What's in Your Mind

The title of my sermon is What's in Your Mind? Because we all see this commercial on TV. We see it so many times. Either Samuel L. Jackson is giving it, or Jennifer Garner is saying it. It's for a credit card. And the question is put forth, what's in your wallet? What's in your wallet? Is that important? A lot of people want to know. Want to know how much money is in your wallet? Well, they want to know your credit card. You have this certain credit card that is going to solve all your problems the way they make it appear. But you know, God doesn't care what's in your wallet. He doesn't care how much money you have. He doesn't care what credit card you carry with Him. Can I buy you anything with Him? God's big question to us is, what's in your mind? What's in our minds? Is it important to us as we go through this world, what we put into this thing?

The average American man, the average American man, as I look these statistics up, is 5'9", tall. He weighs 195 pounds. The average woman in America is just an eighth inch shorter than 5'4", and the average weight of the American woman is 170 pounds. So I'm giving you that average because these other statistics play into that. If you're smaller than that, the figures I'm about to give you may change. But did you know that the average person has 66 pounds of muscle? 66 pounds of muscle? 55 pounds of bone? So that's a little over 120 pounds right there. But what's really amazing to me is that the brain, the human brain, is only 3 to 3.5 pounds. For some people it's a little smaller. 3 to 3.5 pounds gets most of our brains. And this brain is typically about the size of a cantaloupe, a decent-sized cantaloupe. But yet it is this incredible gift that God gives to us. Do we appreciate it? Do we know it? Do we know how to use it? God instructs us through His Bible how important it is to use this brain, this mind, this incredible mind that He's given to us to figure things out, to go through life, to make some right decisions.

It is interesting that the human brain, that is just big enough for two hands to hold, this human brain has 100 billion neurons. That's up with the beat. 100 billion neurons. And yet it also has 1 million times that many pathways, neuropathways, as you go into the snaps. It makes this brain the greatest, if you want to say inventions, I say creations, that is on earth today. Do we appreciate it? For some of us who may say, well, you know, my mind's not like it used to be? Well, 20% of the oxygen we take in through our breathing goes to our brain. So if you've got brain problems, you might want to breathe a little more. I know I look at that. Maybe I need to breathe a little more so I can have a better memory than I once had. Be able to do things. Be more creative, as I need to use the creativity that God has given me.

It's actually known that your brain is more active in the evening than it is during the day, and just as active at night as it is during the day. It's amazing, I guess. I understand that from having employees who work during the day. But then I don't want to be caught up in what he was talking about being a bad boss, as we all strive to be better leaders, as we look at some of the examples in the Bible that Mike was giving us today. But I want to give you a quote from Oscar Wilde. That's something new about the mind, this incredible brain. Oscar Wilde said, it has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain, but also so do the greatest sins in the world. And that's kind of what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about our minds and how we can use them, how God expects us to use them. I've read some very interesting books in my life, books that I learned from. Today I want to talk about three of those books, but I'll only recommend two of them for you to read that's empowering. And the first book I want to get to is a book by Karen Chenault. She's a doctor, a neurologist. She's spent 40 years exploring the brains, exploring the minds. And it's just an incredible book, definitely worth the buy, because it helps you to understand that everything we take from out here and put in here stays in there.

It stays in there. And it makes a difference what we bring in, the good and the bad. She teaches through this book that our minds control our actions, and we control what we choose to put in there. And through all her research, she's made these incredible strides in helping people to understand how important it is, the amount and what it is we put into our brains.

And how our futures are determined by what we put into this brain, this incredible mind that God has given to us. And I think the best thing I could do, because I would encourage you to buy the book, read it.

A lot of it is very technical, but I think you'll get to have a better understanding of exactly why we need to use our minds as we've never been able to do before. And maybe some of it out of ignorance, some of it has to do with genetics, but so much of it is the power that is in that brain. I want to show you here a simple demonstration from that I'll be talking about in our books. And so here we have this container, and I've got yellow gumballs in it that I hope you can see. And so this container here, this clear container, is my example of our brain.

