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Do You Want to Change? Let’s Use God’s Path And Actually Change

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Do You Want to Change? Let’s Use God’s Path And Actually Change

Introduction

Every person reaches a point where they want real change — not temporary motivation, not emotional highs, not coping skills — but deep, lasting transformation. The kind that reshapes who you are at the level of motive, desire, thought, and behavior. The kind that brings peace, maturity, stability, and spiritual power.

There is only one path that reliably produces this kind of transformation: God’s path. It works because it deals with the entire internal chain that produces behavior. Most change strategies only address symptoms. God addresses the roots.

“But we all… are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory…”
—2 Corinthians 3:18

What Are We Trying to Accomplish?

The goal of transformation is not simply becoming a ‘better version’ of yourself. The goal is becoming the person God intended you to be — someone who reflects His character, walks in His love, operates in His truth, and lives in His power.

Transformation aims at:

• Reshaping motives
• Correcting beliefs
• Healing emotions
• Renewing thoughts
• Strengthening decisions
• Reforming habits
• Rebuilding identity
• Restoring purpose

This is more than behavior modification. It is internal re-creation.

Why Does This Matter?

Transformation matters because it affects both eternity and daily life.

• **Eternally** — God is preparing you for life with Him forever. Character matters. Loving God with all your heart matters most.

• **Here and now** — Your internal world determines your peace, relationships, confidence, and stability. You are an ambassador for Christ, Bring Him Glory.

When transformation is ignored, life becomes reactive, chaotic, and repetitive. When embraced, life becomes fruitful, meaningful, and aligned with God’s design.

“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son.”
—Romans 8:29 (NKJV)

Understand the Chain: Why You Do the Things You Don’t Want to Do

Every behavior — desirable or undesirable — is produced by an internal sequence. If you only fight the behavior, you will always lose. But if you understand the chain, you can break it early.

Here is the full chain of behavior we are working with:

1. Root Love (Self vs. God)

The deepest motive driving everything. Love of self produces disorder; love of God produces life.

2. Lust Channel (Eyes, Flesh, Pride)

The craving system that activates desire and pulls the heart away from God.

3. Specific Ungodly Love / Temptation Object

A concrete desire becomes a substitute for God — comfort, control, recognition, escape.

4. Ungodly Belief

A lie forms to justify the desire and make it feel necessary.

5. Ungodly Emotion

Emotion fuels the belief and prepares the body to act: fear, anger, shame, envy, irritation.

6. Ungodly Thought / Inner Voice

Mental rehearsal: accusations, justifications, fantasies, arguments.

7. Ungodly Decision

The will chooses the self-serving path — often automatically.

8. Ungodly Behavior

The visible action: reacting, withdrawing, indulging, attacking, escaping.

9. Undesired Consequence

Shame, frustration, relationship damage, spiritual dullness, reinforced bondage.

We need to break the chain and clean out the roots wo we can get aligned with God’s intention for us

“Make the tree good and its fruit good.”
—Matthew 12:33

Why Other Change Strategies Don’t Work

Most secular or pop-spiritual approaches fail because they address only fragments of the chain — usually the behavior, emotion, or thought level — while ignoring the root. Only God can change what you love, and only God can uproot the lies that shape your identity and drive your desires.

Here are common strategies and where they fall short:

• **Self-help** — Tries to change habits but never addresses the heart’s motives or spiritual roots.
• **Positive thinking** — Focuses on thoughts but ignores beliefs, desires, and root love.
• **‘Love yourself’ ideology** — Attempts to heal emotions without addressing the reason they form: misplaced loves.
• **Secular therapy-only models** — Helpful for insight but limited in spiritual root healing.
• **Mindfulness/spirituality** — Tries to calm the mind but cannot transform desires or crucify the flesh.

These approaches may temporarily reduce symptoms, but they cannot heal the tree because they cannot change the heart. Only God can do that — when we give Him permission, align with His truth, and crucify the self-centered root.

Where True Transformation Begins

Transformation begins with intention — the desire to change. But desire alone accomplishes nothing unless it is expressed through obedience. Obedience is the first action that invites God into the root of the chain.

Once obedience is chosen, even before your emotions or thoughts agree, God begins reshaping your motives, healing your beliefs, retraining your emotions, and renewing your mind.

• Intention starts the journey.
• Obedience opens the door.
• The Spirit transforms the heart.
• A renewed heart produces sustained renewed behavior.

“Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
—Galatians 5:16 (NKJV)

God’s Path for Transformation (The Only One That Actually Works)

God’s transformation path addresses every stage of the chain — root, belief, emotion, thought, and action. Here is the full sequence:

1. **Reveal the Root** — Ask God to expose what you really loved in the moment.
2. **Confront the Lie** — Identify the belief shaping your emotion.
3. **Insert God’s Truth** — Replace the lie with Scripture spoken aloud.
4. **Repent and Realign** — Realign your will with God.
5. **Crucify the Flesh** — Deny the self-centered motive.
6. **Choose Obedience** — Act on God’s truth even if it feels unnatural.
7. **Walk by the Spirit** — Depend on God’s power, not willpower.
8. **Practice Righteous Behavior** — Rewire the brain with repeated godly action.

This is the only process that changes the entire person — root, heart, mind, will, and behavior.

Where to Learn More

 Focus on Gods word – The truth will make you free

• Romans 12 – Renewing the mind
• Galatians 5 – Walking by the Spirit
• John 15 – Abiding in Christ

Resources

• Mark Virkler – Hearing God’s voice and emotional healing
• Neil Anderson – Freedom in Christ
• Dallas Willard – Renovation of the Heart

 

 

Why Do I Do The Bad Things I Do? Understand the Chain And Break It

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Why Do I Do Bad The Things I Do? Understand the Chain And Break It

Introduction

.Every person struggles with behaviors they don’t like. Angry reactions, withdrawal, avoidance, lust, overthinking, people-pleasing, defensiveness, and addiction-like cycles feel automatic and confusing. But nothing is random. Every behavior follows a precise internal chain. When you understand this chain, you can interrupt it and break it.

The principles that explain this chain are spiritual truths about the heart and how it functions. Behavior science confirms these truths and explains the mechanisms—how motives form, how beliefs shape emotion, how emotions direct thought, and how repeated cycles create automatic patterns.

“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
—Proverbs 23:7

Putting This Struggle in Perspective

When you repeatedly do things you do not want to do, it is not simply weakness. It is a sign of an internal system operating outside its original design. You were created to operate with pure Godly love, in truth perfectly aligned with God’s intentions, as a partner with Him in ongoing creation on this earth. When the heart is disordered—when self-centered love replaces God-centered love—the system becomes distracted and focused internally which diverts God’s love and builds layers and layers of unintended actions and reactions that work against Gods creation and harm ourselves and others.

Behavior science explains that most actions come from automatic patterns stored in the emotional brain. Scripture explains the same truth: patterns flow from the heart, and the heart directs the entire life.

“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
—Proverbs 4:23 

The Chain That Produces Undesired Behavior

Here is the sequence that leads to undesirable behavior. Each stage naturally produces the next, just as a seed produces a plant. The earlier you interrupt the chain, the easier it becomes to break the behavior.

1. Root Love (Self vs. God)

The deepest orientation of the heart. You will either act from love of God (serving God and His kingdom in obedience, trust, and holiness) or a love of self (serving your own interests through comfort, ego, control, safety) . Your heart is creative force, the root love determines the entire direction of the chain your heart drives.

2. Lust Channel (Eyes, Flesh, Pride)

If the heart is not rooted in Love of God and oriented to find satisfaction in serving Him, It will be oriented internally towards itself and will be looking for a source of satisfaction somewhere else.  There are three pathway through which self-centered love looks for love – Through thoughts in the mind focused on things the Eyes can see, Through feelings in the Heart focused on cravings of your physical earthly body. And through the Will which is trying to decide how you fit into this world.  These are powerful craving systems: bodily cravings, visual cravings, or prideful cravings. Scripture calls them lusts; neuroscience calls them reward pathways. This is the reality of our fallen heart “looking for love in all the wrong places” as the song goes.

3. Ungodly Love (Specific Temptation Target Object)

The heart will pursue the lust paths until if finds a target,  something to focus on, A concrete substitute for God.  This target object becomes the thing you desire: comfort, recognition, control, things, money, escape, praise, pleasure. This is the moment your heart says: “I need this to be okay.”

4. Ungodly Belief / Lie

A lie forms that justifies the desire: “I won’t be safe unless… I need this to feel better… I won’t be respected unless…” Beliefs generate emotions, and emotions generate action.

5. Ungodly Emotion (Energy)

The lie creates emotional force: fear, anger, shame, irritation, envy, anxiety, resentment. Emotions take control of your attention and push you toward action.

6. Ungodly Thoughts / Inner Voice

Your mind starts rehearsing narratives: accusations, justifications, fantasies, internal arguments, revenge scenarios. This is the brain preparing for behavior—mental rehearsal. If these thoughts are constrained by God’s truth, anything off track will be noticed and corrected,  If they are not constrained by a framework of Gods word and go out of bounds, they will trigger unhealthy emotions and build internal energy looking for a way to escape into action. 

7. Ungodly Decision

A choice is made—usually quickly and automatically—to serve the desire rather than obey truth. Decision is often subconscious unless interrupted.

