Thank you for listening to this message from
Lifehouse Church. This is it, man. This is it.
We've been waiting a long time. There are mixed
emotions all through the house, a little bit
of tears, a little bit of excitement, a little
bit of everything in between. I've gone through
that over the last couple of weeks, just kind
of lamenting as I pull in and pull out and all
those kind of different things. But God is on
the move. Amen. He's doing new things. We're
super excited about what's coming up in the new
space. And I really just wanted to take a moment
to thank everyone. Everybody in this house has
been part of the move. And there have been individuals
who have worked tirelessly over the last two
weeks, put crazy hours in, volunteers and staff
alike. to make the move happen. And there's still
more happening this week. But thank you for all
of you that have prayed, for all of you that
have been a part from the very beginning. And
God has just moved in so many different ways.
Someday we'll get to tell the stories of all
that God's done. And as we take this last opportunity
here, hopefully just, listen, just worship God,
right? And what God's done here. Some of you
have a lot of memories. Some of you have been
here a long time. We were thinking back through.
that. Halfway between 2011 and 2012, we moved
into this building. And it's been some time in
2016, we went to two gatherings here and began
the two gathering thing, which was a big shift
culturally. And now God's moving us to a new
spot for just Sunday a .m. We're going to maintain
this building for all the other things that take
place here through the week. But we're just excited
about opportunity for God to expand the kingdom.
That's really what this is all about. This isn't
about us. It's about him. Amen. So we're excited.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being a part.
And I'm going to get you to stand as I read the
first scripture, just as a way of honoring God
and honoring his word this morning. And I thought
this particular scripture would be fitting for
our last Sunday AM gathering here this morning.
And it's Ecclesiastes chapter three, verse one.
It says this, to everything there is a season.
Amen. Everything. A time for every purpose under
heaven. A time to be born. and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is
planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a
time to break down and a time to build up. There's
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to
mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away
stones and a time to gather stones, a time to
embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to gain and a time to lose, a time to
keep and a time to throw away. a time to tear,
a time to sow, a time to keep silence, and a
time to speak, a time to love, and a time to
hate, a time of war, and a time of peace. To
everything, there is a season. If you would,
if you'd bow your heads. Father, we thank you
for this day. I thank you for, God, the opportunity
to come one more time in this place on a Sunday
morning and worship you together as a body of
believers. And Lord, we just give you praise
and glory. Lord, we know that there's going to
be plenty of worship services taking place here
with the youth. And God, so many things are going
to happen with, God, life groups. And Lord, we're
just excited about all the things that are going
to take place. But Lord, we celebrate this season,
this page that's about to turn. We thank you
for all that you've done. in this house, and
we just give you praise and glory in Jesus' name,
and amen and amen. God bless you. You may be
seated. I thought this verse was appropriate
to start this last gathering here this morning,
the last first gathering. We've still got one
more to go, right, after this. But I thought
it was important for two reasons, because one,
there really is a season to everything. Nothing
is forever, right, other than the Lord himself,
and one day we'll be with him. But on this earth,
everything has a season, and it's a time to change
that season to turn the page, right? But the
second reason I use that verse is because that
verse talks about about something that I've talked
about last week and have been talking about along
the way, and it's this. Life is full of change.
It is full of change. It's always shifting gears,
month to month, week to week, right? Day to day,
minute by minute, it changes. There's a barrage
of change that takes place in our life on a regular
basis, day to day, week to week, month to month,
minute by minute. It's true. And if we would
actually stop the inventory, the decisions that
we make in a given day while we're navigating
change, it would amount to, and this is what
they've checked this, this is what it averages
to. The average person makes 35 ,000 decisions
about change in a day. Wow. Go ahead, say, wow.
