 I want to speak today a message about pulling down strongholds, about overcoming spiritual strongholds in our lives. In our ministry, and in the ministry of Jesus, deliverance was normal. And not only this weekend, but we practice deliverance. But deliverance is one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is also breaking down strongholds. A very known exorcist and person who is used in the area of deliverance said that an open door is how the demons come in. A stronghold is how the demon stays in. And he outlined six strongholds. The first one is fear. It's yielding to the real or imagined possibility of impending danger, rather than trusting in God. We've seen this stronghold during the COVID, pretty common. The second stronghold is anger. It's aggressiveness based on some perceived injustice that gives away to wrath. The third one is rejection. It's allowing the act of abandonment to instill feelings of worthlessness. The fourth one is depression. It's being overwhelmed with sadness and despair to the point of hopelessness. The fifth one is abuse. It's victimization that gives away to anger and resentment. And the sixth one is self-hatred. It's intense aversion to one's self-worth that denies the worth and value of humans as unique creators of God and worthy of His love. And so Satan uses an open door like a cult, an open door like bringing demonic objects of willful disobedience or some other things to get in. But once the devil gets in into somebody's life, he usually does two things. He seeks to destroy them and build them at the same time. Destroy their life and build a mindset that even if you get the demons out, the person will still be tormented because of the stronghold that Satan has built. The stronghold that Satan builds becomes the house for the devil. It becomes his dwelling place, his resting place. And these strongholds like anger, like rejection, these strongholds like abuse, self-hatred, they do more damage to people than actually demons themselves. Devil is finite. He cannot do all of his work everywhere at the same time. So he needs the strongholds and the demons to cause hurt and pain to people so that they will live in self-inflicted or this mental anguish-inflicted lives. And the Bible has a lot to say on how for us to pull them down. If you have your Bible or if you have an app, a Bible on your phone, I want us to go together to Corinthians, 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 4 and verse 5. We also want to remind you that all of our notes on the U-Version Bible app and sometimes it's very difficult to write everything down. All of them are there and you can save them to your phone. 1 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 10 and verse 4 and verse 5. 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 and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Historians say that Corinth was an Asian city. There was a hill of 1,857 feet high. On the top of that hill was a fortress and that fortress had walls around it and inside of that fortress was a tower and people were there in that fortress who were really there like the commanding center of the city. And so there's a picture behind if you could be kind to put a photo behind me of something. It's not like that but there's something like that where on the top of the hill there was a wall that protected a tower and in that tower and in that little fortress lived people who pretty much ruled the city of Corinth. And so it was elevated, it was high and so if you see the Corinthians how Paul is describing he says to pull down the stronghold anything that is exalted itself against the knowledge of God bring that down and to take every captive meaning like a soldier that's running the whole show from this commanding center they're no longer going to be commanders but they're now going to be captives bring them into captivity of Christ. So Paul is describing actually someone's mind. As you're looking at the physical picture I want you to imagine that's really what happens in the mindset. A stronghold has three factors in it. Walls, towers, towers, I'm sorry not towers. They sound so alike. Towers and captives. Somebody say walls, towers and captives. Who are not captives when you meet them, they are captives when you meet them but you have to turn captives into captives. Somebody say walls, towers and then captives. Walls speak of lies. Towers speak of things that are exaggerated in our mind. Not exalted to God because anything that we exalt that is not God is exaggerated. Only God can never be exaggerated when he's exalted. You can never exaggerate God. You can never exaggerate God's promises, God's power and God's goodness but you can exaggerate the sickness, you can exaggerate your circumstances you can exaggerate your past and you can exaggerate yourself. Come on somebody. And so there are walls which are lies, there are towers, things that are exaggerated and then last one is the thoughts that are currently the captives but they have to become captives. And so that's what we're going to talk about right now. If you take your notes, write this down. The spiritual walls are built with lies. Spiritual walls are destroyed by the truth. In other