Brain Washing #3
Update: 2025-09-15
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“Brain washing” #3
by Pastor George Lehman
If you don’t change your direction, you’ll end up where you’re headed. (You are either heading in victory or defeat)
Last 2 weeks
#1 Realize where the WAR is. (ITS IN THE MIND)
#2 Get a grip on your mind, get a grip on your life.
It’s in the application, NOT only the information!!! That the success & breakthrough comes
#3 Removing stumbling blocks that prevent your destiny
Stumbling blocks cause us to lose direction.
Take a look around where you’re sitting and find five things that have the color blue in them. In the same way, you’ve probably noticed that after you buy a new bike or car, you promptly see that make of bike or car everywhere. That’s because people find what they are looking for.
At times in our lives, God seems strangely absent, but the problem is not that God has disappeared.
We simply lack a “God” mindset”. The devil wants you to focus on the negative things that will distract you.
When we develop a Holy Spirit sensitivity by “Brainwashing our minds” with the Word of God. We soon begin to see His work everywhere. You only see what you look for.
What we PERCEIVE [begryp] what we allow in our minds (our thought life); and that
Determines what we RECEIVE, it’s either what God’s word says about the situation OR a deceptive lie form the devil;
Determines what we ACHIEVE. It’s either God’s successful thoughts and plans for your life … OR a failure mentality and never really fulfilling God’s best for your life.
You have a destiny and it’s related to God’s prophecy to what He has written and spoken about you in His Word.
The devil knows this – he will do all he can to infiltrate your mind to upset God’s destiny for you. He will try find your weaknesses or cracks in your Spiritual Armour.
1 Corinthians 2:8(Amp) – None of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood this, for if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
1 Peter 1:13 – “Prepare your minds for action”
The devil’s idea is to get you and I to think thoughts contrary to God’s Word concerning His Will and Plan for us.
All you need is a good brainwashing – Change your mind to what God’s Word says.
Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) - “For as (a man) thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
No matter what situation you find yourself in today, let it be known that God wants you to prosper and has ordained you to have an abundant life.
Ephesians 1:4-5 (Amp) - 4Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. 5For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]
Ephesians 3:20 (Amp) - Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]
This is the truth - it’s up to us to limit that power OR allow it to set us free. It all goes back to the battle in the mind - what you know and believe, that you will ACHIEVE.
2 Peter 1:3 (Amp) - For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite (necessary for success) and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).
The work is complete – don’t let the devil lie to you.
Quite often we become discouraged because we don’t understand that:
- God has empowered us with supernatural strength.
- Not just to endure, but to overcome.
Enduring is good but man it’s about time you overcome now too!!
Because we haven’t grasped this, we often use our problems, our faults or weaknesses to make excuses FOR NOT fulfilling our God-given destiny.
Here’s some advice: If you feel weak or your situation seems hopeless - Stop saying so! Stop confessing it!
That song that says: I will say (SPEAK IT OUT) “IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL”
Joel 3:10 - “Let the weak say, I am strong”
If you say what the enemy presented to you, he wins. Confess God’s word and you WIN. Get a grip on your MIND, you get a grip on your LIFE.
Our words have so much power, Jesus said
Matthew 12:36-37 (NIV) - But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words, you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.
Your thoughts establish your circumstances.
Proverbs 12:14 (Amp) - From the *fruit of his WORDS a man shall be satisfied with good…”
*fruit = in other words, what’s growing in you; comes out of your mouth – either good or bad.
Whatever God says He will do for you, HE WILL DO!
Psalm 89:34 (NIV) - My covenant will I not break or profane (disregard), nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
If you don’t read the Word of God, you can’t know the Word of God. It’s that simple.
If you don’t know the Word of God, you can’t speak the Word of God.
If you can’t speak the truths of God’s Word, you’ll speak your own ideas out of Ignorance and destroy God’s destiny for you.
This will lead to stumbling blocks the enemy uses to derail your destiny.
Our theme –#3 “removing stumbling blocks, that prevent your destiny”. The stumbling blocks are rooted in the heart. If you let these stumbling blocks become rooted in the heart, they become serious issues to deal with and repent of.
Some of these stumbling blocks are:
#1 IGNORANCE (you are only as ignorant as what you are allowing yourself to be.)
It’s one of the most subtle stumbling blocks, because it keeps people from realizing or correcting their lives.
