CAROLINE LEAF: We take this
power that we have that God has
given us to think, feel and
choose, which generates
energy to our brain, and
if we don't think, feel
and choose correctly,
we generate the
wrong energy, a
distortion of the truth.
(Singing) I know my God
has made the way for
me. I know my God has
made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: What is
a sound mind? Join Kenneth
and Gloria Copeland along
with guest Dr. Caroline
Leaf as they explain
how thinking God's
thoughts which is love,
leads to a sound mind.
Next on the Believer's
Voice of Victory.
KENNETH: Hello
everybody. This is the
Believer's Voice of Victory
Broadcast. Welcome today. We
have Dr. Caroline Leaf with us
again today, praise the Lord.
Isn't that wonderful? Listen. Be
sure and download the notes of
the broadcast. They're free but
particularly in the nature of
Dr. Leaf's presentation and what
she's talking about, all the
scriptures, all of the notes
and particularly the scientific
notifications and everything
will be in those outlines.
Praise the Lord, you can follow
right along there and say,
mm-hmm. You can
do like I do, sit up here and do
your best to look smart
enough to understand what you're
saying. Amen. Gloria, you look
stunning today. GLORIA: Do I
look smart? KENNETH: Yes you do.
We're both smarter because we
spent yesterday with Caroline
Leaf. GLORIA: Well every little
bit helps. KENNETH: Amen. Praise
the Lord. Father we thank you
for sending Caroline to us.
GLORIA: Thank you Lord. KENNETH:
We receive her anointing. We
receive the blessing of the Lord
through her, in Jesus' name.
Amen. Let's go back to our
golden text in 2 Timothy 1:7,
"For God hath not given us the
Spirit of fear." Fear is a
spirit. "But of power and of
love and of a sound mind."
Everybody wants a sound mind,
but you must have a healthy,
sound brain, through which the
mind functions. Now, Romans 12,
"Be not conformed to this world,
but be ye transformed," this
will transform you. "By the
renewing of your mind."
Yesterday I never had this
thought. While you were
teaching, word replacement. Word
replacement. We have the word of
God to replace the words that we
learned in childhood and learned
and data gathered in our brains,
through the world, but we thank
God, have supernatural word and
thought replacement. Glory
to God. CAROLINE LEAF: That's
powerful. KENNETH: Isn't that
... CAROLINE LEAF: Powerful.
KENNETH: That renewing your mind
to the word is what transforms
you. I remember discussing
this before with you. How do you
renew your mind? Jesus said,
"Why take ye thought saying?"
You take a thought and say it.
If I've been taking the wrong
thought and saying it, thoughts
of unbelief, thoughts of fear,
thoughts of unforgiveness
and saying them, then they're
damaging me, spirit, soul and
body, because that's not what
God created us to do, and that's
not what he created us to think.
But I go to the word and I find
the word thought replacement for
that. I take that thought and
say it. I am not filled with
fear. I've not been given a
spirit of fear. Therefore I
refuse to fear. I've been given
a spirit of power and love and
of a sound mind. I keep taking
that ... Go to the book, and
take that thought and say it.
Take that thought and say it.
Take that thought and say it.
Just continue that. Take that
thought and say it. You say
something long enough for it to
register on your heart, it will
begin to control your life. So,
I take that thought and say it.
There's coming a time when it's
going to come out of my mouth
without me having to think. My
mind's renewed in that
point. CAROLINE LEAF: And it's a
continuous process. It's a
continual renewing. That's what,
in all my work, but in this book
I've really tried to challenge
people to do that, and given
people the tools for how to
renew your mind. Because when I
work with my patients, which had
all kinds of the, from the
neurological problems like
learning problems, traumatic
brain injuries, dementias, et
cetera, to the emotional side.
We've got emotions and we've got
our issues. It's the human
condition. We go through the
sufferings of life. As we deal
with that, people wanted me to
help them as well as helping
myself. How do we renew your
mind? How do you bring ... So
we know the scriptures and most
people have heard those very
well, often spoken scriptures,
but how do you do it? Now Jesus
was extremely practical. So I've
tried to get very practical in
my application of science. This
book is really a toolbox of how
to renew your mind, the elements
that are involved and the
processes that are involved. How
do you do this as a life style.
KENNETH: Oh that's so good.
CAROLINE LEAF: So that you don't
die 15 to 25 years younger than
you should. Because there's
something you can do that no one
else can do. So if you die 15 to
25 years younger, and if you're
living a shorter lifespan,
broken, depressed, not achieving
your purpose, without hope, the
whole world suffers, because we
life entangled lives. We're
connected, Ephesians 4:16.
