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Part 1 - Strangling The Strongholds "The Meeting Of The Minds"

FHMI-0703Shane Vaughn2023-01-29Sermon Transcript

Strangling The Strongholds

  • (primary) Romans 1:28
  • (secondary) Acts 20:19
  • (secondary) Acts 17:11
  • (secondary) Luke 12:29
  • (secondary) Luke 10:27
  • (secondary) Luke 8:35
  • (secondary) Romans 12:2
  • (secondary) Jeremiah 23:29
  • (secondary) II Corinthians 4:4

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Part 1 - Strangling The Strongholds "The Meeting Of The Minds" Shane Vaughn ——— First Harvest Ministries International 1 and I want to help you tonight to understand how to walk in total Deliverance all the days of your life all the days of your life Bruce how would you like to be delivered son all your life Andrew how would you like to be delivered son every day of your life not just on occasion but every day brother shame short how would you like to walk in Deliverance every day I'm going to teach you tonight you may be seated so good to see my grandbaby come in the back there's legatlin baby go stand him in front of the camera and let the whole world see you just go stand right there y'all aim it down I want 2 everybody to see my grand our grandbaby look put him right there on the screen zoom in on his little face now that's my beloved grandson hallelujah thank you Lord hallelujah strangling the strongholds is something we must learn how to do let's go to Romans chapter 1 verse 28. 3 Elder Morgan would you grab a microphone and help me tonight and be on the ready because I have so many scriptures to combat the devil with Romans 1 28 I'll read that one and then get me Acts 20 and 19. 4 everyone ready Romans 1 28 and so since they do not like to retain Yahweh in their knowledge Yahweh has given them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not proper remember tonight's sermon is the meeting of the minds everyone under the sound of my voice brother Michael maholic was born with one mind every one of you every one of us was born with what a human mind Elder Baker that mind is the very enemy of Yahweh you know why because that is an idolatrous mind that mind breaks the first commandment from the moment you're born to the moment you die because that mind makes Rick 5 Connolly his own God brother Michael your mind makes Michael maholic his own God that mind places you in direct Rebellion to submission to anybody or anything when you come out of your mama's belly brother Morgan who taught the child when you say don't touch that who taught the child touch it he was born with a rebellious mind there's about to be a meeting when you were born I remember when I was just a young child Mama Temple imbued Mississippi nobody knows where that is don't even look it up it's they don't it's just by the railroad track somewhere in Mississippi anybody know where beauty is 6 Franklin County you're right ouch under and so I was imbued Mississippi and we went in Piggly Wiggly and I done turned into hogly wogly but it used to be Piggly Wiggly and I went in there and I was probably three or four or five years old and there was a chocolate bunny rabbit I just wanted so bad and Mama Temple said no because Mama Temple was she was my foster mom she didn't have no money couldn't have that bunny rabbit but I got that bunny rabbit oh yes I did and when I got in the car that chocolate was from head to toe and I'm still saying I didn't take it chocolate from head to toe you 7 know what who taught me that that human mind because I'm My Own God I want it I get it I want it I get it because in the human mind it's gift or begotten yeah in the human mind it is survival of the finished in the human mind it is takers or get taken so you are born with rebellion in your very roots and according to that scripture you are not able to retain Yahweh in your mind read that verse again whoever I don't know where I was somebody tell me where I was I want you to see these verses read it Romans 1 28 is that it 28. 8 and even and even as they did not like to retain Yahweh in their knowledge Yahweh gave them over to a reprobate mine to do those things which are not convenient ladies and gentlemen you see these Commandments when you don't retain them not look at them but when you don't retain them in your knowledge what's happening is you're not retaining Yahweh in your knowledge and when you don't retain him he turns you over to a reprobate mind ladies and gentlemen you've got to figure out what a reprobate mind is it's very simple it's not a bad person it's not an evil person it's just a rebellious person read for me Acts 20 and 19. 9 20 and 19 and then grab acts 17 and 11. let's roll serving the Lord with all humility of mine okay see now see the difference how do you serve Yahweh with what humility of the what the mind until you can humble your mind you cannot serve Yahweh you will always serve Janice Temple if you don't humble the mind how do we humble the mind we can't it's more powerful than us we need help and I know somebody that provided a helper acts 17 and 11. 10 acts 17 and 11 these were more noble than those in thessalonica now why were these men Noble read and that they received the word with all Readiness of mine 's ready to receive the word we're Noble than all other people God wants your mind to get ready to receive the word and what happens when you receive the word sister Denisa you have a meeting of two different Minds when the horse meets the Bridle come on there's a meaning of a horse's mind and a human's mind and the human wins every time when you surrender to the needing of the minds then God can use you for his glory Luke chapter 12. 11 verse 29. Luke 12 and 29 Luke 12 and 29. 12 and seek not ye what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink neither be of doubtful Minds see a mind that doubts is not a humility mind it's not a mind that's been humbled if there's doubt in your mind you've still not had a meeting of the minds there's no room for doubt in the mind of a Believer I want to read for you now Luke chapter 10 verse 27 and it says so he answered and said you must love Yahweh your father with all your heart with all your soul and your mind your neighbor is yourself I want to say this if there's any part of your mind that does not love Yahweh that you will be turned over 13 to a reprobate mind if there's any part of your mind that won't surrender what do you do with a little you send it to pasture you know why some people have gone to pasture they won't allow this meeting of two minds they will not allow Ed the Holy Ghost to put a bridal on and put Yahweh in their thoughts continuously [Applause] amen don't mean he don't like you but you got to go out to pasture you're Noah of no use to the Master Luke chapter 8 verse 35 read that Elder chapter 8 and 35. 14 then they went out to see what was done and came to yahshua and found a man out of whom the Devils were departed now hold on I'm fixing to teach you tonight on demonic strongholds I want to show you the first pathway to demonic strongholds in your life this man yahshua cashed the devil out of him and what was the first sign that he was free from demonic oppression read sitting at the feet of yahshua clothed in his right mind he was in his right mind you listen to me now the fact that you're walking in Deliverance is the fact that you're walking in the right mind not your mind I said the right 15 mind which is a submitted mind you need to know tonight that every demon possession in the scriptures the more that they were free the first sign of it was they got their mind back the first signs your life is being taken over by demonic power is when your mind is no longer right [Applause] Romans chapter 12 I'll read it verse 2. 