words, spiritual walls are broken down when we confront the lie and conform to the truth but spiritual walls are built when we conform to the lie and criticize the truth. Strongholds are built with lies. And this lie is a wall that goes around our life and that lie many times does not come as like a lie. It's just something that is contrary to the truth. For us as Christians, the truth is not the fact. The truth is not what we see and what we feel. The truth is what God's word says. For us as Christians, the truth, the Bible says, Jesus says, I am the truth. So God's word is the truth. Everything else is not. And if what God says contradicts what I feel, then what I feel is a lie. If what God says is the truth and what I see is contradicts, then what I see becomes a lie. Because opposite of the truth is not reality or facts, it's the lie. And so what the enemy does is he wants us to reject the truth of God and build our mind with our feelings, with our facts, with our reality and call that truth. My friend, just because it's true, it doesn't make it truth. Your feelings are true, but God's word is the truth. The sickness in the body is true, but the healing in Jesus' body is my truth. The fact that I fall into my past sin is true, but it's what Jesus said is the truth. So what many people do is they take what is true and make it truth. And that's how the lie is formed. Let's take Israel, for example. God calls them an army, but they call themselves grasshoppers. In fact, Scripture says in Exodus 6, verse 26, these are Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their slaves. That's not what the Bible says. When they were slaves, God called them, bring them out according to their armies. God already saw them as an army. You see a little bit later in Exodus 12, verse 41, and he came to pass at the end of the 430 years on the very same day, it came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. God didn't call them slaves. He did not call them losers or victims. He called them the armies of the Lord. We see later on again and again, but I want you to see how they saw themselves. Numbers 13, verse 33. When we saw the giants, the descendants of Enoch came from the giants. We were like grasshoppers in our own side, and so we were in their side. They're saying we were like grasshoppers in our own side, and they also saw us as grasshoppers. So God says you're a soldier, but you feel like a grasshopper. The truth is what God said. What you feel, what you see, what the doctor's report says, what your coach said, what your ex said about you is true. But the truth is God's word. Lies are things that are true. They're just not the truth. And when they become built brick by brick, thought by thought, word by word, they become a wall in which we have a demonic stronghold of fear, demonic stronghold of anger, demonic stronghold of abuse, demonic stronghold of self-hate, demonic stronghold of rejection. Nobody likes me. I am worthless. I will never succeed. And then we have these confirmations. The circumstances seem to line up to confirm our dominant thoughts about ourselves. In reality, all of that is demonic scandal. It's demonic agenda. It allows things that are true, that are not the truth to penetrate, feel and saturate our mind. And today we have a wall. And God wants to break down the walls of lies. You may not, you may feel like a grasshopper. You may feel rejected. You may feel abandoned. You may have been rejected. You may have been a person that has been even victimized. But you must understand as a Christian, what God says now determines your truth. And so you have to fight against the lie. You have to resist the lie. And you have to receive and assist the truth. Not only God said to them that they were an army and they said we're grasshoppers. But God also said about the promised land. He says the promised land was land, good, large and flowing with milk and honey. Did you know what they said about the promised land? It's the land that devours its inhabitants. So God says it's a good land. It's a large land. It flows with milk and honey. And they said it's the land that eats anybody that steps on it. So you don't eat from the land, it eats you. Now that's scary. What happened? There is a truth. And there is also fear. Lies. They despise the promised land. What does that teach me? Is that as a Christian, when I get delivered, when I get saved, I have to adjust my attitude toward God's truth. I have to adjust my thoughts, my words to what God says. Even if temporarily, currently, it's the furthest thing from being true. Even if there is a conflict between what God said and what I feel, I have a choice to what do I conform to? The truth or what is true? The conflict, my friend, gives me a choice. The conflict does not pull me to the lie or the truth. The conflict is the fork in the road. Now I have to choose what do I conform and what do I confront? What do I adjust and what do I attack? Because the moment I adjust to the lie, I will attack the truth. The moment I conform to the lie, I will be uncomfortable with the truth. I will criticize the truth. I will make fun of the truth. I will say those people are crazy. They believe stuff they don't see. They