You see revelation knowledge is the key to this mental battle. (Feed the mind with ammunition.)
Hosea 4:6 (Amp) - “my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge” = IGNORANCE.
#2 LOW SELF-ESTEEM
God created you so HE knows your capabilities and your potential. A poor self-image will prevent you from receiving God’s best for your life. God’s work is always superior not inferior – “God don’t make no junk”.
Example in Numbers 13 – 12 spies sent out by Moses. 10 had a low self-image. 2 (Joshua and Caleb) knew their God and who they were:
Daniel 11:32 (Amp) - … but the people who know their God shall prove themselves strong and shall stand firm and do *exploits [for God].
*exploits = bold and daring
#3 LAZINESS
This is a big stumbling block, because it prevents you from wholeheartedly pursuing God. Laziness will always find excuses not to do anything. Or to do the bare minimum.
Proverbs 13:4 (Amp) - The appetite of the sluggard (LAZY one) craves and gets nothing, but the appetite of the diligent is abundantly supplied.
Lazy people also want, but get zippo, Nothing.
#4 MEDIOCRITY [Middelmatig] (It’s the top of the bottom but the bottom of the top)
It’s a real stumbling block, because people don’t strive to produce excellence in their lives.
Good enough is okay Average is well enough.
Well God is an excellent God and He expects us to serve Him in excellence. In our prayer life, our praise and worship, our Bible study, in our relationships.
Mediocrity and laziness will cause you to miss your blessings.
#5 DISOBEDIENCE
It’s more than just a stumbling block; disobedience is a SIN.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 (NIV) - 26See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse – 27the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; 28the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
God makes it clear: The choice to obey is always ours - obedient MIND = obedient LIFE.
We don’t have time to discuss major stumbling blocks like:
Pride/ Anger/ Un forgiveness/ Bitterness
Don’t be unwilling to change – if God’s word says, “one thing” and you’re doing another, “THEN CHANGE!”
Romans 12:11 (Amp) - Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the Lord.
God will empower you, but you need to “Remove the stumbling blocks”. Change the attitude of your mind and pursue the destiny God has already planned for you.
If you don’t change your direction, you’ll end up where you’re headed.
by Pastor George Lehman
If you don’t change your direction, you’ll end up where you’re headed. (You are either heading in victory or defeat)
Last 2 weeks
#1 Realize where the WAR is. (ITS IN THE MIND)
#2 Get a grip on your mind, get a grip on your life.
It’s in the application, NOT only the information!!! That the success & breakthrough comes
#3 Removing stumbling blocks that prevent your destiny
Stumbling blocks cause us to lose direction.
Take a look around where you’re sitting and find five things that have the color blue in them. In the same way, you’ve probably noticed that after you buy a new bike or car, you promptly see that make of bike or car everywhere. That’s because people find what they are looking for.
At times in our lives, God seems strangely absent, but the problem is not that God has disappeared.
We simply lack a “God” mindset”. The devil wants you to focus on the negative things that will distract you.
When we develop a Holy Spirit sensitivity by “Brainwashing our minds” with the Word of God. We soon begin to see His work everywhere. You only see what you look for.
What we PERCEIVE [begryp] what we allow in our minds (our thought life); and that
Determines what we RECEIVE, it’s either what God’s word says about the situation OR a deceptive lie form the devil;
Determines what we ACHIEVE. It’s either God’s successful thoughts and plans for your life … OR a failure mentality and never really fulfilling God’s best for your life.
You have a destiny and it’s related to God’s prophecy to what He has written and spoken about you in His Word.
The devil knows this – he will do all he can to infiltrate your mind to upset God’s destiny for you. He will try find your weaknesses or cracks in your Spiritual Armour.
1 Corinthians 2:8(Amp) – None of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood this, for if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
1 Peter 1:13 – “Prepare your minds for action”
The devil’s idea is to get you and I to think thoughts contrary to God’s Word concerning His Will and Plan for us.
All you need is a good brainwashing – Change your mind to what God’s Word says.
Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) - “For as (a man) thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
No matter what situation you find yourself in today, let it be known that God wants you to prosper and has ordained you to have an abundant life.
Ephesians 1:4-5 (Amp) - 4Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. 5For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]
Ephesians 3:20 (Amp) - Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]
This is the truth - it’s up to us to limit that power OR allow it to set us free. It all goes back to the battle in the mind - what you know and believe, that you will ACHIEVE.
