Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We're so glad you're here. Today, Rick continues in a series called Preparing for Your Future, where he shares how God's destiny for your life is good, and how you get to choose much of your destiny. All right, let's get right to it with part one of a message called

Making the Most of Your Mind. Now this week, I want us to look at one of the things we have to

prepare, and that is to prepare our minds. You don't realize it, but there is an invisible war

going on around you and actually in you 24 hours a day. And it is the battle

for your mind. There are the forces of evil and there are the forces of good that are

battling for your mind 24 hours a day. And that battle is intense, and the reason why it's intense is because

whatever gets your mind gets you. It's not an accident that when you go out to drive a motorcycle,

they have to put on a helmet. It's the law. They don't force you to put on elbow pads or knee pads, although you could skin those up,

but they're worried about your head because if your mind isn't protected, you're over.

And so it's important that you know how to protect your mind, how to use your mind,

how to expand your mind, how to develop your mind, because whatever is in your mind

is what's going to be in your life for the next 10 years. Now, you know that the feeling that

comes when you have conflicts in your mind. Romans 7 talks about how sometimes, you know, I know

the right thing to do, but I just don't

do it.

And sometimes I know what I shouldn't do, but I do that anyway.

And there's this constant battle going on in your mind.

The Bible talks about this in the book of 2 Corinthians.

If you look on your outline in chapter 10, starting with verse 3, it's talking about

this mental battle that goes on in your mind all the time. Though we live in the world,

we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.

On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

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