believe stuff that is not even real. You will begin to criticize the very thing. Why? Because when you adjust to the lie, you're scared of the light. It hurts your eyes because you're so used to the dark. You said, turn that off. It hurts my eyes because you've been complacent and you've been adjusted to the lie because you are not loved. That nobody cares about you. Your life will mean nothing. That you have no plans and you have... God has no plans and you have no future. That you rejected by everybody. Nobody ever will ever like you and marry you. Or you will never have this and you will never have that. And you got so used to the dark, you adjusted your attitude to the lie that today you attack the light. That's the truth. My friend, what God says and what we feel will always contradict. Which creates a conflict. And in this conflict, we have a choice. God doesn't make this choice for us. Devil cannot force us. God will stand on one side and say, come this way. I'll renew your mind and transform your life. And the devil says, no, but this is easier. You have to do nothing. Just walk in this path and you don't have to confront lies. You just be as things are. Just let it flow. Let it go. Let it flow. And the life is going to end up where you don't want to go. And then you're going to blame God because he lets you be like that. You're going to blame people because they don't love you. You're going to blame the doctor. You're going to blame Trump. You're going to blame Wall Street. It's always going to be somebody's fault because you are a victim. But in reality, my friend, God wants us to adjust to the truth and attack the lie. Adjust to the truth and attack what is true, but it's not the truth. Can somebody say amen? Israel said the land is going to eat us up. Can I ask you a question? Do you despise God's promises in your life? Do you despise your family? Do you despise the process you're currently taking? Do you despise prophetic words? Have you despised God's peace? Have you despised the small little good things? Because you don't allow God's truth to become the stronghold, but the enemy has built a lie. It has infiltrated your attention. It has infiltrated your confession. And it has infiltrated your attitude. And today, it's the spirit of your mind, meaning it's the atmosphere of your inner being. You're a negative person. You're an angry person. You are a victim. In fact, nobody can have a conversation with you for more than 60 seconds without the real you showing up. Without the blame games sticking in. Pretty much, you are now that person. It's no longer what happened to you. It's now who you are. Nobody wants to be friends with you. Nobody wants to hire you. And you use all of that that people are doing to you as a confirmation that you were right. What would Israel do? The moment they came to the Lord and they said, we can't take the land. The land will eat us. God, it eats people. It's like the horror film. The land eats people. We are like grasshoppers. We're nobody. But God says the land is good. No, I hate it. I don't like it. It eats me. That's what God says about your spouse. You say, your spouse eats me. God says that's a good spouse. Come on honey, no Lord. You gave me a crazy woman. You gave me a crazy husband. My God says I want you to conform to the truth. Don't conform to your spouse. And then this is what happened. They came, they complained, they whined. And then this is what happened. The Bible says, and then they said. And they presumed to go up unto a hilltop. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the camp. Then Amalekites came down and the Canaanites, which dwelt in that hill and smote them. And this discomforted them. And even unto Horma. Numbers chapter 14 verse 44 and verse 45. Then they went to fight. Only to have their suspicions and presumptions confirmed that they are losers. And guess what happened? They lost the battle. They just got confirmed. They're not meant to win. They are grasshoppers. Lent does eat people for lunch. And their life sucks. Because when you lost a battle here you will always lose a battle in life. Why fight for your marriage if you already lost that in here? Why fight for prosperity if you are poor here? Why even go to college? Why try to win a battle on the outside if you have surrender to the battle on the inside? Why fight Amalekites if you don't first fight your own attitude? Why first do that? Because when we lose a battle mentally, we will lose a battle as a military. They lost it as a military and they lost it here. I've seen this more than I can count. In fact, I live this myself. I was that person. I was negative. I was convinced nobody loved me. And I had evidence to prove that. It's my face. I did not like how I looked. And the crazy part is this. The more I said that about myself the more I felt that the more information happened on the outside to confirm that. And it's almost like everywhere I went I got more confirmation that I was a loser. That my life will mean nothing. I will never succeed. I will never be of any value to anybody else. And all of that was just like my testimony. See that person said this. Those people kicked me out. Those people never invited. That