The A to Z of Healing: Dealing with Doubt
Dealing with doubt is a fundamental aspect of the healing process, as explained in this discourse. Doubt, if nurtured, can proliferate and obstruct the manifestation of God's promises, including healing. Throughout the discussion, we explore the insidious nature of doubt, illustrating how it can infiltrate our thoughts, prompting questions that challenge our faith. We emphasize the imperative of recognizing and addressing these doubts before they take root and grow into significant barriers to our healing. By focusing on the Word of God and nurturing our faith, we can effectively starve the seeds of doubt and cultivate a fertile ground for spiritual growth and healing.
Takeaways:
- In the pursuit of healing and faith, one must actively confront and manage the presence of doubt, as it can undermine one's confidence in God's promises.
- Doubt manifests as a separation from the Word of God, creating a chasm that may inhibit the realization of divine healing and other blessings.
- Fostering faith requires a conscious decision to feed one's belief system while simultaneously starving the seeds of doubt that may arise.
- The process of healing involves not only spiritual readiness but also an intentional focus on positive thoughts that align with God's Word, thereby minimizing distractions that induce doubt.
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Transcript
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Speaker B:Today we are going through our series the A to Z of healing.
Speaker B:And we are on D today.
Speaker B:D. We're going to be talking about dealing with doubt.
Speaker B:This is something that all of us has had to overcome in different areas, and it can be an ongoing process.
Speaker B:But when we are believing God for something, whether that's healing or any of the promises of God, actually doubt is something that just creeps in.
Speaker B:You know, it's all of the questioning, it's all of the thinking.
Speaker B:It's all of the, you know, what if?
Speaker B:Will it Work for me all of the questions that pop up on the inside that really come to challenge the word of God, his promises to us.
Speaker B:You know, like anything, if we feed it, it will grow, right?
Speaker B:And so if we feed our faith, our faith will grow.
Speaker B:But if we feed those questions, if we feed those, those, those nagging doubts that are in the back of the mind, you know, that whatever we focus on gets bigger.
Speaker B:Whatever we feed grows and doubt will grow too.
Speaker B:So I'm going to go through some scriptural basis here to help you to really identify those seeds of doubt before they start to sprout and grow and just up them.
Speaker B:Then we do not want weeds of doubt choking out, choking the word of God in our life.
Speaker B:We want it to bear fruit.
Speaker B:So let's take a moment and pray.
Speaker B:Father God, I just thank you that you are here with us, that you know exactly what we need, where we are, what we're up to.
Speaker B:Lord, I thank you that you have a great plans for our life and that it is your will for us to, to be well, to receive your word with gladness, and for that word to bear fruit in our life.
Speaker B:Lord, thank you that you've given us ears to hear, mind to understand, and a heart to receive everything that you have for us today in Jesus name, amen.
Speaker B:Well, let's jump on to rather the word today.
Speaker B:You know, doubt.
Speaker B:I looked at the definition of the word doubt, okay, According to scripture, let me put up my Bible here.
Speaker B:And I just think this is really interesting because the word doubt there in the Greek, it means to separate, to separate, to literally withdraw or to oppose.
Speaker B:It's talking about deciding against something or to hesitate, to judge something, to waver, maybe go backwards and forwards or to be partial.
Speaker B:You know, a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Speaker B:Or, you know, depending on what mood I'm in, you know, I might change my mind about something or I'm just not sure about.
Speaker B:Those are all the kind of things where doubt kind of accumulates.
Speaker B:But it means to separate, to make a distinction, a discrimination.
Speaker B:Or it means this to learn by discrimination so it can become a teacher.
Speaker B:We can listen to doubt so much, feed it so much that, that we start to learn that as a pattern.
Speaker B:And that's a problem.
Speaker B:It could also mean to decide a dispute.
Speaker B:So there's an argumentative faction that comes with doubt as well.
Speaker B:And then it's a part of this is to withdraw.
Speaker B:Remember, we said to separate, to withdraw.
Speaker B:This is where the enemy really begins to creep in because he's not he knows he can't separate us from God.
Speaker B:You know, nothing Romans says nothing can separate us from the love of God.
Speaker B:Once we are born again, we cannot be separated.
Speaker B:Not even sin can separate you.
Speaker B:No, no demons, no principalities, no power ever separate you from the love of God.
Speaker B:But what the enemy tries to do with doubt is he tries to create a separation between us and the Word.
Speaker B:And that's important, an important distinction, because the word of God on the inside of us is what takes root and bears the fruit.
Speaker B:Healing is one of those fruits.
Speaker B:We're talking about that A to Z of healing, the D in the A to Z of healing.
Speaker B:But you can apply this to anything, any promise of God that you are, that you are believing.
Speaker B:For the enemy wants you, wants to separate you from that truth.
Speaker B:He wants to separate you.
Speaker B:He wants to literally bring a division and pull you away.
Speaker B:We make you withdraw as far as possible.
Speaker B:So that promise seems like he's out of reach.
Speaker B:Then if he knows that if he can steal the word from you, it's not going to be able to bear fruit.
Speaker B:Let me show you this scripture.
Speaker B:I was reading this, I was preaching on this just the other day, actually.
Speaker B:But the parable of the Sower is such.
