I’m going to start off this teaching by reading a letter written from a certain individual to his future son-in-law.

"Dear Shane, I have been unable to sleep since I broke off your engagement to my daughter. Will you forgive and forget? I was much too sensitive about your Mohawk, tattoos and pierced nose. I now realize that motorcycles aren’t really that dangerous, and I really should not have reacted that way to the fact that you have never held a job. I am sure, too, that some other very nice people live under the bridge in the park. Sure, my daughter is only 18 and wants to marry you instead of going to Harvard on full scholarship. After all, you can’t learn everything about life from books. I sometimes forget how backward I can be. I was wrong. I was a fool. I have now come to my senses, and you have my full blessing to marry my daughter. Sincerely, Robert, your future father-in-law. P.S. Congratulations on winning this week’s lottery."

This is a teaching on Multiple Streams of Income, but playing the lottery is not a part of achieving that. What we are going to be showing you tonight is how to break the strongholds in our minds that prevent us from achieving God’s best for our financial future. We want to encourage and empower you by the Holy Spirit to overcome the obstacles you face, are you ready for that? That’s why statistics show that most people who do win the lottery end up losing it all within a couple of years. They haven’t changed what’s in their minds. So that’s why before we even begin to implement any teachings on wealth and money, we have to get our mindsets right. This will be a different kind of teaching, but we have to get this out of the way before we can proceed with more of the practical applications of wealth-building we’ll be covering in the rest of this series.

As we discussed last week, God is going to give each of us our own unique ideas and divinely inspired concepts and insights, if we DON’T ALLOW THE FINANCIAL STRONGHOLDS BUILT INTO OUR MINDS KEEP US FROM IMPLEMENTING IT, and that’s what we’re going to be talking about tonight.

II Corinthians 10: 4-5 says, "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (of the flesh), but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every THOUGHT to the obedience of Christ."

Quoting such a Scripture may seem to be an odd beginning for a teaching on Multiple Streams of Income, but the Truth is this Scripture holds a major key to our success in our entire financial future. Until we grasp the meaning of strongholds and how it relates to our finances, our businesses, our entrepreneurial ideas, and even our outlook on life, we may be stuck spinning our wheels because we will not have dealt with our worst enemy – our mind.

The Scripture also tells us in Romans 12:2 to "be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind," but II Corinthians 2:16 says "we have the mind of Christ." Now, wait a minute! That sounds like a contradiction. If we have the mind of Christ, what needs to be renewed? We have to rid ourselves of the strongholds we have built in our carnal mind. So we have to ask the question, What are Strongholds?

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