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Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith.

Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

Just to hit it real quick from 1st Peter 5, 8 and 9, which serves as a theme. We won't preach from it today. But be alert and of sober

mind. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion. See, I always read it wrong.

I thought he was a lion. I thought he was bigger than me and stronger than me.

But I found out that he's just loud like a lion.

And the place where he roars is in my mind.

That's where he's the loudest in the thoughts that I have.

And so he's looking for someone to devour. Did you ever wonder why

all those Twitter feeds and Instagram feeds and Facebook feeds, why they call them feeds,

is because they're eating your mind alive. Did you know that? And so he devours people in any way that he can. He's looking for

someone. The command is, resist him. But how many know it's hard to resist what you don't

recognize. And if we're to resist the enemy, because I don't know about you, but I don't intend to live the rest of my life as a Christian and be a slave to my own imagination.

Amen.

I don't intend to live the rest of my life forgiven by Christ as a prisoner to my past and

replaying memories of moments that have come and gone, but I can't escape them in my mind.

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