That second prayer, all of a sudden, is gonna begin to do something else. Look what happens, look in second Samuel 2-1. This is the third time he prays. Then it came about afterwards that David enquired the Lord, saying, shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah? And the Lord said to him, go up. And David said, where shall I go? And he said to Hebron, David went up there and his two wives, the Hinohem, the Jesraelites, the Abigail, the widow of Nable. And David brought up his men who were with them. That's the 600, each with their household. They lived in the cities of Hebron. And then the men of Judah came there

and anointed David king over the house of Judah. Do you understand what just happened? The power of prayer got him back on track. That's what happened. So he hasn't prayed for a year and four months. Six, for 14, he hasn't prayed at all. He inquires of God, God goes, fight for your family and get them back. Then three days later, what do you want me to do now? God goes, go to Hebron. Who knew that the second prayer was not just going to get him out of the Philistine territory, get him out of gas. He was going to bring him back to Israel to be anointed king. If he doesn't pray, he's stuck in Ziklag. Do you understand why we're praying tonight to get you out of Ziklag tonight? We're going to get you out of that mess tonight. That's why these people praying tonight. For some of you, that's the first thing that God takes when you find yourself listening to the rogue thought. I'm not going to make it. I'm not going to make it. All of a sudden, think about this, the power of prayer over body, soul, and mind. Think about this, prayer got David's soul back in tune with God. Prayer got his body back in the right direction and in Israel and prayer put his mind back to God's plan. Prayer, think about this, prayer got him back in tune with God. What do you want to do God? What do you want to do next? Prayer got his body out of Ziklag in Philistine territory and right back into the into that city of God and prayer. Got his mind back on that anointing that happened to him as a 16 year old little boy that one day you're going to be king. Prayer begin to do this. So tonight it is time to pray.

I want you to stand to your feet with me as we get ready to pray. On this final night, when we get the chance to pray, you have to understand it literally shook David. Prayer, prayer shook David, mind, soul, and body. Prayer shook him, mind, soul, and body. When you left your thoughts to yourself, you end up in gas. When you just when you don't open that mind up to people and go, hey, let me tell you what I'm saying. Let me tell you what's going on here. God is the one who forgives me, but that confession to Godly people is what heals me. Think of this for just a moment. Just you coming to prayer tonight starts the fight for your soul mind and body. I remember reading the words of an old German theologian. He said this. He said to clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of this world. The moment you do this, please pray for me. You're in a revolution. It's an uprising, it's an uprising saying, I'm not happy with what these thoughts are doing. I'm not happy being in Zikla. I'm not happy with where I'm at. I know God's called me there anointed me to do this and it all started because I got this wrong thought that brought me off track. Think of this for a moment tonight. We will rebel against those rogue thoughts. We will rebel so our feet don't wander. We will rebel and start praying tonight. So the best way to start, I'm going to ask our prayer teams to begin to come down. But I'm going to tell you the best way to start both online and in person. Is maybe to start by confessing one of those rogue thoughts that's starting to come in. Maybe it starts by the uprising starts by the clasping of the hands. It says, let me tell you this rogue thought would you pray so I don't end up in Zikla. Maybe you're here tonight and you're going, look at me for a second folks. Maybe you're here tonight and you are in Zikla.

You're going like, man, I feel like I'm so off track tonight. Good news. You're in the right place tonight. Good news. We're going to class the hands is going to be an uprising tonight against those rogue thoughts that are coming in. Maybe it'll start with it with honesty and transparency. They'll just say this. I'm hearing that I'm going to die. I'm hearing that I have committed the impartable sin. I'm hearing you don't belong. I'm hearing God isn't real. I'm hearing all these things. I'm hearing that the way I was born is not right that I need to change my gender. Let me just say it. And I'm here to tell you tonight, class those hands and let there be an uprising tonight to say, God, I'm not letting those thoughts predict my future. I'm not going to and tonight we dedicate ourselves mind, soul and body to Jesus tonight that on this night. We're going to give it over to Jesus. We're going to say God today is going to be an uprising. We're rebelling against Zikla tonight. And I want to go into God's country. Anybody with me on that? I wanna be exactly where God's called me today. (congregation applauding) So what does the prayer time look like with these men and women of God that you're gonna have a chance to pray? The what it looks like is this, is start with one of the road thoughts. Would you pray for me? Would you pray for me?

This is what the enemy is trying to put in. Because if we could start with that thought, if we could start with the battle here, that's what gets to the soul and body. That's what makes all the soul and body move. Tonight, we're gonna start that uprising tonight. So here's what's gonna happen. Those that are online, we're gonna go to a time of prayer, both in person and online. So tonight we'll be praying for you. We're gonna be praying for these things. The power of prayer over body, soul and mind. We're gonna pray for that. Prayer that will get our soul back in tune with God. Prayer that will get our body back in the right direction. And prayer that will put his mind back, like David, back on God's plan. And don't you know how I want us to end? Let's pray for the mind of Christ. You've been given it. Pray for the mind of Christ. So those that are joining online, our prayer teams are gonna begin to send those links for you to begin to join those Zoom links. Those are the Zoom rooms, the prayer rooms. Those that are here, here's what we're gonna ask you to do. Ricardo and the team, we're gonna start singing what we usually do as we turn off these speakers up here,

only those so we can hear ourselves praying. So we're gonna ask you to do this. If you wanna be prayed for tonight, this is the night to be prayed for. This is a great night. You can line up right in the center aisles, not on the sides, in the center aisles. You can make your way down. And then when you exit, you'll exit on the sides so we don't jam up everything. And you enter on the sides. We're gonna pray for every person that's in this room tonight. We're gonna pray. So we're gonna start with confessing that road thought. And we're gonna end with praying, give them the mind of Christ now. So here's what's gonna happen. They'll be singing you pray and praise. And when you're in your seats, listen, you start to worship. We'll be done when the last person is prayed for. I'll come back up here and we'll start to believe that today. How many wanna believe for those miracles tonight? We're gonna shut down those thoughts. Come on, let's pray tonight. Let's ask the Lord to come.