Pastor Brent encourages us and challenges us to surrender our will to the leading of God's Spirit instead of settling for judgments, disconnections, and addictions (living from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil). Slides for a talk given Jan 30, 2021.

1. Yielding To God’s Spirit
Brent Lokke
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January 30, 202
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Blazing Fire Church

2. •Do you have deep joy in your heart?
•Do you have a deep-seated peace in your heart?
•Where did fear get the better of you?
•Where did your fear lead to well-intentioned attempts to
control what seemed out of control and what did that look
like
?
•Where did you choose distance and disconnection, even with
those you were previously close with, instead of seeing them
through the eyes of God?

3. •Where have we hated another person?
•If you say,“Well, I didn’t actually hate them…” Okay then,
where have you not loved another with God’s heart
?
•Where are those reactions still occurring
?
•How are you trying to justify them instead of humbling
yourself, owning it and asking for God’s help to live his way
instead of insisting on your own way?

4. “Any kingdom that
fi
ghts against itself
will end up in ruins
.
Any family or community splintered by strife
will fall apart.
”
~Jesus in Matthew 12:25 (TPT)

5. Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set
your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in
the place of honor at God’s right hand.
Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth
.
Colossians 3:1-2 (NLT)

6. See yourselves co-raised with Christ! Now ponder with
persuasion the consequence of your co-inclusion in him.
Relocate yourselves mentally! Engage your thoughts with
throne room realities where you are co-seated with Christ in
the executive authority of God’s right hand
.
Becoming affectionately acquainted with throne room thoughts
will keep you from being distracted again by the earthly [soul-
ruled] realm
.
Colossians 3:1-2 (Mirror)

7. 1.You have to have awareness there’s a problem
2.You have to want something different
3.You have to ask for help
4.You have to yield and surrender to the power of the
One who can help you!

9. • Independen
t
• DIY (Do ItYourself
)
• I have to try to be like God/Jesu
s
• My value and worth are conditional upon
what I d
o
• An imperfect (skewed) knowledge of
ourselves and one anothe
r
• We are bad (shame)
• Completely dependent upon Go
d
• Doing all things with Elohi
m
• I am already like God/Jesu
s
• My in
fi
nite value and worth were pre-
determined and don’t ever chang
e
• Elohim’s perfect approval of us based on
their perfect knowledge of u
s
• We are good
TREE OF LIFE
TREE OFTHE
KNOWLEDGE OF
GOOD AND EVIL

10. • I can manage and master my own life
and destiny, independent of my Sourc
e
• “I want to do what I want to do
”
• Our nature is what our ego create
s
• I AM NO
T
• Both are real but one is not the true
you
• I yield to the Spirit of God within me,
completely dependent upon Jesus
.
• “Not my will, butYours be done
”
• Our nature is Christ himsel
f
• I A
M
• Both are real but one is the true you
TREE OFTHE
KNOWLEDGE OF
GOOD AND EVIL
TREE OF LIFE

11. • “I”/Ego runs the show as a false fron
t
• “I” am the director of the pla
y
• “I” do the things I don’t want to do.
Romans 7:1
5
• Fruit: Disappointment with ourselves
and others, shame, guilt, inferiority,
competing, hostility, futility, frustration,
and corruption.
• God leads me and walks with m
e
• God directs my lif
e
• “I” no longer lives, but Christ lives in
me. Galatians 2:2
0
• Fruit of a life fully dependent on Jesus:
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and
spirit-control.
TREE OF LIFE
TREE OFTHE
KNOWLEDGE OF
GOOD AND EVIL

12. 1.You have to have awareness there’s a problem
(your actions and reactions are showing you the problem is real
)
2.You have to want something different (the abundant life Jesus promised
)
3.You have to ask for help (You can’t do this!You don’t got this!
)
4.You have to yield and surrender to the power of the One who can help
you! (This is a daily ongoing choice of your will
)
5. Don’t focus on everyone else’s stuff. That’s another distraction of your
“I”/Ego self. Focus on your own health and journey (put on your own
oxygen mask
fi
rst. Take the log out of your own eye and then…)

13. For love completes the laws of God. All of the law can be
summarized in one grand statement:
“Demonstrate love to your neighbor, even as you care for
and love yourself.”
But if you continue to criticize and come against each
other over minor issues, you’re acting like wild beasts
trying to destroy one another!
As you yield freely and fully to the dynamic life and power
of the Holy Spirit, you will abandon the cravings of your self
- life.
Galatians 5:14-18 (TPT)

14. For your self - life craves the things that offend the Holy
Spirit and hinder him from living free within you! And the
Holy Spirit’s intense cravings hinder your old self - life from
dominating you!
So then, the two incompatible and con
fl
icting forces within
you are your self - life of the
fl
esh and the new creation life
of the Spirit.
But when you are brought into the full freedom of the Spirit
of grace, you will no longer be living under the domination
of the law, but soaring above it!
Galatians 5:14-18 (TPT)