16 do not be conformed to this world but be it transformed by the meeting of the minds that you may be able to prove what is righteous see that's the problem [Music] people want to say what's righteous without the right mind you can only prove what is holiness with the right mind or else if you've got your mind you know what you'll say well what's the difference in this and that all right come on that's a reprobate mind if a person don't have the right mind you know what they say well I'll let God tell me what's righteous it don't work that way because your mind cannot hear God it's in Rebellion 17 ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do God will tell me what to do but the problem is he has to work with your carnal mind yes the homosexual believes crawling on top of another man making him lay down on his stomach and doing things that are untoward is okay you know why the wrong mind they got their own churches that's right yeah and they have as good a church as we do Reverend those things in them I would cause some other people's names out to preaching them the pope of Rome just said that they're okay with God T.D Jakes just said that he understands them I don't know that's the wrong mind 18 that mind is reprobate but before you make fun of them what about your favorite sin [Music] that you say God's not convicted you of sometimes he can't convict you of it you've got a wrong mind that's why you need a shepherd that's why you need somebody that's looking over you in case your mind gets messed up [Applause] [Music] your mind sister Denisha can get messed up in one moment that's why you need elders and Shepherds that's driving you crazy saying the word obedience to you Rebellion to your life I wish they would shut up no you don't because you need a right mind [Applause] amen the 19 Bible set the mind of a man is desperately wicked who can know it somebody said no it says the heart of a man the heart is the mind it's desperately wicked sister Vicky desperately nobody can trust their own mind because your mind will have you thinking it's okay to take her away your mind will have you thinking it's okay to forget the Sabbath day and just do it any way you want your mind it's the enemy of God why do you think when we come to the father in prayer we have to do it in the name of yahshua the Messiah because we're yahweh's enemies I need you to listen you're yahweh's enemy 20 children in your flesh but when you come hiding behind the only man that Yahweh grants permission to the throne you're allowed to come in the name of Yeshua you're hiding in his mind good you need a new mind today you need a meeting of the minds now I want to talk about strongholds in our minds every one of you in this room will have to face strongholds can I tell you something listen to me a stronghold is not demon possession I want you to listen to me now you don't need Deliverance from strongholds because strongholds has nothing to do with demons no no no no no I'm gonna prove it and hang 21 tight come on come on the reason we like to cast demons out of people is because we don't want to cast people out of people [Applause] do you know why people love to think their demon possessed because they don't want to think they're Hadassah possessed or their Vicky possessed or they're Ricky possessed you're not hearing me shall we just blame it on a dapple run down and get it cast out so we can say look what the devil made me do this it's called reality and you don't know how to live in it amen he said your mind your mind is deceitful and when you open the door to demon powers they go 22 build strongholds you do yeah come on Amen now what do does what do demons do I'm about to teach you amen but I want to tell you something you don't need a little trip to the altar come on you need a commitment to the word [Applause] come on now of course I believe in demon possession I've seen it I know it's real but the strongholds up your mind had nothing to do with devils it had to do with you being unwilling to submit to the teaching of the word of God because your mind hates accountability no preacher going to tell you what to do of course not your mind's messed up yeah [Music] we've all 23 got to become healthy believers and receive strength to pull down strongholds today I want to demystify the word strongholds I want to take all of the away from it I want to take all the fog and all of the strobe lights and all the I want to take all that away amen amen and I want to teach you what strongholds are I want to take all the Gory pictures of the exorcism out of your mind that's all Hollywood I want to take all that out and I want to show you what you don't want to see I want to show you the real devil in your life amen and it's the one you don't want to hear about it's the one you 24 don't want to deal with you won't somebody lay hands on you you want somebody to cast it out we can't cast you out of you only the word can do that that's it that's why when people come down and get delivered next week they need delivered again and it's worse than it was last time because they refuse to hear the teaching of the word of God the wild wild asses Wild wild horses they won't submit they won't be part of a church they won't come under any subjection because their mind is not right I want to tell you something if you can't tell me who your father and the Lord is who your pastor is 25 who you're accountable to where you answer to I don't want you talking to me amen you got a wrong mind amen when I was a young preacher there was something the old preachers used to do Mama Kendrick that I didn't quite understand y'all know what I'm talking about when I was a young preacher I thought because I was anointed that's all I needed to it but back in those days not anymore now they let any Tom Dick and Harry preach it wants to preach oh back in those days you know the first thing the pastor would ask me who's your pastor what's his number how do I get a hold of him see what your 26 record is in the churches you've preached in because nine times out of ten you can be anointed to the cows come home but until you get a bridle on your behind you'll destroy every Church you walk in with the anointing I'm no more anointed preachers that have damaged the work of God because their mind is rebellious [Applause] one reason Yahweh Love David he knew David knew who his father and the Lord was even though that man was in sin he knew it was Saul and he said I will not touch my head covering [Applause] but matter of fact most of the people I'm preaching to right now you done cut me off 27 because this generation has the wrong mind so I want to demystify the word stronghold it's not some Demon or some spiritual being it's a series of thoughts not a thought a series of thoughts that's what a stronghold is it's all it is I know you was wanting to see some kind of exorcism picture a strong hold in your mind is a series of wrong thoughts it's a mindset Elder Morgan it's a value system that hinders your spiritual growth it hinders the new mind from taking root inside of you Brother Don I want to get rid of my strongholds we'll find out tonight we're going to find out because while 28 you're trying to catch Devils out y'all always trying to get you to catch those series of thoughts out of your mind yeah wrong thoughts and nobody can cash those out of you I want you to hear me nobody can cast wrong thoughts out of your mind except you the Bible said cast it down every evil wrong thought you've got that power no preacher has that power No Exorcist has that power nobody has the power to take your strongholds down but you all right nobody nobody what does the old man do sister Maxine it stops the new mind from