Get Your Mind Right (Week 3)
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
May 31, 2026
Peace
A God-given condition of spiritual wholeness, inner tranquility, freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts.
The Promise of Peace
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace [total well-being, wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken, everything flourishing, in every domain, to an exceptional degree]. Whose mind [inner orientation, world view, and operating system of their soul] is stayed [fully leaning and resting] on You, Because he trusts [completely and confidently relies totally] in You.
Sermon in a Sentence
Get Your Mind Right!
How Our Thoughts Impact Our Life Outcomes
Experience Something🡪 Thoughts (Tell Ourselves a Story)🡪 Feelings🡪Actions🡪Outcomes
The 12 Spies Anxiety Case Study Quick Review: Numbers 13-14
- They Experienced Something
Numbers 13: 1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.” 25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land. 27 They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
- They Thought Something
Numbers 13 28 BUT the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. 30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.” 31b But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” 33b We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
- They Felt and Did Something
Numbers 14 1That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. 2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!
- They Got Results
14 26 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron…‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say: 29 In this wilderness your bodies will fall. 30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
How to Deal with Anxiety
Exterminate our ANTS with prayer
Philippians 4:6-7 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Definitions
Soil (Mind)—The environment in which your beliefs are sustained, starved, or renewed.
Romans 12:2 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.
Roots (Core Beliefs)—Beliefs About Self, Others, and the World, deep convictions about who you are, whether people are safe, and how the world works. These beliefs generate your thoughts.
Deep Roots (Heart) the integrated center of the person — the place of intention, desire, will, memory, understanding, and moral orientation.
Mark 7:20-23 20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Ephesians 2:1- 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
Galatians 5:19-21 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Psalm 139:23-24 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
You are being molded
Get Your Mind Right (Week 2)
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
May 24, 2026
The Promise of Peace
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace [total well-being, wholeness, nothing missing,
nothing broken, everything flourishing, in every domain, to an exceptional degree]. Whose
mind [inner orientation, world view, and operating system of their soul] is stayed [fully leaning
and resting] on You, Because he trusts [completely and confidently relies totally] in You.
Sermon in a Sentence
Get Your Mind Right!
Psalm 94:18-19 18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
19 When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.
Anxiety Case Study (Numbers 13-14, the 12 Spies)
Numbers 13:1-2, 17-20 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Send some men to explore the land of
Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”
17 When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, “Go up through the Negev and on into
the hill country. 18 See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong
or weak, few or many. 19 What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of
towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified? 20 How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor?
Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the
season for the first ripe grapes.) 25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the
land.
26 They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the
Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the
fruit of the land. 27 They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent
us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. 28 But the people who live there are
powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.
30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take
possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are
stronger than we are.” 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land
they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people
we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come
from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to
them.”
Numbers 14: 1That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.
2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If
only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness! 3 Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only
to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be
better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader
and go back to Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there.
6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored
the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed
through and explored is exceedingly good. 8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into
that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. 9 Only do not rebel against
the Lord. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their
protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”
How to Deal With Anxiety
Philippians 4:6-7 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Mental Health Mind Renewal Work
Memorize Philippians 4:6-7
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