The Silent Assassin of Destiny: Overthinking

this thing is not too close okay but doesn't matter so this week i will bring you to a message i have called the silent assessor assassination uh oh assassin i mean i need to i need to get my wording correctly um okay let me let me rather say the only thing i can i can tell you this has been coming on the silent assassin of destiny yeah the silent assassin of destiny you know what it is overthinking it's a silent assassin the reason being is that the devil can't touch you unless you allow him to and it all starts in the mind because he will um he will fall on uh who's that means he will attack your mind so when he attack your mind it's where he kills you before you can even even start making a decision let me make let me make an example if i can if i can talk about an assassination and it's so silently is that i think he hate me he was just saying get off now what your mind is already running forward you hate me it's a silent assassination because you're not aware of it one thought like somebody can just say to you hey man i don't like you he don't like me because he said he don't like me but in your mind you have like literally a lot of things or reasoning out why he don't like you a silent assassin that kills your destiny and this silent assassin that kills your destiny is something i can tell you is what we call the mind what we call the mind bishop bishop bishop i think i think leave him there you know why i'm saying if the two of them are together it's not wow imagine if i tell you a silent assassin you wondering how can it be silent it cannot be silent it cannot be silent but it is silent let me go to second corinthiers let's start our our message nicely let me let me not be the the one that's that say something but does not cover up with the bible 2nd corinthians and i'm reading from from i mean 2nd corinthians 10 sorry and i'm going to read from verse 4 now 2nd corinthians 10 verse 4 says now for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through god to pulling down strongholds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalt itself against the knowledge of god and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of christ bishop do i need to preach it anymore any further because as i said to you my message is entitled the silent assassin and what is the silent assassin it's overthinking i am thinking therefore i am he he just looked at me funny i think he's not loving me the guy was just in in in his mind he was just thinking of something else and then when he looked at you he looked at you he looked at you funny you already make up your mind he don't like me you overthink his actions or reactions and overthinking makes us let me not let me not go there some of us don't want to pee at night i will sleep with that pee till the next morning the reason being because the moment i go to toilet i will start overthinking and i can't sleep anymore the silent killer a silent killer overthinking i mean how many of us have a situation where you know for a fact that it's not true that that person the person the person didn't say anything they just look at you funny and for somehow you've made the decision already you don't like me that is why i'm saying to you that this message is just a oh seven's a arm fun last week's a message it's just a yeah that's basic we should base it man is it to add on yeah to add on you see because if i tell you that that so many things it does overthinking is it's not just an anxiety it's a spiritual warfare that is disguised i mean if you start overthinking the bible says it that he has not given us a spirit of fear but of a sound mind now overthinking gives you a mind that is cluttered it runs from one place to another and sometimes you you you you go against god's word that is in i'm just trying to get the scripture quickly um go against god's word now that is in 100 some 127 some 127 i want to read it to you so that you can understand what i'm saying when i say it goes against god's word for your life it goes against god's word for your life some 100 and 27 verse 2 it is vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrow for so he give it his beloved sleep for so he give it his beloved sleep he's give it it's already been given to you the sleep that you need but your things that you are doing is you rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrow so what it actually says is that whenever you are trying to get bread you you scurl you are like this we are struggling because of what we are in need of and we don't sleep bishop must i tell you what i'm i'm talking about many nights i was literally not sleeping thinking of how am i going to pay the electricity bill but he has given me sleep but my over thoughts or overthinking makes me not to sleep but don't don't just so see it all doom and gloom don't just see it all doom and gloom the reason i'm saying don't just see it all doom and gloom there's an outcome there's something that can help but i'm getting to that now i'm still i'm just working it out imagine nations become strongholds when we let fear and doubt build walls in our minds the devil can't stop your destiny he can't so he tries to distract your your decisions it's right to destroy your decisions to decide not to is also a decision if i don't decide it means that i've made a decision already do you want to come with me i don't say yes i don't say no i get in the car by the time i get in the car and i drive off when i come back you said but i wanted to go with you uh you didn't tell me you just keep quiet the decision was made for you because you have not made a decision so is satan making a decision for you because you overthink the thing so much by the time your overthinking has already stopped and you're now