There's just, throughout the
scriptures, we are connected. We
call to get wisdom, to get
understanding. I challenge
people to go beyond, to study,
to really develop your mind and
to learn how to do that. What
are the practical steps involved
in renewing your mind on a daily
basis. KENNETH: How is this
generation shortening their
lifespan? CAROLINE LEAF: By two
things. First of all, mind
management. It's not just our
children and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren and so on,
not that I've got any
grandchildren. I've got
grand-dogs, but not
grandchildren yet. But it's also
our current. My age group, your
age group, that we are also,
people are dying much
younger. Two things. One is the
misunderstanding and
mismanagement of mind. The top
on on that list, the big
picture, mind and then diet.
Okay, so the correct diet,
exercise, et cetera, so looking
after the 1% physical that
changed radically 50 years ago
and people, the industrialized
food movement came in, so we
started destroying the earth
and our body. That's another
discussion. The big mind, the
mind one is the main one. Both
you have to address both. You
can't address one without the
other, but it's, let's talk
about the mind one. Topping the
list of the reasons and this
will really, really blow your
mind too, in a good sense, of
why people are dying younger, is
chaotic thinking. Not bringing
thoughts under control. Not
controlling those thoughts.
That's why one of the things
that I talk about in this book
is how our thinking has shifted
over the generations. Every
generation faces something new.
Every generation. That's not
unusual, but each generation has
a unique issue. We have a very
unique issue in this generation.
It's not just affecting our
kids. It's affecting the adults
too. There's been a massive
shift in mind management and
part of it is the drugs that
people are using to not deal
with issues, suppressing,
like anti-depressants and so on.
They're not dealing with toxic
thoughts. We're not talking
about stuff. We're not building
our brains. In the mind, it's
chaotic thoughts. It is lack of
identity. It is mislabeling of
mental health. Not understanding
what that really is, not
recognizing the human condition.
It's mismanagement of mind. So
chaotic thinking, mismanagement
of mental health, lack of
identity. These are major causes
that are breaking the mind, that
are then creating this chaos in
our mind, and our mind is now
working to the brain. The poor
brain just does what the mind
tells it to do. So if you take
your computer and you throw it
on the floor, your computer
won't work. So when we don't get
our minds right, we don't catch
those thoughts, when we don't
develop our spiritual nature,
and understand or get to know
our spiritual nature, how we
think, feel and choose and so
on, then we are throwing our
computer on the floor. We're
pushing through this chaotic
energy, and energy is not
something weird. Without energy,
we don't exist. As Bishop
Barkley said 350 years ago, we
exist because God supplies the
energy for existence. We are
existing because God is looking.
But if we take this power that
we have that God has given us to
think, feel and choose, which
generates energy through our
brain, and we don't think,
feel and choose correctly, we
generate the wrong energy, a
distortion of the truth, that
fear ... We don't have a spirit
of fear but we can learn to
fear. We are wired for love,
but we learn to fear. So then we
shoot this negative energy
through our brain, which breaks
down the brain. It creates newer
chemical chaos. Because the
brain and the body collectively
work together, controlled by the
brain, and they collectively
are made from 75 to 100 trillion
cells, every thought that you
think, instantaneously, because
of the quantum nature of a
thought, instantaneously affects
the 75 to 100 trillion cells in
the brain and the body. So we
have this causative effect of
the power of our thoughts on the
physical nature, which then
feeds back into the mind. We set
up these negative feedback
loops, so people are walking
around with uncontrolled thought
life, incorrect mindsets, et
cetera. What I've tried to do
is show in this particular book,
all my books I talk about
the food and the mind brain,
whatever. This one I've
got very, very hands on and
practical. Where I've shown
people, okay this is what's
happening in our current
age, with technology, with the
philosophy, the worldviews that
are dominating. It's not just
out there. It's in the
church too. This worldview has
penetrated the church too. I
talk about mindsets. What is a
mindset, how we've got to
get out that. Mindsets contain
power. Our mindset is like
forgiveness. Thinking mindset,
gratitude, happiness, there's
15 mindsets that I've identified
through my research, that we
naturally have wired into us,
but we choose to activate,
they contain power. We also to
understand the uniqueness. We
know all about, we love to say
we're unique and we love to
quote those scriptures, but do
you really understand the
science of what it means to be
unique? Do you really understand
how you think feel and choose
your unique way, your unique
perceptions? Because if you do,
and that's a process, a
lifelong process of learning to
understand your customized way
that you think, but it's vital
that we do do that. Because as
we understand the customized way
we think, that's how we then
activate the correct mindset,
because when you understand
how you think, you know how to
control your thoughts, which
means you then choose to stay in
forgiveness and the forgiveness
mindset and not in a forgiveness
mindset. KENNETH: Well, you have
some idea of the consequences on
both sides of the list. CAROLINE
LEAF: Exactly. You do. You'll
get that ... KENNETH:
Particularly if you're a student
of the word. As you think, so
are you. CAROLINE LEAF: Exactly.
