The Battle For Your Mind // Deprogram // The Blueprint with Dr. Dharius Daniels

Well, what's up, family? Welcome to the blueprint. I got my people with me today. Come on, clap your hands, everybody. Man, we're we love God's word. We're incredibly excited to be here today and we're so grateful to have you as always, man. I know we got people who are tapping in literally from different parts of the country.

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Prayer doesn't just change things. Prayer can change anything. And um you know, one of the things I've learned um and I think I mentioned this in one of the services uh at our church before is that one of the things that is often a prerequisite for intercession is vulnerability.

Yeah. >> And some people don't get the intercession they could get because they're not as vulnerable as they should be. Does that make sense? And so sometimes shame or betrayal of trust in the past can make us more guarded than we need to. But I wrote I wrote this in my devotional time this morning.

I was reading uh I'm in Chronicles and I was reading 1 Chronicles I'm in chapter 19 where there is this Amorite king who died and his son became his successor. So David said because the man's dad was good to me. I want to be good to him. So he sends an envoy of people just to bless the man.

The man is so paranoid and people get in his ear. They cause him to think, "Man, David sent these men to spy on me." So, he blocks who God sent to bless. >> He blocks who God sent to bless. And I think sometimes that can happen to us, man.

We can we can we can fail to realize that, man. And and Angela, I I wrote this I actually wrote this in my devotion time this morning. Healthy discernment. Now, I'm g have to unpack what that mean. >> Got me? Healthy discernment not only allows you to see what shouldn't come in, it also allows you to see what you should let in. >> Discernment isn't just about what stay out.

The sermon is also about what I let come in. And so this man in 1 Chronicles 19, he didn't know what the He's probably insecure. He's he's new. He's taken over his dad's kingdom. He doesn't know who for him, who's against them. He doesn't know who enemies are, friends are.

And that insecurity um caused him to block what God wanted to send to bless. And I think sometimes when it comes to just needs we have we and I'm not saying we don't we I'm not saying we got to share everything but sometimes I don't think we're vulnerable enough.

Your vulnerability activates the intercessors. >> Glory to God. I I said vulnerability activates the intercessors. Sometimes when somebody asks you how you doing, you need to say I'm tired. I'm tired. And if there's an intercessor on the inside of that person, they start praying for your stamina. They start praying that the Lord would renew your strength.

They start praying that God would give you a second wind and replenish and refuel you. And uh I just want to encourage you, man, to take advantage. We have people that the Bible calls them watchmen. That's that's the gift of the intercessor. Everybody's got a responsibility to intercede, but the gift of the intercessor is a watchman.

And there are people who got spiritual stamina to uh to go to God on your behalf and they're praying over these requests every single week. And so I just want to encourage you to take advantage of that. I know it's I know it can be difficult to do that, but take advantage of that.

And we're we're excited. I want to do something a little bit different. I'm starting a a teaching today for these next few weeks. On Sundays, I've been in this series at our church, Change Church. And if you don't know what's up with Change Church, I just need you to figure it out.

Huh? I'm a college football co football fan and this one coach, he was asked uh he he's he's a head coach I think in Indiana and he was asked about something about his about his team, whatever. He he said, "Google Google it. If you hadn't heard of Change Church, just Google us.

We if you're in New Jersey, we might be close to you. If you're in the Atlanta area, we might be close to you." But I've been doing a series called Detox. And I just felt impressed by the spirit um to explore this idea not just of detox but to to pair it on Wednesday nights with something called deprogramming because detox deals with the past but our programming deals with the future. >> Detox gives me relief but my programming gives me a reset.

Right. The detox gets it out of me. >> The deprogramming keeps me from getting back in it. And so I kind of want to want to lean into into that in this direction in our time together today. And so uh this next few weeks we're going to be exploring Romans chapter 12 is where we're going to be for the next few weeks.

And I want to start with just two verses today. Uh Paul says, "Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing, and perfect will." I want to stop the reading of scripture there. Drop some fire in the chat if you're ready for God's word. Clap your hands in the building if you're ready for God's word.

