Fight Back Against Negative Thoughts and Say Yes to God
whenever you ask for change you’ve got to be prepared for disruption if you plant an oak tree in the earth it’s going to disrupt the soil if you plant a peach tree in the soil it’s going to disrupt the ground there’s no way you can have growth without disruption but God said to me when you say change I send disruption but don’t let the disruption become a distraction [Music] you won’t come out of this you’re not smart enough you’re not bright enough you waited too late you should have started younger those are the kind of voices that we all
live with for me our ministry was growing we lived in a nice house nice house we’d ever had driving a nice car living from paycheck to paycheck with making it every night I lay down at night after she goes to sleep I hear the voices those voices are the kind of voices that stop you from buying into your own life stop you from enjoying the good times and believing that they will last the anxiety and the pressure and the strength that it took to get from where you were to where you are doesn’t go away so you don’t really believe it’s yours
you’re driving it but you don’t really believe it’s yours and you’re scared to relax and really rest in whatever it is or whoever it is because everything else went away maybe this will go away too we talk about faith for bad times but but you also need faith in Good Times to actually believe the goodness of God is not going anywhere to silence the voices they keep saying you’ll never make it you’re about to lose everything fear gets in your heart see I know what it’s like to be poor and I know what it’s like to be without
I know what it’s like not to have dinner for my kids returning to that that the idea that that could happen it’s terrifying and the enemy always has some sort of tool or memory or situation that he uses to terrify you even though the good times are here and and the dream is there the blessing is there and the goodness is there but there’s always this haunting nagging defiance that says don’t you relax you’re not worth it you don’t deserve it and it’s not going to last resting in what God has done it’s often more difficult
than receiving what God has done to rest in it to believe that it will last to believe that you will last and love will last that that life will last that that good times will come that things will be better it’s difficult because of the voices and you are what you eat and the voices are the food that feeds your faith or fear so if you want to change your diet you can change your outcome but you have to stop talking to yourself the way you do because if you continue to talk to yourself the way you do you will always
