Renouncing and Rejecting are NOT the Same Thing!

9/7/2024

Did you renounce that thought (fill in the blank) or did you just reject/dismiss it?

I thought renouncing and rejecting were the same thing.

They’re not.

I said “no” to the temptation. What should I do differently next time?

Match energy with energy. The greater the temptation, the greater the energy you should have against it. You can even tell yourself “Idiot! That was an evil idiot thought.” The wolf you feed is the one that wins.

9/8/2024

You talked about matching energy with renouncing thoughts. And a while ago you talked about “flicking” temptations. How do you know when to flick and when to pound?

So would you call what you did in the car, backhanding the crash dummy, just a realllly big flick because you were aggressive BUT it isn’t who you are?

Yes, a big flick (of swatting thoughts) can be for the temptations that are not core issues. I was aggressive with it because I can’t let it suck my life away. The little buzzing thoughts can be flicked because they don’t mean you are a Different person. But if you keep thinking those buzzing me thoughts without dealing with them, it WILL eventually make you a different person and become a core issue. Like if a child keeps thinking about being a Barbie doll and the parents don’t help, then eventually they will turn into that type of a person.

If it IS a core issue, then go deeper and more purposeful in talking with others, getting equipped and generally just going deeper to be DONE with this thing that has clearly been a consistent and rooted problem. Don’t just tap the arrows. Strike with passion.

9/9/2024

2 Kings 13:18-19: “Then he said, ‘Take the arrows,’ and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, ‘Strike the ground with them.’ And he struck three times and stopped. And the man of God was angry with him and said, ‘You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times.’”

2 Corinthians 10:5: “CAST down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into CAPTIVITY every thought to the OBEDIENCE of Christ, the Anointing.”

2 Timothy 1:7: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of POWER and of love and of a sound mind.”

Hopefully it is obvious that a train of thought in our mind that makes us emotional, or lustful, or prideful or vain, or resentful, bitter, judgmental, jealous, or lazy or anything that is not at all like Jesus himself and the full measure of the statue of Christ and anointing… MUST be eliminated from your brain!

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