Hi, welcome back.
So are you ready to find out more about your heart?
Are you ready to find out where all these lies came from that are just hanging out in
there like squatters, just squatting in your heart?
We got to evict them, right?
We got to get rid of these enemies of abundance because they're keeping you from a great life.
You know, God's not holding out on you.
He doesn't write sad, boring stories.
The story that he's written about you and for you is an epic adventure.
It's full of all kinds of amazing twists and turns and opportunities, and he wants
you to be living that life.
But first we have to get rid of all of these lies that are keeping you stuck.
Now I've already taught you that you're spirit.
And so what does that mean?
That means that there's spirit realm, right?
A lot of times we take that for granted.
We just live according to what we can see and hear and taste and touch and smell.
And we don't think about all the things that we can't see that are going on all around
us, but there is an unseen realm all around us.
And a lot of what happens in that unseen realm really affects us.
And the opposing forces that are part of that unseen realm, they've got it out for us, right?
We're public enemy number one, the children of God.
And so there's a lot of what we call spiritual warfare happening all the time in those places
where we can't see.
And so a lot of you already know that there's a lot of different names for the opposing
forces, devil, Lucifer, Satan, accuser, tempter, the great dragon.
There's all different types of names that describe the devil, Satan.
And one of those names is a name that you don't hear very often.
You might've heard it in a movie once, like maybe some kind of scary movie, Beelzebub.
But that name actually means Lord of the Flies or the Father of Lies.
And so I don't like flies.
I don't know about you, but I will save a spider's life.
In fact, I often do.
I have a pool in my backyard and all different types of insects get stuck in the pool.
And I'm always out there with a net saving them.
My husband thinks I'm ridiculous, but I'm like, come on, I'm going to save them.
They're drowning.
I like to play hero in that way.
And so beetles and ladybugs and caterpillars, and once a lizard, a little baby lizard got
in the pool, spiders, even big, ugly spiders, saving them because I know that they do something
very special and they're important.
But flies, I will kill a fly anytime.
We have those electric fly swatters in our house that sizzle them when they come in.
I just don't like flies and I don't like them because they're gross.
And when I think of them, I think of gross things.
I think of cow manure.
I think of decomposing roadkill because that's what flies do.
They find something that is wounded, something that's injured.
A lot of times you'll see flies on the back of animals, livestock, in the farm.
And why?
What are they doing?
They are in the sores on those animals.
What are they doing there?
They're laying their eggs.
They're laying the eggs in the sores on these animals or in some other kind of decomposing
organic matter because then they're young, the larva that's going to become a fly someday,
it has an unlimited food resource when it hatches.
And just thinking about that's really gross.
But that is what Beelzebub, the father of flies, does.
The Lord of the flies, the father of flies.
That's what he does as well.
He looks for an injury.
This is what it means to add insult to injury.
He looks for an injury.
That trauma comes in our life and it's not enough that that trauma has come.
Here comes the opposing forces on the tail end of that trauma trying to make it worse
by what?
By sowing the seed of lies in that trauma.
And so let's give an example of that.
So maybe your father left your mother.
That's my story.
And it's unfortunate.
It's a lot of our stories.
The family broke up.
Your parents got divorced.
Maybe your mother left your father.
Doesn't matter what scenario it is.
It happened.
And then it's very traumatic.
But what happens after that trauma is that we believe a lie about that trauma.
And in my instance, I believe that I was abandoned.
I believe that I was fatherless.
It looked like I was fatherless because my natural father left.
I had no idea that I had a heavenly father.
That's an example of the greater truth.
This is a fact.
My father left.
But the greater truth is that I have a heavenly father that will never leave me or forsake
me.
But I was too little to know that.
So I'm traumatized.
I'm abandoned.
It thrust our family into poverty.
So now I'm abandoned.
I'm unwanted.
I'm unworthy.
Is it my fault?
I don't know.
There's all kinds of different lies that come as a result of that trauma.
And the trauma doesn't even have to have happened to you.
It can happen to someone else.
Maybe it was your grandfather that left the family or his father.
And even though it didn't happen to you directly, it affected the people that left.
that raised you.
And so because it affected them, it affected you.
And a lot of times that's inherited trauma.
And those are emotional debts
that are passed through generations.
And so those lies will be passed down as well.
That men leave, that men are not,
they're not stable, they're not reliable.
You can't depend on them.
And then over time, that lie will mature.
It will mature and it will grow
and it will take up more space.
So just like the fly lays its eggs
in that decomposing organic matter,
it doesn't stay eggs.
It turns into larva and then it turns into flies
and then it turns into more flies.
It expands, it grows.
And that seed that is sown into the traumas of our lives,
those lies as seed, they don't stay seed either.
Over time, they mature and they get bigger
and bigger and bigger
and they get more and more reinforced.
And that's what's happened to all of us.
