Your Mind: The Real Battlezone
By: Shawn Driscoll
In today's world, the battle for your attention
and your focus is at an all time high. There are several
wars that are constantly being fought in that grey
area between our ears. You might say that rockets
are being fired at machinegun speeds that
are "imaginations exalting themselves against
the true knowledge of God". Fear based
strategies of darkness are continually launched into
our eyes and ears and then into the war zone of
our mind.
Your mind is the center of your
personality. (See Romans 7: 14-25.) It is the battlefield of your personality. It continually
engages in an age old war between the flesh and
the spirit. In the natural sense, your experience, your
friends, your peers, your education, your environment,
and what you they have spoken into your life, dramatically affect
your thinking...how you value yourself and how you look
at your world. Today, we are bombarded with things
in our world that have no real lasting value. These
things are a part of a strategy designed to satisfy our
flesh and drive us farther from the heart of God and
from His calling in our life. So many things He created
for his Glory have been perverted in almost every conceivable
fashion by the Devil himself to infect our belief system
and turn it from faith to fear. The temptation to indulge
in theses things is everywhere. This battle rages in
our mind. That is why it is so important to
do what Paul says in Romans 12. He says we can
break the pattern of the world by being transformed through
the renewing of our mind:
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers in view of God’s
mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy
and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of
worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will
is---His good, and pleasing perfect will."
We all have struggles. Even Paul had his, but he discovered
a wonderful secret. We can learn from him. Everyday we
need to renew our mind. You might be thinking to yourself, "but
Shawn how do you renew your mind. I’ve been thinking
this way for years and change is so hard." I’m
glad you asked. I can only tell you what I'm doing, and
I know it works.
1. Understand how much God
loves you and has already invested into your
life.
2. Expose lies that the devil has told
you, either through other people, or through
mental suggestions that you have repeated or believed.
(See John 8:44-45)
3. Get into the Word. The Word of God has the power to transform your
thinking. Read the Word, believe the Word, and obey the Word.
4. Allow Jesus to live His life through you. (See Galatians 2:20)
5. Take your thoughts captive and make them obedient to Christ.
(See I
Corinthians 10:5)
6. Begin to see yourself as God sees you and think His thoughts for
your life.
(See Jeremiah 29:11 Amplified)
7. Claim the mind of Christ for yourself. He promised you can have
it.
(See I
Corinthians 2:16) |
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Before you or I can ever have victory
in our lives, we have to receive it in our heart and
in our mind. God wants you and me to have victory in
our minds, but it's up to us to develop a DAILY routine
that renews our mind to His word.
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