making a decision satan already made that decision for you he already made the decision because you have not decided as yet so he tries to distract you wow is it in alignment that i am busy doing god's work bishop i will pick on you today let me let me let me explain something now i said one day on a sunday sunday morning i said i'm thinking ah last night i didn't prepare i always prepare for my sermons this week i didn't get a time to prepare at all that morning i said where's the phone let me let me say i i'm not feeling well today because i've not prepared that decision made me to when i came here i stood here i must actually okay okay but let me leave it okay but let me leave it i'm standing here and i'm like i'm routine just pray pray just pray for and it's not to say that i am not ready i'm i'm a battery of ever ready battery i'm ever ready that you can bishop tell me now we must go and preach somewhere give me a title like anything i will be able to make a full sermon for you without having to have notes at all but that day the assassin that is silently was killing me what if i say something wrong overthinking i'm already i'm already in your mind that is the listener i'm already there i'm like hey they're going to judge me he says this one day today is not make sense over it's not make sense now my question to you is why do i say it's a destiny killer james 1 verse 8 a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways a double-minded is unstable hey a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways now overthinking makes you to be indecisive it makes you to miss moments where it was supposed to be critical for you to make a decision quickly while you are still thinking the moment pass you by while you are still thinking that do you you you remember the children of israel they over thought the the the the the promised land they over thought it like like number 13 let's go to number 13 number 13 just hear what they say number 13 uh is it 33 yeah number 13 33 and there we saw the giants the sons of a neck which come of the giants and we were in our own side as grasshoppers and so we were in their side already already you've made the decision that you are like gross grasshoppers overthinking so you're missing the promised land because of overthinking already giving up the fight without even being in the fight it's no use of us getting into a fight where we already know we're going to lose and you don't even know the strength of your enemy we know his devices we are aware of his devices if you don't know the devil's devices let me let me explain to you the one thing that that the devil never lied about is is the is the one the one that lies is like nobody's business he can lie but the one thing that he can't lie about is that when he's in the presence of god you know god asked him ebra where were you like nobody would say ah i get her giga giga he said no i come from to and fro he couldn't lie because he's in the presence of the most high knowing and the omnipresent god the one that knows whenever he's lying he can't lie he can't lie he couldn't lie at that time it's the only time when that guy was so honest like nobody's he was so honest at that time now he comes to you but he makes sure that can you see his shoes hey one car he's thinking then by that time you already just see the shoes that is dirty and you already make the man to be useless and you don't want to even talk to him because you you you you thought the shoes are stinking now you are making a ah this guy i don't want him look at his shoes already you think by the time you realize this guy was just around the corner and then he accidentally step on something now the shoes are dirty you already made up your mind like we were taught under the end when we were younger we were taught the girl won't take you if your shoes are dirty period you know that we were we were taught now if i come out of my house and my shoes are dirty no girl will even look at me hey hey hey they were they were literally talking things that so by the time you you you you you grown up you think but what does shoes have to do with getting a girlfriend it's useless man i got this girl with field techies so why is it that by the time we have over taught ourselves out of the situation overthinking it's one of the things i can tell you now when god gives you a word just obey don't think about it just obey because once you obey it cuts satan's devices put off that's it it cuts his devices off and when it cuts his devices off i can tell you now it's like it's like taking his hands and tie it behind his back let me let me let me explain to you now job today and job is like no and god is like i can break with this child of mine and satan is like you can only brag because you have his your hand on him that's why you can brag about him what if you take off your hand for a minute how does satan know that how just just think of it for a moment god has been protecting you forever god has had his hand on you forever but overthinking makes you to think ash i can't feel his presence i can't hear his words i can't i mean just picture this now some of us when it goes the goings get tough we think god is not there i mean if there's nothing in the cupboard the fridges are empty hey god where are you now you're not here he's been presence ever since he said he will never leave you normally for sake but the thing is that our own overthinking or overthinking makes us to think that how my question to you is let me ask you something that the things that job went through is it because he sent because i don't think so nowhere in the bible says is because he sent it's because god allowed it now when you start overthinking already you already lost the fight your fighting spirit is gone the reason being that