taking roots [Music] remember what yahshua said about the seed that 29 fell on Stony ground that's your stronghold there's another series of thoughts there that won't allow that new thought to come in maybe there's a series of thoughts there that says I'm broke I've always been broke I'll always I'm just a mess then I don't care how much I preach to you that you're the apple of yahweh's eye it will never ever destroy your stronghold [Applause] you have to destroy your own strongholds and it's not demons it's packed it's Ricky it's the way you were raised it's the way you think about things and those thoughts begin to collect in your mind and when you hear the 30 word preached do you know Yeshua said these I hear people say there's nothing more powerful than the word oh yes there is that yahshua said you have made the word of Yahweh powerless no effect in your life because that's right I let it because he calls it the word tradition but the word there is really the way you think [Music] you make it you think in such a way that even the word can't penetrate you I'll prove it to you can I prove you right now what I'm preaching is the truth when you walked in those doors and I put up on the screen Psalms 150 and I showed you in the word how everyone has 31 to come into His presence dancing now I gave you the word of Yahweh you're not allowed to come in come inside without dancing and do you know what people do to this day they make it of no effect because how they think about it in their mind apply to them that's a stronghold you have now made the word of God powerless come on out faster you've got to learn to break your series of thoughts that are out of line with Heaven's thoughts because when those collect up here nobody can cast that out of you you want to know why you go to prayer lines and nobody can help you because it's not demons it's 32 how you think [Applause] [Music] if you are a victim in your mind you will be a victim until you die no matter how much you get prayed for no matter how much they spit on you put holy water on You Are Holy oil you need a holy mind oh yeah Hallelujah everyone in this room you've got strongholds in your mind but you're going to be free from them you know why tonight those strongholds we're going to reveal them one by one until you get them out of your head because now let me tell you what strongholds do it is your strong holds that keeps them safe wow and yes Dr Baker to come out but if that 33 stronghold is still there for them to come back to you wasted your time [Applause] I'm not against Deliverance I'm against false Deliverance if you want Deliverance tonight listen to me and listen to me well you have a stronghold in your mind that welcomed demon powers and until you tear that out of your mind they may leave for a moment Sister Baker but they're coming back it turns your good ground into Stony ground what's the difference in a thought and a stronghold every one of you in this room is going to have bad thoughts oh yes Sister Janice there's if there's anybody in this room that 34 wants to stand up and testify that you don't have a bad thought every once in a while that comes through your mind we would love to be like you okay [Music] so what's the difference pastor and a thought a bad thought and a stronghold it's real simple a thought doesn't have roots a stronghold does come on a thought has Mr Baker it comes it goes but when that thought is kin to those other thoughts that's been living in your head it connects to that one and each brick builds a stronghold each thought is a brick wow pastor this is good Hallelujah every time that you think in your mind a thought it 35 builds a stronghold and you can get rid of a thought but you've got to destroy a stronghold I do hope everybody's hearing me like deep down I'm talking to you I'm talking to you there's nobody in this room I'm not talking to tonight [Music] strongholds have roots and before you know it you have a certain way of thinking that nobody can take away from you maybe it's a poverty stronghold come on what do I mean by poverty let me tell you something darling when I was broke I wasn't broke [Music] why because I wasn't broke up here understand I didn't get a poor mentality even when I was poorer than 36 poor I have to believe I was poverty that I was at the bottom of the barrel I never allowed that thought to build in my mind [Music] I may have been broke busted and disgusted but those thoughts that I was born that way I'm gonna die that way and I'm always poor mouthing to everybody my my mind it's a stronghold amen before you know it you'll have a poor mind yeah and you know what will always come out of your mouth poor me you didn't start out like that what happened was you had a thought that I'm broke because you was and then you had another and then you held on to that thought whereas if 37 you were a mature believer you would have raised the sword of truth and said I once was young and now I'm old I've never seen the righteous forsaken or received begging for bread you would have killed that brick in your mind [Music] [Applause] [Music] instantly instantly amen instantly but if you don't do it here's what happens to that thought and my wife could preach the sermon because this is her favorite subject this woman corrects me night and day night and day in a good way as a loving wife when she hears a word come out of my mouth that matches a thought that I've had you know why 38 because if the devil tells you you're bro and you don't do something with that thought right then just leave it festering in your head wake up leave it that's Trim in your head well guess what's going to happen tomorrow when you're still broke he's going to come back in there I told you you was broke yeah I'm still broke yes I am and here comes another thought you're gonna be broke tomorrow and here comes another thought ain't nobody else around you broke [Music] he's building a house before you know it you'll be poor even if you had money you'll still be poor in your mind that's right that's 39 why you're waste if you ever did get money you're waste it all because you believed you're supposed to be poor now I'm not here preaching Naaman claim it I don't believe in the Prosperity Gospel but I do believe that the thoughts of your mind produce the words of your mouth thank you cannot get rid of a stronghold overnight but you can get rid of a thought that builds a stronghold as those thoughts come you have to kill them as they come how do you kill them say the opposite and believe it don't just say it believe it when you say it if the word of God if if the word of God says that you're 40 blessed when that thought says you're not somebody's got to win right there come on now I'm not preaching Prosperity Gospel I'm preaching truth I'm telling you the strongholds up your mind did not get there overnight nor will they go away overnight that's why when people go to get demons cast out of them and the next day those same thoughts are up there they believe it didn't work they believed there was nothing to it and they go right back to what them thoughts tell them to do what happened uh today I'm going to teach you True Deliverance it begins with the renewing of the Mind every time 41 yahshua casts demons from a person the Bible says that they were in their right mind that means all demonic activity begins and ends not in a prayer line not in a chair in the mind thank you brother Bruce every demon you're dealing with has a thought that it's attached to you must be renewed first in your way of thinking all demon activity begins there and ends there do you want me to tell you how everyone watching me live right now can be delivered in one moment make up your mind to be delivered