Listen
Sermon Notes
Conquering your Inner Critic
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 /Romans 8:32-39/John 8:32-34
Recap from last week:
What is the conversation like in your head?
Your internal conversation becomes your external reality
Assessing your Thought life
Negative ………………………………………………………………………………..Positive
Worry …………………………………………………………………………………….Confident
Frustrated ……………………………………………………………………………Calm (Peace-filled)
Skeptical/Cynical…………………………………………………………………Trusting
Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts.
- Craig Groschel
- Our brokenness is what our inner critic leverages against us
- The most difficult lies are the ones targeted at our most broken places.
- We get trapped by the lies we tell ourselves.
Three Types of Lies
- The lies told to us from others
- The lies we tell ourselves
- The lies that come from Satan
How to conquer the lies from our inner critic
- Face the reality of a spiritual battle in your mind (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
- Identify the Lies
- Expose them to the truth of who Christ is in your life, using the Scriptures
Examples
LIE #1: You aren’t enough
TRUTH: Christ is enough (2 Cor. 9:8)
LIE #2: I am doomed to fail.
TRUTH: I am more than a conqueror
LIE #3: THAT is the solution to my problem
TRUTH: Lean on me. I’ll tell you what is best (Pr 3:5,6)
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come
that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)
LIE #4: Everyone is against me
TRUTH: If God is for me, who can be against me? (Romans 8:31-32)
- Meditate on the truth
– Create a new trench of truth
Even when you change, the old beliefs aren’t removed like a knee and replaced with better ones. Instead, the new beliefs take their place alongside the old ones and as they become stronger, they give you a different way to think, feel and act. (Mindset, Carol S. Dweck)
Romans 12:2 (NLT). Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world,
but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
- Take the Thought Audit: Take your lie, captive and bring it to the truth.
Write out what the Scripture says is true.
Meditate on the truth: read it, remind yourself,
and renew your mind with it.