right? That's a big deal, right? And it could
be as simple, it could be as simple as like you're
navigating change, right? When maybe you pull
up to a red light, and it's red, and you gotta,
and it turns green, you gotta, there's a change
that took place, right? It went from red to green,
and you gotta hit the gas pedal and go, because
if not, there's gonna be three people behind
you hitting a horn, right? And you gotta navigate
that change. It could be as simple as that, or
it could be a life -changing decision of making
a decision of who you're going to one day maybe
propose, to and spend the rest of your life with,
right? An engagement that would take place. There's
change constantly taking place. And 35 ,000 times
a day, you're making a decision in the midst
of some kind of change. That's crazy. It's true,
right? Decisions in the midst of change. And
the challenge in the middle of the change is
always this. It's always about keeping my head
straight and keeping my mind on track. It really
is. Keeping my thoughts in the right place. navigating
the change, keeping good thoughts, God thoughts
in my head, and not all these other thoughts
that can come along with it, right? Keeping my
mind in a good place during the change, because
where I'm at in my head, in the middle of the
change, is going to have everything to do with
where I land on the opposite side of the change,
right? So an important thing to ask myself at
the beginning, in the middle, or even at the
end of change is this question. What, now if
you're taking notes, it's a good place to write
down. What in the world was I thinking, right?
What in the world was I thinking? Did you ever
ask yourself that question? What in the world
am I thinking, right? What was I thinking? What
was I thinking in the middle of that change?
What were my thoughts fixed on when things were
shifting and moving from here over to here, right?
Where's my head at in the middle of the change?
Chuck Swindoll says this, life is 10 % of what
happens to us and 90 % how we respond to it.
It's true, right? 90 % of how we respond to the
change. What's going on in your head has everything
to do. What in the world were you thinking in
the middle of the change? More than once, I heard
my parents speak those words to me or something
similar to those words. Come on, some of you
are laughing because you're right there with
me, right? What were you thinking? And I'm not
sure if I told this story or not when I was young.
And listen, if I did tell this story before here
at LifeHouse, here's the thing. I'm a little
gray, and that gives you a pass to say your story
all over again. How many know that's true, right?
Because old people repeat ourselves. We do that
all the time. It's okay. It's true, right? But
when I was about 14 years old, we lived on 50
acres. It was a small farm. When I was about
14 years old, my dad made the decision to teach
me how to drive a truck. What was he thinking,
right? I was 14. We had this old farm truck.
And if you don't know what a farm truck is, it's
an old pickup truck that is actually not roadworthy
anymore. It won't pass inspection. You don't
drive it on the road, but it's good enough to
haul things around on the farm and move things
from one spot to another. And about 14 years
of age, My dad decided it was good for me to
learn how to drive the farm truck. So it was
a stick shift, and he got me in, and he taught
me how to start out on a hill and on the flats,
right? And I learned how to drive a truck at
14 years of age. And to a 14 -year -old, it's
like, yes, right? It's the coolest thing in the
world. What was my dad thinking? Because here's
the thing, and some of you that are a little
bit older like I am, you're going to remember
this TV show, but me and the kid that lived down
the road, his name was Sam. friend of mine, we
used to watch the Dukes of Hazzard. Yeah, right?
And if you know anything about the Dukes of Hazzard,
right, it's not a complicated plot in that show,
by the way, right? It was Daisy Duke, Bo, and
Luke Duke. They're all three siblings who lived
with Uncle Jesse. And the premise was they lived
in Hazard County out in the middle of Georgia
somewhere in the sticks, and there was this kind
of crazy sheriff who would just chase them around
all the time in a car, right? Roscoe P. Coltrane
was the sheriff, and he would chase them all
the time, try to catch them, but he'd never ever
catch them, right? And the whole premise of the
show was, that they would jump through barns
with the car. They had this hot rod car, and
they'd jump through barns. They'd jump over ditches.
They'd climb up over hills and jump in the air.
And me and my friend Sam thought, that's pretty
awesome, right? I bet you the farm truck could
do this. So there was a property next door to
us that had a very big pile of dirt, and let's
do it. So I gave that truck everything it was
worth, and I got a good run. And I don't know
how much air I caught, but I know this. When
I landed, I tore the entire exhaust system straight
out from underneath the truck. He was laying
in a heap behind the truck, right? And unbeknownst
to me, my dad was standing up in the field watching
me. Yeah. What in the world were you thinking?
I heard that a lot over the next day or two.