and you're delivered bam Wham you're delivered at that moment when you make up your mind that I'm 42 repenting right now I'm turning those thoughts aside and I'm moving into Deliverance by submitting to the word of God the man of God the Church of God Hallelujah nobody see it right right when you say the man of God all of a sudden that's that spirit in you those thoughts that stronghold in your mind God loves his children to be obedient to him listen you alone are the possessor of thoughts or the disposition s of thoughts you alone you alone I get so tired of people standing in lines to embarrass let me okay Lord no I didn't want to do it but I will okay it's just like my Doctrine on Divine 43 Healing is much different than most churches all right how you gonna walk up here to get prayer for your diabetes when you just ate a bowl of cereal [Music] you just left the buffet and had four pieces of cherry pie but you see you sinned against your body and there's a price to pay uh-oh now listen now see people don't like it when they they you know what people want to go down to them churches that lie to them pray for them they still don't get healed but they're happy they got lied to them now why did I say that to say this you come up here for prayer for your high blood pressure when 44 you're the very one that calls high blood pressure you're going right back home to eat your next piece of cake and keep your blood pressure high and then come into God's altar to embarrass the ministry because you didn't get healed the Bible said if there's any sick among you let him call on the Elders of the church that your sin might be forgiven you [Applause] Divine Healing is for divine problems come on yeah come on Pastor now y'all didn't hear it so I'll say it again Divine Healing healing is for sicknesses that was caused by Satan or sicknesses that were caused by spiritual witchcraft or 45 sicknesses that were caused divinely but God does not want you to embarrass his church brother van I don't believe that all right since you think you know so much because you got your mind messed up your rebellious why don't you how's a man gonna crawl in bed with another man and won't heal him from AIDS and then go back home to his voice and say well I didn't get healed tonight see you fine with that but you're not fine when we talk about your problems you know why your mind's messed up you got strongholds that says he ain't preaching to me it's strongholds same thing about demon Deliverance 46 you come up here you want somebody to hoard a garbage can for you [Music] you wanted to get the paper towels and when you leave you don't want to change your mind you don't want to tear down your Rebellion your stronghold your way of thinking boy you don't you I'm gonna tell you what when I preach on Divine Healing I feel Devils come up because Satan hates me setting God's people free from sickness [Music] no go up there and get prayed for and don't get healed so the whole church can see you didn't get healed and embarrass God's work that I say God don't heal no don't misunderstand me I said 47 you've got a part to play in all of this [Applause] you want Deliverance I'll teach you how to have it yes we'll cast The Devil out of you and we'll do it right now but when you go home I need you to cast Pat out of path and get them strong holds out of your mind [Music] some of you have a stronghold right now you go to church when you want to go when you feel like it when the Bible says forsake not the assembling on the Sabbath day but that'll apply to you you know why you're God you you have decided how this goes for you instead of submitting yourself to the word of God and now that 48 stronghold builds and builds and builds in your mind one of the biggest strongholds is pride Pride makes you think bigger of yourself than you are Sister Baker Pride is more than a thought you can have a prideful thought okay they're going to come brother Vaughn how do I oh I know somebody else falling asleep I'm so sorry listen I'm trying to I'm just trying to teach you tonight [Music] a prideful thought what is a prideful thought look like I'll show you well he called on all them to give a prophetic word but I'm a prophet too he didn't call on me who do you think you are that you deserve to 49 be called on some of you ain't gonna be coming back after tonight because I'm a real preacher I won't let you play Church he called o'lorious she's not even a prophecy that's a prize he let Elder Morgan preach Inlet that's a pride why do you think you deserve to preacher and you say what if I never preach I'm gonna live for Yahweh you take that brick out of your mind you throw it down [Applause] because if you don't here's what happens next at Brick's still up there you didn't get rid of it so what happens when then you got a lot of jail in your hair what happens next here comes another 50 thought the next service well he didn't ask me to blow the show far like he normally does all right there's another brick that's prideful thoughts who do we think we are Elder Baker we're all servants one to another if you're serving you're right where you're supposed to be [Applause] next service something else happens before you know it he's built a house say it again we must know that with if we never get called on to sing if we never get called on to preach if all they ask us to do is clean the toilets if all they ask us to do is to vacuum the floor we cannot be offended because we cannot 51 be offended [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a fence comes from the spirit of pride [Applause] now that wasn't a stronghold in Elder's mind it was a thought until it becomes a castle now now here's where the demons come into play who set that thought to his mind demon powers the demons are Pride okay they are the snake that still Whispers they issue thoughts and you receive them or reject them if you receive that thought then they know you'll receive the next thought but the minute you turn to that one thought and you say God said if God tells my pastor for me to preach I'll preach if God does 52 this I you see you destroy that spirit that thought [Applause] because before you know it you'll be walking around in Pride and everybody will say that your demon possess but you're really Ricky possessed [Music] wake up you need to hear this everybody needs to hear this strongholds are of your own doing and you tear them down ladies and gentlemen you're going to always have a thought you there's not one person in this room tonight that could not get offended with me if you wanted to maybe I didn't shake your hand just right if you want to get what you say I throw a marker at you you could 53 have got offended but you're not because you're my son and I'll beat you if I want to [Music] see he could have you know what a perfect example he could have saw that as something horrible but he knows my heart and he loved it you know why it was love say you need to hear this [Music] you choose what stronghold's gonna operate in your mind you choose that not the devil your choice I want to teach you tonight how to walk in True Deliverance another stronghold is anger anger always man I've we got people in this church that always met you know why because you cannot get angry without first 54 having a thought anger always starts with a thought it always starts with an offense it always starts anger starts in your mind not because you're demon possessed brother Vaughn I'm angry all the time then guess what I know how to get rid of it no I'm not going to pray for you no I'm not going to spit on you no I'm not going to throw you in the floor I'm going to bring you to the word and I'm going to teach you how to not be angry how to not let those thoughts