Speaker B:It is the parable that really Jesus, he said that if you don't understand this parable, you're not going to understand any of the parables, right?
Speaker B:And he taught in stories a lot because it was the way that people of the day would understand.
Speaker B:But I want to show you this parable of the sow.
Speaker B:Jesus lays it out really nicely and it's mentioned in all the gospels.
Speaker B:Let me show you this one.
Speaker B:This is in Luke 8.
Speaker B:And it says, now this parable means this.
Speaker B:The seed is the word of God.
Speaker B:This is verse 11.
Speaker B:And those along the path are those who hear.
Speaker B:Then comes the devil who tries to take away the word of God from their hearts.
Speaker B:That's important.
Speaker B:It's from their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Speaker B:Now that word saved is also sozos, the word we get healed from.
Speaker B:So you could interchange.
Speaker B:It could be interchangeably.
Speaker B:Wherever you see saved, you could put healed in there.
Speaker B:But he says he tries to take away the word of God out of their heart because the word is like a seed.
Speaker B:And when we hear it, that word, it goes down into our heart.
Speaker B:Now, our heart isn't our physical beating organ of our heart.
Speaker B:That's talking about our mind, our will and our emotions.
Speaker B:It goes into the thinking part of us, our brain, our processing part, right?
Speaker B:Our Intellect.
Speaker B:And you know, as it.
Speaker B:As it.
Speaker B:As we hear the Word of God, the more we focus on the Word of God, the Word of God starts.
Speaker B:That seed of the word starts to put down roots.
Speaker B:It starts to sprout, and it starts to bear fruit.
Speaker B: You know, Romans: Speaker B:So as we hear the Word of God, our trust, our belief, our faith, our assurity in that word starts to grow.
Speaker B:It starts to come, it starts to multiply, it starts to bear fruit.
Speaker B:And that starts by plotting the Word of God in our heart.
Speaker B:So the enemy's whole scheme is if he can snatch that truth away from our heart before it becomes established, then he will stop it bearing fruit.
Speaker B:He'll stop that process of faith exploding on the inside of us.
Speaker B:And faith is important because it's how he acts as the promises of God that grace has already provided for us.
Speaker B:So if he can shipwreck that process by stealing the Word of God and implanting instead of seeds of faith, seeds of doubt, he wants to separate you because you know he can't stop you getting saved.
Speaker B:He's not.
Speaker B:He's not smart enough for that.
Speaker B:But he's like, lest they should, he tries to take away the Word from their hearts unless they should believe it and be saved.
Speaker B:So if he could stop you from hearing the Word in the first place, he had settled with that, but he couldn't.
Speaker B:So he tries to snatch it away before it bears down.
Speaker B:Bears.
Speaker B:Bears fruit and puts down roots.
Speaker B:You know that.
Speaker B:How does he do that?
Speaker B:Well, you know, this whole parable goes on to explain the different ways that the enemy sows doubt.
Speaker B:And he talks about the conditions of the heart that the Word is sown into.
Speaker B:And certain conditions of the heart, certain environments, produce more doubt or more unbelief than others do.
Speaker B:So there's some description here.
Speaker B:It says, you know, some hear the Word of God, they receive it with joy, but they don't, you know, and they'll believe it for a little bit, but it has no roots or no revelation.
Speaker B:And so, you know, when it's under pressure, when there's temptations, it falls away.
Speaker B:So temptation is one way that the enemy sows doubt.
Speaker B:How does he do that?
Speaker B:Well, maybe he comes with sin.
Speaker B:Maybe he comes with familiar sin that maybe you've tried before.
Speaker B:And he'll tempt you with it to see if you have a.
Speaker B:Have you have an appetite for it.
Speaker B:It.
Speaker B:And he'll do that over and over again.
Speaker B:He's.
Speaker B:It's really A temptation to distraction is what it is.
Speaker B:And that could be many.
Speaker B:It doesn't have to be sin.
Speaker B:Could just be busyness.
Speaker B:If the enemy can get you busy, he'll settle for that.
Speaker B:If he is almost like he's over in the corner saying, look at me, look at me, look at me.
Speaker B:Don't focus on the word.
Speaker B:Don't focus on the promises.
Speaker B:Look at me, look at what I'm doing.
Speaker B:He's trying to create a distraction that'll take your attention away from the word of God.
Speaker B:Because in that moment that you'll use that distraction to bring separation.
Speaker B:That's the whole plan.
Speaker B:So temptation is one of those ways that he.
Speaker B:He will sow doubt.
Speaker B:But then he says another way.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's the, the seed which fell amongst thorns.
Speaker B:And these are the people that, that, that hear.
Speaker B:But then they're choked with the cares and the.
Speaker B:Of the world and the riches and the pleasures of life and bring no fruit to maturity again.
Speaker B:That's almost like just busyness.
Speaker B:Concern for other things.
Speaker B:Just being concerned for other things.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Being busy or thinking more about worldly things or any other thought.
Speaker B:Basically, that's not the word of God.
Speaker B:Can cause you to have care and concern more for other things above the word of God.
Speaker B:So all of those things cares for riches.
Speaker B:How will I survive?
Speaker B:How will I eat?