What were you thinking, right? What were the
thoughts in your head while you were going through
this change called teenage life, right? And let
me tell you something. I did not fare well on
the other side of change. I didn't. And here's
how critical this really is. My thoughts while
I'm experiencing change is so critical it would
determine who I become. That's how important
this is. The thoughts that I have, some of you
don't believe me, but I'm going to show you.
We're done, right? My thoughts while experiencing
change will determine who I become on the other
side of change. Not just where I land, but who
I become on the other side of change. If my thoughts
are fixed, on fear in the middle of change, while
I'm experiencing change, if all I can think about
is what could happen and what might happen and
how horrible it's going to be, you know what
you'll become? You will become fear in the change.
You will become fearful. It's one thing, it's
very natural to experience fear in a change.
It's a whole other thing when your identity becomes
fear in the change. Whole different thing, right?
If my mind is only fixed on loss. in the middle
of change. What I'm going to lose in the middle
of change, right? The lack that's going to take
place. Do you know what happens to you? You become
lack. You know what that means? You're depressed.
That's what it means when you're depressed. It
means something's lacking in your life and you
become depressed. If your mind is fixed on that
in the middle of change, you will become that
out the other side of the change. If you get
caught in that, if it's not just a passing thought
or something that you deal with, right? If I'm
constantly angry in the change. I will become
anger. I will become rage. I will become wrath
on the other side of the change. I really will.
If my brain's fixed on things or being out of
control in the middle of the change, I will become
chaos on the other side of the change. What we
think on in the middle of change is what we become.
It's true. Proverbs 23, 7 says this, and it's
actually a portion of this scripture, says, so
a man thinketh, so he is. I thought this was
an exaggeration, honestly. The first time I read
it, I thought, well, this is real good. But it's
true. It's completely true. What we think on
in the middle of change will become who you are.
Turn to the person beside you, tell them, you
know, you're going to become what you're thinking.
Just tell them right now, testify. You're going
to become what you're thinking on in the middle
of the change, right? Tell them that. Come on.
And listen, the apostle Paul, he gives a little
more instruction about this thinking process
and this thought of life in the middle of change.
And he does it in a letter to Philippi. Now,
Paul's letter to Philippi is not like other letters
that he wrote to Galatians and Colossians, right?
Those were more epistles and letters that were
in response to crisis. And if you read the book
of Corinthians, that's going to be more about
spiritual correction. But the Philippian church,
the believers of Philippi were actually very...
immature believers. And Paul would write them
and he would encourage them. It was the inspired
word of God that the Holy Spirit would write
and that he would pen. And it's why you hear
a lot of times, you'll hear scriptures that are
quoted out of Philippians, right? You'll hear
things like, he who began a good work in you,
right, will perfect it until the day of Jesus
or Christ Jesus, which is Philippians 1 .6, or
to live as Christ and to die as gain. You'll
hear that. I can do all things through Christ
who what? Yeah, who strengthens me. We quote
those, and Paul was writing to these mature believers.
But in Philippians 4, 6, he begins to give us
some thoughts. He begins to give us direction
on thinking in the change. And 4, 6 begins like
this. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
let your requests be known to God. And the peace
of God which surpasses all understanding will
guard your hearts and your what? Minds, right?
Through Christ Jesus. 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
report, if there's any virtue and if there's
anything praiseworthy, meditate, right? Think,
focus on these things. The things which you've
learned and received and heard and saw in me,
these do and the God of peace will be with you.
Here's what it's saying. If you want to become
pure, guess what you have to be thinking on while
you're in the middle of the change? Pure things.
If you want to become truthful, you've got to
speak and think on the truth. If you want to
become noble in your life in the middle of change,
you've got to think noble things. If you want
to be just or lovely or of good report or you
want to be something that's going to be virtuous,
someone who's virtuous out the other end, you've
got to be thinking on these things in the middle
of the change. Because I become what I think
on in the middle of change. The thought that
your brain parks on is what you become in the
35 ,000 plus, right? 35 ,000 plus decisions that
you're making in the middle of change every single
day. It's true. Dr. Caroline Leaf, who wrote
the book Switch On Your Brain, says something
like this. And if you don't know who Dr. Leaf
is, she's first of all a communication pathologist,
an audiologist, and a clinical neuroscientist
specializing in research in psych neurobiology.
