Talk

Help! I Need You.

Dan Watson
June, 25, 2023

Dan Watson brings an encouraging message about calling on the Lord for help when the enemy has strongholds in our lives.

Key Takeaway

God has given us the divine power to demolish the Enemy's strongholds in our lives - with His help - we can walk in freedom.

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"We have the power to reject or accept every thought that comes into our minds."
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Dan Watson

Discussion Questions

  1. Dan shares about the “crisps” that are close by in moments when he knows he should be working out. Do you have a funny “fitness story” like his – a humorous craving that lies close by, competing for your interests?

  2. Romans 7 is a tricky and somewhat clunky passage to read in English. How would you describe the gist of the passage in your own words?

  3. If your mind is the location of a “stronghold, " what does that say about how we should demolish them and fortify the ones we want to keep?

  4. What is ‘Baby Elephant Syndrome,’ and how does that apply to our war against our flesh?

  5. Dan shares about his trainer convicting him, asking, “Why does your life not look like you know?” Answer the same question: what makes it so difficult to apply what we “already know”?

  6. How do you “take a thought captive”? How do you turn a hostile thought into an ally (2 Cor 10:5)?

  7. What is the relationship between knowing the Word of God well and demolishing strongholds in our lives?

  8. Do you know Scripture for the strongholds of life? As a group, take a moment to compile a mental list. What is a passage of Scripture that addresses insecurity, jealousy, hatred, anger, pride, and similar strongholds?

  9. What is a “Same-God” story from Scripture that encourages you today? In other words, which character from Scripture experienced the victory, deliverance, or breakthrough you long to experience?

Scripture References

14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
18For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
23but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
3For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,
4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
6The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
4The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5We 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.
22One who is wise can go up against the city of the mighty

and pull down the stronghold in which they trust.

9The
Lord
is a refuge for the oppressed,

a stronghold in times of trouble.

29“Is not my word like fire,” declares the
Lord
, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?
Dan Watson
Dan Watson
Pastor of Passion City Church Trilith