your fighting spirit is gone is that you already made a decision for god while god is not yet done with you i am of the opinion that when satan was uh i mean when yeah when when when satan told god that he must now take his hand off from job job also probably felt the same way ah god is not with me but because he knows god the one thing i can tell you now is that in everything everything that happened he never cursed god or he never speak nonsense about god it's one of the things i can tell you now i'm of the opinion that if you just keep your mouth shut and stop blaming god and say even though he does it it doesn't matter it's not your business it's none of your business it's because of god that my my mother got in an accident yes it's it's because of him it it's probably in his plan for me to have uh uh to be depend depending on myself now and not depending on my mother it's in his plan for me to grow up because you can only grow up to where your mother is no longer needing you to to spoon feed you is it now because i god just see you you and your nonsense you you i don't like the fact that you took my sons away from me yes i don't like it but does it make god different my mindset should be of such that i don't care what the enemy put in my in my mind i must still accept that that is just a near a mere thought it's not god's will for my life it's never about god's will for my life imagine look at look at look at this man they were on a boat and he told jesus quick god is that's her inside inside inside he's he's under sleeping sleeping now let me show you what overthinking does not just for you but also for the person that is with you it affect the peace of others as well if i sleep with my wife the moment she rolls over the in the bed too many times too much i sense it it's not right and i start waking up and start asking hey tell me why are you so restless tonight the same thing that happened to jesus while he were in the boat jesus slept in a storm knowing that this storm can't do me anything but the overthinking of his disciples makes them to woke him up so when they woke him up he's like ah but he was in the stern asleep on a pillow the storm didn't wake jesus no the storm didn't wake him but the fear of others did the thing that you are going through is affecting the person next to you although you might not see it but it does is the reason i can tell you now some of our thoughts make the the the our destiny help us not to like us because we look sick when when we look at them do you know when i when i think now um you must ask lache lache was even telling me ah daddy every time you think i saw you something like this i never i never realize it but when i'm in deep thought like when i think deeply i will sit like this and afterwards i'm like oh yeah yeah i did it it's just something that i do when i start in deep thinking so lache will tell me uh what and i'm like what are you thinking i'm like it's man leave me alone that it's just the mere fact that when you start overthinking it flows over to somebody do you know do you know what is what you should understand that peace is not the absence of problems peace can never be the absence of problems because when you are at peace there's problems there as well there's there's problems there as well but you know what makes that peace it's it's it's it's it's the presence of the prince of peace amen amen that's something you should understand that peace oh i mean the storm is there jesus is there i must kick off the shoes sit back and relax huh you must actually jesus must say sit back and relax let me do my thing ah and you you are like jesus showed us one thing rest is also a weapon rest is also a weapon the reason why it's a weapon is that nobody can fight when fatigue hits you nobody can even think when fatigue hits you when you are tired ask my kids my children all of them when they are tired they are grumpy not because of them it's because their mother and father is like that they are grumpy when they are tired let me rather go sleep just now i hit you where i wasn't supposed to because i'm tired and i'm talking about me i don't care about you i i can only speak from what i know from my life bishop if i'm tired you won't get anything out of me i will tell you straight ah i'm a hadith rest is a weapon now sometimes the the the most spiritual thing that you can do is go to sleep in faith go to sleep in faith like like you say ish the cupboards are empty ah but i don't care god says in psalm 127 yeah he gives peaceful sleep i think let me let me just make sure that we are we we we are reminded of the psalm 127 again let me let me let me go to that 127 again i want to read it to you again just so that you can understand what i mean what i just said now he says it's in vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrow for so he give it his beloved sleep maybe maybe maybe maybe that that one doesn't heat hot enough or too soft or it doesn't make sense let's go to the to the amplified psalm 127 sometimes the amplified it just do things differently he says it is vain for you to rise up early to take rest late to eat the bread of anxious anxious in brackets or to eat the bread of toil for he gives and then in bracket blessings to his beloved in sleep you see umper umper but all these things it's in vain for us if we don't know how to overcome this thing called overthinking how do you overcome number one is to renew your mind daily never renew your month your mind once in a while renew it daily because be transformed by the renewing of your mind in romans 12 verse 2 and and do you know how you can renew your mind is start the day with the word start with bible if you start with bible ah it helps you start with the word but not the world sometimes it's it's best to to read