The document discusses decision-making as a key spiritual discipline. It notes that good decisions strengthen the brain while bad decisions injure it. Satan aims to distort our decision-making through deception. The document advocates developing the mind of Christ and transforming our minds through obedience to God rather than being conformed to the world. It proposes that listening to biblical teachings can help improve our decision-making skills.

2. Journeying
Journalizing
Jotting
Head and Heart:
KNOWLEDGE

3. Key Spiritual Discipline:

4. Key Spiritual Discipline:
Decision-Making

5. John 10:10
• The thief comes only to
steal and kill and destroy.
• I came that they may have
life and have it
abundantly.

7. Heart of the Matter: Decision-Making
Decision-making is exercise for brain
Good decisions = stronger brain
Bad decisions = injured brain
God’s instruction manual (the Bible)
tells us how to perceive and respond
accurately.

8. Ephesians 2:1-3
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
in which you once walked, following the
course of this world, following the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit that is now at work
in the sons of disobedience--
among whom we all once lived in the passions
of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the
body and the mind, and were by nature
children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

9. Romans 8:5
For those who live according to
the flesh set their minds on the
things of the flesh, but those
who live according to the Spirit
set their minds on the things of
the Spirit.

13. Response

14. Response
We need a relationship with God,
Jesus, and Holy Spirit

15. Response
We need a relationship with God,
Jesus, and Holy Spirit
We need to put on the Armor of
God(Ephesians 6:13-17)

16. Response
We need a relationship with God,
Jesus, and Holy Spirit
We need to put on the Armor of
God(Ephesians 6:13-17)
GJHS can help us become more
Christ-like? (2 Corinthians 4:4)

17. Response
We need a relationship with God,
Jesus, and Holy Spirit
We need to put on the Armor of
God(Ephesians 6:13-17)
GJHS can help us become more
Christ-like? (2 Corinthians 4:4)
WWJD?

18. 1 Peter 1:13-15
Therefore, preparing your minds for
action, and being sober-minded, set your
hope fully on the grace that will be
brought to you at the revelation of Jesus
Christ.
As obedient born-again believer, do not
be conformed to the passions of your
former ignorance.

19. Philippians 2:5
For let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ
Jesus

20. Normal Brain-Active

21. 25 year Heroin Addiction – 39yrs old

22. 2 Years of Daily Marijuana Abuse - 16 yo

23. 2 Years of Frequent Cocaine Use - 24 yo

24. 17 Years of Heavy Weekend Alcohol Use- 38 yo

25. 27 Year Daily Heavy Cigarette and Coffee Use - 45 yo

26. Suicidal and Rage
Before and After Medication/Therapy

27. Depression and Anxiety
Before and After St. John’s Wort and EMDR

29. Understanding Where We
Need to Go
Developing the Mind of Christ!
Colossians 1:15

31. BrainWorks - Ideal
• Jesus’ Brain = Perfection!
1.Perceived everything from a Godly
perspective
2.Responded with Biblical skills

33. Heart of the Matter: Decision-Making

34. Heart of the Matter: Decision-Making
• “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and
do not lean on your own understanding.”
• -Proverbs 3:5
• “In those days there was no king in Israel.
Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”

35. Heart of the Matter: Decision-Making
• “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and
do not lean on your own understanding.”
• -Proverbs 3:5
• “In those days there was no king in Israel.
Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”
• -Judges 21:25

37. Satan’s Goals For Us

38. Satan’s Goals For Us
1. Spiritually Dead!

39. Satan’s Goals For Us
1. Spiritually Dead!
2.Deceived and Dysfunctional.

41. Satan’s Strategy
• Satan aims to distort and disrupt
our decision-making system
• Perception
• Emotions
• Decision-making is a primary
Building Block of Life.

42. Change is Possible!
Conform or Transform
Old Man or New Man
Romans 12:1-2
1 Peter 1 : 13-19
Mark 12 : 28-33
Proverbs 4 : 23
Ephesians 4 : 22-24

43. Romans 12 : 1-2
• I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of
God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God,
for this is the reasonable way for you to
worship.
• Do not be conformed to this world, but
continually be transformed by the renewing
of your minds so that you may be able to
determine what God's will is-what is proper,
pleasing, and perfect.

44. “Get out of here, Satan,” Jesus told him. “For the Scriptures say,
‘You must worship the Lord your God
and serve only him.
Then the devil went away, and angels came and took care of Jesus.
Matthew 4:10-11
Then they will come to their senses and
escape from the devil’s trap. For they have
been held captive by him to do whatever he
wants. 2 Timothy 2:26

46. There is a strategy to transform

47. There is a strategy to transform
The Holy Spirit is perfect

48. There is a strategy to transform
The Holy Spirit is perfect
We are not. PERIOD!

49. There is a strategy to transform
The Holy Spirit is perfect
We are not. PERIOD!
Therefore, a strategy exists that we need to
listen, obey, and follow the God’s instruction.

50. There is a strategy to transform
The Holy Spirit is perfect
We are not. PERIOD!
Therefore, a strategy exists that we need to
listen, obey, and follow the God’s instruction.
Nobody ever teaches us thoroughly about
decision-making skills.
Proverbs, Paul’s letters, Jesus, David

51. There is a strategy to transform
The Holy Spirit is perfect
We are not. PERIOD!
Therefore, a strategy exists that we need to
listen, obey, and follow the God’s instruction.
Nobody ever teaches us thoroughly about
decision-making skills.
Proverbs, Paul’s letters, Jesus, David
2000 – 5000 decisions/day

52. Lighthouse Network
• Vision Statement:
• Equipping individuals to
spiritually,
emotionally,physically,
and mentally to renew
their minds. They may
shine and impacting the
confused and lost soul.

53. • Source: karl benzio, md
• www.lighthousenetwork.org