Speaker B:Rather than think, thinking the Lord will provide for me and my needs are met.
Speaker B:I have an abundance for every good work and everything I touch prospers.
Speaker B:Rather than thinking word thoughts is really easy.
Speaker B:Especially when we're dealing with sickness.
Speaker B:We start getting concerned.
Speaker B:How am I going to pay the bills?
Speaker B:How am I going to work?
Speaker B:How am I going to eat?
Speaker B:How am I going to provide for my family?
Speaker B:That would be the cares of the world or the.
Speaker B:Or cares for riches.
Speaker B:That's not even the pleasures of life.
Speaker B:Just taking on responsibility for things that we're supposed to rely on the.
Speaker B:The Lord for taking on the burden, the care of the world.
Speaker B:You know, the scripture says we're supposed to cast our cares upon the Lord and let him carry them.
Speaker B:But sometimes we take responsibility for things, cares for things that we weren't designed to carry.
Speaker B:That can cause a separation just because it's a distraction or just too much pleasure in life.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Enjoying just getting busy, being distracted, chasing after temporary enjoyment.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:All of those things can cause doubt to arise.
Speaker B:But the word of God, that falls on good ground, man, that is the one that's going to bear fruit.
Speaker B:So this is where doubts come from.
Speaker B:Now this is Interesting.
Speaker B:Let's look at a passage here.
Speaker B:Some.
Speaker B:Some doubts arise from just simply natural things.
Speaker B:I'm looking here in Matthew 17.
Speaker B:This is the healing of an epileptic boy.
Speaker B:And this is mentioned in several of the gospels as well.
Speaker B:We're looking at Matthew's account this time.
Speaker B:And this child is brought to the disciples.
Speaker B:And it says here, I brought to him, to your disciples, but they could not heal him.
Speaker B:He's having seizures, epileptic.
Speaker B:And it says often he falls into the fire and he falls into the water.
Speaker B:So this is.
Speaker B:There's a background here where this child.
Speaker B:And we're not exactly sure how old this child is, but oftentimes he's been through just terrible circumstances, things that have really moved him at a heart level.
Speaker B:And, you know, in one of the.
Speaker B:The Gospels, the father says, I bought my only child, my only son.
Speaker B:And it really kind of hits home, the gravity of this.
Speaker B:This father's been caring for this child for.
Speaker B:For at least a number of years.
Speaker B:And it's his only.
Speaker B:He's his only son.
Speaker B:And so he's almost like, I can't afford to lose him.
Speaker B:He's too precious to me, right?
Speaker B:So he's been going on with it a long time.
Speaker B:And, you know, he starts immediately having a seizure.
Speaker B:And this natural.
Speaker B:This is just an element of n. Natural unbelief.
Speaker B:And that moves people.
Speaker B:It moves people at a heart level.
Speaker B:And these disciples were watching this display.
Speaker B:If anyone.
Speaker B:Anyone's ever seen the seizures, it's very out there, right?
Speaker B:It's very out there.
Speaker B:And so it moved them at a hot level.
Speaker B:And the.
Speaker B:And they struggled to cast this demon out.
Speaker B:So Jesus came and he rebuked the demon and it came out of him.
Speaker B:And the child was healed instantly.
Speaker B:When the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, why couldn't we cast him out?
Speaker B:Well, Jesus says, because of your unbelief.
Speaker B:Now, this is interesting because unbelief and doubt go hand in hand, right?
Speaker B:They all occur together.
Speaker B:If we have a doubt and we focus on it, that separation, that hesitation, we start to meditate on it, unbelief is going to be a natural part of what's produced in that.
Speaker B:But he said.
Speaker B:He said to them, you know, if you have faith as a great grain of a mustard seed, the tiniest grain, you'll say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move because nothing will be impossible for you.
Speaker B:What Jesus is saying to them is, you know, your faith is more powerful than doubt and unbelief.
Speaker B:Just feed that Feed faith and starve, doubt and unbelief.
Speaker B:Whatever we focus on is going to get bigger.
Speaker B:Whatever we feed is going to grow.
Speaker B:And he actually tells.
Speaker B:He actually tells his disciples here, this kind does not come out by prayer and fasting.
Speaker B:That's not referring to the type of demon that this.
Speaker B:This child is dealing with.
Speaker B:He's talking about this type of unbelief.
Speaker B:This whole passage is talking about overcoming unbelief.
Speaker B:In fact, when he has a conversation with the Father about the very situation, he says, if you can believe, all things are possible.
Speaker B:To him who believes all things, same thing he says to the Father is the same thing he says to the disciples.
Speaker B:Your faith is more powerful than doubt and unbelief.
Speaker B:Stop allowing the enemy to create division.
Speaker B:Stop allowing the enemy to take the main focus.
Speaker B:The enemy in this situation was literally creating like a little circus here, a distraction.
Speaker B:Come look at me.
Speaker B:Look at me.
Speaker B:Look at me.
Speaker B:Don't you know?
Speaker B:If we can just for a moment be smarter than the enemy, which I believe we all are.
Speaker B:If we're born again, we've got the mind of Christ.
Speaker B:Don't fall for the distraction.
Speaker B:Jesus tells us.
Speaker B:Let me show you this.