the bible declare the bible and meditate on on that scripture like one scripture a day bishop somebody told me that i know the bible and i'm like wow that's good you know the bible and then the person said anything in the bible you can ask me i will tell you i said yes it's good information but it's not revelation i'm like ah because it's no use of knowing there's a difference between information and revelation the bible can tell us you thou shalt not steal what do you what do you do at work no i'm i'm just taking the pen the kids have to at home doesn't have a pen it's nothing it's nothing it's nothing but isn't the bible said thou shall not steal aren't your conscience telling you hey i told i took small small renewing of your mind that's number one number two is capture and replace that toxic thoughts so whenever you think of something take it don't don't chase away that thought take it write it down and ask in god's word what can i replace this with amen it's a second corinthians 10 verse 5 was already given to us years before this message do you know it was has been given before us way before this message but it's only now i want you to to to take it because it says take every thought captive to obey christ so that thought that you are thinking it's not obeying god take that thought and change it into god's word so when one is enters write it down i mean if i can say you i won't have enough for this month hey i'm struggling this this and that and the other then we go to philippians 4 verse 19 and my god shall supply all my needs so capture that thought of i don't have and make it my god and not not to say that that this application is only for certain people if you are calling him my god let me not let me not get grind this one too much because if i grind it somebody must might take offense on online because i know the people here is not going to take offense they like to they like to be rectified on things my god so if your god is somebody else it means you don't need supplies because god only supplies to the ones that call him my god so why are you struggling the question is to go and ask hey mammon you mean you are my god that's why i'm struggling like this because mammon cannot give you if god says he will supply all are you unhappy he gives you happiness are you said he gives you laughter all what do i need now i need a hug the comforter is about to hug me we we we buried shaleen let's say last month or the month before the month before shaleen's auntie just passed on this week the auntie also of cancer i'm sorry that i'm using this platform too but i just wanted to bring a point somewhere now when the bible says that he will supply all my needs he means that when you are sick he will also supply in health but the thing is that we have been capturing the problems or the toxic thoughts but we haven't replaced them with the word of god i remember pastor edgar gave me a scripture that i must give to shaleen before she passed on that was a powerful scripture but one thing i can tell you now levin there's no not enough to take it from me if you don't want the life to hit you with not curious do you even know what is it not knock double is a wood with bolt like this then it has this thing long hair stick okay but it doesn't matter nobkiri let's leave it at that almost guara yeah almost like yeah almost like water now when life hits you with nobkiris the best way is to go and look for i'm giving you advice to go and look for answers here in the bible because when the knopkiris comes the only thing you can do is take the word and make it a shield take the word and shield yourself with it like psalm 91 he will cover you capture and replace capture and replace number three he says philippians oh no let me just say number three what it is he says pray before you process overthinking if you need to overthink on something pray about it philippians 4 6 and 7 says the following be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer so what is the anxiety you're all about pray about it i pray the fact that this month the cupboards are so empty am i going to get it pray about it i'm anxious because i might lose my job pray about it i'm anxious because i'm not getting a job pray about it i'm anxious because of i don't know how am i going to get through this week i'm so tired i'm so tired pray about it anything pray about it and i must also say this now let prayer be the first response not the last resort or let prayer be the first to happen before it becomes let it be progressive not aggressive if i can explain it this way what i mean by that now before it gets too aggressive before you are in the situation in the morning when i go to my to my to my workplace i travel i travel quite extensive so when i see the accident it's not the time to pray that time it's the time to focus on that steering wheel i've prayed at home already i don't need to pray no no no no no no no no no no it's not a response to something it's not a response to something it's a response to already i've prayed up so when we when we talk about talk about about prayer we don't talk too much about prayer because we think people know what prayer is and therefore we don't speak about it but i can guarantee you now some of the the the the people that has been in church for years still don't know what prayer is they still don't know what prayer is and i'm not going to get into prayer now but i think we must make a a teaching about prayer as well now let me explain prayer is not 10 000 words about one thing no god is not hard hearing he hurt you the very first time it's just to say lord this is the situation and i'm done with if i keep on praying for my for my kids that is so naughty i'm not trusting god because i've already prayed for them you know why why my my kids