turn into anger if you don't sit under a Ministry you cannot walk in Deliverance just can't do it why because Satan has isolated you in 55 your room with nothing but you and wrong thoughts [Applause] think of castles they were strongholds do you know why the castles were stronghold they kept people in and they kept people out a stronghold keeps you thinking your thoughts inside of you and it eventually comes out alcohol lying sexual immorality brother Vaughn I need deliverance from sexual immorality no you don't I don't care if you're homosexual you don't need delivered from homosexuality that's right it's a symptom you need deliverance from Rebellion from a wrong mind uh demons out of the homosexual when you look at it of a 56 man's wife it ain't demons it's thoughts sent by demons and they only stay if you make Lego blocks out of them if you build them a house Apple must live in a house built out of thoughts [Music] [Applause] you want the devil to move out tear his house down tear it down remove those thoughts from your mind I got an alcohol problem no you don't no sir you ain't got no drug problem you got a rebellious problem you got the wrong mind [Music] none of these are strongholds alcohol's not a stronghold but some thought got in your mind that said you don't belong among people nobody likes you break 57 number one break number two everybody's picking on you brick number two you don't really fit in Brick number three and but by the time he gets around you'll hide in that house and drink alcohol alcohol is not your problem it's the thoughts that brought you to alcohol [Applause] can never get delivered from it there's no such thing as a demon of alcohol there's the thoughts of alcohol that was sent to you by a demon you can't cast those thoughts out no sir you can't cast them thoughts out on your own you must have the Holy Ghost to kill those thoughts that that's why Believers are not 58 alcoholics we don't believe the lies that turn us into alcoholics [Applause] I'm not going to brag but I will say this I don't know of many people besides Donald Trump and myself and one or two more that lives under attack from the moment we wake up to the moment we if anybody needs alcohol you're looking at him if anybody needs an escape you looking at it if anybody needs a little doobie you looking at him if anybody need some good good you looking at him why do you think I built my little Tiki Bar in my prayer Garden hey amen so I could what relax your mind you always said I'm gonna build 59 you a place son to where you can go back there and block out the world and I'll talk to you right there I'll remind you of Who You Are and I will give you the money to do it because if anybody has a reason to be a drug addict when you're born to a mama that don't even want you when you're born to a a marriage that was busted up before I was ever in the world you're looking at a man that could have been all of those things but I remember it four years old when the Holy Ghost came into my mind I remember when I gave my life to God I remember when I was baptized in his name and new thoughts begin 60 to come into my mind that's right hallelujah hallelujah and then I begin to feel my mind with prophetic words that people would give me as a child God said you're going to go to the Nations so I was a boy they're telling me God's got his hand on you son and another one would say son God's got a great Destiny for you and somebody else said son I see you working for the Lord they were planting bricks at this mind that I chose to build a stronghold out of those bricks hello let's talk about sexual immorality I don't know if anybody molested more than I was grown men in the church taking me to the 61 prayer room while church is going on that still go to that church to this day I could tell your stories of spending the night but don't ever let your children spend the night with people unless you know them people during the night things happen in the creeping hours of the night nobody in this room been molested more than me and don't you know that Satan would love to have built a stronghold in my mind that that's all I was good for and that's what I would be but you don't understand Lois Gatlin Terrell my grandmother told me yeah that is not who you are you are my seed you are called by God 62 [Applause] whoa you know what they said I was supposed to be don't you you asked my wife how that turned out [Music] [Applause] you know why there is no demon of homosexuality there's a thought of it and if you get rid of the thought you get rid of the demon I know Hallelujah [Music] one night and he said I tell the church stories I don't tell nobody except the whole world now that they listen one night there was a missionary that came to my church my grandmother's Church in Colombia from South Africa somewhere he brought his son with him and I want to show you something we was all sitting in 63 the kitchen like preachers do after church talking Nana decided to go to bed the missionary decided to go to bed all that's left up at the counter is me and the missionary son and we're talking and I was too young at that point to even know but in about 30 minutes I I saw you can go ask her about it she's still alive I saw that long hair in the dark my grandma hair down to her ankles back then looked like a ghost coming through the house there was two in the morning late hours and I heard her open that door and she came walking in that kitchen and she took me by the hand and jerked me out of 64 the presence of that young man because I had no idea what was happening at that snack bar but my grandmother come and she pulled me in her bedroom and she said you are not that you would never become that I will protect you from the hands of the enemy you've got to learn how to knock down those walls those strongholds [Applause] I'm just gonna might as well be real tonight are y'all ready I was a pretty boy you hear me I look like Andrew I was gorgeous I was skinny I was cute do you hear me I didn't really know how to play football too much and I didn't know how to build stuff and everybody 65 tried to tell me what I would become but my grandmother would not let it happen she told me you'll be a man of God everybody oh Hallelujah I can never be what Satan planned because I never allowed that stronghold to build in my mind you know what she would read me all the time the word of God that said it's an Abomination to the gods you love you need to hear me today I've come to teach this church tonight you've got strongholds building in your mind and you've got the power over them you've got the power over them I say it again you've got the power over your mind because of the Holy Ghost 66 Hallelujah where does lust begin in the what can I tell all of you something it ain't never not going to come I don't care how old or ugly you get foreign you will never get so close to God that you don't notice a beautiful woman sir or ma'am that a man will try to attract himself to you or that a thought won't come in your mind that you I'm not y'all I can play church if that's what you want you will never get that Holy to where the enemy don't put a thought in your mind [Music] but I want to tell you how holy you can get one the moment let me tell you what my grandmother did of my precious 67 granny I love her she's still alive she saved my life just like sister Kendrick help save Kent's life and those that she loves her daughter's life you've got power over your inheritance yes you do my granny came in my room when I was about a 14 year old boy and she looked at me and she said son I know you don't think I don't know things about stuff like that but I do she she had a football in her hand I'll never forget it she took that