Your Next Acre: How to Conquer New Territory When Old Patterns Return

Feeling stuck in familiar patterns of anxiety, fear, or self-doubt despite your love for Jesus? You're not alone in this journey. This episode reveals why the same limiting beliefs resurface even after you've overcome them previously.

The powerful analogy of "acquiring new land" beautifully illustrates our spiritual and personal growth journey. Just as a perfectly manicured acre of land differs dramatically from an untamed new property you've just purchased, entering new seasons in life often reactivates familiar struggles. The difference? You now have better tools and experience to address these challenges more efficiently.

Every time you defeat a negative, limiting belief, you're actively pushing back the gates of hell in your mind. Matthew 9:4 shows us that Jesus knew people's thoughts and questioned why they entertained evil thoughts in their hearts. True transformation occurs when we move knowledge from our minds to belief in our hearts, disrupting toxic patterns that have kept us bound.

The fascinating differences between rich and poor mindsets reveal why some people consistently create abundance while others remain stuck. Rich people educate themselves rather than seeking entertainment, practice delayed gratification instead of impulsive decisions, and maintain growth mindsets that view challenges as opportunities. The scientific approach to transformation involves careful observation of our patterns, questioning our beliefs, developing hypotheses, and experimenting with new behaviors.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome & Daughter Identity Foundation
• 3:40 Stuck in Toxic Patterns and Fear
• 6:48 The New Acre of Land Analogy
• 9:20 Pushing Back Gates of Hell
• 16:24 Jesus Knew Their Thoughts
• 20:29 Scientific Approach to Mindset Change
• 24:19 Rich vs. Poor Mindset Differences
• 28:19 Experimenting with New Patterns

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome back to the Think Cute Podcast, where we are thinking cute, and thinking cute is a lifestyle not being conformed to the world, but being transformed by the renewing of our mind. We are disrupting toxic patterns and we are breaking generational curses as we push back the gates of hell. In Jesus name, welcome, welcome back. Could you get excited, girlfriend? Could you get excited? I'm so glad you're here. Well, last week we talked about where are you, and it was all about our heart, posture and the path to freedom and transformation, beginning with Sonship and knowing that we are daughters of the Most High King and our identity is foundationed in that. And when we have that foundation, there is freedom and there is so much power and anointing, because when you're a daughter and you know your identity, the intimacy with God that you have is bar none. It's like next level. And so I can tell you personally, I am on that journey to just becoming more and more intimate with the father understanding my identity in being his daughter, and it is an ongoing layer to layer, it's healing, it is becoming aware, it is all the things. And so I hope that you tuned into that episode, but I am going to continue with some really, really really great content in this realm and I just want to bring some awareness to you today as we just dive in to knowing ourselves better and kind of identifying where we are. And it is an everyday, minute by minute, literally. It's a battle in our mind that we have to continue to be intentional with.

Speaker 1: 1:55

Today I want to ask you do you know where you are and are you aware of the patterns that you're facing every day? It's like you love Jesus, but you still wrestle with fear and anxiety. You love Jesus, but you wrestle with knowing who you are and your purpose. And why am I here? What am I doing? I feel stuck. I feel lost. You got the vision, maybe you're like I see it, I know exactly what it is, but your mind stays stuck in survival mode and you can't get past that wall that you keep bumping your head into. You're doing all the things, you're learning every skill you're, you're continuing to press in, but you feel stuck. I want to tell you that there is hope, there is a word for you today, and I want to encourage you that if you identify and if you resonate with that, you're not alone. I'm telling you you are not alone. I have experienced it personally and I know like, going into this new season of my life, I am facing the same things that I faced, you know, 10 years ago. I'm like, oh my goodness, oh my goodness, I thought I overcame this, I thought I was healed in this area, and one of my mentors in a program that I went through it's like a six month program and he shared a story about his journey and his identity and all of the patterns that would pop up in his life. And let me tell you, this man is a multimillionaire. His company is over $10 million and $50 million, $100 million I couldn't even tell you, but he started at like, he hit a goal at like 10 million and then he got stuck at 50 and then like went on to do 100, like 100 million plus, and so, anyways, besides the point I'm just telling you, the credibility of this man, at the level he's at, is multi millions. Okay, and so he shared.

