My God My Everything

“And the angel said unto them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.” – Luke 2:10-12 The Bible shares the Royal Records and Lineage of our Savior Jesus Christ. From the creation of the world God determined that Jesus would be born to save the world from sin; making a way for our relationship with God to be restored.…

The second word that I was given on my journey to take my thoughts captive was Edit. Many times I have found myself saying, “Delete,” whenever a wrong thought has entered my mind. It’s quite helpful and brings my mind back to attention; to truly think about what I’m thinking about, rather than mindlessly letting it wander. Using the bible teaching in Luke 11:24-27 of the person who has swept their house (mind) clean of evil spirits (wrong thoughts) we find that just getting rid of them is not enough. We need to fill that space with right thoughts; the mind of Christ and to do that we need to…

The bible says that we are to have a ready mind. That means that we are to have minds that are open to the will of God for us, whatever that may be. When we are facing God’s will for our lives we can choose to respond negatively or positively. Negativism means to think about the outcome of situations with a mindset that you are expecting the worst. Being positive means to think with the mindset that I’m going to ask God and believe for the best; but more than anything I want God’s perfect will. “If things don’t turn out the way I want them to, I’ll survive, because…

The hardest part of being set free from something is acknowledging that you have a problem. I don’t like to admit that I have problems but God has such a loving way of revealing areas that I need to work on that I can’t help but be humbled and willing to comply. I have always thought of myself as a positive person, but today as I was reading a scenario in the Battlefield of the Mind I thought, “That’s me.” The author was describing a very negative attitude. Ouch! She shared her struggle with being negative and once she faced the truth she said, “I’m a negative person and I…

One of the lessons in the Battlefield of the Mind was to learn to become the kind of person who plans things but who doesn’t fall apart if that plan does not work out. My plan was to water my plants and flowers in my yard and began with a leak in the hose. The garden wand that I usually use had been switched out for a different sprayer that I didn’t like. So I turned off the water and switched sprayers. The hose connection still leaked. Thoughts of, “why did he mess with my hoses,” came to mind and I again shut off the water to re-adjust the connection.…

I was thinking of the battlefield of the mind and taking our thoughts captive last night when the idea of our thoughts being like emails came to mind. Everyday several emails make their way in to my account. I have to sort through them and decide what to do with them. There are a lot of junk emails that are quickly deleted and sent to the trash without even being opened. Other emails are sorted and saved. Those that are sorted and saved are important for many different reasons and meet a certain criteria in order to be kept. The same should happen with our thoughts. Philippians 4:8 reads: Finally,…

I was feeling pretty good about myself and excited for the adventure ahead to overcome wrong thoughts with a clean and right heart when the enemy decided to show me that he was not as pleased with my decision. From out of nowhere came some very powerful wrong thoughts and just as quickly my mind was racing with so many that I felt like I was caught in a whirlwind. I was trying to battle one thought by speaking truth to it and I would be hit with another one. It was quite frightening how battered and bombarded I felt. No matter how hard I tried to fight back I…

The day after I had been encouraged to clean up my heart and mind with the divine power of God I was looking through my bookshelf to pick out a bible study to begin. Two or three caught my attention and I took them off the shelf and began looking through them. In my head I kept hearing, “what are you struggling to overcome?” My answer was, “my thoughts.” The question was repeated as I continued to look through books and then I heard, “It’s a battlefield for your mind. The enemy of your soul wants to manipulate your thoughts. Stop allowing him too. Learn to fight back.” On my…

For quite some time I have had wrong thoughts. I think of things that are not God honoring and later find myself feeling condemned and frustrated because I keep having trouble in this area and I don’t seem to be able to overcome it. Many times I have tried to think of something else or even justify my thoughts through rationalization. It often feels like a recurring cycle that I cannot seem to break. Then I read Luke 6:45 which reads, “for out of the abundance of the heart a man speaks.” I’ve heard this verse before, but today it had new meaning. My issue with thoughts is not something…