My Declaration

MY DECLARATION

By Pastor Gary Wayne

Text: 2Corinthians 10:3-5

NIV - we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

I want to talk about taking control of my thoughts.

Taking captive every thought that is negative and make it obedient to Christ.

When we open our mouth and declare out loud the Word of God, we take control of our thoughts and we establish a baseline of truth.

Illustration – Have someone start counting (not fast) from 1-10, then right in the middle, stop them and ask them to say their name. It breaks the thought pattern.

When you break a chain of negative thinking by quoting scripture, it interrupts the controlling thought and we are establishing a baseline for truth.

We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

We don’t fight thoughts with thought – we use one of our weapons of warfare which is the spoken Word of God.

I don’t say, “don’t think about it.” “don’t think about it.” – That actually reinforces that negative thought.

Instead, out of my mouth I declare what God says is true.

Notices how many times the Bible tells us to speak out loud the Word of God? To speak truth? To Praise out loud? To Sing out loud? To declare His Works.

Ephesians 5:18 “… speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”
Psa.100:1 “Make a joyful noise…”
Study how many times the Bible says to “declare.”

Do you realize that you hear everything you say?
Now there is something incredible about our ears.
When you study the senses, you find that each eye covers half of the brain.

The nose is the same – the right nostril covers the left hemisphere, the left nostril covers the right hemisphere.

Same with the tongue – it is divided. Same with our hands.
But not the ears. Each ear covers the entire brain all by itself.
So when we hear something, we hear it with twice the power.

In learning, when I am reward for an action, I am more likely to do it again.

And if the reward comes 1/5 of a second after the action, the reinforcement is the highest.

Guess how soon you hear what you say after it’s said. 1/5 of a second.

So you brain is rewarded with truth.
The negative cycle of thought is interrupted.
And I reinforce God’s baseline of truth in my heart.

Now you may not feel like saying it, so use this principle:
Don’t say it when you feel like it, say it until you feel like it.”

It is hard to say something you don’t feel. If I feel like scum, it’s hard to say, “I am special.” If I feel week, it’s hard to say, “I am Strong.”
But we don’t use our feelings as a source of Truth.

Too many of us use our emotions as a baseline for truth.
But I don’t feel special to God – SO WHAT!

I WILL declare out loud what God says is true in the face of EVERY NEGATIVE LIE the enemy wants to re-enforce in me.

Passion Translation ver.5 “We can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God and break through every arrogant attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God. We capture, like prisoners of war, every thought and insist that it bow in obedience to the Anointed One.”

Find a verse from the Bible that pertains to the truth you are battling, and have it in your holster ready to do war when the enemy tries to start the cycle of negative thinking.