8. Ungodly Action (Tangible Sin)

The visible behavior: words, reactions, habits, responses. The undesired action is simply the physical release of energy from the chain above it.

9. Ungodly Fruit (Undesired Consequences)

Ungodly behaviors have consequences that adversely impact your ability to serve God’s intended role for you. They either distract you, or impede your ability to function, or ruin relationships, or cut you off God, or cut you off from society: Inner turmoil, shame, relational conflict, spiritual dullness, or strengthened bondage. Consequences either reinforce the cycle or motivate change.

Where Does True Transformation Begin?

Transformation does not begin with behavior. It does not begin with willpower or trying harder. It begins with intention—a genuine desire to change. Intention expresses itself through obedience, even before your emotions or thoughts agree.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…”
—Romans 12:2

Behavior science confirms this: taking a small action in a new direction begins re-routing neural pathways. Spiritually, obedience aligns your heart with truth, and the Spirit uses your obedience to reshape your motives, beliefs, desires, and emotional patterns.

“Make the tree good and its fruit good…”
—Matthew 12:33

Therefore:

• Transformation begins with intention.
• Intention expresses itself through obedience.
• Obedience allows the Spirit to renew the heart.
• A renewed heart produces new behavior.

“If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”
—John 13:17

Breaking the Chain at Each Stage

You don’t have to wait for the behavior to happen. You can interrupt the chain early:

• Root Love – Recommit to honoring God above comfort, ego, or control.
• Lust Channel – Notice which craving is activated (eyes, flesh, pride).
• Temptation – Name the ungodly love trying to take over.
• Ungodly Belief – Identify the specific lie you are believing.
• Ungodly Emotion – Label the emotion; naming reduces its control.
• Ungodly Thought – Notice ungodly thoughts, Replace destructive scripts with truth.
• Decision – Pause long enough to choose obedience.
• Action – Practice the desired righteous behavior.
• Life Fruit / Consequence – Reflect, notice opportunities to do better,  and adjust for next time.

“Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
—Galatians 5:16

Breaking one link weakens the entire chain.

How Can I Apply This?

Journaling with Jesus is very effective:

Key Questions To Ask:

• Lord, What undesired behavior shall we fix today?
• What Ungodly love is driving it?
• What Ungodly belief is enabling it?
• What Godly truth will cut it off?

Then:

    • Repent for the undesired behavior, for pursuing ungodly loves, and for believing ungodly lies
    • Declare the Godly belief that guides us in the right direction,
    • Accept Jesus’ finished work on the cross,  by his stripes you are healed, by his blood you are cleaned/forgiven.
    • Crucify your flesh, deny self serving agendas and emotions and pick up your cross.
    • Put off the old man and his habits and behaviors
    • Put on the new man renewed in Christ.

There are specific strategies to defeat each of the three lusts –   

Lust of the Eyes

Lust of the eyes works in the mind, trying to build your identity based on things you can see – Give the mind something different to focus on

Stop studying and admiring (worshiping) things you do not really need at this point in your journey.

Focus on things above instead. – your identity and purpose, gods promises.

Declare your identity as a Born Again Child of God, Fleshly sin crucified with Christ, old ways buried in the grace, New man raised into new life.

Lust of the Flesh

Lust of the flesh works through the heat trying to pursue feleings, building up pleasures and avoiding pains..

Defeating the flesh requires discipline – Reading the word of God daily, Fasting

Pride of life

Pride of life work through the Will to build up our identity relative to others or put others down to minimize them

– above God and above others. 

Declare Submittal and trusting God

 

Focus on God’s Word

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
—Psalm 119:105

  • Romans 12 – Renewing the mind
  • Proverbs 4:20-23 – Pay Attention To Gods Words
  • Colossians 3:16 – Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
  • Galatians 5 – Walking by the Spirit
  • John 15 – Abiding in Christ

Where to Learn More

Many excellent resources are available, here are a few

• Dan Mohler – Put Off The Old – Put On the New
• Mark Virkler – Hearing God’s voice and inner healing

 

Demonic Spirits Work In Chains, Break Them With Truth

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Demonic Spirits Work In Chains, Trigger → Aggravate → Destroy

Introduction: Understanding Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual warfare is the ongoing conflict between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness. We have a real enemy—Satan—who uses spiritual forces of wickedness to deceive, tempt, pressure, and ultimately destroy. Demonic spirits are fallen angels aligned with Satan, operating with intentional strategy to steal, kill, and destroy. They cannot possess a believer’s spirit, but they can influence thoughts, emotions, and behaviors when given access. They use deception, temptation, emotional pressure, and destructive influence to derail God’s purposes in our lives.

The enemy works through predictable patterns and strategies, not randomness. Understanding their schemes is the first step toward resisting them effectively. 