You can look all that up later, okay? She's very
well credentialed. But she says this in her book.
She says, our thoughts, imagination, and choices
can change the structure and function of our
brains on every level. molecular, genetic, epigenetic,
cellular, structural, neurochemical, electromagnetic,
and even subatomic. Through our thoughts, we
can be our own brain surgeons as we make choices
that change the circuits in our brain. We are
designed to do our own brain surgery. The science
is this. Our thoughts physically change our brain,
literally change your brain. It's not your brain
that changes your thoughts. It's your thoughts
that literally reconstruct, rewire your brain.
In simple terms, my brain becomes what I think
on. It literally becomes what I think on. So
when I become, you know, when I'm in the middle
of those 35 ,000 plus changes each day that take
place, what I'm thinking on is actually what
my brain is becoming. What my thoughts are fixed
on in the middle of whatever experience is going
on. That's what I become. It is true. Science
always proves what God's word says. Always, right?
And man, have I found this to be true, you know,
during this change that's been taking place,
going from this location to the next. Because
how many know it's really easy for fear to get
in there, right? It's really easy for fear to
sneak in. You know, when this all started and
we started looking at this and it got serious
and we voted on it and the church said, yes,
we're going to go do this, you know, I started
thinking all kinds of crazy thoughts like, what
if we make the change and everybody hates it?
You know, how many of you always go with the
worst case scenario, right? All couple hundred
people are just going to absolutely hate this.
You know, and they're all going to leave, and
they're all going to hate me. You know, and you
can go on and on, right? You can get lost in
that. Or what if it changes our culture and who
we are? Or what if we don't like this? Or what
if we don't like that? And you can get caught
in the fear. And you start to build. You start
to build in your brain these neurons, right?
You start to build circuits. And you begin to
think on. All the time. And if you don't stop
that loop, how many of you got a loop in your
brain? Circuits tie together. You start looping
in your head these thoughts, and they start going
back around. How many of you loop enough, you'll
wake up in the middle of the night thinking the
same thoughts, right? You wake up in the middle
of the night, got to go to the bathroom, and
you're thinking, why am I thinking this? Right?
Stop it. You're just going in your head, going
around and around. What in the world are you
thinking in the change? What is the loop in your
brain fixed on? Look at the person beside you
one more time. Ask them, what's looping up there?
Come on. What's looping up there? You might not
want to know, right? What's looping up there?
And can I take this just a little bit further?
Because here's the thing. A sinful thought looping
up there? sooner or later you'll become the sin.
You know, what you're fantasizing about, the
sin that you're fantasizing about or longing
about, sooner or later you become that. How many
know that always starts in the mind? The six
inches between your ears. Sin doesn't start down
here, down your feet. It starts in the six inches
between your ears. And the longer you dwell on
it, the more you fantasize about it, you will
become that sooner or later. You'll land in a
place that you don't want to be. You'll stay
longer than you want to stay because that's what
sin does, right? And you'll pay more than you
want to pay. That's what sin does. It's true,
right? What in the world are you thinking? What
in the world are you thinking? Because you're
building real estate. Up in your mind. I don't
know if you know it or not. Whatever you're thinking
on, you're building real estate up there. You're
building circuitry up there. And if it's not
a good thing, if it's not a God thing, if it's
not a righteous thing, can I tell you what to
do? Just confess and repent right now. Not to
me. You can do that to Jesus. I mean, if you
want to confess to me, I'm glad to listen. But
just confess and repent. Repent means to change.
You've got to begin to change. You're going this
way, and if I repent, that means I'm going that
way. You've got to change what you're thinking.
You've got to change it, right? Control the brain
loop or the brain loop will control you. You
got to control the brain loop or it's going to
control you. I taught on this a little while
back. I can't remember which message it was,
just a few messages ago, but let's dive just
a little bit deeper in it because Paul's writing
to Corinth right now. And you gotta remember
just a little earlier, I said when he was writing
to Corinth, it was more in a correctional nature.