2 Peter 1:3 (Amp) - For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite (necessary for success) and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).
The work is complete – don’t let the devil lie to you.
Quite often we become discouraged because we don’t understand that:
- God has empowered us with supernatural strength.
- Not just to endure, but to overcome.
Enduring is good but man it’s about time you overcome now too!!
Because we haven’t grasped this, we often use our problems, our faults or weaknesses to make excuses FOR NOT fulfilling our God-given destiny.
Here’s some advice: If you feel weak or your situation seems hopeless - Stop saying so! Stop confessing it!
That song that says: I will say (SPEAK IT OUT) “IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL”
Joel 3:10 - “Let the weak say, I am strong”
If you say what the enemy presented to you, he wins. Confess God’s word and you WIN. Get a grip on your MIND, you get a grip on your LIFE.
Our words have so much power, Jesus said
Matthew 12:36-37 (NIV) - But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words, you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.
Your thoughts establish your circumstances.
Proverbs 12:14 (Amp) - From the *fruit of his WORDS a man shall be satisfied with good…”
*fruit = in other words, what’s growing in you; comes out of your mouth – either good or bad.
Whatever God says He will do for you, HE WILL DO!
Psalm 89:34 (NIV) - My covenant will I not break or profane (disregard), nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
If you don’t read the Word of God, you can’t know the Word of God. It’s that simple.
If you don’t know the Word of God, you can’t speak the Word of God.
If you can’t speak the truths of God’s Word, you’ll speak your own ideas out of Ignorance and destroy God’s destiny for you.
This will lead to stumbling blocks the enemy uses to derail your destiny.
Our theme –#3 “removing stumbling blocks, that prevent your destiny”. The stumbling blocks are rooted in the heart. If you let these stumbling blocks become rooted in the heart, they become serious issues to deal with and repent of.
Some of these stumbling blocks are:
#1 IGNORANCE (you are only as ignorant as what you are allowing yourself to be.)
It’s one of the most subtle stumbling blocks, because it keeps people from realizing or correcting their lives.
You see revelation knowledge is the key to this mental battle. (Feed the mind with ammunition.)
Hosea 4:6 (Amp) - “my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge” = IGNORANCE.
#2 LOW SELF-ESTEEM
God created you so HE knows your capabilities and your potential. A poor self-image will prevent you from receiving God’s best for your life. God’s work is always superior not inferior – “God don’t make no junk”.
Example in Numbers 13 – 12 spies sent out by Moses. 10 had a low self-image. 2 (Joshua and Caleb) knew their God and who they were:
Daniel 11:32 (Amp) - … but the people who know their God shall prove themselves strong and shall stand firm and do *exploits [for God].
*exploits = bold and daring
#3 LAZINESS
This is a big stumbling block, because it prevents you from wholeheartedly pursuing God. Laziness will always find excuses not to do anything. Or to do the bare minimum.
Proverbs 13:4 (Amp) - The appetite of the sluggard (LAZY one) craves and gets nothing, but the appetite of the diligent is abundantly supplied.
Lazy people also want, but get zippo, Nothing.
#4 MEDIOCRITY [Middelmatig] (It’s the top of the bottom but the bottom of the top)
It’s a real stumbling block, because people don’t strive to produce excellence in their lives.
Good enough is okay Average is well enough.
Well God is an excellent God and He expects us to serve Him in excellence. In our prayer life, our praise and worship, our Bible study, in our relationships.
Mediocrity and laziness will cause you to miss your blessings.
#5 DISOBEDIENCE
It’s more than just a stumbling block; disobedience is a SIN.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 (NIV) - 26See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse – 27the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; 28the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
God makes it clear: The choice to obey is always ours - obedient MIND = obedient LIFE.
We don’t have time to discuss major stumbling blocks like:
Pride/ Anger/ Un forgiveness/ Bitterness
Don’t be unwilling to change – if God’s word says, “one thing” and you’re doing another, “THEN CHANGE!”
Romans 12:11 (Amp) - Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the Lord.
God will empower you, but you need to “Remove the stumbling blocks”. Change the attitude of your mind and pursue the destiny God has already planned for you.
If you don’t change your direction, you’ll end up where you’re headed.
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