Our brain, the holding capacity. But inside of it are all these neurons, all these neurons that are brain cells that are open containers. They're like storage facilities for us. Remember what I said? A hundred billion? Imagine how small they are, but what they contain, they can hold so much information. As it is transferred to us through sight, sound, through what we read. And so here, this is a brain cell. And it can be attached, and it's in your brain, and we feed it stuff, and it begins to fill up. But when we're born, we are like these yellow gumballs.

Our brain cells, they're open, they're ready. They're ready to receive information. They're ready to receive so much information that we can't fill the hundred billion brain cells in our lifetime. That means you should never stop learning. We can constantly learn. Oh, do some die? Yes. Do we kill some?

Absolutely. She even talks about that in the book. How to have a healthy brain, how to have healthy brain cells and neural pathways so they can connect. But what's interesting that I think you might find interesting during this book is that we start like this. But then we put information into our brain. Information that can be either positive or negative. It can be either good for us or bad for us. As the Bible might say, you know, send a righteousness. It's easy to know that there's a difference.

And sometimes we put bad stuff in our brains. And so I want to demonstrate that today by having some pink gumballs. I use these just because you'd be able to see them better in this light. But if we start putting negative, like I'm using this as an example for negative thoughts or sinful thoughts or just not really good thoughts into our brains, this is what happens. They begin to come in and take over and dominate the cells.

And once you have enough of these negative and really sinful cells sometimes, they start connecting to others' cells. You keep feeding negative thoughts into your brain. They will then link, when they're full with the brain cells, they will then link through a neural pathways to another open cell and begin to feel that.

And so pretty soon, this brain becomes filled with negativity, with sinful thoughts, with things that we really don't need to have in there. And the more we put in there, the more it begins to dominate what we do, how we think, how we act. But the good part about this, that she was describing, because she interviewed tens of thousands of people over her 40 years. Criminals, good people, successful people, people who weren't, so she could understand and interviewed them about their minds, did pictures and x-rays of all these brains so she could see when it was working.

And how this stimuli that she would use would dominate and take over a brain. All the brain cells were beginning to turn a certain way. But the good part about it was, as I used these, for positive reinforcement, for positive thoughts, for righteous thoughts, for good compared to evil thoughts. Something happens as you begin to put more and more of these good thoughts, positive affirmations, positive life examples, we begin to see that they too begin to encompass the majority of cells and become the majority in your brain. And so pretty soon, guess what?

We have good thoughts. We have positive thoughts that begin to control how we think, what we do, how we live. How we live. And isn't that what we want? Yes, the negative is still in there, but if we feed the positive, if we feed the righteous, if we feed what's good, it begins to connect to all those open compartments, all those open cells. And this begins to create in us a good, positive, righteous way of life. Now I hope you can understand that. That is a simplistic version of her book, but I found it to be so very interesting.

Because it helps me to realize, you know, junk in, junk out. That comes out of us, as the old saying says, or as Frederick Nietzsche said, the longer you look into the abyss, the longer the abyss looks into you. I hope we all can remember. Not a big Nietzsche fan. But that thought is so true.

The longer we stare into darkness, the longer we put this dark stuff, this evil stuff, there's a reason they call it the dark web, by the way. The reason we put this stuff in, it begins to take over and the abyss, the darkness becomes part of us. I want to go to another book that I recommend. It's by an incredible man called Victor Frankel.

Victor Frankel. And it's called A Man's Search for Meaning. And Victor Frankel is not only a neurologist, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, but the thing that is amazing about Victor Frankel is he spent years in concentration camp, Auschwitz.

Auschwitz. And he describes this in his book. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone because anybody that thinks you have it bad or has a little depression in their life or you think you have it rough, you soon change your mind. But he is able to explain and tell what it was like to go through this living hell in Auschwitz. He's able to come out on the other side and realize that life is what we make it. Life and how we view trials, problems, is exactly what we make of them. And how our minds can take some of the worst issues, structure, and turn it out for good. That's why he wanted to write this book. So he could help his fellow man who went through that, but also because he saw the best and worst of mankind. In fact, I have a quote here I'll put up from Victor Frankl. It says, Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms. So choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way. So it's how we look at things, how our mind can go through problems and trials, and even serious ones.