Man, we're we're excited to be here. Um to to accurately understand what I feel like I'm going to try to articulate today, I want to spend some time exploring. And again, if you're part of our spiritual family change or if you or you if you're not, if you're gleaning from the teaching ministry God's given me, you've probably heard me talk a lot about this concept called belief systems.

And in order to accurately understand where we're getting ready to go in this lesson over these next few weeks, we got to start by exploring and explaining this concept of belief systems. And a belief system simply is an accumulation of beliefs that we've acquired throughout our lifetime by information, by observation, by exposure or experiences.

So it's an accumulation of beliefs that we've acquired over a lifetime either through information, observation, exposure or experiences. So we got some information, we made some observations, we had some exposure or we had some experiences that created some beliefs. >> Did you hear what I just said? We came across some information.

We made some observations, right? We we we had some experiences or we had some exposure that created some beliefs. This belief system is the invisible force that's driving your behavior. One writer says it is actually your autopilot. I'm calling it your programming. It's the software of your soul.

And here's the issue. Everybody has come across some information. All of us have made some observations. All of us have had some experiences. And all of us have had some exposure which means all of us have a belief system. The question is not whether or not you have one.

The question is what has influenced it. Is it the right information? >> Right? Watch this. It is is it the right interpretation of your observations? Because you observe what you observe, but that doesn't mean it means what you think it mean. >> Does that make sense? >> All of us have had some experiences and you experience what you experience.

The question is what conclusion did you draw from those experiences? Did you draw that they can't be trusted or that people can't be trusted? Right. >> Right. Because if if they can't be trusted, you manage them one way. >> If you don't think people can be trusted, >> you manage people a certain way. >> And these are these are these are realities that all of us watch this all of us I want to say many of us myself included are rarely challenged to challenge.

My experiences are true. My information is true. My observations is true. What I've been exposed to is true. And we are rarely challenged to distinguish between real and true. Did you hear what I just said? >> Yeah. what happened to me is real. >> But the that doesn't mean the conclusions I'm drawing are true. >> A and what's what happens is unconsciously we can be living our life with certain belief systems impacting certain areas.

A and and and so here's what I mean by this. I mean that when I say belief system, I'm not just talking about a belief system for every area of your life. I'm saying different belief systems show up in different areas of your life. Some of you real good with God.

You just me and God good, but you figuring people out. >> Am I making sense? It's like no, no, no. You you believe God. It's like you got a healthy theology. You don't have you you're not engaging in performative spirituality. You're not trying to tap dance. You know, he's a loving father who loves you.

He's not some cosmic enforcer trying to punish you. Like you you healthy there. >> You trust him. >> Come on here. You trust him. >> But you might have had some information, some exposure, some experiences, and some observations that say, "I ride with him. I'm struggling with them.

Is this not I I think is this not something that was revealed with with David and he had enough trauma to feel this way when God's like uh who you want who what avenue do you want me to use to correct you? Y'all remember that you want me to you want to be in my hands or you want to be in people hand?

He said put yours. So, so because we all have programming that is I think the invisible force behind our um behavior. We have to admit and accept that this program that everyone exper is experiencing programming. The question is is it by design or default? And part of what spiritual growth does is it exposes you to the ways in which your programming is inconsistent with the intention of the father.

Therefore, here's what I'm arguing in this series. Spiritual development not only requires spiritual detox, it requires deprogramming. Detox addresses the contamination. Deprogramming addresses the conditioning. Detox gets the poison out of your system. Deprogramming gets the patterns out of your thinking. Detox removes what's harmful. The programming removes what?

Deprogramming removes what is habitual. One focus on what happened to you. The other focuses on what's happening in you. And and Paul, I believe, gives us some incredible insight on this subject, not of necessarily of detox here, but of deprogramming in this one chapter of Romans, Romans chapter 12.

Now, we I could make an argument, Christian, that all of Romans is about deprogramming. Yeah, I could I could, but but for the since I don't want to be here to 2040, we're just going to focus on Romans 12. Am I making sense? Yeah. Like like I could I could take you to Romans 1 and show you some deprogramming.

