How A Man Controls His Thinking – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit normally when I make videos I feel very intense sometimes and focused but when I make a video like today on spiritual warfare I feel very excited I feel very happy because it's one of those ways in which I know tangibly there are the means and methodology to regain your life your mind your soul from the impact and the power of the evil one but we have to understand our enemy first go through his means of deception and then work through the solutions on how to overcome them who is the enemy well the enemy is the devil the Fallen Angel Lucifer who rebelled against God and his arrogance and not wanting to serve mankind but wanting to serve himself this is a very key important facet to understanding the devil everything with the devil revolves around egotism and pride in his own quote unquote self Glory that he desired to keep for himself by not serving mankind it's a great ju supposition that we have God who is the creator of the entire universe all powerful and Almighty and he is clothed in humility and love and then we have the devil who was a participant in God's glory That Glory Shone on him and he was a beautiful and Majestic Angel but out of his self love his egotism and his pride he said I will not serve mankind because mankind is lower than me and so it is that he lost that Radiance That Glory by not being humble okay so when we think about the psychology of the evil one we have to understand that he is a master psychologist himself he understands mankind inside and out all of us have proclivities a personality a way that we interact with the world but you have to understand the devil has been studying and interacting with mankind since the very beginning he has logged more hours into this battle than anyone else and so he 100% knows who he's dealing with both in the sense that he in some sense even knows us I don't want to say better than we know ourselves but he knows all of the things that make us uh uh uh tick all of the things that trigger us all the ways to manipulate us all of our buttons all of our propensities all of our thought patterns he is in keenly in tune to those through the horde of demons that he basically oversees in commands also he's not bound by playing fair you know he has certain laws that he is bound to such as the fact that he cannot be humble he cannot be humble he cannot stand the presence of the sign of the cross he cannot even stand the sight of the physical cross but he cannot be humble everything that he does whenever you see his fingerprints on anything it's there's always egotism and pride and and vain glory and vanity all of these things always highlight the things that he is behind doing and trying to accomplish he can whisper in our ear so when you see those old cartoons of the little angel and the little demon this is exactly how it happens in real life that is just an imagery of what happens the devil can whisper in our ear and when we say the devil we really mean just the demons as a hoorde as all of them as they come to tempt us individually right each one of us has certain demons even that we wrestle with in particular that are related to certain sins or passions okay so some somebody may be dealing with the passion that passion is a sin The Passion of greed and they may have basically a demon of greed a demon that is specializing in greed and is able to whisper and manipulate that person because the demon of greed is so finely attuned to how people think and work and interact with greed that he's like shaping and pushing the person in that direction the thing to remember is the devil cannot handle handcuff us okay the devil can only make suggestions so for instance if the demon comes along and begins to present a lustful thought or a lustful image to our mind or begins to whisper to us this does not mean that we are handcuffed it is merely the devil handing us the handcuffs we handcuff ourselves when we begin to entertain the thoughts when we begin to uh turn them over in our mind we begin to look at them and say oh that's a goodlook thought I like that and then we begin to think things like oh how can I accomplish that what do I need to do to bring that to a reality at this point we've put the shackles on ourselves the devil cannot shackle us we can only shackle ourselves we are free willed beings created in the image of God that is incredibly important to remember the last thing to keep in mind is the end result of interacting with a demonic entity is always the same you will feel agitated angry despair uh lustful prideful egotistical that the disposition of your soul after you've been interacting with these entities and this energy that emits from them is you begin to take it into yourself and you begin to experience that agitated state within your very being so how does the devil do and accomplish these things in our life well well I want to touch on a couple ways that he works with our mind the thought NATO what is a thought NATO okay you have a tornado but you also have a thought NATO a thought NATO is where you get from one thought to the next thought to the next thought to the next thought to the next thought and they begin to spin and put you into that cyclone in your mind okay a lot of time it's like you go well what if this happens right and you don't realize it but it's the devil it's the unknown the answer to that is I will have faith in God no matter what happens but the devil says what if this happens and then you