are naughty is because of i don't let go and let god this is the thing i always have a problem with is that when i start praying people think i have not prayed when i say amen already mamruti do you know my prayer is so short like it's it's taking me two minutes not two minutes man one minute one minute i'm done it's not because of i have prayed that time only i'm making prayer my daily life so daily i'm in prayer a second after second minute after minute i don't wait for things to come my way and then i want to pray about it sometimes the kids probably think ah this one is talking to himself because sometimes the prayer goes out like with the sound and most of the time it doesn't go with sound it goes in inside me that is why my prayer is sweet and short thank you lord for doing this for us amen and you are like doing what must i now prophesy you and tell you exactly exactly why what was what i meant by that it's the reason why people don't like the the the the word god bless you they feel like ah but aren't you going to give the money it's the reason why people don't like the the word god bless you next one so pray before you process next one rest as an act of faith take rest man like make it your psalm 127 verse 2 he gives his beloved sleep rest in peace i will both lie down and sleep psalm 4 verse 8 i will both lie down not lie down and it stop there and sleep i think if there's anyone in this in this room i'm the most sleeper that you can find ever bishop i beat you i beat you on that one ah i you can't you can't you can't beat me so pastor a bit let me not go into this one rest because of i feel like when i in i'm in trouble i go back and i sleep because when i wake up the answer is there i sleep on my problems i mean if you can even if you can just create a bad routine with scripture and worship maybe it will already help i mean this is this is um what i love about uh pastor edgar he sleeps with the bible on his head like what is this thing earphone i i wish i can have his thing because once i sleep with bible i don't sleep i i get my mind get busy it's that dissecting the scripture if i can have something maybe you see um there's this new thing that they make like this it's like a headband then the sound is just here by your ears and then you can you can listen to it like that but my problem is when scripture comes i wanna yeah i want to find it and and that thing it puts the scripture in your subconscious mind so that it can comes out easily whenever you need it if we can do that it's an act of faith but when i sleep i sleep or when i want to sleep i don't want the headphone thing again i'll be i'll be disturbed the whole night and i woke up frequently that's number four i think our time is almost going let me let me wrap this up number five number five and this is the thing i was already speaking about but i didn't get into it too much don't fight alone never fight alone get accountability what do i mean by this ecclesiastes 4 what do i mean by this two are better than one if one is tired the other one is strong you you remember i said to us i said we must pray each one at least one hour during the course of the day the time i'm tired and i'm sleeping it's the time you are awake we are all not the same some of us are night owls and others are early birds we are not the same so when you are sleeping at night somebody else can pray for you so what i mean by this is that you need to have a small group of people that you join together and this joining together groups it's it it can be like prayer partners if i can say it that way do you know that if i if i do something wrong and i've not been reprimanded before i will keep on doing it and i will keep on doing it because i don't see a mistake my wife told me you don't like to be rectified i don't like that about you because whenever you make a point you believe that point only from your point of view if i'm trying to tell you look this is the situation or this is how i see it you tend to get angry and you say keep quiet listen i had to go back up and i had to say hey it's so true i stepped back and i thought about it and i'm like do you do you know when was it do you know when when when when that that conversation started now i want to explain the the situation laverne wanted to go to le shante's house now i'm saying no done and my low i don't need to explain myself i'm just moved and then she said but why do you say no and i had to explain miss god some relationships doesn't come one way you have to make it a two way like bishop if you don't come to my house why do i expect you or you expect me to come to your house yeah you understand like it needs to be a a two-way like sometimes you come to my house sometimes you don't if you don't want me to come to your house then you tell me reason being i don't want you to come to my house because my house is smaller than yours and we can sit and have a discussion nicely except there where we have too small where the kids are playing you tell me why i will understand so my wife tells tell me this thing you just want to take yours look at this the kids will be uh uh skelum uh they will be stout man ish when you keep on saying no they will late later on they will they will slip out and go and i'm like i don't like this one-way street thing done period she said no just tell her exactly why and i had to come and tell levin i'm sorry but my point of view i did not make clear and that is why my my standing on my side was wrongly for me to stand like that and not give a reason now when we say don't fight alone is the reason why we say don't fight alone because somebody else's point can help you to look at things differently i'm bishop i've never been a fan of muslims never ever in my life not being because i don't like them it's just being