Hey, I can kind of tell there are a few people in the mood to play.

I can kind of tell there are a few people in the mood to celebrate today at all of our churches.

I want to give you some things to celebrate. We always say that we're not praying for revival that we're actually living in the middle of one.

I want you to try to get your mind around this. Last weekend we asked people to publicly declare their need for salvation through Christ.

We had over 1900 people last weekend alone. Paul on the power and the name of Jesus. This is something I never ever want to take for granted.

Even now as we speak we've got a campus that moved from a storefront. This weekend into a new building.

A little shout out to those in Fort Smith, Arkansas, moving into a brand new facility. There's the first service standing room only with 71 salvation in the very first service in the brand new building.

We praise God for you guys in Fort Smith. And next weekend, guess what? We're launching the 31st live church location.

If you know somebody in the Springfield, Missouri area, we've got a brand new building coming out of the ground and a fantastic core group meeting next week.

Big thank you to all 30 live churches because of your generosity. Imagine this. Those buildings are debt free. We don't know anybody, anything except the continual debt to love.

It's the work of God through all of you. So thank you for your amazing work.

We are in a message series called Mastermind. Change your thinking. Change your life. And we're looking at the mind and the teaching of the Apostle Paul.

What do we know about the mind? We know that our thoughts are incredibly powerful. There's often a war going on and the war is generally one or lost in the mind.

What comes into your mind comes out in your life. It's almost impossible to live a positive life when you're consumed with negative thoughts.

We learned last week. If you don't change the way you think, you can't change the way you live. You can't change what you do. Our thoughts matter.

In fact, our key verse is from the Apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 10 verses 3, 4, and 5. I want to revisit those to set the tone for our message today.

This is what Paul said. He said, for though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. We have different weapons. He says the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world.

On the contrary, they have what? I need somebody to help me out. They have divine power to do what? To demolish stronghold. We have power from heaven to crush, to vanquish, to demolish the wrong patterns of thinking that hold us hostage.

We demolish arguments. Every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. How do we do it? Paul said this. He said, we take captive every thought and we make it obedient to Christ.

Any thought that is inconsistent with the truth of God's word, we grab it, we make it our prisoner, we are not a prisoner to the lies, the lies are prisoners to God's word. We take captive and make it obedient to Christ.

If you have been with us in previous weeks, we have talked about the power of the brain that our God created. For centuries people thought the brain was essentially fixed after adolescence.

We know now that is not true, that the brain continues to evolve and there is something called neural pathways. What is a neural pathway? Essentially the more we think of thought, the more we create a pathway in the brain.

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