For a talk given by Pastor Brent Lokker at Blazing Fire Church on October 29, 2016 For more information, please go to blazing fire.org

1. Thinking God Thoughts
By Pastor Brent Lokker
October 29, 2016

2. We teach wisdom to people who are
mature, but the wisdom we teach is
not from this world.
1 Corinthians 2:6 ERV

3. But we speak God’s secret wisdom
that has been hidden from everyone
until now. God planned this wisdom
for our glory. He planned it before
the world began.
1 Corinthians 2:7 ERV

4. As the Scriptures say,
“No one has ever seen, no one has
ever heard, no one has ever
imagined what God has prepared for
those who love him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9 ERV

5. But God has shown us these things
through the Spirit.
The Spirit knows all things. The Spirit
even knows the deep secrets of God.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 ERV

6. It’s like this: No one knows the thoughts
that another person has. Only the person’s
spirit that lives inside knows those
thoughts. It’s the same with God. No one
knows God’s thoughts except God’s Spirit.
We received the Spirit that’s from God, not
the spirit of the world. We received God’s
Spirit so that we can know all that God has
given us.
1 Corinthians 2:11-12 ERV

7. As the Scriptures say,
“Who can know what is on the Lord’s
mind? Who is able to give him
advice?”
But we have been given Christ’s
way of thinking.
1 Corinthians 2:16 ERV

9. And do not go along with
the way of this present time,
but be transformed
by the renewal of your minds,
so that you will examine God’s
purpose which is good
and pleasing and complete.
Romans 12:2 (Source)

10. The weapons with which we do battle
are not those of human nature,
but they have the power, in the eyes of God,
to demolish fortresses.
It is ideas that we demolish,
every presumptuous notion that is set up
against the knowledge of God,
and we bring every thought into captivity
and obedience to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5

14. I’m not enough.
I’m a failure.
I don’t have enough.
Fear of the future.
I don’t hear God.
I will always have this
disease or pain.
Lustful thoughts
have a hold on me.
I will never change.

15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSApUB7goiE
Dr. Carolyn Leaf “The Disordered Mind” (starts ~ 4 min 46 sec)

17. This is all
REVERSIBLE!

18. • Pay close attention to your wandering
thought. Don’t let them take you down
bad paths! You are not a victim!
• Stop! Say out loud, “I renounce this toxic
thought! I reject it! I don’t agree!”
• “What is true is…”
• It’s time to pay attention to God’s
narrative and agree with it. Ask for help!

19. • Holy Spirit, help me to pay attention to my
thoughts and capture them.
• Help me to discern what are good thoughts
and what are toxic thoughts.
• Help me use my voice to renounce toxic
thoughts and replace them with truthful, life-
giving, encouraging ones.

20. What have you been struggling with
lately that you are trying to work out in
your brain over and over again?
Fears/Anxieties/Frustrations
Ways you feel like a Failure

21. But solid food is for those
who have come of age, for
those who have learned
through practice to
distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 5:14 (Voice)