I could take you to Romans 2. I could take you to Romans 3 and show you some deprogramming there. All of sin and falling short of the glory of God. So he's like he's trying to deprogram them from classism when it come to sin. You said cuz y'all done put sin in you you classified it and there's difference in terms of now sin there's different categories sin in terms of the impact it has and the consequences you can experience but not different categories in terms of what grace is made available to >> so so he's got some he had to do some deprogramming now you think you're better than him but you're not cuz y'all all need the same grace right so it's like you just need it for different things right does that make sense one of you got the flu one of you got something else.

You both need some antibiotics. It's you're both sick. Am I making sense? Right. So, but here in Romans 12, I think he offers some amazing insight. Um, see, in order to understand, I I think the essence of what I'm getting ready to articulate. Romans 12 is such fertile ground for this work.

Um because Paul, this is so interesting to me, is writing Q to a group of believers in Rome that he hadn't personally met yet. He hadn't been there yet. When he's writing this letter, he's actually on his third missionary journey. He's in Corenth. Y'all know the book of Corinthians.

All right. So, that's where he is when he's writing this letter. He not even in Rome. I'm not going to bother this, but but but here here's what I think we need to wrap our head around. Some people aren't blessed because they're too picky when it comes to the conditions up under which they believe God can use somebody to bless them. >> When you want to get blessed, you'll accept it through a letter.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. When you need help, you stop getting picky about the package and the gender and the age and who can help me. If you are drowning in the sea, you're not asking how old you are, how young you are, what part. Can you help me? >> You don't get to choose who God uses to bless you.

And you don't get to choose the way God uses them to bless you. Here's why this is important. Because the way God uses them to bless you blesses you in a different way that you didn't know you needed to be blessed. Because you cannot be codependent on a leader like Paul if he ain't there. >> Yeah.

You can't be personality centered on a leader that ain't there. So, so he is not even in Rome and he is writing to them, but he's writing to this group. This is what's so weird that's mixed. So, you have what's called gentile Christians and Jewish Christians. So, if you read like the book of Acts, you'll see Rome gets very hostile toward Christians.

And so there's this Christian persecution which is why people like Stephen in Acts chapter 7 get martyed and get stoned. It's why the Apostle Paul is able to freely under the cover of Roman law take into capity. He's not a Roman authority figure. He's not the Roman police.

The Apostle Paul's a religious leader, but under the cover of Roman law, he is able to take into custody Christians because Christianity was seen as an empire, an enemy against the empire. And so there was this fleeing of many Christians out of um Jewish Christians out of these areas of persecution.

And what happens is as some of the hostility turned down, some of the Jewish Christians returned. But what happened is when some of the Jewish believers left, Gentiles start getting converted. >> Got me? So Gentiles start getting converted. They're still in Rome. Then as as the hostility toward Jewish Christians diminishes, some of the Jewish Christians come back.

So now you got people that come out of the world and that come out of the religion >> still in the they in the same church. >> You understand what I'm saying? So they they so it's like you you got first way and when you get first way and second way together that's a fight. >> That's a fight cuz number one second way fighting everybody.

Second way fighting the church, they fighting each other. They fighting third way. Second way looking for a fight. They go online looking for a fight. All they want to do is fight. And and so you've got you've got a church that's built around Jewish Christians who are raised in Torah and temple worship and Gentile Christians who are raised in Greco Roman philosophy.

So the problem wasn't that neither one of them loved Jesus. The problem wasn't their passion. The problem was their programming. >> You got some that's coming. They've been programmed by Greek philosophy and thought. >> Then you got others that's been programmed by religion and rules. And each group had inherited certain assumptions, certain ways of thinking, certain ways of valuing.

Um, and they're both a part of the same faith, but not practicing it the same way. >> They calling themselves the same, >> but they're not practicing it the same. And so the Jews, the Jewish Christians were attempting to make Christianity an upgraded Judaism. The Gentiles were attempting to make it a cleaned up version of Roman spirituality.