And you'll hear that tone in this portion of
scripture. But it says this in 2 Corinthians
10, verse one. It says, now I, Paul, myself am
pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness
of Christ, who in the presence am lowly among
you. Being absent, I am bold. toward you. So
he talks about being lowly among you. Then he
talks about being bold. That's how Paul does.
He jumps back and forth, right? He's like, I'm
lowly, but when I get there, I'm going to tell
you how it really works, right? But I beg you
that when I am present, I may not be bold with
confidence by which I intend to be bold against
some who think of us as if we walked according
to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war according to the flesh. For the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
in God for pulling down strongholds. Casting
down arguments and every high thing that exalts
itself against the knowledge of God, bringing
every thought into captivity to the obedience
of Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience
when your obedience is fulfilled. Bring every
thought into captivity in obedience to Christ
Jesus. So what he's saying is you got to take
those rogue thoughts, those things that dip you
into fear or anxiety or lack or even sin, any
of those things, and you got to take that thought
and you got to imprison that thing. You got to
take it captive, right? You take it at gunpoint
in your head. That's the only thing you should
ever take at gunpoint, right? You take it in
your head. You capture that thought. You bind
that thing and you lock it away so you never
hear it again. You bring it into obedience to
Christ. It's true. You've got to take it captive.
And if I could give you a good rule of thumb,
so this isn't just preaching and theory and what
God's Word says, a good rule of thumb is this.
Anything that you think of, if you had to verbalize
that standing in front of Jesus, would you ask
yourself, do I need to take this captive and
pack this thing away so I never think about it
again? Or am I perfectly comfortable saying this
in front of Jesus Christ? Right? Am I comfortable
because this doesn't violate God's word in any
way? It doesn't violate his holy nature and righteousness
in any way, right? Is this good and right in
his eyes? So if you can take whatever thoughts
in your head and you could verbalize it in front
of Jesus and Jesus would be okay with it, you
don't have to take that captive. You can let
that loose. You can speak it into the air. But
if it is something that you would not say in
front of Jesus, it's something that you would
not go there with him and you know it's unrighteous.
and you know it's unhealthy, or you know it's
sinful, you need to capture that thing. And you
need to lock it up. Amen? It's true. You need
to imprison it. Because you will become that
if you dwell on it. If you stay there in the
change, as you shift through life, you will become
that thing. And I know it sounds radical, but
it's not. You need to take thoughts captive.
God's given you the power. He really has. And
let me jump back to Switch on Your Brain by Dr.
Caroline Leaf. How many know the science always
catches up with what God's word has to say? It
says this, getting your thoughts disciplined
and under control is one of the first steps in
freeing yourself of burdens of the world and
begin to enjoy life despite the burdens of the
world. When you objectively observe your own
thinking with the view of capturing rogue thoughts,
you in effect direct your attention to stop the
negative impact. and rewire healthy new circuits
into your brain. You literally rewire. Capturing
thoughts and taking them captive, and you begin
to think on the right things, you will rewire
your brain. Romans 12 .1 bears this out. It really
does. Very familiar piece of scripture, right?
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy and acceptable God, which is
your reasonable service. And do not be conformed
to this world, but be transformed by the renewing.
You can put rewiring in there if you wanted to.
By the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
what is good and acceptable and the perfect will
of God. You got to rewire it, man. You got to
renew it. You got to revitalize your thoughts.
You got to take captive what is dragging you
down. You got negativity spewing out of you.
I guarantee it's what's looping up in your brain.
Amen? You got to grab a hold of that thing. You
got to say no, right? You got to take authority
over your thinking. I know it sounds weird, but
we've got this unique ability as human beings
to stand outside and examine our own thoughts.
Isn't that crazy? You can think while you're
thinking. Isn't that awesome, right? It's kind
of like a matrix kind of thing. I don't know.
It's wild, right? But we can. And we got to start.