Speaker B:Jesus tells us this.
Speaker B:This is how he deals with the enemy.
Speaker B:Look at this.
Speaker B:In just a few chapters earlier, in Matthew 12, Matthew 12, and this is 25, it says Jesus knew their thoughts.
Speaker B:This is actually confronting some religious people.
Speaker B:He says Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.
Speaker B:And every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
Speaker B:If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself.
Speaker B:And how can his kingdom stand?
Speaker B:He's telling his disciples how to overcome the power of the enemy.
Speaker B:Now, doubt and unbelief are tools that the enemy uses.
Speaker B:He can't make you doubt anything.
Speaker B:He can't make you get into unbelief.
Speaker B:But it is a fruit of a seed that he sows, a temptation to think contrary to the word of God.
Speaker B:And when we.
Speaker B:When we.
Speaker B:You could say when we bite that apple, when we taste of his fruit, the.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:The result is doubt and unbe.
Speaker B:Believe.
Speaker B:But there's.
Speaker B:There's that part of division that starts at the very beginning.
Speaker B:And Jesus is saying, if we.
Speaker B:If we are separate, if we cause separation, if Satan is separated or divided, the word divided, it says, if Satan is.
Speaker B:He is divided against himself.
Speaker B:His kingdom cannot stand.
Speaker B:So the whole plan of the enemy comes to bring separation between you and the word of God.
Speaker B:You, me, and God's promises.
Speaker B:But the Same ploy that.
Speaker B:The same tactic that the enemy uses to.
Speaker B:To cause division between us and the word of God is the same tactic that we can use back on him.
Speaker B:We can literally turn his weapon against himself.
Speaker B:He's divided by his own weapons.
Speaker B:You see, there is nothing unified about the enemy camp.
Speaker B:There's unity comes from the Lord.
Speaker B:There is a power of unity.
Speaker B:There's a command, blessing on unity.
Speaker B:And the enemy and all of his demons are constantly divided.
Speaker B:There is no unity.
Speaker B:There is no peace.
Speaker B:There is no rest.
Speaker B:There is only chaos and torment and disorganization in the enemy camp.
Speaker B:He is constantly divided against himself.
Speaker B:And if we.
Speaker B:You know this word divided?
Speaker B:I said it.
Speaker B:It means separated.
Speaker B:It also means disunited.
Speaker B:It means separated into factions.
Speaker B:It's very similar to the word that we use for doubt.
Speaker B:So if we begin to doubt our own doubts, what we're doing is we are separating ourselves from them.
Speaker B:It's almost like, let's say, a doubt comes to you, and it's like this little box.
Speaker B:This is a thought that might come.
Speaker B:Maybe you have a pain in your body.
Speaker B:Your body is speaking to you, and you start to think about that.
Speaker B:You know what?
Speaker B:I have a pain in my little toe.
Speaker B:I have a pain in my little toe.
Speaker B:I wonder where that pain comes from.
Speaker B:We start to meditate on that pain.
Speaker B:We start to try to think about the root cause of that pain.
Speaker B:Did I stub my toe?
Speaker B:Did I break my toe?
Speaker B:And then we start getting a little deeper, thinking, well, hang on a minute.
Speaker B:You know, how long have I had this pain in my little toe for?
Speaker B:Well, actually, I've had it for a few days.
Speaker B:Well, is the pain getting.
Speaker B:No, the pain's getting worse.
Speaker B:As we start to meditate on that, what we're doing is we're bringing.
Speaker B:We're taking on board that temptation.
Speaker B:The enemy comes with something, and he wants our attention.
Speaker B:As we start to meditate on it, we start to focus on it.
Speaker B:It's not just out here anymore.
Speaker B:It starts to become close to us.
Speaker B:It starts to literally become a part of our thought life.
Speaker B:It starts to be digested on the inside.
Speaker B:You could say it's almost like a.
Speaker B:Like a seed that we swallow that we start to meditate on.
Speaker B:And then as we start to meditate on it, maybe we start looking in our body for other symptoms.
Speaker B:Maybe it's not just my little toe that hurts.
Speaker B:Maybe there's other things in my body that hurt too.
Speaker B:Oh, you know what?
Speaker B:You know, maybe it's my joint.
Speaker B:Maybe there's other joints in my body.
Speaker B:And it starts to get bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker B:And as we do that, what we're not doing, we're focusing so much on that thing, that thought, that doubt, that we're not focusing on the word of God.
Speaker B:You see, we'd have to put one down.
Speaker B:You know, you can't focus on too many things at once.
Speaker B:You'd have to put one down in order to focus on the other one.
Speaker B:So this is where the enemy comes in to try to separate what is more effective if we are trying to overcome.
Speaker B:It's really helpful if we learn to recognize what is a doubt in the first place.
Speaker B:And I'm saying this because sometimes they're not obvious, sometimes they're sneaky.
Speaker B:The enemy is sneaky.
Speaker B:So how about this?
Speaker B:How about the next time that little toe hurts?
Speaker B:We're just using little toes analogy.
Speaker B:It comes as a thought, it comes as a symptoms, comes ouch.
Speaker B:As a pain.
Speaker B:Every time I move that little toe, that little, that little goes ouch.