And so what Paul is trying to get both of them to see is where you need to be deprogrammed so you can develop because your ability to experience an evolution is tied to your willingness to unlearn. My God. >> Your evolution isn't just on the side of what you can learn.

Your evolution is on the side of what you're willing to unlearn. It's it's it's it's your watch this Christian. Some Isaac's patas are ideologies. >> Sometimes God will ask you for ideology, for a way of thinking, for a philosophy, for a way that you view. You viewed this a certain way your whole life.

And God will say, "Now give me that. >> Give me that. You've been you've been thinking about that that way your whole life. And that's the way mom thought about it. Oh, that's the way the bishop thought about it. And that's what and and you get to a point where God would say, "No, you got to give me that because your evolution here is going to be based on what you unlearn.

I can't put this new belief on top of that old one. We got to move that. >> For me to move you, we got to move that." So, so Paul in ro in Romans 12 verse1 begins this conversation at this part of the letter by saying this. I urge you brothers and sisters in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.

This is your true and proper worship. Now, let me tell you what typically happens when this verse is read. It is read as if it's the only verse in a chapter and there like it's not a verse two coming after it which is which which is what we're about to get to be not conformed to this world.

So I can't really understand verse two without verse one but I can't understand verse one without verse two because what Paul is calling for here this is an invitation for access is not just about bodies it's about everything. >> Am I making sense here? It's not just about bodies.

It's about everything. So when he is saying um offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, he's using the body as a picture of what it means to surrender everything. And he calls the surrendering of everything true and proper worship. One translation is reasonable service. This is this this reasonable.

This not even spiritual. This is this is reasonable. Watch this. He He is trying to get them to see I'm going somewhere. Transformation begins with availability. >> Got me? >> The depth of transformation I experience is tied to my willingness to make myself available. And God will not violate the open door of availability that I don't present to him.

He's I will let God will let you experience as much of him as you have appetite for. >> Here's the way you've heard me say it before. >> You will live on whatever level >> you settle for. >> Does that make sense? And and ultimately now, and this is what Oh, I'm going to have to do a teaching on this.

And this is ultimately like the way Paul understands the infilling of the Holy Spirit is really about access >> it for honestly like the way Paul seems to understand the infilling of the baptism of the Holy Spirit is that you get all of him because it's not a it it's a him. >> He's the third person of the Trinity.

So you get all of him >> in conversion >> but he doesn't get all of you >> salvation you get all of him surrender he gets all of you >> right >> am I making sense this is why some people experience salvation and the infilling of the Holy Spirit um simultaneously >> because they saved and surrendered immediately and then some of us experience salvation, right?

And then the infilling of the Holy Spirit subsequently >> because it's been progressive surrender. >> I'm saved, but don't bother that yet, Jesus. >> I'm saved. I'm I'm I'm surrendered in most areas. >> Not that Well, DON'T GO IN. YOU KNOW HOW YOU KNOW HOW people You know you ever have people at your house and they you they you're showing them the okay this this room and that don't don't go don't go in that closet.

Don't go in that room. >> So So what Paul's really getting at here is total surrender. Am I making sense here? So So now we go to verse two. It makes sense. He says, "All right, give him everything." And then he says this, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world."

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then that's the key word. Then then the renewing, we we're about to deal with this. The re It's only when the mind is renewed that the rest of the verse applies to me.

I can go to heaven and not experience the rest of the verse. I can die and wake up with Jesus, but live and not have experience the ability to test and to prove what God's will is. Cuz that comes not just from salvation. That comes from mind renewal, deprogramming and reprogramming.

Cuz you don't change your life by changing your life. You change your life by changing your mind. So, we're just going to explore three quick things here in this text and we'll wrap up and pick back up next week. Uh the first thing I think verse two specifically reveals to us uh is what I'm calling the principle of deprogramming.

Now here's what I want us to see. Paul says, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world." And some of you if you if you follow us on Sundays, you've heard me kind of talk about this. Or if you're any of our programs, you've heard me talk about like the the spiritual discipline of renunciation or a theology of resistance.

