Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

by Louie Giglio

Ephesians 2:6

and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

First Corinthians 15:57

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

First John 5:4

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith.

(Philippians 3:10).

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death

1 Corinthians 10:13:

No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

Ephesians 2:8–9

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

2 Corinthians 5:17.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

(Galatians 2:20).

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

(Romans 6:4

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

1 Timothy 1:15,

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Romans 6:1–2.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

(Romans 6:4).

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 10:13,

No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Hebrews 12:1–2

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

(John 10:10).

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

1 Thessalonians 3:8,

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Intimacy with God is the way to true fulfillment.

How do you keep the Enemy from sitting at your table?

You keep your eyes o...

Genesis 3:8,

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

(Genesis 2:22).

Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

James 1:14,

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.

16–17).

Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

That level of familiarity and recognition is where God wants you to be with Him. God wants you to know Him without a doubt.

31, 33).

Numbers 13:31 - But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, fo they are stronger than we." v. 33 - "There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

It’s about pulling up and throwing away the thoughts that do not coincide with the heart of God.

It’s about changing the way you think.

(Proverbs 23:7

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

I was a sinner saved by grace

Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace you have been saved...

who is now a new creation.

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation...

I am in Christ, and Chris...

John 15:4 - Abide in Me, and I in you.

Christ has all victory, and His victor...

I Corinthians 15:57 - But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is always faithful.

I Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful....

He will always provide a way out.

Isaiah 43:16 - Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters.

(Numbers 13:23).

Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole.

(John 19:30).

So when Jesus had received the sour wine He said, "It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

Though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3–5)

Ephesians 6:1–18,

The belt of truth 6:14 The breastplate of righteousness 6:14 Feet protected by the gospel of peace 6:15 The shield of faith 6:16 The helmet of salvation 6:17 The sword of the Spirit 6:17

Christ does all the work, yet you need to lean into that work by prayer and decisiveness. You must agree with Jesus.

First, you identify any deceptive thought in your mind.

Colossians 3:12

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

The next step is to bind that thought in Jesus’ name.

2 Corinthians 10:5:

casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ

9 of Jude.

Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"

(Matthew 28:18).

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."

(Colossians 3:17).

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

I bind this thought in Jesus’ name!