The Bible Said, “Love Your Neighbour as yourself”, not more than yourself. When you’re doing it more than yourself, then something is wrong with your mentality. Your thoughts affects your results. Some people’s greatest opposition is not the devil, but themselves. Anything you think about your life possible. If you think that you can, you’re right, and if you think that you cannot, you’re right. There are people that celebrate everybody else apart don’t celebrate themselves. They will serve their visitors with wine and prefer to take water or zobo.
The Wrong or Limiting Mindset:
When somebody has a mind set, when he thinks he’s a failure, he will be a failure; when he thinks he’s successful, he’ll be successful; when he thinks the calamity of his generation will affect him, it will definitely affect him – Proverbs 23:7.
So, your thoughts affect your results.
2 Corinthians 10:3-6 says “Pulling down of stronghold”, what is a stronghold? Anything that holds you strong, “the thing wey hold you strong”. How do we pull down strongholds? “By casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought that puts us in captivity”. I saw this Scripture 2 Timothy 2:25 and it blew my mind, it might do the same to you. There are people, their greatest opposition is not the devil. 2 Timothy 2:25-26. That is, it is not a wizard that is fighting the man, he’s the one fighting himself. They say, “come, let me assist you with some money”, he will say, “who dash monkey banana?” They will say, “this is going to happen for you”, he will say, “it’s not possible”.
You know, there are some people, when you’re declaring in Church, they will be winking their nose, “I’ve hear it before. Amen, it’s true, let’s finish on time, let’s go, it’s true”. 2 Timothy 2:25-26 Because of the way they have been thinking and opposing themselves, satan has taken them as captives. Anything you think about your life is possible. If you think you can, you’re right and if you think you can’t, you’re right.
Anything you think, you’re right. Even though we talked about generational and ancestral curse now, I qualified and I said, it is working mostly especially for those who are out of the Faith or who are not of the Faith because Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, Christ gave us escape from family and generational curses. If you have tried and you failed 3 or 4,5 times and you brought yourself to the conclusion that failure is your destination, you’re right. If you say, “as long as I have life, no devil can stop me from becoming what God wants me to become”, you’re right. “Instruct those who oppose themselves”, their opposition is not from hell or from a witch, their opposition is from themselves. They speak negative words to themselves, they resist themselves, their mind is blocked concerning themselves.
One thing I know about myself is that I gave myself the permission to succeed and excel. I gave myself the permission to be above only and never beneath. I gave myself the permission to live a qualitative life, not an inferior life. I gave myself the permission to stand out. When we were children, if we went to the market and you bought us new shoes, I would wear that new shoe from the market and leave the old one. When they say, “I bought a new shoe, keep it till Christmas” for where? Except you didn’t show it to me today, I will wear it today. That behaviour is still on till today. “Will you keep it till tomorrow?” Tomorrow’s own is coming.
My wife cannot recover from it, one day, we went out, I don’t know what happened and I was looking as sharp as just as you’re ready to meet anybody and she said, “I now understand why you look your best all the time”. I said, “yeah, when I go out, I’m ready to meet president, meet anybody. I don’t know who I’ll meet, so I refuse to dress shabby”. From this day, you must make up your mind that you will not oppose yourself, you will facilitate, assist, accelerate and celebrate yourself!
The Bible said, “love your neighbour as yourself” not more than yourself. So, how you love yourself, you just extend it to your neighbour. Church Gist. Just love yourself at a realm and extend that realm to your neighbour. When you’re doing it more than yourself, then, something is wrong with your mentality.
So, when you go back home today, celebrate yourself. You bring out all the plates you’ve been keeping inside and bring out the wine and everything and somebody asks you, “which visitor are you expecting?” You say, “myself”. You cross your life, decorate your life and celebrate the goodness of God and you behave it to become it.
You continuously behave it and then you live in that realm. If you didn’t hear anything this morning, you must make up your mind that from henceforth, you’re not going to oppose yourself in the way you think, reason or coordinate your affairs but you’re going to assist yourself and give yourself the permission to succeed.
15th October 2023 Sunday Service¹ — Credit: Church Gist.
— Dr Paul Enenche 🎤
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