And listen, I understand this is a process. You're
not going to rebuild. How many know if you've
got a rewired house? Now, how many of you have
ever rewired anything? Like three of you. Okay,
let me explain this, okay? If you've got to rewire
a house, here's what you have to do. Like anything
you're going to redo, you've got to get the old
stuff out first, right? You've got to pull all
the old stuff out. You're going to have to tear
some things down. You're going to have to pull
some down, some plaster, and you've got to pull
out the old wiring, right? You've got to pull
down the drywall, whatever you've got to do.
There's a process. You've got to tear some of
that out. That's taking it captive, right? And
you've got to tear that thing out. And then you
start putting the new stuff in, and all of a
sudden, the light. starts coming on, right? And
things begin to work and things begin to switch
on in your brain. It's a process that God walks
us through. And it's the renewing of your mind.
A lot of people want to know what deliverance
is all about. And God can instantly deliver.
That's a miracle. That's called a miracle in
scripture. He can deliver you in a heartbeat,
but nine times out of 10, he's walking you through
the process. And you're going to come out the
other side, delivered and whole and free. But
you got to go through the process. You got to
tear out the old and you got to come in with
the new. And when you begin to renew your mind,
all of a sudden, you begin to rewire a new real
estate building your brain. And what you were
up here is no longer there, and you become something
brand new. The world will not tell you this.
The world will tell you you are captive to your
mind, and what you were, you always will be.
And that is not what God's Word says. He says
you become a new creature, a new creation. Amen?
Inside out. Mind on out. How many know what your
brain does? The body follows. It's true, right?
It's true. Last thing I want to leave you. Man,
this is the last thing I'm going to leave you,
literally. Last point, right? At Terrace Avenue
location. Jesus is the one who can change the
loop in our lives. He really is. In John chapter
4, Jesus is sitting by a well that borders. It's
actually within the borders of Samaria. And a
woman comes to the well to draw water. And Jesus
uses what's close by, which is the well, to get
into a conversation with this woman. And because
he's Jesus, and Jesus always was led by the Spirit,
and he knew things because of the Holy Spirit,
Jesus knows that this woman has been, she's been
married five times, and she's currently living
with a man. He knows this, right, because the
Spirit left him know this, the Holy Spirit. And
he calls her on it. He begins to expose the relationship
loop that's been going on in her head where this
woman's been thinking. He calls her on it, right?
Five husbands that now live in, and she's had
this bad relationship. loop I call bad juju in
your brain. How many know that that's a thing,
right? You get bad juju in your brain. She's
had this bad relationship loop going on in her
brain, and she's seeking something among all
these men that she's been with, and she's not
finding it, right? She's stuck in this cycle
in her mind that has now led her even into sin.
And Jesus, in a moment in time, begins to change
the loop in her thinking. In John 4, 14, he says
this, but whoever drinks of the water water that
I shall give will never thirst, but the water
that I shall give him will become in him a fountain
of water springing up into everlasting life.
Jesus, in a sense, was talking to this woman
and saying, what were you thinking? You found
nothing in the stagnation of following relationships
the world's way, right? You found nothing. It's
left you empty and dry, or it's stagnant. How
many know stagnant water is no good to drink,
right? bitter. It's unhealthy for you. And he
says, but if you follow me, right, let me tell
you where the relationship ladder should start.
It should start in me. If you start in me, if
you start with the Messiah, if you start with
Jesus, rivers of living, that's what he talks
about in another place in scripture, rivers of
living water will come out of you. You'll be
a fountain of new life that will come out of
you. And he's talking, it's the Savior talking
to her, and he starts to change the loop in her
head. He interrupts, right, the thought process.
that was there, and he starts to put something.
He begins to rewire her brain right there on
the spot. And because he's Jesus, he speaks,
right? And he says that all those relationships
will not be your all in all. I am. Amen? It's
true. I tell young couples this all the time,
doing premarital counseling or something. I tell
them, look across the table. That person you're
looking at is not going to be your all in all.
You're lucky if they're going to be your sometime
in sometime. It's true. Come on, all the married
people are laughing, right? It's true. Jesus
is your all in all. Don't put that kind of pressure
on a person. Amen? That's above their pay grade.