And it helps us to go through that and keep a positive attitude, which he said there was. There's a lot of ways that people dealt with things. That he had to deal with things during that terrible time as people were dying daily. But he also gave the example of someone who would walk through. They had such a positive attitude, even in those terrible huts that they were having to live in. Eight men in a six by eight area, sleeping, working, having to eat on one or two pieces of bread a day. And how some would be there to encourage, some would walk through this massive humanity that is on the edge of life's cliff. And they would walk through and give a piece of bread. They would give their last piece of bread and give an encouraging word to others so that they could get through this.

It was such an example of the heart and will that's in some people when their attitude, when their minds are not just focused on themselves. And how many times have we done that? I've been guilty of that. I've been guilty of that. I've been guilty of that. Guilty of thinking about myself and, well, here we go, I start getting depressed or have these negative thoughts because I'm thinking about me. Instead of, hey, how can I help other people? Besides, isn't that my job as a pastor? My job as a pastor is to help people.

It's what I have to be doing. And we can help others.

Victor Frankel had some incredible teachings in his book. Also made you think, I need to be a better person.

It encouraged me to strive to have a more positive attitude because, hey, my life's not that bad. My life's pretty good. I'm pretty blessed. And most of us are in so many ways compared to what some people in the world are suffering today. And I'm thankful to God for that. And he also shows how people, taught people how to be thankful to their God, to their Creator for getting them through that. And how their minds, he worked with them so they didn't think on all the problems and trials and have nightmares after they were released and brought back into civil life.

We, we, know where to go to for information, to help us. It's God's Word. But not everybody's that way. Nobody understands it. Not everybody has been raised that way. Or even know. And isn't that part of how we can help other people? It's no God's Word. It's another book I'd like you to mention here. I'd like to mention I don't recommend buying this book. I read the book probably 15 or 20 years ago. And the book is called Mine Hunter. It's by John Douglas. John Douglas was the father of profiling for the FBI. And John Douglas interviewed every, every serial killer, every serious crime, whether they were terrorists or whether they were multiple serial killers, rapists. Interviewed them all. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Why? Because that's where the book title comes from, Mine Hunter. Because he had to, to be able to catch others like them, he had to know what was going through their minds. And you know what was amazing? All of his 30 years being a profile came down to one thing. After studying them and meeting with them and having these from Ted Bundy to Dahmer to William Stu, all these serial killers that killed so many people, it just didn't go back to some childhood, which some did. But almost everything tied back to what they put in their minds. And the more they became at home, felt good about putting this, as we would say, negative or bad or evil thoughts into their mind, whether it was watching a little cat being killed that they killed at a very young age and then might decide, well, later on, like that. They went to, as they would say, the dark side. There was not one serial rapist he laid out in his book. There was not one serial rapist of all the hundreds, three or four hundred that he interviewed that was not addicted to pornography. It had a start. Now, does everybody look at pornography? Become a serial rapist? No, but it starts. And so you remember the brain? You start putting this stuff in. And as he tells in his book, the more they did it, the more they wanted more of it. And the more they would get with people who thought the same way they would read books, they would look at all this stuff and they just kept putting negative and evil and evil thoughts into their brain to where you could expect nothing.

Nothing else. One of the main things I got from his book was that the debased mind knows no limit. Evil doesn't know a limit. It is so prevalent, people's mind. So why am I bringing all this out in the first half of this sermon? Because I think we need to understand so that we can have control of these. We can help people, right? We can help people to have better control.

Like go to a scripture. Go to a scripture in Genesis 6. Go with me through Genesis 6 and verse 5. Genesis 6 and verse 5 have this scripture I'd like for us to read. If you'd make that full screen. It says, then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually or constantly. Think about that. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? We look around this world and there's quite a bit of evil.

But it says, every intent of the thoughts of his heart. What are our thoughts? What are we looking at the world? Are we making the world a better place? Every week, every day. Our little corner of the world. Because you can see, as it's later said, as it was in the days of Noah, so it shall be in the coming of the Son of Man. There's evil. There's evil here now. There's evil on the horizon. It's we. We, as a group, as those who are looking to God, who are reading his Word, to make a difference in our little corner of the world. Are you prepared for that? Do we want to do that? Do we realize, oh no, that's somebody else's job? No! It's ours.

