“Watch your thoughts: they become actions. Watch your actions: they become habits. Watch your habits: they become character. Watch your character: it becomes your destiny.”
I am not sure who created that phrase, but I ran across it when I first become born again and have tried to keep it in mind all along. See, the greatest place the enemy can attack is your mind. If he can just get you dwelling on the wrong thoughts he has got a grand foothold in your life. This is why we are called to be spiritually minded. When we are thinking Gods thoughts in the Spirit then that means God will have control of our actions, habits, character and destiny. But same goes for the enemy. “To be carnally minded” is what produces sin, and sin always brings death. Why? Because when we allow the enemy to have room in our mind he will take control of our life and destine us to eternal death. We must allow God to break us of the carnal mind, and work sanctification in us until His thoughts are ours. We must have the mind of Christ, for “to be Spiritually minded is Life and Peace!” If the enemy is attacking your mind with things you know are not from God let me encourage you to take hold of your thoughts in the Spirit of God. Don’t die with a lazy attitude that will not stand against the fleshly mind. “To be carnally minded is death, but to be Spiritually minded is Life and Peace.”
Now realize that to be “carnally minded” isn’t just the act of thinking bad thoughts. It is literally the thinking of any thought that God would not. It is trying to make sense and reason without the Holy Spirit. Let us bring our body to being totally God possessed and our actions Godly by putting to death the carnal mind so the Spirit may think and live through us. Don’t lose on the battlefield of the mind, or death to God is sure to come.
1 comment:
you are totally right. once you let the devil in to your mind, you've pretty much done the stupidest thing. i was battling stuff with loosing my dad to cancer two months ago. and about two weeks ago, the devil planted thoughts into my mind. and listened to them. i let him fill my head with thoughts like that God didnt love me and that He didnt want me anymore. but i realized too late that he was wrong. i did something really stupid on account of being spiratually weak and human. but this morning i had a breakthrough and i got that victory that i have been needing for so long. God is always there for us and he loves us so much. He never leaves us and never forsakes us. and i thank him for that. i also thank him for the times that i only see one set of footprints in the sand. because thats when He carried me. Buddy, keep on going with the Lord. He is the only for sure thing in our lives. your strength and devotion to God has been a light and a blessing to me. be safe and have faith. even when you feel like you have no where to go, and when the devil comes to us. thank you for posting these blogs and words from God. you can do great things and you have so much. God Bless You!! with love, Christina Blair
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