They can't hold up to that. They really can't.
Your relationship. And Jesus rewires this woman's
brain. She starts to understand that it is the
Messiah standing in front of her and that he
is the first relationship. And how many know
if you get the first relationship, right, all
the other relationships start to straighten up.
It's true. It's true. Rewire your brain. I'm
going to ask you to stand. As the worship team
comes. What in the world are you thinking? What
in the world are you thinking? What were you
thinking? What are you thinking? Because you're
in the middle of change, whether you realize
it or not. You know, you're heading towards halfway
through the day. You've got thousands of decisions
and change that were already made just getting
here this morning. What are you thinking? Where
are you at? What's your mind in the loop, right?
What's going on in the loop in your mind? What
are you feeding yourself? What are you rewiring
in your brain? Because you're building real estate,
whether you realize it or not, whatever you're
dwelling on, whatever you're building up is staying
in your mind. You're building blocks of things,
amen? And sometimes you got to rewire the house.
You got to tear out what was there. That woman
at the well, in that moment in time when Jesus
realized she had some bad wiring going on up
here, right? Bad juju going on up here. And she
needed the wire pulled out. And Jesus began to
rebuild, began to rewire her thinking. Began
to show her a new way. So I want you to bow your
heads this morning. I want you just to examine
yourself. Where are you at? Where are you at
in this? This is one of those messages where
we got to, listen, this is going to have everything
to do with who you become and where you land
on the other side of it. It will have everything
to do with where you land and who you become.
That's how important this is. What's looping
up there? What do you got to shift? What area
of your life? Is it fear? Right? Is it jealousy?
Is it anger? Is there some other place? And if
it's not, man, just keep dwelling on the things
of God and let God rebuild and rewire and bring
you to a place of authority. We heard it a little
earlier, right? Just walk in the authority of
God. That's where he wants you, right? Let him
do that. But if not, you got to realize it because
first of all, God won't fix what you won't name,
what you won't confess. You've got to confess
it. So confess it to Him right now. Whatever
the area that is, it's messed up in you, and
it's messed up thinking, and you know it. You've
been looping on that thing a while. Right now,
you just confess it to Him. And then you've got
to speak out, and you've got to tell Him, I'm
willing to repent. So Lord, start ripping the
wiring out. Start pulling it out. I want rebuilt.
I want some new wiring in my house. So just right
now, just speak it out to Him. Pray to Him. You
don't need me to lead you in this. You can pray
to Him yourself right now. Just speak, ask Him
right now in this moment. Just as they're playing,
I'm going to be quiet for just a minute. I want
you just to focus on Him. Jesus is the one who
will rewire. Jesus is the one who will renew.
Jesus is the one who will begin to shift everything.
What you're thinking on in the change is what
you'll become. Just take another minute to pray
with them. Just you and Jesus. Just you and the
Lord. Just Holy Spirit speaking in you and through
you. Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit connecting
with you this morning. Just take a moment. Ask
him. You got to ask him, Lord, rewire me. Lord,
rewire me. Lord, change this in my head and in
my heart. Rewire me this morning. Change it up
in me. Lord, I thank you. Then begin to thank
him. Lord, I thank you. I'm believing right now.
God, it's going to shift. It's going to change
because I named it. And Lord, I've committed
to repent. God, I've named it and I committed
to change. I've committed to shift something.
I'm not going to stay there any longer. I'm going
to start taking captive. When that thought comes
in my head, I'm going to grab that thing and
I'm going to hold it up and I'm going to stick
it in a cell. I'm going to duct tape its mouth
shut and it's going to stay there. And I'm never
going to look at it again. I'm starting the process,
Lord. Rewire my brain. Rebuild it. Rebuild it.
Lord, I thank you for each one in the house,
Lord. God, I pray that you constantly rewire
us, Lord. Help us, Lord, to see and to know and
to walk in your authority. God, greater and greater
every single day. Lord, we give you praise. We
give you glory and honor in Jesus' name. We pray
that you were impacted powerfully by this message.
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