X-factor

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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?

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Talk 2 How to get what you want

• Youth Retreat, Ovoca Manor, 2006

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Influence
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Have you got what it takes

• You are what you eat! who says that?
• You are what you think
• I want this, I need that
• I cant do it.
• Watch how you speak!

Proverbs 23 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so
is he.
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Have you got what it takes

• Rom 121,2

transformed
renewed
know
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Thoughts

• Get the thinking RIGHT!

Thoughts
Emotions
Decision
ACTION
Character
DESTINY
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James 113 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
death
sin
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Thought life
Belief
TRUTH
LIES
FREEDOM
BONDAGE
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John 831 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.
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Isaiah 263 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.
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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
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Mindset

• Ive got my mind set on you (

Col 32 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
Decision
ACTION
Character
DESTINY
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Types of mind

• Brace it -1Peter 113
• Mark 11 23-24

• 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.

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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.
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Confused mind

• Cousin of wandering mind
• James 15-8
• Reasoning
• Rationalising
• Trust God, not human reasoning

Proverbs 35 Lean on, trust in, and be confident
in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do
not rely on your own insight or understanding.
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Unbelief

• Rom 418-21

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.

• Israelites in the wilderness
• What stopped them getting into the promise land.
• Harden hearts
• Hai meh
• Miracles in China

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OPPOSING FORCES
FAITH
UNBELIEF
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Negative mind, Im worried

• Negative mind- I cant
• Trust
• Apart from God nothing, John 155
• Rethink Phil 413

• Worried
• 1 peter 56-7

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Mind of Christ
1 cor 216 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 3626 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.
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Think different

• 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 2911
• Prosper you, not to harm you, give you Hope and a
  future

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Promises

• Heb 135, never leave you or forsake you
• Jeremiah 2011, future
• Mt 633, all these added to you
• Phil 419 And my God will liberally supply
  (ifill to the full) your every need according
  to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Cor 517, new

1 Cor 216 But we have the mind of Christ (the
Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and
purposes) of His heart.
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think the right thoughts
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Questions

• 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?