person never even acknowledged. I don't like it. And all of that I used that to confirm what you believe about yourself is true. My friend, because any time you allow that lie to come in the devil will always send you testimonies. Your personal confirmations and Israel just had one they lost the battle. Why? Because they lost it here first. My friend, what I want to encourage you is to take the walls down brick by brick. It won't happen through one message. And it might not even happen in one year. But if you will begin to practically, few things. Commit to the truth. Somebody say commit to the truth. Commit to study the truth. Commit to memorize the truth. Commit to fill yourself with the truth. You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Somebody say commit to the truth. You might still not feel it. You might not believe it yet. Commit to reading it, studying it The second thing is this. Is conform to the truth by confessing it. Not feeling it. Your feelings will not be there yet. Meaning you conform your mind to the truth by confessing the truth. You might not feel strong say let the weak say I am not weak but strong. Let the poor say I am blessed. I am rich. Let the sick say I am healthy fighting sickness. Instead of saying what you feel say what you know. Conform your mind. Begin to adjust your mind slowly but surely. You might have still the same attacks. You might still have the same problems. You might still feel like it's the same life. And what God says is not truth. But if you will begin to commit to study the truth. And then conform your mind by confessing the truth. And the last one is you have to confront the lies by the confession. When the thought comes in you're worthless say devil let me stop you right there. No. You're a liar. Your life sucks. You're going to hell. I'm not. Bye bye. You confront the lie. You confront the lie. If one of your friends moves on from your life and says you suck nobody will ever marry you. Stop talking about yourself like that. Because that is not about me. I don't know who you're describing but that's definitely not me. Maybe the old me but that died on the cross 2,000 years ago. The new me is a new creation in Christ. I can do more all things through Jesus Christ. I'm more than a conqueror. Talk to my hand because my head doesn't hear you. You have to confront that. And you have to stop people in the tracks and say no no no no. That is you not describing me. You're describing you but not me. Because people always see things not the way they are the way they are. So just because they're angry at you in reality they're really angry at themselves. Hurt people hurt people. Are you with me? Somebody say walls of lies. So the strongholds are built with walls of lies. The second I want you to say this with me say towers of exaggeration. In Corinthian it says this. It says we not only bring down the stronghold. So that speaks of breaking down walls. But then he says now we're climbing the hill and there is a tower. It's a command center. It's kind of like we have an airline tower that controls the traffic of the airplanes. We have also other towers in the city. It's people who make very important decisions. But we also have a tower in our mind. It's built by exaggeration. So Paul is saying we have to bring down anything that is exalted above the knowledge of God. Israel and these spies they also had a tower that they built. They exaggerated the giants. Now giants were big. No question about it. The reference to the descendants of Enoch as Nephilim's was designed to install fear in the hearts of Israelites. The Nephilim's the fallen ones as noted in Genesis chapter 6 verse 4 were the offspring of the sons of God, angelic beings or divine warriors and the daughters of men. The Nephilim were of large statue but they would have been destroyed by Noah's flood. So it's the best to conclude that frightened spies have exaggerated the giants. The real, real giants died already. They were not there. They died in the flood. But when you are scared you're not only believing a lie you're also building a tower. What is that tower? It's when we exaggerate the status of our problem. And why does that happen? It's very simple. When you don't exalt God you will always exaggerate the problem. If we don't exalt God we will exaggerate our giants. The best way not to exaggerate the problem is to exalt God. Because when you exalt God you always have a proper perspective on your problems. Have you ever been on the airplane and as the plane goes up all the houses become smaller? You begin to see from a perspective of an elevated altitude. When you exalt God problems become their normal size. Small. When you exaggerate the problem you're building a stronghold called a tower right in the middle of the stronghold. And Paul is saying in Corinthians to bring down everything that's been exalted my word is exaggerated above the knowledge of God. Sickness is real but so is healing. Weakness is real but so is the strength of God. Your sadness is real so is the joy of the Lord. What you're going through is real but so is where you're going too. Oh but I'm in the valley but so are you going up to the mountain. Egypt but you are going to the