Speaker B:I feel the pain in my body.
Speaker B:Say, hang on a minute.
Speaker B:I see you, little toe.
Speaker B:I sense that pain.
Speaker B:I see what you're doing.
Speaker B:But instead of considering the root cause of that pain and where it's come from and if it has a history and if it's anywhere else in the body, I'm such pain.
Speaker B:You know what?
Speaker B:You don't belong in my body.
Speaker B:I recognize what you are.
Speaker B:You're a distraction.
Speaker B:I'm going to start talking back to you.
Speaker B:You don't belong to me.
Speaker B:I doubt you.
Speaker B:I doubt you have any ability to hinder my walking.
Speaker B:I doubt you have any ability whatsoever to remain in my body.
Speaker B:You don't to belong.
Speaker B:You don't have any right.
Speaker B:In fact, you leave right now.
Speaker B:You know what we've done is we've taken the power out of that symptom.
Speaker B:And it could be a physical symptom.
Speaker B:It could be.
Speaker B:You could be a thought, any, any kind of thought that comes to you.
Speaker B:It could be an emotion.
Speaker B:But so often we spend so long, so much time looking and meditating and examining a thought or a symptom rather than our first response needs to be what's written, what's the promise that I'm believing God for?
Speaker B:And it is much easier to deal with doubts before they put down roots.
Speaker B:When I was a little girl, it used to be part of my job to go out into the yard in the autumn time in the fall and pick out the sycamore tree.
Speaker B:We had a big sycamore tree at the bottom of our garden.
Speaker B:And it would drop these little, like helicopter pods, the little helicop leaves, and the seed was in it, and the pods would fall off the tree.
Speaker B:The little helicopter leaves would spin like helicopter blade and that they would land in the lawn.
Speaker B:And if we didn't pull them out in time, they would get buried beneath the soil in the grass and they would start to sprout trees in the middle of the lawn.
Speaker B:You don't want trees in the middle of your grass.
Speaker B:So my job was to go out and pull them up, up before they got too big.
Speaker B:And sometimes I was a little bit slow to do this.
Speaker B:And I learned my lesson because if I pulled those little weeds out when they were just, you know, maybe a couple of inches, just like green sprouts, green shoots, they were easy.
Speaker B:I could just pull them out with my finger, my thumb, and it was no effort whatsoever.
Speaker B:But sometimes I was a little bit slow to get my chores done.
Speaker B:And I'd wait and they'd grow a bit more, and if they were by 4 or 5 inches tall, because in England it rains a lot, so things grow quickly.
Speaker B:You know, by that point you.
Speaker B:It's going to take a lot more effort to pull that little plant out of the ground because it's put down so much roots.
Speaker B:And I think it's the same with doubt and unbelief.
Speaker B:If we, if we deal with doubt early on, before we've spent time meditating on it and dreaming on it and revisiting it and thinking about it and talking about it with our friends and finding other people that have had similar symptoms or family histories or, or whatever, or googling it, you know, if we pull them out, if we address those doub thoughts quickly before they, they grow and put down roots and turn into this big mountain of unbelief, they're a lot easier to resolve.
Speaker B:One of the reasons being is that we don't have history.
Speaker B:You see, the longer we have spent thinking a certain way, the more that pattern has, has forged a path in, in our thought life.
Speaker B:And it just, you know, it's like it goes.
Speaker B:It goes deeper and deeper into our, into our root system.
Speaker B:But the quicker we can pull that out, the easier it is to uproot.
Speaker B:So how do we do that?
Speaker B:We identify it.
Speaker B:You know, in Second Corinthians, chapter 10, the passage there talks about taking every thought captive, every thought captive and bringing it to the obedience of Christ.
Speaker B:Now, this isn't something that happens by accident.
Speaker B:This is something that happens by intention.
Speaker B:Taking a captive our thought Life literally means taking a thought and holding it, like hostage, holding it as a, as a prisoner.
Speaker B:I like to let me just go there because it's really worth, it's really worth us taking a moment and looking at this.
Speaker B:This is a great tool.
Speaker B:It says, look at this in verse 4.
Speaker B:Let's, let's look in verse 4.
Speaker B:For the weapons of our warfare, warfare, remember, are not carnal, but mighty.
Speaker B:Through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
Speaker B:Now, a stronghold is just a way of thinking that has become established.
Speaker B:So a pattern of thinking.
Speaker B:Many of you have heard my testimony about being healed from epilepsy, much like that passage that we read.
Speaker B:In order for me to be healed from epilepsy, I had to change my thinking.
Speaker B:It took a process.
Speaker B:You can read my testimony, it's in my book, and I think we have a video on it and my testimony videos on our website as well.
Speaker B:But the Lord took me on a process and it took a couple of weeks for me to change my thinking.
Speaker B:Doesn't have to be like that for everyone.
Speaker B:You could, maybe you can change your thinking quicker than I can, but.
Speaker B:But that epilepsy had a stronghold in me.
Speaker B:It created a victim mindset.
Speaker B:And my identity was so wrapped up with being sick, I'd forgotten how to be well.
Speaker B:And that you could say it become a stronghold.
Speaker B:It built like a fortress on the inside of me.
