Take your Thoughts Captive!

When Your Thoughts and Words, do not line up with what the Word, says!

Take your Thoughts Captive.

When Your Thoughts and Words, do not line up with what the Word, says!

Take your Thoughts Captive.

Before we were saved, we spoke with a Godless way of thinking which stems from being born in Sin. Glory be to God, We are now new creatures and we must lay aside every weight.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life]. 2 Cor 5:17 (AMP)

Old things: Old habits, Old disposition, Old way of thinking. We want to separate ourselves from negative thinking. Do not embrace uncertainty.

Eph 4:23  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

I want to share  an analogy the Spirit gave me. If I type, "I can't make it!' into my computer or into a program on my computer, it will automatically save whatever information I enter. So that I can retrieve that information at any time even months or years from now. Now when I retrieve that information it will produce exactly what I put in "I can't make it!" that is the information I gave it. It doesn't change until I change it. Now there are some programs that will ask you "Do you want to save this?" You have a choice whether to keep it, delete it or change it. Now use this analogy in your personal walk, you have to exercise your mind to think like Christ. . I use the word exercise because it is like a muscle, the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

 "READ your WORD!" Study the word if you do not study the word you HAVE NOTHING TO FIGHT WITH! Do not let the Enemy control the Keyboard!

As Christians, we should not struggle with Mind-Battles all you have to do is use the word. Resist the Devil and he will Flee!! James 4:7

Like I mentioned, above you have a choice, you do not have to except everything the enemy throws at you. WE HAVE POWER!! This is where you should refuse to yield your thoughts to negatively, I can't, I don't, it won't, I don't have, I can't make it, and I'm not; you are defeating yourself with those words. Like the computer analogy you are programming this negativity into your spirit. Therefore, reflecting the exact opposite of who Christ says, we are and what we can do and continuing this way can be a Stronghold - A Stronghold is a mindset that accepts a situation as un-changeable even when it is contrary to the will of God, you have defeated yourself for sooo long that you now believe everything you say, and others say, and what you say about others to be true. Someone speak life into you and you can't receive it.

 

I exhort you to Speak Life- Speak life into yourself and others. Words have power Life and Death are in the Power of the tongue. Prov 18:21

The word tells us to take our thoughts captive to the Obedience of Christ 2 Cor 10:5.

We struggle - we all struggle you are not alone . The Flesh will always be in constant conflict with the Spirit, they are contrary to one another. It is IMPORTANT to stay in the word. It says, a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. The enemy wants to raise up a partition in our mind, he wants to block the knowledge of God from increasing you. As soon as you say, you want to do something in the kingdom he says, you can't do that it is not going to work, it won't help anyone and, what do we do we get discouraged and sit down and we become someone who occupies a pew in church, an ineffective, soldier for Christ because you fail to realize who you are in him.

RENEW, when the bible tells us to renew or we are renewed, we are restored we are made New. There is a change that needs and  has taken place. 

Please read Proverbs 18:21; 2 Cor 10:3-5; James 1:8; Ps 139:23,24