Every intent of the thoughts of the heart. There's so many bad things going into people's minds today.

Are they going in ours? Look at the world. There's strife. There's contention. There's anger everywhere. Why? Because it's our minds. It's our brains. Look at people. You can see it in their faces. That they are just angry. And there's so many of them. They cannot agree to disagree, as we sometimes find in our lives, right? They can't agree to disagree. Show me those faces, Benjamin. Show me those. Look, look at the anger. Now, whether you may say, well, that's a made-up picture. Really? I don't know about you, but I've seen some pictures in the last year or two. Similar, except some of them had masks on. What is our minds? How do we differ from it? How do we keep from being angry? How do we keep from being upset? How do we keep from being negative? It's God's Word. It's God's Word. It is there to empower us. It is there for us to put into our minds.

Proverbs 23 and verse 7. Proverbs 23 and verse 7.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Us? We have Rodin's great sculpture there of thinking, of a man thinking. What about us? What is this verse saying? It's saying, you are what you think. You are what you put in your mind. What are we putting in there? How are we feeding our minds? What are we feeding into it? What's in our mind? Is it important? I think it is. It controls our destiny. It controls our prosperity. It actually controls our happiness. Your brain! They can prove that if they took the energy from your brain right now, you could light a 25 watt light bulb with the energy going on in your brain right now. And it's such an incredible thing. How are you thinking? What are you thinking about? Are we building up? So that we have the power and the energy and the thoughts that God wants us to have in our minds, because we see what's happening in so many other people.

How important is this? How important is this brain that God has given to us? It controls us. And we need to let God help control our minds, our brains. That's why God wants to know what's in your mind. Is he in your mind? Who's in your mind? What about these things? But here we have this incredible, incredible tool that many of us never realize there's an owner's manual for it. It's an incredible tool called our brain that we need to use. I need to use mine better. I need to use it more. It's so incredible when you read this stuff, and that's why I had to go back and read some of this, because frankly, I had let a lot of it slip, and it made me realize just how important it is as I live my life, as I plan for the future.

I want to look at one thing. Romans chapter 1. Romans chapter 1. Romans 1 and verse 28. If you go there. It says, For even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind. Do you have a debased mind? If you don't know what it is, look it up. Hopefully you don't.

To do those things which are not fitting. They're not fitting. Verse 29. Being filled with all unrighteousness. That's what a debased mind is. It's filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness. They are whispers, and he goes on to describe more and more of what someone is with a debased mind.

I have a question brought to me every so often. One is about, because that's what Romans 1, the whole basic chapter from Romans 1, verse 1 to 29, is about same-sex attraction, about the morality of it. Today we are bombarded wave after wave after wave of homosexuality, transgenderism, all the various names that they have for it now. What do we think? Are they evil people? No. No. Their minds are different than ours. They've had stuff. We don't know where they came from. And you know, we look down and people look down on certain people, or they say, well, how am I supposed to treat them? Well, tell you what, about 15, 20 years ago, at my company, construction company, and I worked for a same-sex couple, and I got along with them fine. We did a great job for them. They enjoyed it. They appreciated it, and they started telling everybody, all their friends who were also gay at the time. Oh, wow! They're gay-friendly. They're like this, and so someone wanted to ask me in construction, which that's not always the case. Oh, wow! You're kind of the gay construction company there, huh? Why do you get all their work? Are you gay? And I said, no. But everybody deserves dignity. Everybody deserves dignity and respect. And how are we going to work with people? How are we going to touch people and help people unless we show that dignity and respect? Because God, he just hates the sin, not the sinners. He wants people to change, but how are they going to change if there's no knowledge there?

Brethren, we have a responsibility. I have gay friends that I would do anything for. They would do anything for me. I show respect. Look at Christ. Christ came and met with the sinners. What the religious people of their day do. They came, and said, look, he hates with sinners. Oh, he hates with sinners. Well, yeah, that's why he came. He came to help. Are we here to help? I don't condone the lifestyle. I don't live the lifestyle. But I need to have the mind of Christ. And that's what we all need to do. We need to have a different mind that comes from living and being like Christ, thinking like God, reading God's Word. That's why I sent the Sabbath greeting last night. It's so important. The book, it has everything our should be to us. It's an incredible guidebook.