Speaker B:And so he says that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty.
Speaker B:Through God to the pulling down of those strongholds as we renew our minds to the truth of God's word and we let, we meditate on that word.
Speaker B:It's almost like taking a brick out of the wall of that castle, the brick out of the wall of that stronghold, taking it down brick at a time.
Speaker B:It is to the casting down of imaginations.
Speaker B:Now this is interesting and it's also talking about in some translations where it says casting down imaginations.
Speaker B:Is this casting down arguments, taking apart arguments?
Speaker B:One of the meanings of the word doubt is a judgment.
Speaker B:It's making a discrimination, you could say an argument, right?
Speaker B:So it literally takes apart doubt.
Speaker B:It takes apart wrong imaginations.
Speaker B:It takes apart wrong arguments, disarms arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
Speaker B:How by bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
Speaker B:When we doubt our doubts, it takes the power out of them.
Speaker B:It literally.
Speaker B:It's almost like it disassembles something that is trying to be built.
Speaker B:See, a temptation comes for us to doubt the word of God.
Speaker B:And if we meditate on it.
Speaker B:It can become unbelief and then it become a stronghold.
Speaker B:It tries to build up an argument against the word of God.
Speaker B:Maybe it says to you every reason why the word of God won't work for you.
Speaker B:You then that doubt has become a stronghold.
Speaker B:And there are people, sometimes there are people in our lives, people that we love very much.
Speaker B:But every time we come up with something of faith, they'll give you all the reasons why it's not going to work for you.
Speaker B:These people, if we spend too much time around them, those strong, their ideology can become a stronghold of unbelief around us.
Speaker B:And we don't want to absorb that.
Speaker B:If you know what if you are believing God for something, if you're believing God for healing, for a miracle miracle.
Speaker B:You want to surround yourself with people that are going to help you build up a strong wall of defense, the defense of faith against the, the imaginations of doubt and unbelief.
Speaker B:And that you know, sometimes we got to be selective.
Speaker B:Sometimes we need to be real selective about the people that we listen to, the people that we allow to speak into our lives and to share their opinions around us lest we start to absorb opinions other than the word of God.
Speaker B:God.
Speaker B:So the, the weapons of our warfare aren't carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, the casting down of imaginations or arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
Speaker B:Bringing every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish with all disobedience when your obedience is complete.
Speaker B:So this is talking about identifying negative thoughts when they come negative doubts.
Speaker B:All doubts are negative when they come right.
Speaker B:So, so, so to taking that thought.
Speaker B:If we could just take that thought, we could just take that symptom, whatever it is and we could examine it.
Speaker B:We could pick it up, we could look at it.
Speaker B:We could examine it and hang on.
Speaker B:I'm going to put you in, in jail in my mind for just a moment.
Speaker B:I'm going to take you captive.
Speaker B:You're not just going to be able to run around my, my thought life and my dream life and you know of come out of my.
Speaker B:In my word.
Speaker B:Let me just examine you for a minute.
Speaker B:Where did you come from?
Speaker B:What's your identity?
Speaker B: our thoughts against the John: Speaker B: rule: Speaker B:Well that scripture says the enemy comes to kill, to steal and to destroy.
Speaker B:But Jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly.
Speaker B:So that Tells us that thoughts come from a couple of different in is the thought I'm having, is this symptom, is this idea that just popped into my head, has it come to give me life and life more abundantly?
Speaker B:Then it's good.
Speaker B:I'm going to embrace that.
Speaker B:I'm going to meditate on that.
Speaker B:Is it a word of God thought?
Speaker B:Does it match up to a promise in the word?
Speaker B:Does it sound like something the Lord has said?
Speaker B:You know what?
Speaker B:It does, therefore I'm going to meditate on that.
Speaker B:Or when I look at it, where did you come from?
Speaker B:From?
Speaker B:Does it come to kill, to, to steal from me?
Speaker B:To cause division, right?
Speaker B:Or to destroy me in some way?
Speaker B:Does it bring fear with it rather than peace?
Speaker B:You know what I think that one must come from the enemy.
Speaker B:Or it can come from our flesh.
Speaker B:It's been listening to the enemy.
Speaker B:Therefore I'm going to doubt it.
Speaker B:I'm going to doubt that doubt.
Speaker B:I've taken that thought captive, I've examined it, it up against the word of God.
Speaker B:I've identified its root source and I've decided to either uproot it and cast it out, to doubt it, right?
Speaker B:To literally divide myself from it.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm putting it down, I'm separating myself from that doubt.
Speaker B:Or if it's good, I'm going to embrace it.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's like a seed, like a word of God.
Speaker B:I'm going to let it put down roots.
Speaker B:But we can't just let our thought life overtake us, us, you know, and influence is coming from so many different places.
Speaker B:Usually we are our thought life is the sum of the things we, we have been listening to.
Speaker B:I'm very selective about the people that I listen to.
Speaker B:I'm very selective about the voices that I let speak into me, the mentors that I have in my life, the sources of information I allow to influence me.
Speaker B:You know, that could be what you watch on television, what you listen to, what you read, the, the people that you hang around with.
Speaker B:This is important.
Speaker B:So we, we have to learn on.
