Im Just Minding My Business
EMOTIONAL HEALING
Proverbs 4:20-25
PART I: HEAD (HEAD, HEART, HABIT, HINDRANCES)
I. INTRODUCTION
II. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE WORD DAILY
- Romans 12:2 NKJV And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
- Do What He Tells You to Do
- You Can Live the Life He Promised You
III. CAPTURE THE THINGS THAT PREOCCUPY YOUR HEAD
- Philippians 2:3 3 NKJV Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself
- Defend Your Heart with Diligence
- Guard Your Gates
- John 14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
- Psalm 141:3-4 Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. 4. Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies.
- Keep the Heart Right
- Matthew 15:17-20 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 18 But those things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart and defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20 These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
IV. CHECK PRIDE YOUR PRIDE AT THE DOOR
- 1 Peter 1:3 NKJV Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ
- Proverbs 16:18-19 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before [a]a fall. 19 Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, Than to divide the [b]spoil with the proud.
- CULTIVATE PRIORITIES
- Philippians 4:8 NKJV Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
- CREATE PERSONAL POWER
- Titus 1:8 NKJV but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,
- BIBLICAL EXAMPLES
- Jesus Heals the Demoniac
- Mark 5:15 NKJV Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.
- Luke 8:35 NKJV Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.
- Paul Speaks of Being In Your Right Mind
- 2 Corinthians 5:13 NKJV For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
- Romans 12:3 NKJV For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
VII. HOW TO NAVIGATE WHAT YOU CAN’T CONTROL
- Be Disciplined in What I Declare
- Stay In Your Reality
- Don’t Speak Negatively
- When You Speak, Speak Life
- Continue Self-Assessment
- 1 Corinthians 10:23 NKJV All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.
- Headed to My Destination without Distraction
- Staying in My Lane and Out of Everyone’s Business
- Giving God Glory for Reaching Your Goals
- Lamentations 3:21-26 NKJV 21 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.22 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” 25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. 26 It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
- John 14:15-18 NKJV 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.