begin to talk with that thought and you say wow what if that does happen then the devil pounces on that and says and then what if this happens and you say wow what if that does happen then the devil says what if this happens and then you begin to do this right like let's say you take um uh you're going to apply for college and you say hey I'm going to go apply for college the devil's like yeah but what if you don't get accepted wow what if I don't get accepted what if you can't find an internship in time wow what if I can't what if you can't find a job what if this or that happens and pretty soon you're in that swirling motion of anxiety and fear and the unknown and despair that is the thought NATO that is always the byproduct of demonic energy and power power the devil wants to whip us up in our mind to where we cannot focus or pay attention that's number one number two conversation with the imagination now here's a funny thing that people often do they get into fights they get into arguments they get into disagreements let's say you get into a disagreement with your boss you don't like the way that it goes so you begin to re play the conversation in your mind but then you begin to change what you're going to say and you begin to think well if I say this and then he'll say that and then I'll say this now all of a sudden we're in imagination land the boss isn't even there and you're having a full-blown conversation right people drive home from work and they'll be driving along and they'll be thinking about this imaginary conversation that they're having with somebody that they're agitated with then they look out their car window and they see a homeless person on the side of the road talking to and arguing with a stop sign what do they do they lock their doors and they're like oh that guy is crazy they drive past them and then they go right back into talking to their own stop sign you see this this is insanity this is craziness people have imaginary conversations with people who are not even there and they think that that's normal they think it's abnormal when homeless people do it and they think it's normal when they do it if you're conversing with somebody there that's not there that is crazy you do not want to do that okay you only want to have conversations with people that are in front of you if you're imagining a conversation or something that's going to happen you are definitely in the realm of of being divorced from reality you are in the Fantasy Realm you are in the imagination realm it does not exist it is not reality the conversation will never play itself out the way that you think it could so you're way better off to just drop it pray make the sign of the cross and say that's crazy I'm not going to go there what's the other one the truth cookie the truth cookie this is one of my favorites is the truth cookie you're like what's a truth cookie truth cookie is a chocolate chip cookie and every chocolate chip represents a little bit of truth but what you don't realize is the cookie is made by the devil and it has a little bit of arsenic in it a little bit of poison in it and so what happens says people look at the cookie they see all the shiny chocolate chips and they go oh that looks like a delicious cookie they eat it and then they get sick what does that mean well when they see those chocolate chips they represent little truths and this is what the devil does he always feeds us little truths the devil doesn't tell big lies people think the devil is always he's the father of Lies but they think Devil's going to tell you all these lies he doesn't do that the devil will tell you nine truths and slip in the 10th one and it's a lie so you see this a lot when people are dealing especially with uh things traumatizing things that happen in their life they're like oh this person disappointed you oh they always disappoint you you know everybody else is disappointed you also look at all the ways that people have disappointed you and then you come to the conclusion no one will ever be faithful to me that's the LIE right the devil gets you to accept the propositions but he feeds a false conclusion and then the person is going through life with a false conclusion in the back of their mind it's like a bad line of code right where they've written the code in their life and so now whenever they interact with people or they meet somebody for the first time in the back of their mind there's a little piece of code that's running that says don't trust them they're going to let you down they're going to disappoint you or they're going to take advantage of you or they'll abandon you you've always been abandoned etc etc this is the devil programming people by having them accept true propositions with false conclusions so they eat up the propositions and then they get sick and it destroys and ruins their life lastly the time warp the devil loves to put people into the time machine what is the time machine the time machine is the devil likes to take you out of this present moment and throw you into a future of event that has not happened and when you do that there's no way of navigating a future event right because it's not happened and all of the contingencies around what may happen and all the possibilities they're not reality and so when you get hurled into the future to something that has never happened yet you don't know how to navigate it and what does that fill you with fear anxiety and uncertainty that is the Devil's Playground what else does the devil do he'll throw