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Thank you again for coming out today. I like to start with something funny. A couple of years ago, Eustonians had a terrible time evacuating for Hurricane Rita.

Somebody sent me the new Houston area evacuation route. So if there's a hurricane, just remember this. His spanics are to take I-10 West to San Antonio.

Cajuns are to take I-10 East to Louisiana. Yankees are to take I-45 North to Oklahoma. And Aggies are to take the 16 loop.

Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Today I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus name, God bless you.

I want to talk to you today about detoxing your mind. We hear a lot about detoxing our physical bodies. How there can be chemicals in the food that are harmful.

Bacteria can build up even pesticides in the air. Many people don't realize it, but their bodies are full of these harmful toxins. That's what's causing them to feel bad.

Most experts will recommend that you go through a deep cleansing. Where you put yourself on a fast, you eat a certain diet, stay in a way from everything harmful.

Over time, you can rid yourself of those toxins and begin to feel much better. In the same way, there are all kinds of toxins that can build up in our mind.

When we go around dwelling on the wrong thoughts, think about what we can't do and how somebody heard us and how we'll never get ahead, those thoughts are toxic thoughts.

And toxic thoughts left alone become like toxic waste that will eventually contaminate our whole life. It affects our self-image, it affects our attitude, our level of confidence.

It becomes a part of who we are. That's why it says in Proverbs 4.23, above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything you do.

The writer is saying, make guarding your mind a priority. Put this at the top of your to-do list. Because if your mind gets polluted, your whole life is going to be polluted.

You probably know people right now that are bitter, cynical, they always expect the worst, they have a sour attitude. Why is that? They've allowed these toxic thoughts to take root.

Now they become strongholds that are poisoning their future. What's the solution? They need to go through a detoxification. Not a physical cleansing, but a mental cleansing.

The only way they're going to get free. The only way they're going to get back to who God made them to be is to detox their mind.

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