{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"1 - 14 - 2015 - Pastor Ken Westerman - How To Avoid Victim Mentality","description":"How To Avoid Victim Mentality\n\nRomans 8:35 & 37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?\n37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.\n\nThink on this: Any wounded animal attracts attack.\n\nRemember: Weakness is an invitation to bullies.\n\n7 Actions To Avoid Victim Mentality\n\n1.\tDon’t Talk Or Think Like A Victim Of Your Circumstances.\n\nRemember: Our enemy knows what we are thinking by what we are speaking.\n\n\ta.\tYour words of today are deciding your tomorrows.\n\n\tb.\tWords you speak paint pictures in your mind.\n\n\tc.\tExpress what you are expecting.\n\n2.\tRefuse To Fear.\n\nRemember: Fear is the feeling of anticipated loss.\n\nThink on this: Even if loss is already experienced, don’t fear, God has promised to restore.\n\nJoel 2:25 “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.\n\n3.\tIntimidate Your Intimidator\n\n2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.\n\ta.\tOur adversary is a deceiver and intimidator. Fear nothing.\n\n\tb.\tYou have been given authority over him, confront him, bind him.\n\n\tc.\tHave an attitude of a conqueror today.\n\n4.\tNever Quit Reaching.\n\nLamentations 3:25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.\n\nRemember: Warfare will always surround the birth of your miracle.\n\nRemember: Champions keep getting up, one more time. \n\n\ta.\tPassion is what you must be willing to live without.\n\n\tb.\tReaching is the first sign of trust.\n\n\tc.\tPursuit reveals passion.\n\n\td.\tYour endurance makes your enemy tired.\n\n\te.\tNever consider quitting.\n\nRemember: Champions know that winning involves more than one battle. They refuse to run from a fight.\n\nRemember: HELL FEARS A FIGHTER\n\nJames 1:12 Blessed the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.\n\n5.\tLearn The Art Of Attack.\n\nRemember: Overcomers are not passive. They pursue.\n\nThink on this: What you fail to master will eventually master you.\n\nRemember: The Holy Spirit is the wisest mentor a warrior will ever have.\n\nPsalm 144:1 Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle—\n\n6.\tAttend Church Faithfully\n\nHebrews 10:25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.\n\nRemember: Your best will come out in God’s house.\n\n7.\tPray For Someone Else.\n\nJob 42:10 And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.\n\nThink on this: One of the master keys to personal miracles is to get involved with the needs of others.","author_name":"treeoflifechurch.org"}