Speaker B:And this, this isn't just a one time deal, by the way.
Speaker B:You know, every day I have to take my thoughts captive on some things.
Speaker B:There are some things that just pop into my mind that are completely random and that are that nothing thoughts.
Speaker B:But sometimes there are thoughts that I meditate on and I have to be careful that I'm choosing which ones I'm meditating on.
Speaker B:You know, I have a teaching series on this called Daisy Chains and Dynamite and it will help you to focus specifically on thoughts that are good and to cast down thoughts and identify thoughts than a negative Daisy chains and dynamite.
Speaker B:And so you know what, I'm going to give that away to our, our listeners today, our viewers today.
Speaker B:And so I'm going to ask my team to make that available.
Speaker B:That's probably going to be a download.
Speaker B:I'm not sure how they're going to do that, but if you would like a copy of Daisy Chains and Dynamite, you can.
Speaker B:I'm going to ahead now and say look in the comments and then by the time they get this video and they put it up for you, they'll know what to do with it.
Speaker B:They'll help you to get a copy of that.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:That download should be available instantly to every, every one of us.
Speaker B:But Daisy Chains and Dynamite will help us to really go through this process and examine, take apart, take captive every thought and bring it to the obedience of Christ.
Speaker B:And you know, that's how we, that is how we doubt our doubts.
Speaker B:Learn to focus on the ones that are true, good and trash the ones that are ugly.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Well, right now I want to take a moment and pray for you Father God.
Speaker B:I just thank you that you're right here with us that you hear, you know exactly what we need, exactly what we need to receive.
Speaker B:And in Jesus name I just command all symptoms to leave your body.
Speaker B:All lying symptoms, whether that's pain, whether whether that's high blood pressure, whether that's in somebody's having an in to regulate their body temperature right now.
Speaker B:I take authority over those things and I command those to come back into alignment.
Speaker B:I command pain to stop, stop operating nerves.
Speaker B:In Jesus name stop reporting pain.
Speaker B:Stop it right now.
Speaker B:I speak the peace of God that surpasses all understanding to fill your heart and your mind.
Speaker B:In Christ Jesus man, we curse ungodly structures in the body.
Speaker B:There are, there are cells that have mutated.
Speaker B:There are structures that have, there is scar tissues that's manifested, there's fibroid tumors, cysts that have, that have.
Speaker B:There's structures in the body that have connected one place to another that shouldn't be there right now.
Speaker B:We break down these ungodly structures, these physical strongholds and we command them to leave.
Speaker B:We command every cell to be taken apart, to be separated.
Speaker B:In Jesus name There's, there's cells that have attached one to another that shouldn't be coupled.
Speaker B:Right now we, we speak a decoupling, a disintegration of these bonds in the, these, these cellular bonds in the body that shouldn't be.
Speaker B:So there is some, there's some toxins that have gone through the blood brain barrier and they are affecting, they're affecting the brain and they're affecting the synapses in the body in some.
Speaker B:Right now I see blackouts.
Speaker B:I see literal blackouts where people lose the, lose the ability of consciousness, seizure activity.
Speaker B:I also see numbness and loss of sensation where it's almost like there's a nerve filter that has gotten blocked and so communication isn't getting through.
Speaker B:Right now I remove those blockages.
Speaker B:In Jesus name, we command those sinus naps in the body to be cleared out.
Speaker B:Out.
Speaker B:We command the filtering systems in the body to become unblocked.
Speaker B:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:In the, in the kidneys, in the liver.
Speaker B:Right now, even in the brain Right now, we command our filtering systems to become unblocked.
Speaker B:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:There's small stones that have formed in somebody's gallbladder right now.
Speaker B:They're like little crystals.
Speaker B:I see little crystals and they're building up even in the joints with a lactic acid building up and like gout and inflammation.
Speaker B:Right now we command those crystals to be dissolved.
Speaker B:Those stones to be broken down.
Speaker B:Even the sound of my voice right now, the vibration of it is breaking is shattering.
Speaker B:In Jesus name, those crystals and that.
Speaker B:Those stones within the body that shouldn't have formed.
Speaker B:There's calcium deposits in the body that's being removed.
Speaker B:Right now.
Speaker B:Somebody has had an, an issue you with mercury buildup and it.
Speaker B:And it's, it's caused a number of different problems at lupus.
Speaker B:Right now we just command you to leave.
Speaker B:We command a cleansing from the effects of heavy metal poisoning.
Speaker B:We command the symptoms of lupus to leave.
Speaker B:In Jesus name, somebody's had.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's an.
Speaker B:It's a cancer.
Speaker B:It's like a cancer treatment.
Speaker B:I don't know if this is that.
Speaker B:This could be radiation, it could be chemotherapy.
Speaker B:But it's, it's damaged.
Speaker B:Your thyroid is damaged.
Speaker B:Glands in your other glands in your body and tissue around where that treatment was located.
Speaker B:Right now we command those glands to come back to life.
Speaker B:Somebody has, has been made.
Speaker B:You've had some sterility.
Speaker B:You've been made sterile because of these treatments.
Speaker B:Right now we command those, those ill effects to be reversed.
Speaker B:In Jesus name, I command life back into dead places.