promised land. There is always something to exaggerate and there is always someone to exalt. If you choose to exalt His name your problem will become smaller in your eyes. I'm not saying it will disappear it will have its proper place in your eyes. If you exalt the promise of God the power of God the peace of God and give God glory due to His name you will be delivered from exaggeration for the devil any credit. You will have nothing left for the devil. You may say why is he jumping I'm just excited. Come on somebody. Exalting God brings peace exaggerating giants brings pain. The Bible says the moment Israelites exaggerated their giant guess what happened. They started to weep and cry and wail. They spent all night saying my God we are such a victims man we are going to die things are not really good. Every time we exaggerate we will have suffering. Internal self-inflicted pain but how many of you ever been in the presence of God. You exalted God. Problems are still the same. You may still have the same sickness and still the same child that is misbehaving but you walk out and there is one thing that exalting God does he doesn't always fix everything at once but you have Shalom Shalom you walking the storm is raging the peace is alive inside of you there is a sense of all is well with my soul. Everything is going to be alright. You are looking at your spouses God got it. Everything is good. You are crazy. When you exalt God he gives you peace. That passes understanding surpasses knowledge. Meaning God he just skips over it doesn't make sense to be peaceful at this point. It doesn't make sense to be calm at this season. You should be scared angry. You should react but God's peace because it comes from exalting God. Exalting God also causes us to delight in good things. Exaggerating our giants causes us to despise good things. When I exalt God I begin to find pleasure in God's promise and enjoy God's process. I'm not there yet I'm not where you are at. I'm not where you, him, her or there but if I know I am in the center of God's will and I know one thing God is a moving God I rejoice in the process. I don't just rejoice when he opens the door I dance in the hallway. Why? Because I am in the process. You don't despise the process and the promise because when you're exalting God you have a joy in the process. You know that yes we used to be but it's not where we used to be and the best part is God is moving us forward. God is moving us forward out of our dead. God is moving us forward we're going to have our own house. God is moving us forward we will have children. God is moving us forward our children will serve God. God is moving us forward my parents will serve God. God is moving us forward we will not live this unhealthy we will be physically healthy. God is moving us forward and I celebrate small little things. Why? Because I delight in the promise I delight in the process. When you exaggerate the problems you will always despise the process you will hate the process and you will typically despise the promises of God. If we don't exalt God we will exaggerate our past. What did Israel do? The moment they started to exaggerate their problems they started to also exaggerate how good life was in Egypt. So why did you all cry to get free from Egypt? See when you lose the attention of God you begin to exaggerate the good and the bad of the past especially the bad. People begin to remember man my life on drugs that was so fun really? Because that's not what your testimony said that was so great man at that time before that was so great and the crazy part is when they got to the promise land they were understanding how good the wilderness was but in the wilderness they always complained that it was bad hoping to go to Egypt they go to the promise land and they are saying oh man but the wilderness it would have been better to die in the wilderness when they were in the wilderness they said it would have been better to die in Egypt come on make up your mind what do you want to be? Why? When we don't exalt we exaggerate. So the best way to build a new stronghold of righteousness in you is through exaltation of God keeping in infiltrating your mind begin to worship because worship is warfare because worship what it does is it brings down exaggerations and it begins to exalt God and you can never you can never exaggerate God by exalting him come on somebody amen and practically how we do that is we exalt God's presence we enjoy the present and we exercise patience in the process now lastly I'm going to bring this to you. Are you still with me? So the walls of lies somebody say the towers of exaggeration and the last one is the thoughts to be taken captives I want you to write this down you're either captive to your thoughts or you will keep your thoughts captive your thoughts you can't erase them like the Bible says Paul says when we go up to the mountain he says we're going to bring down the strongholds meaning we're going to break down the walls of lies he says we're going to take down the tower of exaggeration and we're going to exalt God come on and then he says this there is these little commanders running around in that hill they are calling the shots they're the