football and set it on my nightstand she said when that thought comes to your mind I want you to grab that football and run outside for your life and just throw 68 that football get the thought out of your mind [Music] she said run for your life I didn't think it was that dramatic back then but now I know Joseph ran for his life when the wife of potiphar tried to give him a thought he ran for his life [Applause] you got to learn how to run for your life from those thoughts and don't be condemned when a thought comes that's condemnation no no no don't allow the enemy to say what might as well give it up now I thought y'all was walking in the Commandments oh don't make fun of me devil I'll win in the end son and you lose [Music] you know the greatest fear 69 the enemy tries to put in your mind Elder Morgan that after you've testified of your deliverance that you're gonna fall again see that's a thought and he wants you to believe it and the moment now if you do believe it break number one but if you'll take that brick right then and say devil greater is he that's in me than he that said the word I'm free Free means free don't you allow the devil to build a house in your head Hallelujah a stronghold I tell you what brother Vaughn how do I get over it read for me Elder I'm going to help somebody I don't care how long I go tonight I'm tired of seeing 70 God's people thinking their demon possessed just because you're dealing with thoughts in your head I'm gonna say something I'm gonna tell you something you don't you don't even need nobody to pray for you you just need to sit down and listen to me preach that's all did you hear what I said oh you need some good preaching you need it consistently every day Elder Morgan how long was you on drugs 20 something years on that hard stuff the man walks in Freedom how long now 30 months not one ounce of drugs has touched his body brother Vaughn how does he do it I'm going to tell you how see he works 71 at my house I know how he does it every day I go outside sister Katrina you know what he's got on his head earphones yeah you know who he's listening to his pastor you know what that you know what my words are doing they're knocking down those bricks that are building in his mind hallelujah hallelujah you gotta learn to tear them down [Applause] Hallelujah amen Philippians 4 8 brother Von Howe how can I get those thoughts out of my head you don't need more than a football I'll be honest with you you're gonna need a holy ghost football let's read Philippians Genesis Ephesians Philippians 72 Colossians Philippians 4 and 8 . 73 finally Brethren whatsoever things are true well brother Vine how do I get this stronghold out of my mind all you got to do is tear down the bricks the bricks of Lies with the bricks of Truth amen if you want to get a stronghold ID you want the devil to go go and get prayer get spit on whatever you want name all twenty thousand of them by name whatever when you get done you still got strongholds in your mind so my job as a teacher of the word is to say sister telly when the devil has a stronghold in your mind refocus on things that are white true true the devil sings you a lie made our brick 74 made out of Lies you destroy it and build with a brick made out of Truth don't nobody love me that's a lie what is the truth number one it don't matter my God in heaven is I'm the apple of his eye truth [Music] a woman don't need deliverance from prostitution she needs deliverance from believing the lie that nobody loves her [Applause] what's what's the name of that devil I I just want to know where he lives and that I'm going to bring this message and tear that house down so he don't have nowhere to go back to you gotta know who you are in Yahweh you gotta know you're loved you've got to take 75 the lies and convert them to truth [Music] failure every demon possession began with a lie just ask Eve [Music] now what else do we need to focus on whatsoever things are honest oh think about the honest things next whatsoever things are just just whatsoever things are pure pure whatsoever things are lovely lovely whatsoever things are you know what the opposite of lovely is drama they got brick brick shaked and lives in the house of drama do you know how drama starts you're not thinking about lovely things you won't Facebook pages trying to find things that are not lovely amen if you want to 76 get rid of the brick refocus foreign what else whatsoever things are of a good report oh my so if it's running somebody down is it a good report if you brilled a brick in your mind of something negative on somebody you've just started building your stronghold and when you get taken over by demons nobody can pray it out of you darling you got to decide not to run people down no more amen there is no gossiping spirit there's a stronghold that likes gossip you've been building a house when you allowed somebody to run somebody down to you that the enemy knew right then hey they building a house 77 over there I'll be over there in a few days moving in but what if somebody tells you something bad about somebody and you decide to focus on whatsoever things are lovely what if you say but oh they got a sweet little Spirit don't they oh but they've been good to me oh but I see the good in them all of a sudden though you're taking those bricks of straw and making bricks of clay a stronghold is a house made up of bricks each bricks is part of a series of thoughts that if she meant it together and only one thing will help you Jeremiah 23. 78 and 29. 79 ladies and gentlemen if you're in this room tonight and many of you are watching me live and I do not discredit that demons are possessing people all over this world I know it the Nephilim is real I get it but I want you to hear me they don't come until you build them a house and they don't leave until you tear down their house combinated amen brother Bob what will tear down that house Jeremiah 23 29 I'll tell you it's not my word like as a fire it's not my word like a fire saith Yahweh read and like a hammer it's like a what a hammer if you need to tear down a castle you need a hammer and I'm 80 no one it's the word of God you can tear down every stronghold in your mind with this hammer [Music] you didn't hear it fine I need free no you need the word it says like you need a preacher that don't even like you he likes you enough not to give he don't like you he could care less if you ever come back I ain't nobody's friend right now I could care less if you ever see I'm the only preacher in this town that don't walk softly because I don't care I don't care if I make you mad glad I'm going to preach you the truth what you do with it is up to you [Music] I would rather lose people than 81 game people they hate it when I because I can't lose never had you don't you understand [Applause] you can't lose a husband that was truly your husband [Music] [Applause] now if he was just living with you that's one thing but if y'all were in Covenant together you don't walk off from a covenant this congregation is a Congregation of Covenant we choose to love one another we choose to grow together we choose to take care of one another that's a covenant you don't just walk off from that if you can you were never part of that Covenant [Music] until every thought is being hit by that hammer of 82 God's word I want to say this until every thought you think is linked to the coming kingdom of God you will have strongholds in your mind I'm going to say something now and some of my Maga people's not going to like this because I don't care if I lose them either I'm telling you when I'm in this pulpit Toto sits on the side and listens because I'm going to say something right now there are strongholds in the