you into the past something that happened something that was traumatizing something that was out of your control and he drudges up all those old feelings those thoughts those memories those images and it just absolutely unsettles you if you've been in a family and I've talked about this but previously but if you've been in a family where you had let's say something like domestic violence and the devil brings up those old thoughts those old images man it will knock you right out of your day you'll be so consumed with feeling hurt or upset or or or or discombobulated by what happened and these thoughts and it's as if the devil is replaying the old moment again and you're having to relive that trauma those are the two directions that the devil takes you into the future uncertainty unknown anxiety or into the past traumas that you have to basically Rel live once you start entertaining those thoughts and that thought process these are some of the primary ways that the devil will be whispering in your ear and trying to unsettle and rattle your life so what do you do in order to combat this number one is you have to diagnose it when you feel anger agitation discomfort Pride whatever all these things in your soul know that the devil is Whispering he's chattering when you're not feeling peaceful and you're feeling uh uh uneasy or unrest or uncertainty these sort of things it's always the byproduct of demonic energy this is why St silan the athonite he was so clear he said never talk to Demons now people misunderstand this quote and they think that the demon is going to appear and begin to talk to them this certainly happens sometimes in the lives of saints and whatnot but for the vast major majority of us what he's referring to is when the whispering in our ear starts happening and the wheels in our head start turning we begin to have a dialogue in our mind with those thoughts that are coming in and we think that we're playing checkers the devil is playing chess the devil is so many moves ahead of us that every time we present an answer to one of the thoughts the devil immediately throws another thought that we didn't see coming and so you're just chasing thought after thought after thought after thought after thought you can't get away from it but you got to diagnose it this is why St silan also said if a thought causes us agitation we are free to leave it and find a new thought God does not want our souls to be agitated angry or unpeaceful so if we find our thoughts are are shaping our emotional being and our soul becomes uneasy we are free to stop that at any time God does not expect us to be tormented and he is not tormenting us and so we immediately need to stop that go back to the drawing board and start to dismantle it how do we do that well number one way of all spiritual warfare is the Jesus prayer Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me see our minds have a certain energy it's like um it's like a car right when you put it in drive and you take your foot off the pedal it will always start to propel itself forward and that's how our mind works our mind has a certain energy where it wants to be doing something all the time it's like sometimes like a Restless you know four-year-old child that's running around your house non-stop that's what your mind is doing your mind wants to do something it wants to be working or wants to be activated and so one of the easiest things to do is pull out your prayer rope and put it in your hand and begin saying the Jesus prayer Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me it's like exercising your mind you're giving your mind something to do and to focus on so that it isn't focused and fixated on a whole bunch of things that are out of your control or are causing you to be upset what else what if my mind feels tired I'm exhausted well spiritual books audio books hymn anything to keep me focused away from entertaining the thoughts right when we're diagnosing the problem we should often ask ourselves am I using my mind or is my mind using me that's a key Point am I going where I want to go or am I going where the thoughts are leading me to go if I'm going where the thoughts are taking me I got to get off the trail and head back to base and last but not least sit silently and um if you can't sit silently this takes a lot of energy and effort this takes a lot of spiritual work do something that will turn off your mind for instance if you go for a hike it's hard to uh uh focus on the thoughts if you're struggling with the hike or if you're lifting weights and you're doing something physical that demands your attention it's hard to focus on the thoughts if you leave your house and go help somebody else you can't think about yourself in fact one of the number one ways that even in my own life I use that if I'm struggling with a thought or something else I'll think about somebody else that's struggling and I'll give them a call when I'm listening to their problems and what they're going through I'm not listening to my own problems and so constantly we want to be molding and shaping our mind around focusing on the good things Jesus prayer books hymns the things that I need to do the things that are in the present the things that are tangible realities in front of me and I want to stay away from going into the fantasies the future the past the unreality and I don't ever want to let myself uh be handcuffed by these thoughts and Shackled and dragged away into places full of anxiety and fear and depression God bless you