because i don't understand them somebody told me we are fighting one fight although we use different ways and i'm like ah your god is called allah mine is not allah done i don't know because i don't know you understand what i'm saying somebody had to come sit me down and told me in the quran it says whatever i'm like hey don't even teach me i don't want to hear because in my mind the way they they they they take that beats and and and speak wrong words against you and this is from what i heard i already said no the way they you will see them sitting with the the beat like this reciting no bishop you say it's for meditating i heard it's for when they curse you do you understand what i'm saying somebody had to tell me this thing keeps the focus on meditation so the thing that they use is like a rosary yeah yeah like rosary it it it it make them to be focused on on on on on their mind not to me ah is i can you see they're cursing me again ah let me go two is better to understand each other if i come to church i don't come to church to preach to myself i already know when god spoke to me in the in the room i already know this scripture i already know the message i already know the message is for me it's not for you but because of i know god doesn't want us to be selfish i share amen amen amen amen because some of these things i can keep for myself it's it's it's necessary actually to some of the things to keep it for myself because of if i can send somebody's spirituality is too low for that one person to know it i'd rather protect that person i have a protection order against so many people i summons satan i summons him you not touch that one i i give him protection order i said here legally you are not allowed to touch that one and when the person comes to me all fights in water i'm thinking should i maybe take my restraining order back maybe let me just show the person not a little bit let let set them just then i'm thinking but i didn't do it out of anything i'm doing it out of love love love for the person to grow you are one of them you specifically you i'm i must mention you because the love i have for you specifically i don't want the devil to to to come close to you when the devil comes close to you it's like he's he's standing on my toes although i have i have steel kneecaps steel caps on my toes you can't trap on my toes for nothing he needs to be strap hard for me to feel him he will tramp on my toes but i won't i won't i won't even be bothered and i will i will i will tell you you know what the reason for it now your future is you are such a strong pillar like somebody who who have too many people that is relying relying on you and it's not i'm not even bothered about your family i'm talking about people that you still need to groom them you still need to teach them and there's so many things that you will teach them that it's not even and that is why satan is is is he's he's so it's like he can't get rid of you he's almost like every time he's he's telling you do this do that and then by the time you realize you you you you realize i almost did it thank you i didn't you do it then when you come back you are like thank you so this is the reason i'm saying i've put a restraining order for satan on your life i kept it i said hey but when you fight alone the unfortunate part is you can't watch your back hey it's it's bishop it's not just true it's fact it's a fact it's a fact and there we think that when we sit alone with ah no i'm i'm fine i'm at home i sit with my bible no i read my bible every day i am fine yes you are fine wait until satan because remember satan doesn't do his job alone he sent these demons wait until he fights you and you can't see at the back that's where the problem comes in don't fight alone sometimes your mind needs the mind of christ the mind of christ i think i think we uh no let me conclude this one i think we must just stop letting satan rent space in your in our heads amen he doesn't have um he doesn't pay rent that one so just let him go because he's renting space in our minds that for some weird reason we are in trouble as i have 26 26 verse 26 verse 3 let's go there as i what did i say you see this bra is going on my mind already i was just talking about the mind now summary he said he said he said thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusted in thee if your mind is constantly running it's not because you have too much on your plate it's because you're trying to control what only god cannot control or can handle you're trying to control what god can handle some of the things we must just use exodus 14 verse 14 yo if you don't know exodus 14 verse 14 go and read it because that one is the core and the crux of the matter it's a promise that yo yo it's the crux of the matter but who's ready to evict the devil from from his thoughts are we ready to say hey long time you've been renting this space i'm i'm going for you long i'm tired of you now who is ready to say whatever you've been distracting me on my purpose is my purpose and my purpose will stay my purpose regardless of whatever you are saying if we are ready i will pray lord jesus i surrender my thoughts i surrender my fears i surrender even my future because i know that no more cycles of overthinking will come to me in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord i receive the mind of christ because the mind of christ is peace and i receive the peace of god i declare that my mind rest and my destiny moves forward in jesus mighty name amen and amen now may the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god and the sweet fellowship of the holy spirit rest and rest and abide with us all until jesus comes surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever in jesus mighty name amen and amen amen