magomind here's what it is I listened to acts 22 the other day I listened to I'm not gonna call names how to but I'm not I listen to him I hear you know what I hear idolatry Trump's got a 83 plan you poor poor Poor Poor Pitiful Soul you no glory to Yahweh at all it all goes to Donald Trump and the white hats they are baby you listen to me and you listen well Donald Trump kneels at the same cross you kneel out admitted to the same God you have to submit to you better get your eyes on the kingdom of God foreign that's why I quit going to all the invitations I was getting I couldn't take it no more no I'm serious I love them but it is literally Trump worship now everybody knows who I support everybody but I do it with my eyes on the coming kingdom of God and how he relates to that 84 foreign God is calling us to to see how Trump fits into God's plan not how we fit into Trump's plan [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh yeah I was speaking at all their events I couldn't I felt so uncomfortable you can ask my wife I'd stand there at all the rallies and I just felt so sucked nobody wanted to talk about the coming kingdom of God with me nobody wanted to talk about how Trump was yahweh's servant or how that Barack Obama was even used by God how God used it nobody want to talk about that [Applause] oh then we'll talk about q and x and y and z my Q is Yahweh my why is Yahweh my seed is 85 your way foreign now you can misinterpret that all you want to that's on you you better hear what I'm telling you every thought that doesn't look towards the coming kingdom of God is idolatry [Applause] now y'all know who I support no secret flags all in my I I you know where I stand but you better hear your pastor right now Earth King Cyrus was a servant in the hands of Yahweh Pharaoh what's the most evil King that ever lived you know what the Bible said about him he was my Minister that's what Yahweh I raised him up Yahweh said that oh some of y'all came here for total I get it but I'm gonna 86 tell you something we turn in this stuff but tell you what new you better look at the coming kingdom of God and every thought that are tied to that thought or else or else you will become like them do you know the only reason why my podcast is left after so many are gone I kept the main thing the main thing listen to me ladies and gentlemen I don't care who sits in that white house next year or the next year I know what I believe but when that white house has fallen when this nation has fallen there is a kingdom that is coming that's going to take over the kingdoms of this world you better 87 keep that in your mind so you don't have strong holds all right I'm about done now read Elder II Corinthians 4 and 4 so we can go home I want you to walk in Freedom tonight somebody asked me why do you well how are you so sure about Trump and this and I said word from a prophet that talked about two times I listened my faith is in the word of the Lord it doesn't matter to me what it looks like it didn't matter when they were standing at the Red Sea what it looked like if God said it that settles it read for me now before you read I want to say this your job is not to get rid of the devil it's 88 never going to happen but rather to leave him no room in your mind Sister Baker the minute you cast The Devil out of someone it ain't like they go away this is their world the Bible said they walked through Dry places they're walking around they're waiting for you to rebuild their house how they're waiting for one church member to come whisper in your ear about what they saw that they just need you to help them pray about I think maybe the pastor is getting a little too highfalutin first of all you're no position at all to judge the pastor oh they don't like it when I say that don't judge 89 Shepherds Shepherds judge sheep anything else is satanic and when you hear somebody start to run down leadership here's all that's happening brick number one yeah but now let's keep him in prayer all right pray for me next you get a text well I had somebody send me a message on Facebook two nights ago if y'all want to know why I put the pork and beans thing on Facebook here's why somebody commented they know I cook baked beans they know it and they said but we know that you cook with pork and beans first of all I don't it's vegetarian Bush baked beans there's no pork in it at all but but but 90 what if somebody just put that brick there well he's really cooking with pork and beans oh yeah here comes another brick now don't I'm not mean to cause no trouble if they ever start off with I don't mean to cause no trouble shut it down [Music] now I'm not not to be disobedient then don't that's it well I ordered his cookbook and it's got unclean food all in it well done and I made it before I ever came to the truth okay but if you don't know that there's another bread well maybe he's a hypocrite maybe he don't believe what he preaches by the time they get through with you you that's a 91 that'll be a series of thoughts [Applause] not a thought a series of thoughts and it starts connected and then next week while you're in Walmart you'll see somebody else and says well now I saw your pastor driving a new Cadillac there's the next thought well you know he is Amy sure am I'm gonna drive one next year the year after that the year after that because I like Cadillacs [Music] thank you I love Cadillacs always have Daddy's got one too daddy used to have two of them you know why he worked hard I've worked hard but you see they don't tell you that part then here comes the next break 92 wonder where all the money's coming from none of your business did you see you started off with a thought before it's over it's a series of thoughts but if you would have never allowed the first thought there would be no series of thoughts [Applause] [Music] oh yeah honey they better not Google me they're gonna be up all night reading stuff but you see what I'm trying to tell you once that stronghold's in your mind now you are a candidate for demon possession all right come on now you will begin to think that the evil you're doing towards God's service servant you're doing God a service did 93 you know the Bible said that they'll think they're doing God a service by destroying you you know why their minds now reprobate because now the demons are coming in and now you're doing things Sister Baker that you in a few years you'll look back and wonder how you were even able to do that you'll start destroying people and you're not a vicious person you loved that Pastor just a few weeks ago when he was paying all your bills restoring your house for you and fixing bathrooms you loved him then but you allowed somebody yeah to put a thought there yeah yeah I'm gonna give a testimony there was 94 a lady in this church she's sitting here on my left third row second seat anyway [Laughter] she came knocking on my door looked like she was running for her life she came knocking on my door don't don't bring the camera over here I don't want him to count where the pews are leave it just stay right there she was knocking on my door a few weeks ago I gotta talk to you somebody tried to put a thought in my mind and I'm here to take that thought and reject it out of my mind and I'm here to know the truth and I'm here to find the truth brothers and sisters that's how you take a hammer and destroy 95 [Music] read second Corinthians 4 4 and I'm going to close in whom the God of this age hath blinded the minds of them which believeth not lest the light of the Glorious gospel of Christ who is in the who is the image of Yahweh should shine unto them it all begins in the mind it all begins in the mind if you take the bait ladies and gentlemen if you'll play