Speaker 1: 3:59

It's like you come to this space in your world where you overcome and you have victory in this area. Imagine you're in like an acre of land and you have it. You've tilled the soil, you've gotten all the weeds, you've watered the grass, everything is green, the flowers are growing, your house is beautiful and the acre of land is manicured and you have a system to maintain it. And it's amazing, you have overcome this acre of land. But then you get another acre of land and they're like oh, your neighbors are selling more property. You want to add on to your property and of course I do. Yes, let me take this next acre of land.

Speaker 1: 4:46

But when you acquire that land, it looks nothing like the land that you have had the past year. Right, this land is not tilled, it is not weeded, it is not flowered and watered and the house does not look like it is freshly painted. This land is a hot mess and but you're like but I've already done the work, but this is a new acre of land and so the weeds are there and all the things, and so when you're going into your next level he mentioned he's like you know, it's like acquiring that new acre of land there's weeds, there's things that you have to pull out, and the same patterns that have tried to hold you back they come back. He's things that you have to pull out and the same patterns that have tried to hold you back they come back. He's like my same self-doubt, my same am I good enough? Thoughts came back to him in this new season and he was like what in the world? And so the premise of me sharing this story with you is no matter what level you're at, the same little foxes, the same little devils, the same little thoughts, whatever you want to call them. They will try to attack you again and they'll try to latch on to this familiarity of oh my gosh, what am I thinking that I can go to this next level? I am absolutely not good enough. I am not equipped. I do not know what I'm doing. All of these lies could hold you back, but I want to encourage you and I want to tell you that you have not come this far to only stay right here. You are prepared to go into the next acre and till that land. It might take a little bit of work. It might go faster than it had been five years ago. Right Like, you are more equipped. You have tools in your tool belt to go and get those weeds out. You have tools in your tool belt to go, water those flowers, plant the flowers and do the things you need to do to prepare this land and go to this next level and acquire more territory.

Speaker 1: 6:39

And I want to tell you, every time you take action on defeating a negative, limiting belief, you are actively pushing back the gates of hell. And the gates of hell, they're in your mind. The gates try to encamp around your mind and keep you bound in prison in your mind. And so, with every inch you take of your inner healing and your inner being, of your belief system and your mindset, you are expanding your territory in your mind and you are just knocking out, you are pushing back the gates of hell. And once you can overcome the gates of hell that are wrapped around your mind, keeping you bound and imprisoned in these limiting beliefs of your self-doubt and unworthiness and why am I here and all, what am I doing? And, gosh, I can never do anything right these limiting things that are literally the gates. You overcome them with Romans 12, 2, renewing your mind and taking captive every thought. Renew your mind in the truth. You are pushing back the gates of hell and you are taking territory in your mind and taking captive every thought. Renew your mind in the truth. You are pushing back the gates of hell and you are taking territory in your mind.

Speaker 1: 7:48

And once you can take fully the territory in your mind, and I wouldn't even say you have to take it fully, because it's going to be a day by day. We are always getting better every day. We've never. We will never arrive and I will be blue in my face saying this, but we never arrive. We are going to be going glory to glory to glory until the day Jesus comes back.

Speaker 1: 8:10

In Jeremiah 29, 11, it says the plans I have for you are to prosper you and to give you a hope and a future, and it's something that is worked on in you until Christ Jesus comes. And so this is the work of Jesus in us, perfecting us, transforming us into his image. And so it's exciting when we find something that is holding us back because we can go okay, cool, let's go, let's go God Like, let's take down the enemy, let's push back the gates of hell. And so my point is, when you can push back the gates of hell in your mind and you can rise and shine, like God has called you to do, and be a city on a hill, then you can start to influence and impact your house, your home, your family, your friends, and then your community, your church, your city and then eventually your state and your nation. Imagine the impact that you could have if you just start to lead yourself in the way of Romans 12, 2, not being conformed to the world, being transformed by the renewing of your mind and so becoming aware, taking captive those thoughts is essential for that, and so becoming aware, taking captive those thoughts is essential for that.

