Taking Control of My Emotions: Winning the Battle of the Mind Pt. 2 (3/23/15)

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Consouled — Leave a comment

(From the “Winning the Battle of the Mind” book by Gregory Dickow)
p.57- “God is a results God.”
God looks at results, but He’s method-oriented (He’s more concerned about how we get the results)
Faith and not works is the method God is pleased with
God will send His Word to His children first
God always affirms these things (This is where our confidence and assurance comes from):
1. His love
2. His purpose
3. His provision
4. His protection

God wants us to take leaps of faith and not leaps of foolishness
God will give us peace on the inside so we can handle turmoil on the outside
God will show you adversity to show you how He’ll handle it
Don’t let the storm affect your peace
He rebuked the wind and spoke to the waves
He has given us authority/dominion over our circumstances
God wants us to build an infrastructure the world can’t touch, but it’ll blow their mind
John 16:33:
– Tribulation: pressure
– In order to have peace, you have to be in Christ
1 John 5:4: You’ve already overcome the world
The Devil is trying to take what’s already ours, by convincing us into believing we don’t have it
We’re fighting from the position of faith (basically sustaining our belief that we already have victory)

Rom 8:1-6:
v.1- no sentence, no punishment
v.2- Spirit brings life and makes us free
v.3- “sin”: the nature of sin (wrong way of thinking)
v.4- “walk”: conduct/behavior
v.6- when you’re thinking right you’ll experience life and peace
Fleshly-seeks to earn God’s blessings (works, human efforts)
Spiritually- accepts God blessings by faith (faith, God’s efforts)
Col 3:1-2
Be spiritually-minded
Carnality leads to sin
When you try to keep from sinning, it sets you up to sin

Rom 4:19-22
He’ll let your dreams and goals dry up to prove human effort is not from Him
When God promises you something only He’ll be able to perform it
A lot of the things we give God glory for wasn’t really God (it was really human effort)
When you don’t have anything left to give God gets excited
God says, “let it die so I can resurrect it”
Stop holding on to your seed
Phil 3:1-7
v.2 “rejoice”: boast
God exposes your weaknesses to give you more grace
Grief:
-An emotion associated with loss/death
-It’s ordained by God
Level of grief depends on the value put on the object of the loss
You gain what God intends for you to have
For every loss there’s a resurrection
Cycles of Grief:
1st – Shock/Denial =Pain is great: Anesthesia: Pain killer
2nd – Pain: share your pain with God
3rd – Fear: loss associated in the past
4th – Anger: with every loss is a gain
5th – Depression
1st-3rd cycles must be dealt with in the right way

Self-deception is the worse type of deception
If you’re not producing any fruit, check your roots