Speaker B:Somebody's hearing to a point where all they can hear really is ringing.
Speaker B:And when they hear noises, rather than hearing the brain being able to interpret the sound of the.
Speaker B:And make sense of It.
Speaker B:There's a lot of interference.
Speaker B:There's a lot of ringing in the ear.
Speaker B:And I think partly this has happened because of a temperature, fever, like a, like some, some sickness.
Speaker B:Maybe it was a meningitis, something in the body that, that resulted.
Speaker B:That resulted in hearing loss.
Speaker B:Right now, in Jesus name, we command that to be reversed.
Speaker B:We command these ears to hear.
Speaker B:In Jesus name, everything that has been broken down to be restored, repaired as it was created to be.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:I see a pain in the jaw and roots from the teeth being really inflamed right now, causing a lot of pain in the jaw and in the teeth.
Speaker B:Maybe a root canal, something like that.
Speaker B:That and trigeminal neuralgia.
Speaker B:Nerves in the face, just under the eye, the cheek, all the way around the jawline are really inflamed.
Speaker B:I think even in the sinus cavity.
Speaker B:It causes a lot of pressure in there.
Speaker B:I think what this is, is there's probably a sign of infection build up that's in there, maybe abscess.
Speaker B:And it's, and it's, and all of this together.
Speaker B:It's just really very painful.
Speaker B:Right now.
Speaker B:We command that infection to dry up.
Speaker B:In Jesus name, we command that inflammation to back down.
Speaker B:And we can want those nerves to be at rest.
Speaker B:Nerves be at rest right now.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:For a new root system.
Speaker B:Somebody's got a problem with the roots in their teeth and, and they like, they're very short and they're just dying for some reason.
Speaker B:The roots are dying right now.
Speaker B:I command life to come back into the roots of your teeth, into your gums.
Speaker B:In Jesus name, we command those teeth to be nourished.
Speaker B:We command a new, healthy blood supp.
Speaker B:We command new nerve and cells to be stimulated, to grow and hold those teeth rooted into the bone of your jaw.
Speaker B:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Somebody's even getting a bone density.
Speaker B:It's almost.
Speaker B:I see, like gaps in the bone, in the honeycomb of the bone.
Speaker B:I keep going back into the jaw.
Speaker B:Maybe you've had a broken jaw, but parts were moved.
Speaker B:But also I'm thinking osteogenesis.
Speaker B:But there, osteo.
Speaker B:I see osteo like a, like a genesis, the word's genesis, like ostogenesis or fibrogenesis, something like that.
Speaker B:But anyway, it's.
Speaker B:It's breaking down the strength, this very strength of the bones right now.
Speaker B:I speak strength to your bones.
Speaker B:You know, the, the word of God.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's life and health to all your flesh and it's strength to all of your bones.
Speaker B:That's a great confession.
Speaker B:Say the word of God is strength to all of my bones, is life and health to all of my flesh.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:There's some destructive bacteria that somebody's been dealing with in the body and a buildup of unhealthy bacteria in the gut, particularly right now.
Speaker B:I command that to die.
Speaker B:We command there's healthy bacteria and unhealthy bacteria.
Speaker B:Right now.
Speaker B:We command an abundance of healthy bacteria to flourish in your body.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:For we feed in Jesus name things that are healthy in our body.
Speaker B:It's nutrition to our body.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:Your word is health and life to our body right now.
Speaker B:I thank you.
Speaker B:We feed our faith and we starve our doubt.
Speaker B:We starve out that doubt and unbelief.
Speaker B:Somebody's been dealing specifically with very negative thoughts and dreams.
Speaker B:It's in your dreams that, that it's been almost traumatizing.
Speaker B:Traumatizing dreams and just that keep playing over and over and over again.
Speaker B:Right now I take authority.
Speaker B:I really believe that that's, that's a demonic assignment.
Speaker B:The enemy cannot get get to you during the day when you're conscious, but he'll try and attack you with doubt and unbelief, with negative dreams, negative thought life.
Speaker B:As you're sleeping right now, I take authority over that.
Speaker B:In Jesus name we command stop.
Speaker B:We say the memory of the righteous is blessed and you have sweet sleep.
Speaker B:You have sweet sleep.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:That you protect even our thought life, even our dream life in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:We believe and we receive everything that you have for us in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you so much to our partners and our friends that have sent us.
Speaker B:We're off in Asia.
Speaker B:If you didn't catch that, I'm here in right.
Speaker B:Well by the time you watch this, I'm going to be in the Philippines.
Speaker B:Right now I'm in Malaysia.
Speaker B:But you know, thank you for sending us.
Speaker B:You enable us to travel the world to places that, that wouldn't be able to pay for us to come.
Speaker B:You enable us to get there.
Speaker B:You get us there on the plane.
Speaker B:You get us there and you get us to go places that otherwise we couldn't go.
Speaker B:So thank you.
Speaker B:Every life changed, every miracle that we see and you'll get to.
Speaker B:You're part of that.
Speaker B:You're part of those, those adventures, those miracles.
Speaker B:You're part of that fruit.
Speaker B:Well, we love you.
Speaker B:She says hello and hopefully we'll see some of you real soon.
Speaker B:Until next time you be blessed.
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