“Your thoughts are productive, or destructive—never ‘just neutral’ or ‘just observing the facts.’ We become, based on the QUALITY of our thoughts.”
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To bring my thoughts, each one unto submission to the LORD. Each thought to be centered on HIM and by HIS strength daily giving HIM all honor and glory, only by doing this can I become who HE longs for me to be!
God Bless
mj
The thoughts - this is the arena that determines the quality of our walk with the Lord.
Holiness is the sum of our thoughts.
What we entertain in our mind determines who we become.
This is some of what is covered in the following message by Gisela Yohannan entitled "overcoming fear". The message itself is very practical, I included some notes below. Will try to post a more complete transcript Lord willing.
http://media.sermonindex.net/19/SID19874.mp3
The way to take every thought captive to obey Christ:
Ephesians 6:16
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one
How to overcome fear with faith:
The first step If you are experiencing fear for any reason:
take your Bible
find a promise in God's Word for your situation
This goes for everything
look up the verses that relates to every situation we are dealing with
The Lord Jesus did the same thing
When he faced temptation he took a promise that was made for his situation
He went to God's Word
He knew it by heart
And He used it
So the first thing you need to do is find a promise in Gods Word for your situation
And you will find that God's promise that He makes to you is ALWAYS greater than your promise
ALWAYS
Whatever need you may have
Go to God's Word
Find a promise that is greater than your problem
When Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden sin came, death came, sickness came, they were cast out
But do you know that they got from God a GREATER promise than their problem
GOD IS GREATER THAN ANY PROBLEM
The promise He gave to them: one day the Serpent will be crushed
Romans 16:20
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
This is how we must move forward with everything
God gave them a greater promise
He told them there is hope
So what we do is
Find the promise
Take it as yours
Cling to it and don't let it go
Surround yourself with the promise!!
Write it down
Read it every few minutes
Post it wherever you can see it
In summary: find the promise, take it as yours, and surround yourself with it
I find the promise and write it down and put it in different places such as on the table or beside the laptop. When I am typing and my mind goes to my fear or problem then I can just look there at God's promise.
The second step after we have the promise and surround ourselves with it, then we agree with what the Word of God says
You say to yourself, what God's Word says is the truth
My fears, my feelings, my thoughts are not the truth.
Agree with God's Word
So often we disagree!
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