softly healed if you take the bait I know brother sister Kendrick will testify to this before you know it son Tyler before you know it you won't recognize yourself you won't even know who you are no more if you take the bait you'll be 96 outside of the church not able to Fellowship amen before you know it you'll be angry you'll be trying to destroy and you'll you'll be thinking in the back of your mind what am I doing why am I this mad [Music] you're not even that kind of person but you allowed a stronghold and those demons when they move in they take over your mind and now you become an exposure a destroyer you become vicious when you were not even vicious before that is demon possession that can be destroyed with one word of Truth and repentance God is calling us tonight I have so many more pages that I cannot even get 97 started on be careful The Company You Keep I just want to say this I I just want to say this whenever you have a stronghold and someone speaks to that stronghold in your mind it ignites a fire it alerts all of hell that there's a house for them to live in be careful The Company You Keep the Bible said evil Communications turn you into something you don't even recognize when I've asked the members of this church to block certain things you think it's because they would have you to think it's because I don't want you to know the truth it's not that I can face the truth it's not that I don't want 98 you outside the Ark of Safety because of what they put in your mind [Applause] thank you Hallelujah no matter how much the shepherd tries to warn you if your mind's not right she'll think he's trying to control you I want you to hear that you'll take a warning as control you know why you got a messed up mind when you see your child going off of a cliff and you're screaming at him to stop that's not control [Music] but if his mind's messed up he'll look at you and say you're not going to control me and keep on running [Music] because his mind ain't right get your mind right with God tonight 99 submit to the word of God submit to the will of God for your life to the Commandments of Yahweh and that first one is no other gods beside me submit to that one and I promise you you'll submit to all the rest of them son when that Spirit comes to your mind I want to tell y'all something there's something we don't do in the church anymore and Satan loves it the Bible said you're not going to believe what it says you're not going to like it people thought people think they act like I wrote the Bible or something all I do is quote it they just don't like the quotes the Bible said confess your sin 100 one to another [Music] find out how to get Deliverance real quick and stay in it [Music] call one of these elders say I'm having that thought again Elder amen I need help I promise you they bring in the oil they bring in the sisters and they on the way help is on the way help is on the way [Applause] these we don't want to confess our sin we want to repent of them you know why we like to repent instead of confess repentance is sort of easy [Music] I'll tell the Lord it didn't say that the Bible didn't say tell the Lord your sin did you know that it's a tell it to one another so you can't hide 101 [Music] you know why people leave the church they start to get found out about and they don't want to be found out they want to hide but in this ministry we all up in your business and you all have been ours we're watching for one another [Applause] when you come up in here with a lion Spirit you think we're just going to let you keep lying Rick Conley he looked at one of the brothers said you are nothing but a liar the brother's gone you know why they don't want to be exposed for what they are we don't expose any of us but for one reason we expose ourselves to one another you know why because 102 as we confess our faults one to the other the Bible said he is faithful give us about them and now those thoughts can't stay in our minds we gave them away we gave them to an elder we gave them to the bishop we gave them to a pastor and we gave them to God when we did it if you are struggling tonight with strongholds in your mind no I'm not doing no altar call no I'm not going to let you come down here and cry it out [Music] I'm gonna do it the way my grandma did it I'll make you deal with it if you've got rebellion in your mind you need to find someone in this church that you trust now don't 103 tell just anybody your stuff but I wouldn't have ordained these Elders in this church if I didn't have full confidence in them you see bishop and sister Kendrick you ought to pull them in a room and say I'm struggling with something it's not good I'm going to tell you I'm thinking these thoughts and what happens you'll let it out and then they'll take it from you just like brother Kendrick takes the tithe on behalf of God we're ordained to take your confession [Music] see as you confess to your sister something you're struggling with what do you do with it you unload it and you take the power 104 away from that thought Hallelujah just leave them there see you need to learn tonight to confess your faults one to another leave them there thank you take your burdens to the Lord and leave them there if you're trust and never die [Music] and leave the man the man just to leave them there leave them there take your burdens to the Lord and leave them if you'll trust and never doubt you will surely bring you out take your birdage to the Lord and leave [Music] if there's anything in your mind tonight against a brother or sister in this ministry I want to give you my promise it will stay there 105 unless you get it out it's not going to go nowhere unless you put it out do you know how you do it you're not gonna like it but I'll tell you sister Hadassah [Music] I had a thought about you that I know it's not true Elder [Music] now see we don't want to hear this everybody wants people to lay hands on them that's what they do [Music] I'm trying to do surgery on this church how many times you're gonna fall out in the spirit with no change [Music] Tylenol it works for a minute [Music] but surgery is when you learn to confess your fault one to another you say Pat the other day when you invited 106 all those people to your house and you didn't invite me I just thought that was so rude and then you know what Pat does I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I didn't have room for a lot of people but I would love to have had you so why don't me and you do lunch tomorrow [Music] and what happens now that brick you had [Music] and now Satan has no place in your mind the Bible said give no place to the devil Hallelujah well that's all folks I'm not going to do anything else except bring the word that the Lord brought to us tonight can we give him a hand clap of Praise if we receive the word

Summary

This sermon teaches that strongholds are not demons but rather series of accumulated wrong thoughts and rebellious mindsets that keep believers in bondage. The pastor emphasizes that true deliverance comes through renewing the mind by submitting to God's word, pastoral authority, and confessing faults to one another in the church body. He contrasts true spiritual freedom with the false belief that demons must be cast out, arguing instead that believers must personally tear down the thought patterns that form the foundation for demonic oppression.

Core doctrine

The understanding that spiritual bondage originates in the mind through sustained patterns of rebellious thought, not through external demonic possession, and that deliverance comes through renewing the mind with God's word and submitting to pastoral authority and correction.

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