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8-Minute MindShift Wk 31 · Mental Health and the Mission of the Church

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Hey everybody, how you doing this morning?
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you're having a good morning.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's a little chilly here, but uh definitely makes you wake up differently.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: I like uh I like a little cool weather.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: I uh I just uh wanted to kind of share, might be a little bit more disjointed than normal today.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to just kind of share some of my favorite scriptures that have laid the foundation and um helped what I said in the little intro is or description is they've helped to stir, you know, stir my heart, keep it kind of just kind of excited, and steer my heart.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: So um I just want to share a few thoughts and scriptures that that kind of undergird all this stuff we're talking about and why I love what I call sanctified psychology and why I love how the scripture is so insightful if you read it correctly.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: So um, I don't know if I've ever said much about my testimony per se, but I was raised American heathen, and what I mean by that is uh I was part of a family that we just didn't go to church.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't mean very often, I mean we did not go to church.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I remember going to church one time, uh, and I promise you that's the only time I remember going, and it was Easter at a Meth United Methodist or something.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: But um, so I got saved at 22, 23, and um uh I just I I I had come out of um you know drugs in the 70s.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was 1976, had just married my wonderful wife, and um I was just a mess, man.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: And when I met Jesus, it it just like every everything in my life just came to a point where this is this is someone and something that uh that I could that I could live for, that I could die for.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I like to say it this way, I was smitten with the love stick, man.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: I was just so like, wow.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, after a little while, some of my friends and relatives and Colleen's family said, uh, you know, we're glad you got saved, but you you might have gotten a little too saved.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we were just excited.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I've always been a person who watches people, and uh there were just a couple of things I noticed pretty quickly in my early Christian journey.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: And one was not everybody was smitten with the love stick.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Not everybody, not everybody was just like like ah blown away by being forgiven of their sins and given a chance to rebuild their life in a beautiful, powerful way, following a uh a king and a savior that was just incredibly pure and honest and true.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I mean, it just like blew my mind that everybody wasn't smitten with the love stick.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then, secondly, I noticed that even those who were smitten, it didn't necessarily last.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: There was this pattern of excitement and whatever, and then it would kind of plateau and decline.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I just was like, what in the world, man?
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: What's going on here?
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: And it's part of what drove me to study the kind of stuff that we talk about.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Mark chapter four, the parable of the sower.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: You got uh rocky soil or by the roadside, rocky soil among the thorns, and then good soil.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: So and here's a parable with four different soils.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: How many of them ended well?
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: One, one in four.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: And um, those are the kind of scriptures I was drawn to.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, God, what's the deal, man?
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Why are we not sustaining this this like?
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't mean we've got to be, you know, jacked to the nines all the time.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's not what I'm talking about.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not talking about chasing feelings and emotions and stuff.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about where your life is ordered, empowered, and excited by the message of Jesus, the purpose of Jesus.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's consistent, sustainable.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: And um don't have time to go there now, but buried in that parable are what I think are the key reasons, and uh we'll probably get into that at some point.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I just want to share with you, as as I I was I've always been interested in longevity or um sustainability or why why we grow to a certain point and then sort of stop.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: And um so I just want to talk to you about some of my favorite scriptures that help me wrestle with that for myself, but also for other people.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: So uh Hebrews 11 3.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is the amplified, only because it plays with the word that I want to play with.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Hebrews 11 3 says this by faith we understand, by faith we understand.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, it it takes some faith to really understand how the world came into being and all that kind of stuff.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: So by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that what we see, what we see, was not made out of things that are visible.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: This this one passage has so much in it.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: But the word framed there, uh you can stretch it to say, and then the Amplified does this, but I've studied it out and it's it's legitimate.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: By faith we understand that the worlds, everything we can see, were framed, fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, everything you can see was made out of words.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: And then it goes on to say so that everything that's visible was made out of things that are not visible.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like I would say this to you about this talk today.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: The most powerful weapon you have, the most powerful tool you have to rebuild your life and to take it where God wants it to go.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: The most powerful weapons and tools that you have are invisible and weightless.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine a tool that you can't see and it has no substance in the natural physical realm.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: And the the tool, the weapon, is words.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's like you've got to, and we've been talking about this in a different way from a different direction.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: But if you could just realize how powerful words are.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: Again, this scripture says that by faith we understand something, that the worlds, everything there's this.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: What is what is he referring to?
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you go back to Genesis 1, where things were created, you'll see this phrase repeated many, many times.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: And God said, then God said, Let there be.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, God spoke and things happened.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: And we're created in his image and likeness.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you think about it, virtually everything that happens around you, excuse me, I'm gonna cough again.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's my morning voice.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but everything that happens around you is affected by words.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: I would even probably go so far as to say that virtually nothing happens in your life until words have projected you there, taking you.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't mean this in a weird new age way.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying it's part of how God created us.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you're driving to a job interview.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I probably won't get it, you know, I don't interview well.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm such a loser.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: Now, oh, so my words magically made me not get the job.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's not what I'm trying to say.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: But what I am trying to say is what if you used your words intentionally?
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: If this is the God, the job God wants me to have, I'm gonna get this job.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: And if I don't get the job, it must not be the job God wants me to have.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: Now, what happens?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: You act differently, you come across differently, you carry yourself differently.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, remember what we said BTFA, believe, think, feel, act.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Well, if I believe my words are powerful, if I believe my words can direct me, James, remember James with the bit in the mouth, I think uh two weeks back, uh the the the rudder of a ship, what an interesting metaphor.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: And um if I believe that, that I can use my words to bridle the horse, direct the horse, and I can use my words to steer the ship, um, then why can't I project them forward in a way that's honoring to God, but also honoring to myself?
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: Whoa, what a novel thought that I would be honoring of myself.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: So what if by faith we understand that my world, my world, the one I live in, the one I inhabit, the one I interact with, that my world is framed, fashion, put in order, and equipped for its intended purpose by the word of God.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: So that what I see unfolding around me is not made out of things that are visible.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: Whoa, okay, hold it here, dude.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: So God, um what if you took scripture like we did last week?
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, we walked through a scripture and we taught we we talked about how to read it in a first-person declarative sense.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um in other words, how to how to take scripture and use it to do exactly what this verse says.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Use it to frame your world, fashion your world, put your word in the order that God wants it in, and equip your world for its intended purpose.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um I really don't think I could overstate how important words are.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: Words program your soul, and then out of the programming in your soul, you live out your believe, think, feel, act, which gets you the results you want.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Start being more sensitive, aware, and intentional.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Sensitive, aware, and intentional about the words that you use and the words that you allow to reverberate and bounce around in your head.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Love you guys.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Have a great day.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: See you next week, man.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Later.