Speaker 1: 9:26

So all of that to say I wanted to just set the tone for what I'm going to share with you. That's just the introduction. Get excited. But again I want to ask you like you know the Lord, you know his goodness, but you still wrestle with fear, anxiety, self-doubt, identity. You don't know that you are so precious right. You struggle with that. Maybe you have the idea but you don't believe it. And again I'll repeat like maybe you've got the vision, but your mind stays stuck in survival and you're like I can't get past this, I'm just trying to get the laundry done and it's so hard. Like I'm telling you, when you're in survival mode, easy tasks feel overwhelming and very hard. Why can I tell you that? Because that was me for years stuck in survival mode, depressed, not knowing what I'm doing and just surviving, just showing up because I have a family, I have kids and I have to show up for them. It is a fight or flight kind of thing.

Speaker 1: 10:30

And so, with that being said, I want to encourage you that we do have power and authority in Christ Jesus. When we say yes to Jesus, he gives us the keys to the kingdom and he gives us, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, power that works through us, and so first it works in us, then it works through us, and it is so absolutely powerful. And I want to take us to Matthew 9, 4 in the Bible. I want to encourage you to open up the word and read this with me. It says but Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said why do you think evil in your heart and going forward, for which it's easier to say your sins are forgiven you? Or to say arise and walk? For context, this is it says.

Speaker 1: 11:19

Then, behold, they brought him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he saw the paralytic son. Be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you. At once, some of the scribes said within themselves this man blasphemies. But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is it easier to say your sins are forgiven or to say arise and walk, but rather you know that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins. Then he said to the paralytic arise, take up your bed and go to your house. And he arose and departed to his house.

Speaker 1: 12:02

Matthew 9, 4 says Jesus knew their thoughts and said why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? So, like Jesus, we need to tune into our inner dialogue and speak life to the things that are keeping us stuck. He spoke to the man who was paralytic. He said be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you. Now we could pull up multiple scriptures on how you have been forgiven of your sins, and that's a whole nother conversation. But who the son sets free is free indeed, and if you know the truth, the truth will set you free. Do you believe what Jesus said? Where are you hanging out?

Speaker 1: 14:36

It's so important to become so aware. Oh, my gosh, if awareness is your superpower and I probably sound like a broken record If you listen to my content I talk a lot about awareness, because it wasn't until I became so aware of my like, where I was in life and like gosh, the power that I had to change it. I remember specifically learning how to celebrate becoming aware of a struggle that I had, and my mother in love said oh my gosh, look at that, you are aware of something that is keeping you stuck. Celebrate that, because the majority of the time, all of these things are stuck in our subconscious and we're operating from an automatic driving system and so we're automatically going with the toxic patterns, and it's only until we can get them into our conscious mind that we can become manual drivers and become the like sit in the driver's seat and shift, shift, shift things into place. When you're driving a manual, you have to shift into gear to go faster, and so it literally takes you from automatic to that manual position of now I'm in control, I can't go anywhere and my clutch will actually die if I don't shift like it will burn up. And so it is in our power, now that we are aware of these toxic patterns, that we can then go after them and get healing, learn new thought processes and create that new neural pathway that our beautiful neuroplasticity of our brain is so amazing that we can change our mind literally and start to clean up our negative thought processes.

Speaker 1: 16:21

And something that I heard today was really, really interesting in the mindset of rich people and poor people. Now I haven't really voiced this out loud, but I have a goal to be the first millionaire in my family line, and it's been something that has been on my heart for a long time and I wanted to do it by the time I'm 40 years old this year. The ticking time clock is ticking honey, and I'm really really working on breaking any toxic patterns that are keeping me from my wealth generating ability, and so if you too, want to be the first millionaire in your family, I mean, drop it in the comments, drop it below and let me know. But I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but there are some distinct characteristics and mindsets that rich people versus poor people have, and so I will share with you a few of them.

Speaker 1: 17:22

But there's the science behind this that I am actually tapping into and I'm like, okay, we have to become literal scientists, because the science of anything is obviously there's some laws that operate and from the laws we can get an observation, and we can observe this thing and we can ask some questions and we can get some answers and develop a hypothesis, which is a proposed explanation made on the base of a limited evidence as a starting point for furthering our investigation, and then we can experiment. If we begin to observe things, what in your life can you start to observe, ask questions about and begin to experiment with? That can change the way you're living, change the way you're thinking, change the way you're behaving and all the things. And so let me give you just a little bit. I hope that made sense. I'm in the beginning stages of this, but it's so fascinating to me how the laws in life can lead us into really experiencing great breakthrough. Imagine gravity and, like you know, having the plane and the science and physics behind the plane going into the air like that's magnificent. And so what in our life can we create that's magnificent, from observing and asking some questions and doing some experiments and gathering some evidence about what we are finding. That takes a huge awareness, that takes slowing down to speed up, that takes intentionality, that takes thinking about what you're thinking about, right, and so I could geek out about this stuff and I just I'm literally just tapping the surface. So if you have questions, let me know and if you want to correct me if I'm incorrect on anything, dm me. That's fine.