You said something very
significant a few moments ago,
related to what you just said
now. You said that you practice,
practice, practice, eventually
you'll get it. That's the other
thing. Memory. We have to build.
We're always building memory.
We're learning, we're thinking
beings. We're always thinking.
All day long you think, feel and
choose and you build memories.
You can't get away from it. It's
the design of who we are. We may
as well think, feel and choose
and build the correct memories.
Get into those habits of
thinking the correct thoughts.
Get in God's wisdom, accessing
the wisdom of God so that my
thoughts are above your
thoughts, all those scriptures.
There's a science behind how to
do that. There's science that
confirms that those thoughts
are above our thoughts and those
thoughts are potential that we
can access, should we choose to
align with our spiritual nature,
our normal natural wired for
love nature. KENNETH: The
scripture just flashed across my
mind, from the 55th chapter of
Isaiah. My ways ... CAROLINE
LEAF: Are higher than ...
KENNETH: Are higher than your
ways. CAROLINE LEAF: Exactly.
KENNETH: My thoughts are higher
than your thoughts. CAROLINE
LEAF: That's what we're supposed
to renew our mind to. KENNETH:
But he didn't just leave us
there. He said my word goes
forth out of my mouth. It will
not return to me void. It will
accomplish those things I desire
and it will prosper. The word
will prosper. When we finally
learn that God's smarter than we
are, and that his thoughts have
been given to us in this
marvelous book, and that makes
the book as powerful as he is,
because these are his thoughts.
This is his mind. The born again
person has the mind of Christ.
That word came up again,
word replacement equals thought
replacement doesn't it? CAROLINE
LEAF: Well it does. There's a
scientific word for that that is
one of the parts of the research
and theory that I've developed.
It's call reconceptualization.
KENNETH: I like word
replacement. CAROLINE LEAF: It's
the science of word
replacements. Which is easier,
but that's basically what you
do. You're reconceptualizing,
redesigning the way that
you're thinking into the correct
alignment. You're aligning with
the correct way of thinking.
There's an Oxford mathematician,
Sir Roger Penrose who's still
alive, who's one of the greatest
minds of the century, also in
his 80s. He's actually done
the mathematical and quantum
calculations, which is really
interesting, to show that we are
immersed in love potential. We
literally live in the energy of
love potential, and there's a
lot of science behind that, but
I'm trying to make it as simple
as I can. But potential means
the potential to become
something, to actualize. So with
our, we literally as humanity
aren't just immersed in nothing.
We literally are immersed in
God's wisdom, because that love
reality that he's shown with all
these calculations, to try and
get a handle on understanding
it, shows that we are living the
potential of wisdom, that we
can, when we align with God, we
are activating the ethical
values of goodness. Everything
that is good from God is there
and waiting for us. As we choose
to step into the love zone, and
that's why I had the green and
the toxic planter. You've seen
me teach many times with those.
That's the love zone and that's
the fear zone. When we, here we
are in the middle. When we make
a daily decision, as we bring
every thought into captivity,
those 30,000 to 180 thoughts, we
have the choice every 10 seconds
to say, okay I'm going to
redesign. What was the word you
were using, re? KENNETH: Word
replacement. CAROLINE LEAF: Word
replacement. KENNETH: Thought
replacement. CAROLINE LEAF:
Which starts with thoughts then,
the words will reconceptualize.
At this point I can choose. Am I
going to listen to or step into
wisdom and access and access
that potential? Or am I going to
distort that and step into the
distortion of the truth which is
the fear zone? That's the power
that we have. That's what
science says we can do every 10
seconds. Our goal should be, to
every 10 seconds, to be talking
to the Spirit of God. Otherwise
you're going to make bad
decisions. That's really what
it's saying. Choose life. It's
really and not a nice spiritual,
nice to know magic potion
scripture kind of thing. It is a
reality. It has, and that's why
science is so amazing because
science shows us the impact and
the effect of that choice
that we're going to make on our
physical brains and bodies, and
not just on ourselves. We're in
relationship with people so
our decisions affect each other,
affect our families, affecting
this generation, affecting the
next four generations which
means eternity. Your thoughts,
each thought as you give birth
to a thought, it gives birth and
it grows. That is now starting
something that never dies. Think
of it like that. Every single
thought never dies. So this
research in quantum physics,
shows we choose to build the
truth. That said we are creating
life, but when you choose to
distort, choose to get the
bitterness, unforgiveness,
whatever it may be, envy,
jealousy, whatever, we are
distorting the natural
environment. We are literally
taking a toxic wave, which
toxic energy from this side and
putting it into this beautiful
love realm that God has created
for us, and we create this
distortion. This is why you can
walk into an environment where
people are toxic and you can
feel it. Because as Einstein
showed us, we're all emitting
energy. That's nothing something
we do, if you're alive, you're
giving off energy. KENNETH:
Spirit, energy. CAROLINE LEAF:
That's exactly. So this is toxic
spirit energy, abnormal. That's
our default, normal energy, so
we pick up those from each other
and that adds a layer of
distortion on top of it, so it
has to be eliminated. Perfect
love casts out fear. We have to
commit the fear ... KENNETH: So
you take that thought. CAROLINE
LEAF: Exactly, and you redesign
it. KENNETH: Honor it with
words. CAROLINE LEAF: Exactly
you make it come alive. KENNETH:
You've really brought life into
it, on either side. CAROLINE
LEAF: Exactly. You've turned a
potential into an actuality. You
created a reality. You're
creating your reality. So you
think you'll choose gold, then
you'll create ... KENNETH: Thank
God for repentance. CAROLINE
LEAF: Exactly. That we can
acknowledge and rewire. That's
the beauty. This is not your
destiny. We all, this is the
human condition. We're reacting
and creating. That is why we
need to learn how to access
wisdom, so we can rewire.
