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Foundations Class #2 Levels of Change

Foundations Class #2

Levels of Change

Bob Hamp

Class can be seen on GatewayPeople.Com

Starts with two stories...








Back in AA we used to call this the Geographical Cure. 

Characterized by: "If Only..."









The Third Level of Change is Capability (This is the hinge point)

This level is the hinge point, it's less measurable, but just as caustic. Capability is your thermostat. The thermostat kicks in the compressor every time the heat in the house gets too hot.

When you try to loose weight the first ten is easier than the next two. As you press into the change resistance gets harder. If you do this on your own power the thermostat kicks in and puts pressure on us to conform to the things we've believed all our lives. It gets harder and harder to change the things that have never changed...

Defined as those things that can or cannot do based on how we do, think, feel.

Often heard in: "I can't... because..." Internal Limitations.

The Fourth Level of Change is Belief

We often confuse the word belief with the word thought. Churches often put a statement of "Beliefs", but those are most often thoughts, doctrines, not beliefs.

Thoughts reside in the mind. You can put language to it. It's conscious. And it's relatively easy to change. "This is true. This is not true."

Beliefs reside in the heart. There are often no words attached to it, and it's not something you are always aware of. Often you are not aware of it, until you suddenly become aware of it. It's more sensation than thought. The experiences you've had have convinced you of it.

"I'm ugly... no body loves me..." Etc... 

It's like that internal record that keeps playing, affecting those things you do, think, and feel.

Proverbs 23:7 (King James Version) 


Proverbs 23:7Amplified Bible (AMP)


Proverbs 4:23 (King James Version)
The flows of life come from the heart, not the mind. It's not just in our heart, it's over our heart. It's like a contact lens over your heart through which you perceive your experiences. 

When you tell someone: "You have believed a lie." they get mad and say "That's no lie, that's the way it is!"

He hands a lady who has been dealing with a cycle of depression for 11 years a list of scriptures. She is frustrated that her experience and the what the Word of God says have been counter each other.

Faith comes by HEARING the word of God, from God. He does NOT tell her to read and speak them... he asks her to ask God to speak them to her... As she finished reading the list silently she read the last one out loud and said: "These are true for ME TOO! Why didn't anyone tell me that?!" He asked her to repeat this exercise and come back in two weeks. She missed her appointment because she was cleaning her garage, for the first time in eleven years. What changed for her was not her "thoughts" but the source of her truth. Hearing God speak, changed her internal truth.

What we believe about God affects how we respond to God and His Word.

What we believe about ourselves

What is a "Bennie Baby" worth? If you ask the manufacturer it's worth $0.25 in materials. If you ask the retailer  it was worth $5.95. If you asked eBay it was worth $150.00. If you ask a little girl Bob knows, her dad paid $1,000 just to get the one she wanted.

How do you determine the value of a thing? Ask the right person.

If you ask a biologist what you are worth, maybe $1.39 in material, water and carbon. If you ask the world, you it depends on your looks, abilities, money, etc... If you ask God... You are worth the price that was paid for you, you are worth the blood of Jesus!

These four levels you can work to change. The last level you CANNOT change on your own.

The Final Level of Change: Identity

Identity is the blue print in the heart of God when he created you! Not what you have cooked up, or thought, or experience has told you about you.

When you see who you really are, the person God created you to be... when you see yourself the way HE created you, you see the way HE sees you... it will impact your beliefs which will heighten your capabilities, which will change the way you act, think, and feel, which will change the circumstances around you.

Levels of Change

  1. Identity
  2. Belief
  3. Capabilities
  4. Behavior
  5. Environment

Now, the Impact

The blue print in God's mind is the only thing that can change your identity. Because it is in His mind, it must change from HIM not from us. The first four levels of Change we can have SOME impact  on. However the last level of change is one which we have no impact over. The things that is blocking us from changing at that level is: SIN.

Genesis 3, the fall of man. Sin separated us from God's identity in us.





Incorrect/Incomplete Definition of Sin: Bad Behavior






The fruit outwardly is a result of death inwardly.




