captains right now and Paul doesn't say we're going to execute them watch this, Paul does not say we're going to take them out we're going to he says this we are going to turn them into prisoners so we're going to take captains and take them and make them captives so that means that as a Christian when you begin to take down the strongholds you must understand few very simple practical things one of them is this we have to capture our thoughts before we make them captive that means that we have to before we take our thoughts captive we have to be aware of them which is called mindfulness listening to your words because they reveal your thoughts and ultimately what is in your heart before you take your thoughts captive you have to become aware of what they are you are not your thoughts your expression of your thoughts you are a spirit not a mind you have a mind and as a Christian you can control your mind not the other way around now the world today believes most of the world and your mind is the same thing so your brain the biological part and your mind is the spiritual part and they're saying it's the same thing even though there's more scientific studies that have been proven already that your brain is not your mind a brain and a mind is the same thing as a piano and a pianist your brain is the piano your mind is the pianist your brain doesn't control you you control your brain that's why the Bible would never tell us think on these things it would just say whatever your brain thinks just let it think the Bible says to us that we can play the keys of our brain not that the brain plays on itself and we're like oh my gosh I don't like the melody God says if you don't like it change what you're putting on those keys you can change your thoughts because you are a spirit and the Bible says take our thoughts captive not be captive to our thoughts but take them captive but to take them captive we have to be aware of what they are what are those dominant thoughts what are the default thoughts why do you quickly automatically by default without thinking think the first thing when they do that when that happens why is the first thoughts out of your soul and out of your heart you capture that you can captivate it until you capture it meaning you oh ok that's what the thought is coming that is the dominant thought you begin to identify it the second thing is we should train our thoughts instead of trusting them many people trust their thoughts Bible tells us to teach our thoughts your thoughts cannot be trusted never in the Bible we will see to trust your thoughts we trust the truth not our thoughts your thoughts are unpredictable your thoughts they are a lot of times the enemy we go into the hill and we make them captives not friends captives that means we train them we subdue them we handcuff them we don't trust our thoughts people who live in the spiritual strongholds are this thoughts as God's word a thought came into my mind it must be true not everything that is in your head is true the Bible says a man should not trust his heart because a heart is deceitful above all things we trust God with our thoughts we train our thoughts David says he trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle your thoughts need to be trained the same way your muscles are need to be worked out you cannot live a slave to your thoughts you have to make your thoughts a slave to you can somebody say amen oh but I can't do it that's a lie because God's word says you should God will never ask you something he doesn't give you strength for if you are born again you can if you are born again you should and if you are born again with the Holy Spirit it won't be easy but it's possible and that's what the word of God teaches us and I'm gonna finish it with this I'm gonna explain the word think think how to think and we're gonna take the acronym from that T stands for test every thought H stands for helmet of salvation meaning you live consciously that you are safe I stands for imagine great thoughts meaning begin to fantasize good things imagine great thoughts N stands for nourish your mind daily and K stands for keep on learning so we test our thoughts we imagine good thoughts and we begin to proactively live our life so that our mind is not a junkyard it's not a garbage dump that our mind is not a place of restlessness but a place of peace a place of prosperity may God put his wall protection around our mind may God build a tower that the righteous man can run into and hide called God's word and may God have angels and our thoughts running and doing God's bidding in our mind and every once in a while when they misbehave we discipline them kindly spank them and get our thoughts in alignment amen I want us to pray for that today we are right now in the season where a lot of spiritual warfare is happening to people we're in the season where a lot of people are in fear where I've met more people in the last two weeks who can't sleep at night that honestly I remember meeting in the last two years there's a lot of conflict that happens and I'm not gonna blame everything on us but definitely we have a role to play in walking in our freedom walking in our dominion it's time to fight back it's