MONTH FEBRUARY2021 – GOD’S BATTLE AXE: DEALING WITH THE BATTLE OF THE MIND!
“And be RENEWED in the spirit of your MIND” Ephesians 4:23.
Knowingly or unknowingly, there’s a battle and warfare that is ongoing in our minds and in thoughts twenty-four-seven. Unfortunately, the Church has sat so much on SPIRITUAL WARFARE for so long that we have lost a major BATTLE which I called – MENTAL WARFARE – The battle of the mind.
For it’s ones PICTURE that determines ones FUTURE. It is what you picture in the spirit of your MIND that determines and defines what awaits you in the future. And the vitality for SOUND MIND can NEVER be over-emphasised at all phases of doing life and living godly in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead.
“For as he THINKS in his heart, so is he [in BEHAVIOR—one who manipulates]. He says to you, “Eat and drink,” Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost]” Proverbs 23:7.
And there are reasons for the mind battlefield when you look at the Scriptural context in Mark 5:1-20. This is simply for these reasons though not limited:
* Your mind is certainly a gateway to your life, for every event of your life is determined and defined in the mind.
* Every captive is first arrested in the mind. And your Liberty (freedom) is established or lost in the MIND.
* Your mind is the controller of your destiny. Until you are able to keep your mind under control, your life is out of control.
* As terrible as sin is, Jesus established that sin begins with a seed of thought (Matthew 5:27-30). All the devil does is to sell the thought. When you buy the thought, you become a victim of the act.
* Nobody succeeds by chance; success begins with a thought. Nobody prospers just by effort. Every act of prosperity, advancement in life has its source in the hearted-mind.
* Until you begin to think differently things will not be different. Every GRACIOUS imagination establishes you, but every human philosophy that one falls for makes a captive of you. YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR THOUGHT LIFE. For as you THINK, so you BECOME.
* Every EVIL that comes upon Job begins with his imagination of it – Job 3:25. Every EVIL IMAGINATION is an express ACCESS for EVIL.
* Right living begins with right thinking. Great living begins with great thinking and great success begins with great success thought. Hence you don’t reply THOUGHTS with THOUGHTS but with WORDS.
FINALLY – Foreknowing the above and such like, one can say that – until your sense of reasoning and mentality is corrected, your destiny is not secured. For Satan has no access to your spirit, knowing it is in relationship and fellowship with the Father God; but he has access to your mind. It is the gateway to your life. Therefore, give no place to the devil or else he will give you a direction.
You are GOD’S BATTLE AXE AND WEAPON OF WAR, do something by RENEWING the spirit of your mind by the WORD to remain SOUND-MINDED. That is the HOW to BATTLE in your MIND.
SELAH-PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“And be not CONFORMED to this world: but be ye TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of your MIND, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” Romans 12:2.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of FEAR; but of power, and of love, and of a SOUND MIND” 2 Timothy 1:7.
“For though we WALK in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh and using the WEAPONS of man. 4 The WEAPONS of our WARFARE are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our WEAPONS are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking EVERY THOUGHT and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete” 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 (Amplified).
Further Scriptural Reading In Context: Mark 5:1-20
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