One of the most common demonic mechanisms is the three‑stage spiritual influence chain:

Trigger → Aggravate → Destroy.

Understanding this chain equips believers to identify attacks early, resist effectively, and walk in lasting freedom.

This post introduces one of the most common demonic patterns—how spirits work together to move a person from a moment of vulnerability into patterns of destruction. This pattern is called the Trigger → Aggravate → Destroy chain.

1. TRIGGER — The Opening Move

A trigger is the moment a demonic spirit attempts to activate an internal weakness, wound, or ungodly belief. It is not sin, but it is the point where spiritual pressure begins.

“Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.” —James 1:14 (NKJV)

Triggers can take the form of rejection, shame, loneliness, disrespect, boredom, fear of failure, correction, or anything that presses on an unhealed part of the heart. The trigger activates an ungodly love (self-protection, pride, comfort, approval) or an ungodly belief (“I’m not enough,” “I’m alone,” “I’ll never change”).

2. AGGRAVATE — The Intensifier

Once triggered, aggravating spirits rush in to increase emotional pressure. Their job is to take a small spark and turn it into a fire—fear into anxiety, irritation into anger, sadness into despair.

“When the enemy comes in like a flood…” —Isaiah 59:19 (NKJV)

Aggravator spirits usually work through persistent mental suggestions: “You’re failing,” “No one cares,” “You can’t handle this,” “They don’t respect you,” “It will never get better.” The goal is to destabilize the heart until the person feels overwhelmed.

3. DESTROY — The Outcome

If the aggravation is not resisted, destroyer spirits step in. These spirits push for outward, visible, and damaging actions. Their intention is always the same—cause harm to the person, their relationships, their reputation, and their spiritual life.

“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” —John 10:10 (NKJV)

Destroyer spirits manifest through rage, addiction, sexual sin, violence, self-harm, isolation, sabotage, or compulsive behaviors. Their influence leads to broken trust, damaged families, ruined opportunities, and spiritual bondage.

Breaking the Chain: Three Strategies

The chain can be broken at ANY stage, but the deepest freedom comes when all three layers are addressed.

Scripture gives three clear strategies:

    • Renew the Mind — breaks TRIGGERS

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” —Romans 12:2 (NKJV)

    • Resist the Enemy — silences AGGRAVATORS

“Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” —James 4:7 (NKJV)

    • Walk in the Spirit — blocks DESTROYERS

“Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” —Galatians 5:16 (NKJV)

1. Breaking Triggers — Addressing Self‑Centered Loves

Triggers work because they press on self‑centered loves such as comfort, control, reputation, approval, or self‑protection. These loves represent areas of the flesh not fully submitted to Christ.

To break triggers, identify the self‑centered love being pressed, expose the ungodly belief attached to it, and replace it with a God‑centered truth. This is the essence of renewing the mind.

This will be expanded in the upcoming Trigger Reference Table.

2. Breaking Aggravators — Dismantling Lies and Ungodly Beliefs

Aggravators thrive on ungodly beliefs such as ‘I’m unsafe,’ ‘I’m alone,’ ‘I must defend myself,’ or ‘Nothing will ever change.’ These lies amplify emotions and cloud judgment.

Breaking aggravators requires identifying the lie, confronting it with Scripture, and speaking truth out loud. This disarms the emotional momentum the enemy depends on.

The Aggravator Reference Table will outline key lies, truths, and scriptures for practical use.

3. Breaking Destroyers — Stopping Sin and Behavioral Cycles

Destroyer spirits push for outward actions that cause real harm. They rely on emotional chaos, ungodly beliefs, and past sin patterns to pressure the believer into destructive behavior.

Breaking destroyers requires: interrupting the moment, declaring Scripture, praying in the Spirit, and implementing practical boundaries. Long‑term freedom comes from consistent obedience and walking in the Spirit.

The Destroyer Reference Table will map common destroyers, their motives, lies, truths, and verses.

Where to Learn More

Kirkgasser Home Group Bible Study – Use God’s Words To Resist The Devil (Video)  ( Presentation)

Catalog of Demonic Spirit Families, Ungodly Truths, Biblical Truths

Sin Chains Reference Table

Devil Strategies Reference Tables

 

For deeper study in spiritual warfare, demonic influence, and Christian freedom, explore:

  • Ephesians 6 — The Armor of God
  • 2 Corinthians 10 — Taking thoughts captive
  • Mark 4 — How Satan steals the Word
  • 1 Peter 5 — Be sober and vigilant
  • Derek Prince — Teaching on Deliverance
  • Neil Anderson — The Bondage Breaker
  • Dan Mohler — Identity & Transformation

These resources reinforce the principles in this post and prepare the foundation for the upcoming Trigger, Aggravator, and Destroyer Reference Tables.

 

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