time to pull down the strongholds of lies it's time to look at what tower have I built by exaggerating something that is not in line with God's word and bring that tower down it's time to take every thought that you have ordained as a chief of police and a captain and a sheriff and you gave them unlimited authority to do whatever they want and you trust every word without questioning them you take those thoughts and you say sit down you're stripped from your authority give me that badge back why you're a lying thought you're not truthful you say whatever you see on the news and on Facebook you are not and you're not even good to me so from now on I'm not working for you you are working for me I'm gonna teach you the word of God I'm gonna teach you what God says and you're gonna think lovely thoughts things that are good and of good report lovely and just and noble you're gonna act right why because you are gonna be my captive I'm no longer gonna be your captive amen let's begin to pray right now but the first and foremost what I want to do right now is I want us to exalt God 60 seconds 120 seconds I want you to exalt him right now the way we exaggerated I want us to do exactly the same way right now except exalt exalt him exalt his promise exalt his faithfulness exalt his goodness in your life exalt everything that he has been to you right now I want to take your eyes off of your problem off of your giant off of the walls off of the troubles and I want you just open up your lips the way you complain I want you to worship the same way right now the way you go walk around the house and why and how your life is that good right now I want you to begin to lift him up and begin to say the Lord is good and his mercy endures forever the Lord is good and he has unfailing he renews his mercy every morning he saved me he healed me he delivered me he sanctifies me come on church I want to hear your voice I want to hear from the back to the front and those of you watching us on live stream this is a moment to exalt the king of kings to exalt the prince to exalt the prince of peace to exalt the everlasting father to exalt the wonderful consular let's begin to exalt him we exalt him we exalt you we exalt you Jesus oh Jesus you are mighty God you work wonders you are culminating in your life if it's sickness begin to say the Lord I exalt you above that disease I exalt you if it's a demonic influence begin to say the Lord I exalt you against right now that sickness I exalt you right now above that problem I exalt you above that marital issue I exalt you above that situation right now begin to vocalize it verbalize it right now yes Father God we exalt you right now Jesus we exalt you above our circumstances Lord Jesus I agree with your word as my truth and I disagree with every lie with everything that's true but it's not your truth I disagree with that I feel like your mind has become just this buzz and there is no purity of thoughts there is no consistency in thoughts place your hand up on your mind right now as a symbol it's just your brain your mind is not in your brain but we're just gonna play right now for our thoughts I want you to right now instead of praying I want you to begin to take your thoughts captive begin to say I take my thoughts captive in the name of Jesus I'm the captain of the ship I'm the captain of the soul my spirit I take my thoughts captive right now in the name of Jesus every thought that is running rampant against the will of God I take it captive right now in Jesus mighty name we just take captives every thought that rises against your word in Jesus name we pull down every demonic stronghold upon our minds our thoughts in Jesus name we come against you stronghold and we take you captive in Jesus name we bless our mind right now and we commend our mind to align to the word of God in Jesus name we take captive in Jesus mighty name in Jesus mighty name yes lord we're gonna trust you with our thoughts lord but we're not gonna trust our thoughts we're gonna train our thoughts we're gonna test our thoughts lord we're gonna choose what we put our mind what we put into our mind we're gonna choose new imaginations lord we choose today lord God to keep our mind pure we choose God today father that you will guard our mind as we fix our gaze on you lord in Jesus mighty name I take a moment right now and I rebuke every spirit of depression in the name of mighty Jesus I rebuke every spirit of fear in Jesus name I rebuke also insomnia every intrusive thought every intrusive thought suicidal tendencies in the mighty name of Jesus be broken right now in Jesus name every self hate every single self hate I rebuke that self rejection be broken over people's minds right now I lose you right now in Jesus mighty name I lose you to walk in freedom I lose you to walk in your victory I lose you to walk in the fullness of God's word in the fullness of God's grace in the fullness of God's love for you in Jesus mighty name I lose you from the spirit of poverty that you will walk in abundance in your mind that you will walk accepted in your mind that you will wear the helmet of salvation in the mighty name of Jesus Christ in the mighty name of the lord Jesus Christ in Jesus name