Here we go again. Another sermon and I never feel ready. You think after 25 years I

feel confident that I'm always nervous, always insecure. I know God's word is

powerful. I feel so weak. The fetic is more accurate. No matter how much I work,

no matter how hard I try, I just never feel like I have what it takes. Okay Groschel,

game on, smile, don't suck. Let's roll. So I'm curious, does anyone else have an

ongoing war in your mind? I don't know about you, but so often I battle in my

mind between thoughts of faith and thoughts of fear. I so often want to trust God

and yet I also want to control. Maybe you're like this, maybe you can walk in one

moment and you feel full of spiritual confidence that God is with you and

He's for you and He's called you. In the next moment you have this crippling

insecurity that paralyzes you and holds you back. What I discovered is that the

mind is a battlefield and most of life's battles are one or lost in your mind.

The more I've studied scripture and the more I've even looked at what

neuroscience would say, most of life's battles are one or lost in the mind. The

good news is, who's ready for some good news, the good news is that God's word is

powerful, not just to help you but to transform and to renew your mind with

truth. And because his word is powerful, I would love it if you would today at

all of our life's search locations. If you're watching in your kitchen you

could even stand to your feet in honor of the reading of God's word. Today we're

going to be looking from 2 Corinthians chapter 10 and over the next few weeks

we're going to try to get into the mind of the Apostle Paul. It's interesting to

look at him if you ever heard of the ultimate warrior before and in many ways

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