I did some of the first
neuroplasticity research back
in the '80s and I was told, you
mentioned earlier, in the first
last week, you mentioned about
the fact that I was told it was
a ridiculous question because
you've heard me tell you
this story before. A lot of my
professors told me that this is
ridiculous to think that you can
change your brain with your
mind. Your mind and your brain
are the same thing. I said,
no they're not the same thing.
They're separate. If you change
your mind, you can change your
brain. I showed it with my
research. By the mid-1990s, it
was accepted. So generally
science is 20 years ahead of
what we see in education and so
on and so on, but even science
can be 20 years ahead of itself.
This is where we can learn from
... Where do you think I got
my insight from? It's from
understanding the spiritual
nature of man, through the
scriptures, through
understanding that which gave me
insight into something that I
then managed to try and work
through the science to help me
understand, so that I could help
people change their mind. That's
what I do with my patients. That
was my objective. Now I reach
millions with this. My initial
objective was to help people
that had broken lives from
various different whatever.
KENNETH: The necessary truth is
1 Corinthians 13:13. CAROLINE
LEAF: Yes. Yes. KENNETH: "Now
abides or now lives these three,
faith, hope and love." These are
spiritual forces. CAROLINE LEAF:
Total. KENNETH: Spiritual forces
are the most powerful forces in
the universe, far more powerful
than intellectual. Certainly
more powerful than physical.
CAROLINE LEAF: They are
intellectual. Love is so
intellectual, but good
intellectual. So we have love
intellect and we have fear
intellect. This is the lack of,
you know what I'm saying.
KENNETH: It's a next step from
the intellect, is when you speak
it, it becomes spirit. CAROLINE
LEAF: You're creating reality.
Yeah. You're creating your next
reality. KENNETH: That
mysterious force called faith.
Yeah. The substance of the
spiritual force of hope.
CAROLINE LEAF: Exactly. The
evidence. KENNETH: It is backed
by himself who is love. CAROLINE
LEAF: Exactly. Lovely. KENNETH:
Hallelujah. Oh, thank you
Lord Jesus. My, my, my. But of
course, because of what God
called me to do, 50, almost 52
years ago, faith is the mandate
of my life. He don't preach the
whole counsel of God. I don't
know the whole counsel of God. I
was called, I was called to
specialize and to teach God's
people faith. Every time,
talking about anything, it
always just comes up faith to
me. CAROLINE LEAF: Yeah, because
it's your perspective. KENNETH:
That's the creative force of
God, but oh my goodness. When
the human man, the human being
born again of the Spirit of God,
with the mind of Christ, taking
good care of his physical body.
CAROLINE LEAF: Exactly. KENNETH:
Walking by faith and living by
love, I'm telling you, there's,
whoa. CAROLINE LEAF: You
know what I say to people ...
KENNETH: Magnificent. CAROLINE
LEAF: There's magnificence in
that. What I say to people now
around the world, one of the
questions I ask people is what
does love look like? If you ask
yourself in your life, what does
love look like? Every decision
needs to be aligned with love
because that's where the great
reality will come from. That's
where wisdom resides, et cetera,
et cetera. Those are concepts
that we all hear spiritually a
lot, but how do you do
that? That's, back, I want the
mindsets. That's what the
mindsets are, powerful practical
ways of understanding what
love looks like in your life.
KENNETH: Well you'll have to
do it tomorrow. CAROLINE LEAF:
Exactly. I know we're out of
time. KENNETH: Because we're out
of time. CAROLINE LEAF: It's
just a little hook so people
listen tomorrow. KENNETH: Amen.
Praise the Lord. Thank you Lord.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed
today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And
remember Jesus is Lord. 