Romans 12, verse 2. Romans 12, verse 2. You all know this verse, but think about it. Think about it. It says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by what? Renewing of your mind. I need my mind renewed sometimes. I go to the book to renew it. I go to find a place to get away from things. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is good. What is that good and the acceptable and perfect will of God?

Do you need some renewing? Sometimes I like to go somewhere. I go somewhere so I can renew my mind. I'm not bombarded by... We have cell phones. Every one of us carries them all the time. They're always going, beep, beep, beep. You can even be sitting praying somewhere. If you have the phone in the same thing, you see that somebody has sent you something. Somebody has sent you something and gets it out. That's why I don't need that. But sometimes we need to get away. Maybe even to the country. I feel that. You see, I, for 45 years of my life, I lived in the country. Not quite this place, but I had hills instead of mountains. It's so easy to get away and to appreciate God and put God's Word into my mind when I would sit and meditate or just talk to Him. When you're in the city, you're hearing things all the time, but that's my job. I can't get away. Yeah, I would love to be there, but I can't. My job is to be here in the city with the honking horns and something going on and so forth in the city. Do you appreciate your time? Do we set aside time to refresh and renew our minds and not just be bombarded with TVs, movies, everything that's going on in this life? Do we sometimes need to get back to nature so we can appreciate the beauty that God's given us to help us in our thinking here? Amazing when we go on vacation, we go to the Feast of Tabernacles, how we come back, and it says, wow, I'm refreshed, I'm renewed. As a matter of fact, there are many companies in America, corporations, that make people take a vacation because they get so bogged down that they're just stressed out. And time, and they get away, and I remember coming back so many times, especially Feast of Tabernacles, you come back and you're just, oh wow, it feels so good, I'm refreshed, I'm renewed. I feel so much stronger. And that's why I'm bringing some of this stuff up in Philippians 2 and verse 5. Let me turn there if you want to. Philippians 2 verse 5, if you're in my congregations, you've been there for the last nine years, you know that this is a memory scripture for me. Because it's so powerful, it tells me what I need to do. I'm just not telling you that you need to change your mind. I'm telling you how. I'm telling you how. I'm telling you what you need to put in there.

Philippians 2 verse 5, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Where do you find that out? Where do you find that in His Word? We have four accounts of three and a half years of detailed living. What was in that incredible mind? Let this mind, let this incredible brain be filled and be like Jesus Christ? Wow! I want to do that. Do you want that? God wants us to have that. God wants us to be that way. Proverbs 16. Let's go to Proverbs 16 and verse 3. Proverbs 16 and verse 3, He said, Commit your works to the Lord. Do you? What are you doing today? What are you doing tomorrow?

It's almost like commit your life. Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established. Established. Strong. Going to be filled with good stuff. Not going to have these negative feelings. And anyone who's been a pastor works with people who carry baggage over as God is calling and working with them. They may have done this. They may have had these sins and think that you can't be forgiven. That's totally false.

Paul gives that example. He even led the murder of people and of sinners. He said, of whom I am chief.

Brethren, we have a way. We have a way to fill our minds and to have our thoughts established and taken care of. And one of those things is fear. Actually, if you really do. And God says, your thoughts will be established. You're not going to have fear. You're not going to fear some virus. You're not going to fear what happens at the end times. You're not going to fear all this stuff. But you're going to know God's got this. He's with us. He's with me. I can do this.

Let's go to another verse. Isaiah 26 and verse 3. He's telling us here what we need to do to use this incredible mind. It's greater than any computer that's created. We need to use it.

