The speaker argues that your thoughts directly shape your body's responses, and anxiety comes from sending your mind to unwanted places. He contrasts how easily people believe in the devil with how hard they find it to trust God, framing all resistance as simply the absence of divine power.
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Where the mind goes, the body follows. You got to start sending your mind ahead of you on purpose. And sometimes people are like, well, how do I know that's gonna work? Because it's already working. How do you get anxious? You send your mind to something that you don't like and let faith do what faith does. How do you get overwhelmed? You send your mind to a place that overwhelms you and your body follows. How do you have panic attacks? You send your mind to the unwanted and your body fall. If it'll work in that direction, it'll work in that direction. It like blows my mind that people find it so easy to believe in the devil but struggle to believe in the power of God. They'll say, oh, the devil busy today. You think God took the day off? Like, like you got no power. I have no problem believing in— it's so easy to believe in the devil. It's like it's in your nature to believe in the devil, but when it's time to believe in and trust God God already told us there's one power in the world. I, I— the way that I view it— view it how you want, I'll tell you how to view it. The way that I view it is the devil is simply the resistance of God. All of the negative facets of life, everything that you don't like, is