So if Paul is saying do not conform, it means I will if I don't try to not to. >> Did you hear what I just said? Okay. The fact that he tells born again believers don't conform is an indication that if I don't resist Conformationation is inevitable. Am I making sense?

So here's a principle of de of de of uh deprogramming. You are always being programmed by something. And I need discernment to recognize when I'm being programmed to think about things in ways that are unhealthy and unhelpful. So I can resist what will be automatic if I'm not intentional.

Now Paul talks about this in a few chapters before in Romans chapter number eight at verse 6 when he talks about he's talking about mind and he says he says he talks about there are two types of mind meaning two kind of influences that govern and program the mind program the mind and in verse six he says in Romans 8 the mind that is governed by the flesh is death but the mind that is governed by the spirit is life and peace so when I allow allow anything to influence program my thinking that is inconsistent with the truth of scripture.

What's going to happen is less life death is going to show up somewhere in my life. >> So the mind governed by the flesh is going to lead to death. Something's going to die. Joy is going to die. >> Peace is going to die. Focus is going to die, purpose is going to die.

And then the antithesis of that is anxiousness is going to live and confusion is going to live and insecurity is going to live and stress is going to live and worry is going to live. And so he says he says that is what now I can be anxious, stressed, confused, worry and die and go to heaven. >> That's a fact.

Am I making sense? >> Yes, we're making sense. So, so, but he says to be spiritually minded, meaning my life governed by the person of the spirit and the principles of truth that leads to life and peace. What I'm trying to get us to see is the default is the flesh.

So I have to re I have to resist it. Boy, if I had time, I I have to the Do you understand? The default >> is not what leads to life and peace. Yeah. >> Like, and if we were to really take um what Paul teaches about the mind and look beyond Romans and like look at something like what he says in the book of Corinthians, you would see that a healthy mental life requires energy.

Because Paul speaks so much of how active I got to be in discerning what I'm thinking and pulling it down. Is that is that is that what's uh um um casting down >> vain imaginations? Watch this. Bringing into captivity >> every thought that take energy >> that takes energy. >> And sometimes this accumulation of all of this negativity happens not because we we're doubtful people.

We deplete it. >> You tired of fighting. >> Did you hear what I just said? you tired of fighting. >> So Delilah can represent not just a person. Delilah can represent anything the enemy uses to steal strength. >> And when you don't have strength, you can't fight the Philistine. >> You can't fight doubt. >> You can't fight confusion.

You can't fight fear. You don't have the energy to fight it. Does that make sense? >> I don't know about y'all. When I'm depleted, D, I just I need to take a nap. >> I can't fight. You know, you know, uh, somebody asked me, somebody asked me one time.

I was like, uh, how you doing today? I said, I'm going to go to sleep and try again tomorrow. >> It take energy. >> So, there's got to be resistance. No, I'm not I'm not I'm not going there. No, I'm I'm not thinking that. >> No, I'm Nope.

Nope, I'm not. Resistance >> because I'm always being programmed by something. But I have to understand the default is not going to lead to life and peace. It's going to lead to death. And I got to resist. It's the principle of deprogramming. Here's the second thing. I see the process of deprogramming.

Verse two, don't conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing. This word re renewing, it really speaks to an ongoing process. Now, here is something that's really problematic. There is, I believe, a struggle that many of us have because we have an expectation that you're going to be formed faster than you're actually going to be formed.

Did you hear what I just said? I think we confuse sometimes fixing what's broke, which sometimes that can happen quicker versus being formed into a different kind of person. Something might be broke. I might can fix that tomorrow. Does that make sense? But being formed into a different kind of person takes things that are beyond time and effort.

So, no matter how hard I try, there are some other things. Am I making sense? We were having a conversation at our church, Change Church. And if you don't know what Change is, Google us. Um but we we shifted an approach we had to our um it's like a what we call it what I call it here is a spiritual ecosystem and everything begins with Sunday morning which is like top of funnel and then we want to get you into these other entities and initiatives that we have that we believe actually contribute to greater levels of spiritual formation transformation and one of the things that we realized is that there's a lot of information that we were putting in front of people that was actually necessary for their spiritual formation that they still wouldn't implement until factors beyond our teaching made them open to it.