Speaker 1: 19:13

Let's talk about the differences really quickly in rich people and poor people, because this is something that it goes along with what we're saying, thinking about, what we're thinking about. Jesus knew their thoughts and said why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts and in your hearts? Evil thoughts in your hearts? Can we just stop right there? Thoughts in your hearts? Wait, my heart beats. Why, would you say I'm thinking in my heart? Well, if you don't know, let me explain something to you. Like we are a triune being, so we have a spirit, we have a body and we have a soul, and so our soul is where we think, feel, and it's like the operation system of, like our thinking and doing, and so in our hearts is our soul. And so when we think, it says in the Bible as a man thinketh in his heart, there he is and so is he. So why do you entertain evil thoughts in your heart? So thoughts in your heart, your beliefs are in your heart, your thoughts and your information that you know is in your mind, and so when we can get from knowing, having knowledge, to believing and understanding it in our heart, then we can really have a shift.

Speaker 1: 20:27

I've experienced this so much in just my identity, work that I've done on my own, believing that I have value. It took me a really long time to believe that I knew I was smart. I knew I had, I could do things that other people couldn't. So that was evidence that I could. You know, I had value in places, but I didn't believe it, and so for so long I self-sabotaged my success. I'm like, oh my goodness. And when I found out that belief comes from the heart and from my heart I will then there follow. I had to really get quiet and forgive myself, break agreement with all the lies that I felt about myself and like tap into my true identity. Because I had a false identity I was operating out of and so in my thoughts I was believing something negative in my heart, and so I had to change those thoughts in my heart to really really really receive that freedom.

Speaker 1: 21:22

So Jesus knew their thoughts and said why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? I asked the question a lot How's your heart? How is your heart? What are you believing? What is your heart posture? Are you happy, are you sad? Are you excited, are you tender today? So I say that all that to say is the difference If we can really start to think about and become self-aware of, like what am I believing in my heart? What are the thoughts in my heart that are evil? Like you're not good enough is an evil thought. Fear and anxiety and the thoughts that cause them are evil thoughts. So what are you thinking in your heart that's causing some really toxic patterns? Let's disrupt them today. Let's become aware today. But with that, I want to ask you if you want to be a daughter, you want to be wealthy and you want to create and you want to have a thriving life.

Speaker 1: 22:13

Let's talk about some different characteristics of rich and poor, because I believe these characteristics how you do anything is how you do everything. And let me tell you, it is so true, and my husband actually called me out on this the other day and I was like oh, can't argue with you. He used my, he used my line against me. I was like All right, I got you, I got you. We all have stuff to work on. Praise God, because if we didn't, honey, if you're not learning and you're not growing, what are you doing? You're dying. Let's get into the characteristics and see if you can identify these and see where maybe this could be a thought process throughout different areas of your life, because how you do anything is how you do everything, and so we are going to become aware and we're going to disrupt toxic patterns. We're going to take captive negative, evil thoughts. In Jesus name, you agree with me? Give me a hand clap. Give me a hand clap. Come on, keep your hands on the wheel if you're driving.

Speaker 1: 23:10

Okay, so the difference between rich and poor people. So rich people educate themselves. Like bravo to you because you are listening to this podcast. Come on, that's amazing. Poor people entertain themselves. Now, are you finding yourself watching Netflix like listening to random music? That isn't, and you're just kind of zoning out what's the entertainment that you are experiencing or what's the education that you're experiencing. Where are you at on this one? Do you go towards numbing out with entertainment or do you educate yourself and you want to get better? Where are you at on that?

