2 Corinthians 10:4-6 For the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down
arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge
of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience
is fulfilled.
Satan's strongholds are thoughts. If the devil can get you to entertain
his thoughts fear, anxiety, doubt, apprehension, and so on, he
can have a doorway to controlling your mind.
He will put a ring in your nose and lead you around if you let him,
but, we don't have to let him. The Word of God tells us how to be
victorious. It shows us how to be more than conquerors in Him who loved
us and gave Himself for us.
James 4: 6-8 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God
resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.'' Therefore
submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw
near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you
sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
To simply try and resist the devil without doing the rest of what this
Word says is to be taking it out of context. Vs. 8 says
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you
sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Double mindedness is another way of saying you are wishy washy when it
comes to what you believe, or that you are not settled in your spirit
that the Word of God is true. There is a cure for that. Find out what
God's Word has to say, and then hear it, meditate on it,
let it take root in your spirit. Let faith arise in your heart.
Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Double-mindedness is quoting the Word of God with your mouth and not
really expecting it to come to pass your allowing doubt and
unbelief to be your ruler.
Romans 10: 9-10. that if you confess with your mouth the Lord
Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead,
you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to
righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.
If you really don’t believe God's Word concerning a thing, and just
think that if you have a good confession concerning what ever you
desire, that it will come to pass, you're amiss.
Fear, doubt, anxiety, and other such tools of the devil come to us
through our mind. To try to stand against such things without
first having our minds renewed with the Word of God is going to cause
failure and a defeated attitude. In order for us to appropriate
the victory purchased for us by the Lord Jesus Christ, we must first
renew our minds with the Word of God, and begin to look at ourselves as
God looks at us.
Psalms 1:2-3. But his delight is in the law of the
Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a
tree planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its
season, Whose leaf also shall not wither And whatever he does shall
prosper.
THEN, we can confess the Word of God and be steadfast in it, and not be double-minded and we will see the end result of it.
Many times we know what the Word of God says about different areas of
life and we may see some victories, but if the outward
circumstances do not always agree with the Word of God, we think our
faith has failed and we get discouraged and allow condemnation to come
in from the enemy. This is truly the trial of our faith, we must
make a choice to stand up for what we believe. The circumstances
of life or the Word of God. I know that it is not always easy to
bring your thought life into captivity to the obedience of Christ, but
God's Word tells us to do it, therefore we can.
We cannot do it by our own power or by the strength of our own
intellect. A Christian can not lead a victorious life accept by the
anointing of God's Word and the power of the Holy Spirit. We have to go
to the Word of God first, and then lean on the Spirit of God for our
strength.
John 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life the flesh profits
nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
We must allow God's Word by the power of the Holy Spirit to charge our
spirits until our spirit is dominating our mind and flesh, or the
world and the devil will join forces and defeat us. By allowing
our born again spirits empowered by the Word of God to dominate our
mind, we can bring it into subjection to God's Word and stand
victorious when all Hell is coming against us. Then the devil can not
toss us around with doubtful thoughts, or discouragement, and gain
supremacy over us.
When a Christian learns that the circumstances of life does not at all
show where he or she is spiritually, he or she will rejoice, for
when we learn that our recreated human spirit can be masters of our
intellect and senses, we can have a strong and constant faith life.
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Spiritual mindedness is more than just thinking about Heaven, it is not
allowing your mind to be swayed by circumstances or doubtful thoughts,
and is putting your mind under submission to the Word of God.
By constantly dwelling on God's Word and meditating on His precepts we
bring our mind into submission to God's will.
God's Word is God's will.
When we renew our mind to the point where doubt has no more room, the power of faith can be released and results obtained.
Satan loves to attack the thought lives of Christians. He batters
Christians with thoughts of fear, anxiety, worry, sickness, defeat, and
death. But we can be victorious in Jesus Christ for He has shown
us how to be.
We opened up with 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal (or mental) but mighty in God for pulling down
strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts
itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ,
We have a part to play in victory, these are our weapons, we have to
use them. God will not use them for us. Renewing our mind is an
on going experience, we must die to self daily, we must continually
keep our mind under subjection to the what God's Word is saying. This
means we have to feed on God's Word continually to be made strong. When
negative thoughts come, and they will, we have been given the tools to
deal with them.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,
whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things
are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good
report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy
meditate on these things.
The first step is knowing for sure that you have eternal life.
If you want to know for sure that you are a child of God then earnestly pray this prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. Your word
says, “…and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast
out." (Jn.6:37), So I know You won’t cast me
out, but You take me in, And I thank you for it. You said in your
Word, "whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved.'' (Ro. 10:13).
I am calling on Your name, So I know You have saved me now, You
also said, “…that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and
believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will
be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with
the mouth confession is made to salvation."
(Ro.10:9,10).
I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I believe He
was raised from the dead for my justification. And I confess Him now as
my Lord, Because Your Word says, “… with the heart one believes to
righteousness…" and I do believe with my heart, I have now become the
righteousness of God in Christ. (2 Cor. 5:21),
And I am saved! Thank You, Lord!
I can now truthfully say, I see myself as a born again child of God!
Glory to God!!!! Amen.
» left by sossy (1 year 296 days ago.)
This is a wonderful article. It is a confirmation for me on how I have been living my life. The result of applying God's word as suggested in this article is peace beyond measures. I find myself being open to be used by God as I entrust myself to him. I don't get wrapped up in myself any more. I find myself being able to be present in the moment when engaged with people in conversation or just listening to their problems. I am very content and joyful knowing whose I am. I rest in God, who is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. He is it. There is none like Him. I rejoice in this truth. Thank you Jesus and thank you Mark for this article. God bless. Sossy Respond to this comment
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