So, we were talking about stuff like, you know, the the the the the reality of unmet needs, which you can hear about cognitively, but you're not really going to care about till your heart broke. >> Do you understand until you go through that like dark night of the soul?

You like, where them notes at that we was What? What else? What else notes? What else notes at? And like one of my and I I never got a chance to meet him personally. I had an opportunity to and and I'll that's a whole another lesson and I didn't.

Um some of you some people in this faith based person development community we have called Daniels and I used to say something all the time opportunity is not always convenient. And I learned that the hard way because when I was doing doctoral work at Fuller there was this professor named Dr.

Dallas Willard who's like we call him the godfather of spiritual formation and he was leading this doctoral cohort and uh he was leading it while I was at Fuller and I was like okay my cohorts are one week this is two weeks I don't feel like two weeks right now so I'mma do it next year so I because I just I don't feel like doing two weeks I got to I'm going to do this I'm going to go jersey have to come back I don't want to do it well not too Long after that, he passed away.

So, I never got the opportunity to take advantage of two weeks with him cuz I wasn't willing to be inconvenience. You don't get to pick when the door open. But one of the things he would say, and you know, people be saying stuff and you don't believe they lying, you just don't believe them.

You know what I mean? It's like, I don't think you're intentionally deceptive. I just don't know if I believe that. And he would say when people ask him like one of the, you know, the the greatest lessons he's learned about spiritual formation and you know it, he would just be like, "It took me this long.

I got a long way to go, but it took me this long just to become the man that I am." Because God's going to use more than just information to shape you. loss, grief, disappointment, failure, mistakes are all this gumbo that God uses and mixes together and uses it to contribute to uh your formation.

And so what Paul is saying is, hey, this is an ongoing process. So the be transformed is passive meaning you can't transform yourself. The spirit transforms you. Your role is cooperation. The Holy Spirit's role is reconstruction. So Paul says, "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind." So God isn't deleting the mind, he's rebuilding it.

It is a spiritual rewiring of the way you think about certain things. So the way that you think about it and I think about it more closely align with the way God thinks about it. So let's be honest, there's misalignment between the way God see trouble and the way we see it.

I've been walking with Jesus a long time. Me and God still don't agree. It's a gap. You know, I'm trying to get to the point where I'm like, "This is good for me. >> I'm like, okay, you're going to work it together for my good." I'm there. You know what I mean?

But I'm not like, >> see, come on. This is >> But but part part of the spiritual formation journey is like closing that gap so you can get to the point where you can count it all joy. >> Does that make sense? Yeah. >> Some of us at the point if we honest, we can find some joy in it. >> We not counting it all joy yet. >> Some little bit, >> but that's that's part of the Am I making sense? >> That's part of the journey.

That take time. That take time. So, it's a process. Yellow. Let's fix what's broke. That can happen a little quicker. But you forming me, that's going to take some failure because sometimes failure is what exposes my gaps. That's going to take some loss cuz sometimes loss shows me my codependency.

So there's the principle. I'm Dante. There is the process and then here's the there's the promise. It's a twofold promise. Q. Here's the promise. He says that you may that you may Here's what's weird with me. I'm like this. I'm a young middle-aged old man allin one. You understand what I'm saying?

I got a PlayStation Portable by my bed. That's a young man. I'm 46. That's a middle-aged man. But then I grew up reading the King James version, Gideon Bible. That's the old man. So, so I memorized this when I first started reading my Bible regularly. I was 15.

And I memorized this. King James says that ye may prove God Almighty that you may prove that good, acceptable, perfect will of God. Got me? So verse one says there needs to be a presentation. Present your bodies. Verse two says when there's a presentation, there can be transformation through the renewal of your mind.

If there's a presentation and a transformation, then the latter part of verse two lets us know there can be a demonstration. >> That's the promise. You'll be a demonstration. >> You will be proof >> of the will of God. >> Your life becomes proof >> of what God's will is.