Speaker 1: 23:42

So rich people and poor people that they rich people, they have delayed gratification. So they're totally okay with waiting for something. They don't have to buy that thing, they don't have to go to that place, they don't have to do that thing immediately. They can be patient with delayed gratification, but poor people have an impulsive like I want to buy it now, I have to have it now. I've experienced that I'm learning every day more and more delayed gratification. It's really hard for me to have delayed gratification on. When I find a book I'm like I want to buy the book right now. I want the book right now, so I'm working on that too, but buying impulsively.

Speaker 1: 24:23

Do you find yourself doing that Like let's have more delayed gratification? We want to be wealthy, we want to be rich. Come on somebody, rich and poor. Rich people have a growth mindset. Poor people have a fixed mindset. Rich people view challenges as opportunity. Poor people lead their fixed mindset leads them to a cycle of debt and limited financial programs.

Speaker 1: 24:45

Let's really identify where we are and understanding rich and wealthy. Like the definition I would say rich and wealthy, wealthy to me is having the ability to not only create value for yourself but to create value for others, and so you are set and maybe your family is set and maybe your kids' kids are set. Like so wealth is like generational. I really, I really want to shift from being not only rich where you can add value, but being wealthy where you can. It's generational and so it's long the longevity of it. So in order to get to the wealth, we have to become rich, and so these are the characteristics, and how to do that is to start observing. Get really scientifical, get really, get really, really, really intentional and start to observe your life, start to ask questions, get some answers that you can gain that hypothesis and you can start experimenting. And take everything that I've shared and start experimenting, like what would happen if you asked yourself a couple of questions like what is keeping me stuck today?

Speaker 1: 25:58

I feel fear, I feel like I'm not good enough, I feel like I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, cool, so if we don't feel like we are good enough or we feel fear, if we don't feel like we are good enough or we feel fear, what is something like? Is this the truth? Like, hmm, so we have this proposed explanation, I do not feel good enough or I feel afraid, so we have this. It's a, it's a limited evidence, and this is our starting point to our investigation. So if I have this, this is very good, this is very, very good. I have the understanding that I feel stuck because I have this fear.

Speaker 1: 26:35

So what if we experiment? What's the outcome that we want. What if we experiment with, hey, is this a lie or is this the truth, and we need to find the truth? And then what if we start operating for that day or maybe that week and going, okay, let's replace this with some action, and say I am afraid I'm not going to get all the laundry done, and just start doing one load of laundry a day. Experiment with how that makes you feel, experiment with what you experience through that, and then you're going to find that with one load of laundry a day, you actually get caught up and then you have a victory and you see what works. And now you have a system right, and so I hope this is making sense. I'm really enjoying this because this is like something personal, literally, to me, that I am implementing.

Speaker 1: 27:34

And so I started about 60 days ago Tuesday, we start our season three of the Transform Devotional, and I gained an observation that I was stuck. I was not feeling valuable, I wasn't feeling like I was good enough in this area, and I asked myself some questions what am I not doing that I know that I need to be doing. I gained the evidence and then I started to experiment. What if I showed up the way. God showed me that I needed to show up and I started the transform devotional because I heard a word from the Lord that he said I want you to equip my daughters. I want you to start this transform devotional. Teach them the word, I will give you revelation from heaven. It'll be Holy Spirit led. Just get started. And so I did. And now we're going on our third season and next well, tomorrow we start our sonship study and it's the next 90 days of Daughter you Belong, daughter you Belong. I'm so excited for that.

Speaker 1: 28:39

But I know this firsthand.

Speaker 1: 28:42

I know it works and I know action cures all fear and anxiety, because the little lie that feels so big, that keeps you stuck in these like the, the tasks that are so simple, they feel so overwhelming.

Speaker 1: 28:55

But I want you to know that on the other side, there's hope for you today and I want you to just know that you are so loved and so sought after by your heavenly father. And if you take what we have talked about today and you start to implement this and you take the word and you analyze and observe those evil thoughts that are in your heart, that keeping you in toxic patterns, you can disrupt them, okay, and so I just bless you in the name of Jesus and I pray that this was helpful, and I am now going to go take my babies to their BMX training, and so I hope you have the most amazing day. Share this with a girlfriend if it was helpful, or leave a five-star review and let me know how this touched you. You are blessed, you are loved. Go be transformed and don't be conformed honey. Go be transformed. Love you. I'll talk to you soon.