Those lies have gotten reinforced.
And so let's look at the process
of how those lies get reinforced.
So the trauma comes and then the seed is sown,
I'm abandoned, nobody loves me.
Men or women can't be trusted.
I can't depend on anyone.
So those are mental scripts that we begin to rehearse
from a very young age, if that's when the trauma happened.
Whenever the trauma happened,
we begin to rehearse the lies
that we're believing because of it.
Proverbs 23 seven tells us
that whatever we believe in our heart, not in our head.
This is why those activations and those confessions
and all that positive mental attitude that you have,
that's why it doesn't really change your life
because it can't come from here, it has to come from here.
All that truth has to get down in here
to where you really believe it.
Not believe it here, but believe it here.
And so whatever we believe in our heart,
Proverbs 23 seven says we become.
How does that happen?
How do we become that?
Well, whatever gets in our heart,
it doesn't just stay in our heart, does it?
It multiplies.
Remember, the heart is a womb, it's a garden
and whatever it gets in there, it reproduces
and then it produces the quality of our life.
Remember that lesson?
So it's reproducing like little bunnies.
I have a student that raises bunnies
and those bunnies, I feel like every time
she takes a picture, there's more bunnies
and more bunnies and more bunnies and more bunnies.
And so the lie gets in there and it starts to grow,
it starts to mature and pretty soon
it's spilling out of your heart.
How is it spilling out of your heart
as it's reproducing and expanding through your mouth?
The word of God says that out of the overflow of the heart,
the mouth communicates and so pretty soon
that lie that was unseen and unheard
that was just living in your heart,
now it's making its way out of your mouth
and you begin to say things like I'm abandoned,
nobody loves me, nobody wants me,
men or women can't be trusted,
I can't depend on anyone or rely on anyone.
So we believe the lie, then we speak the lie
and then we become the lie.
So what we believe we become
and then what we become we attract.
So we're speaking the lie and then we're attracting
that very thing that we're saying is true.
We're attracting people who aren't there for us.
We're attracting men or women
who don't take care of their children
or don't take care of their responsibilities
and because that's what we're attracting,
we think that that's the only thing there is.
I remember once I needed a red dress
and I set all the filters on the clothing apps on my phone
to show me only red dresses.
I didn't wanna waste my time,
I just wanted to see those red dresses and nothing else.
Well, those stores had lots of other dresses
and blouses and pants and all different types of clothing
but the only thing that those apps would show me
after I set that filter was red dresses
and it's not because it was the only thing that was there,
it's because it was the only thing that I could see
and so that's what happens in this scenario.
We will only see what we already believe.
So what we believe we become
and then what we become we continue to attract
and as we continue to attract it,
it will continue to reinforce that lie
and that lie will grow stronger and stronger
and stronger over time
and that's why we call it a stronghold.
That's what we call strongholds
and we can't see them but our lives show
the areas that we're stuck in,
the areas where we have a stronghold,
the area where that lie has become so mature
that now we can't see anything but it.
It causes blind spots and filters
and those blind spots and filters are ticking time bombs.
They're just waiting to go off at any spark.
Anytime there's a spark, there's going to be an explosion
because that bomb is waiting
and so we need to defuse those bombs.
We wanna defuse those bombs before they go off.
We wanna make sure that we have a stronghold.
Make sure that we are allowing Holy Spirit
to come alongside us and show us.
This is the revealing for healing that I was talking about.
Show us these lies that we're believing.
Help us unpack those boxes
and help us to see what's really in there.
What's behind all these problem areas in our lives?
What's behind all these areas
where we just can't seem to get off first base?
There are things that have matured over time,
but now it's time for those things to get the boot.
It's time for them to get on out
and to make space for truth.
We can't erase what we have believed,
but we can replace it.
And truth always trumps fact.
So maybe your dad did leave or your mom did leave.
Maybe you had a broken marriage that was abusive.
Maybe you did lose your job.
Maybe someone lied about you.
Maybe a relationship in your life went sour
because of something that you did.
Maybe you did make that mistake.
Maybe you were the one that is the villain of the story.
Regardless of what the facts are,
the truth is that God is greater than the facts,
that his love is greater.
Even when our heart condemns us,
he is greater than our hearts.
The truth is that he still has a plan for us.
Jeremiah 29, 11 says that God knows the plans
that he has for us.
That's not one plan.
That word is plural.
It's more than one plan,
which means that if we mess up the first plan
or the second plan or the 50th plan or the 150th plan,
God already has a new plan waiting
to get us back to where he needs us to be
to be able to bless us.
But first we have to do our part.
He's inviting us to do our part,
and I'm inviting you to go forward with me
into part three,
where we're gonna start unpacking these heart boxes
with the divine help of Holy Spirit.
I can't promise you that it's gonna be easy,
but I can absolutely promise you
that it's gonna be worth it.
I'll see you there.