The Battle for Your Mind: Empower
Highlights:
1.) You dont bring a knife to a gunfight, you bring the most powerful thing you got – THE HOLY SPIRIT.
2.) We must be captivated by Christ in order for our thoughts to be taken captive.
3.) What goes in and out of your mind must be regulated by Christ.
Discussion Questions:
1.) Why is there so much power behind our thinking?
2.)Think about mental muscle memory (like riding a bike). What strengthens it? How do you overcome it if you need to make a change? Share together about a habit that you have had to break and the process it took to break it?
3.) Can you identify a current war for your thinking? What are you doing to put on your “Holy Spirit Suit” to combat those thoughts?
Key Scriptures, Quotes and Illustrations:
-The Backward Bike Video
-2 Corinthiand 10:3-5.niv 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.
-Iron man. Without the suit he is a mere mortal. With the suit he is near invincible. This is an example of us with and without the Holy Spirit.
-Proverbs 26:11.niv As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.
– Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.
-Ephesians 6.10-12.niv Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.