There are enemies to your new life that try to crush you and keep your from seeing this New Life. Here are three enemies that will work against you, as you are aware of the Schemes of Satan you can work around these and overcome.

The battleground for your life is the place of the old you (Beliefs based on your past experiences) and the new you (Beliefs based upon that which was done in you through Christ). You don't get free from who you are until the old you is crucified on the cross.

This battleground is moving our beliefs in experience to God's new reality.

  1. Demonic Oppression
    1. Demonic activity in 21st Century USA looks different than it does in third world nations. This is because the enemy opposes you at the level you are most vulnerable. In the USA we define reality in terms of Intellect and Materialism. This is not to say we are smart and rich, it is to say that we are defining our reality by that which we can see, taste, touch, and feel, and that which we can reason. That which we can comprehend Scientifically or Philosophically.
    2. Therefore demonic activity in the USA often is seen as thoughts that are contrary to who you are In Him. "You are just so stupid..." or "I am just so stupid..." You think these are your thoughts, they are not. "You are going to fail..." or "You are the worst believer..."
    3. How can the devil attack at thoughts? You ever wake up in the morning and your favorite band is in your head? No, the band can't fit in your head. But their music is, and their music has created pathways and mental processes so that you can still hear the music even though it's not playing anymore. This is also true for stupid commercial jingles you don't want to remember. Bob says for example: "I do not have hard core rap in my head at random times. That is because I've never made a place for it or put it in me. However when some random old rock song comes on the radio I can still sing the words many years after. This is because I made place in my heart at one time for those things." Therefore if the devil attacks you at a level you have already made a place he can get in. You are most vulnerable to the songs you know very well. You must renew yourself to who you are In Him and remove the place in your heart for those old things. If he can just start the song you will finish it. "You are so dumb..." and you'll take off from there. It's like a broken record that plays so long you don't hear it conciously anymore. 
    4. Demonic Oppression only gains strength as we give them more and more place.They gain strength the more that we agree with them. In the same way, as we disagree with them they loose strength.
  2. World System
    1. The world's system war against us.
      1. Family. God's primary design for Family is that it is a way to transmit blessings for thousands of generations. In this fallen system family defects often influence us. "If my Dad abandoned me it's hard to believe God will always be with me." Past family traits and experiences will work against the new us.
      2. Circumstances of your life will create past experiences which will impact belief.
      3. The Church
        1. Religion and traditions of men.
          1. Often someone stands up with a microphone and bible and addresses the crowd and we automatically attribute to them authority that may or may not actually be of God.
          2. Whole churches or whole groups of churches can become toxic as these fallacies grow from generation to generation. 
          3. Because the church is a human run organization it is prone to error and as we digest that error we are soured at some level for certain things.
          4. Also because it's human run, the church can be just as toxic and damaging to a human heart as any other organization. 
        1. We must make our relationship between ourselves and God, through His Word, and take anything taught by men to God for correction or revelation.
  3. The Flesh
    1. The Flesh is the part of you that you travel around in. 
      1. Homework, Read: Romans 6-9
      2. Three Chracters war within you:
        1. Old Nature (Sin Nature, Old Man, Dead Nature)
        2. Flesh (Body, Container, physical needs, desires, nervous system, etc)
          1. Nervous System feeds you back information about your experience. Satan is trying to program your experiences so that your nervous system will tell you things about truth or what to believe.  It CAN lie to you.
        3. New Nature (Spirit, Born Again Spirit)
    2. In Salvation the old man is crucified and buried. The nervous system has been programed by the old nature for years. Just because the old man is dead and buried doesn't mean the program stopped running. It's as though you given away your computer to someone else but don't wipe the hard drive, there is still all your old data stored in there, and viruses and still there that you didn't clean out, etc. 
    3. New Nature is born inside the Flesh. The New Spirit is meant to re-program from the inside out working through you.



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    *This writting was an adaptation on the message from Bob Hamp and my notes from taking a class in person with another teacher and listening to Bob's Teaching online. Links are included to get there above, but here as well. I hope it helped you. My notes don't give it justice, listen for yourself!

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