And Isaiah is telling us, you will keep Him in perfect peace. You need perfect peace in your life. I do. When I don't have perfect peace, guess who's separated from God? Guess whose distance was put there? Me. You will keep Him in perfect peace whose mind is what? Stayed on you. Stayed on God. Because we trust in God. Do you trust in God? Maybe it's time you start. Maybe it's time you dig a little deeper to say, I don't have the peace I want in this world. People are all worried. You see all this stuff on the internet. You see all this stuff in the news. Last week or two, I just didn't want to watch hardly any news because it was all just conflict. No peace on either side. I don't want that. I don't need it in my life. How about you? You need some perfect peace? You may say, peace? Oh, well, yeah, I have it in my life. Really? Perfect peace from God? You don't worry about these things? I think we do. So we need to make sure that our minds stay on Him. Stay in this book. I've got my book over here. This is a worn-out old Bible. And you know, it brings me peace. Brings me even the last few days. I need to read something that empowers His brain. That puts some positivity so I can be a positive person in the negative world. I can be a nonviolent man in a violent world. And no, it's okay. That no matter what comes my way, God's going to be there. He's going to help me. But I can't break the lifeline by not reading this, and neither can you. Let's go to Revelation 2. Revelation 2, as I wrap this up today. Revelation 2 and verse 23. And all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts, and I will give to each one according to your works. So God searches the minds and the hearts of those who want to follow Him, those who will dedicate themselves to Him. You know what one of our biggest problems is? We don't look up enough. We don't look up enough in our everyday life. Maybe if you're up, we have some people from Canada, we have people from Michigan, we have various people who are cold. It's called whether they don't want to look up. They don't want to go outside. But God is up there. The answers are up there. He's got them. And all we need to do is ask. He'll give us the help. Jesus Christ, half-brother James, says all good things, all good gifts come from above. We're not going to find the great gifts, the things we need down here. Not a lot of blessings in our lives, and we can enjoy that, but the real truth, the real peace, the life that we need to live, the power in which we can feel like we get up every day and a power is with us, it comes from above.

And He wants us to feel that power. He wants us to enjoy life. Christ, I came that you may have life and live it more abundantly. If you're not living life more abundantly, you don't have enough Christ.

I have to remind myself that sometimes. Get bogged down. Bogged down in certain things. Let things bother me. Christ, He came that I may have life and live it more abundantly. Do you believe that? Are you living life more abundantly? Maybe you need just a little bit more. Maybe a little bit more of the Gospels. Last scripture. Jeremiah 31 verse 33. It's a part of the new covenant. It's the new covenant that He made that we're a part of.

He says, but this is a covenant, and I make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their what? In their minds. In that incredible brand. I will put my laws in their minds. That's what we need to study. Is God's law in our minds? Do we want it in there? Do we even read His words so we know what His law, His writings are guiding us and giving us instructions? Paul tells Timothy that every word of this is God breathed. God breathed. He breathes it.

And that breath that He breathes into here is life and living it more abundantly. He says, I will put my laws in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Are you His people? Do you want to be His people? Do you want those promises? Do you want those blessings, not cursings? Do you want Him to write it in your minds and in your hearts? Minds and hearts. It's amazing because the brain weighs three to three and a half pounds, and yet the heart, which is tied, how the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The heart is about the size of my fist, and it only weighs about less than a pound. So some of the smallest organs in the entire body control the rest of that mass that's considered a human body. See, because God works through small things, and He works through our hearts, and He works through our minds. I will write my laws in your hearts and in your minds. See, God has to be the writer. Is God the writer when it comes to your life? Does He write stuff in our hearts and in our minds? God write or had this book, this incredible book written for us. Do we want to read it? Do we look towards this? Because it not only empowers us, it feeds us, and it ties us to God. Brethren, all of us live different lives. We have different challenges. We have different opportunities. We have different blessings. But the greatest of these is having love of God in our lives. Because God says, you can have all knowledge, He says in Corinthians. You can have all knowledge. Have all wisdom. Unless you have agape, and where do we learn that? Agape for loving people. It has to be in here, and it has to be in here, and that's what He wants. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples. If you have what? Love. Agape. We have the opportunity to live life abundantly, to enjoy this life, and not just let it go through. We have a chance to plan our destiny and not just make a living, to spend time with the Creator of the entire universe. And all it takes is us saying yes. All it takes is us saying, Father, and start the conversation.

So I want to leave you with the question we brought up at first, and God wants to know it's not what's in your wallet, it's what's in your mind. And bigger than that, who's in your mind? Who's gotten in your mind? Do you need to get rid of some things or people that are in your mind? Because God wants Him in our mind. He wants His Word. He wants us to live a life that He is front and center. So this week, you have the opportunity, the next seven days, to show God exactly what is in your mind.

Thank you.