We become that living epistle. Say, "God will give you joy unspeakable and full of glory." Where's the proof? >> What the enemy meant for evil, God will work it for your good. Where's the proof? >> Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Where's the proof?

Somebody put in the chat now, I want to be proof. I want to be Anybody? I want to be proof. The promise is you'll be a demonstration. You'll be a walking living epistle of what my will is. I don't want to just be saved. I want to be proof.

I don't want to just go to heaven. I want to be proof on earth. But that requires deprogramming. There's a saying they used to say at um I can't remember what church I remember it from. This church my dad pastored in Starkville, Mississippi, the Josie Creek Missionary Baptist Church on Highway 82 West, Starkville, Mississippi.

Lord, if there's anything in me that's to hear that that's not like you, take it out and strengthen me. May our prayer be, Lord, if there's anything in my programming that's not like you, that's unaligned, not not that just evil, but just unaligned. Take it out. >> I want to see it the way you see it.

I want to see trouble the way that you see it. I want to see people the way that you see it. I want to see adversity the way that you see it. I want to see influence the way that you see it. I want to see success the way that you see it.

I want to see parenting the way that you see it. I want to see being a spouse the way that you see it. I want to see it the way you see it. I want the mind of Christ. >> Because I want to be a demonstration. >> And as we wrap up today, man, I just I want to conclude by praying that over you.

You're here today. I want to lift up a few requests. I'm going to I'm going to pray that you you can't have an evolved mind if you don't have an open one. And so that's going to be my prayer target for us tonight. Lord, I want you to open my mind.

And some people are afraid to do that because they confuse opening their mind with abandoning their convictions. I'm not leaving Jesus. I'm real clear on Jesus. I just want God to show me areas where the way I'm thinking is unaligned with it. I just want to pray for that.

But we've got some requests that have come in. Eric Johnson who's believing um God and Jasmine Goston who's believing God for wisdom and guidance and Brandon Clark who's believing God for relational miracle and Joshua Joshua Pierre who's believing God for an educational endeavor. There's Savannah Sanford who's believing God.

Angela Johnson who's standing in the gap for her son. And so we're going to be praying for for you guys right now. And so I just want those of you who might be even in the chat right now, there's something that you just believe in God to do.

And uh I want you to just vulnerability attracts intercession. And so as as vulnerable as you can possibly be, it's it's not even that sometimes that God needs us to be vulnerable. Sometimes you need to learn to be more vulnerable. And so if you're just believing God for something, just put in the chat and we're going to pray.

Father, I just thank you for every request that's being lifted up to you now. Man, your word is true. Your ear is bent into in the direction of your people. Your eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth that you might show yourself strong toward those whose heart is upright toward you.

And I pray for each and every single need. You heard the requests that were lifted to you. I pray that you would bless those requests that you would meet the needs of your people. And I pray for all of us as we have received your word today on deprogramming.

I pray that you'd give us open minds. That you'd give us a heart and a mind that is yielded to your renovation and your renewing. Lord, renovate our minds. We want to see it the way you see it in Jesus name. Amen. We want to get ready to go.

I want to thank you for being with us on today. Man, I'm excited about uh this series called Deprogram. I want you to join us next week. For those of you who understand the principle of sewing and reaping you want to sew back into the field that you're harvesting from, ways to give are coming on the screen now.

So grateful for all of you that sew into this work. And also want to congratulate many of you who've become a part of this new community that we have launched called the Uncommon Calling Academy. Man, I am so excited about this unccoming calling collective. I'm so excited about this community.

Most of us have callings to what church and culture don't have language for. And so where you where do you go get trained not on how to handle scripture in a pull pit, but how to handle scripture in a coffee shop? Because most of the training you get is for conventional spaces, not for uncommon callings.

And so many of us, our pull pit is going to be a boardroom. and uh I'm excited about it. And so if you're interested in learning more about that, information is on the screen for that as well. We love you. It's been a great night. We'll see you same time, same place next week right here at the Blueprint.

Take care. God bless. Hey,