It's easy to buy new clothes, paint your face, get some cosmetic surgery, smile when you're really angry and laugh when you really want to cry but the real battle is taking place in your mind. It's hard to get those unwanted images out of your head, it's hard to ignore the small voice telling you to indulge in your flesh. It's hard changing your mindset, it's hard changing your thinking because that is the one thing that has been unaltered since your birth.
We condition our bodies, we create and recreate our social behaviors to influence or status but our mindsets stay the same. We still think the same way. We have become perfect chameleons where we imitate others around us. We show people the face they want to see. That's why we have a hard time surrendering and becoming one with God because we try to show him the person we think He wants to see when in reality he wants us to show him the messed up face so He can truly set us free but instead because of our thinking we run and hid and cover ourselves with leaves just as Adam and Eve did in the garden.
See the enemy didn't trick Eve because she was weak and Eve didn't convince Adam because he was weak they ate of the fruit from the tree because the enemy planted the seed in Eve's mind and got her to thinking about eating the fruit to gain the knowledge and she did the same to Adam. That's why the bible teaches us to not give place to the enemy and to cast down every thought and imagination the exalts itself up against the will of God.
See the enemies knows that all he has to do his control your thinking because if he can control your thinking he controls your behavior and if he controls your behavior he can control your life. Let me be transparent to better help you grasp this concept.
I struggled with a lot of residual emotional and mental trauma from the abuse I was a victim of. Just recently I thought all was well until God opened my eyes to show me that the devil still had control over my mind. I just recently had a meeting with my publisher giving me the good news about my book release "Tears of Deliverance" which is October 1, 2011. She was telling me that it was time for me to start my own ministry. God has already been speaking to me about excepting the calling to Minister so I was open and excited about the confirmation. Then when I got home and began to THINK, I began to tell myself that I wasn't good enough to except the call, that I didn't deserve to be called or deserved to be successful and that I was going to mess everything up.
Instead of me rebuking the enemy and shutting down those destructive thoughts I entertained them and began to speak those things that I was thinking. Then my behavior changed. I began to revert back to the old person that God has saved and delivered me from. I started to do things to sabotage where God was taking me. I went back to fornication with men, I went back to being angry and deceitful. And God showed me that every time something good happens to me be it relationships or situations I always sabotage them and bring them to an end. I then began to recall events from my past and I remembered great friendships and situations that I have been in that I ultimately destroyed them because of my thinking. I thought I wasn't worthy, I thought I was a screw up and ultimately I became what I was thinking.
See that's why some of you can't stay in a good relationship or on a good job, that's why you don't have any best friends and that's why we keep being wishy washy with God because we THINK we don't deserve anything good. We THINK we are going to screw things up. You may have been a whore like me, a homosexual like I was, a masturbator like I was, a lier like I was, you may be or have been all these things and more but those sins are not who you are, they maybe what you are doing but what you are doing can change if you change how you are thinking.
You change your thinking, you change your behavior, change your behavior, you change your situations, change your situations, you change your life. But the key is to change. The bible tells us to renew our minds daily and that we should have the mind of Christ. The word renew simply means to change over to another. When you renew your subscription to a magazine you are simply changing over, the old way is expired and you are changing over to the new.
Remember the bible says that we are new creatures in Christ Jesus, old things are passed away and behold are things are new, meaning the old mindset and ways of thinking we had has expired and its time to change over to the new way of thinking.
Operating out of an expired way of thinking will contaminate your behavior and make your life sick, let me make this plain: Think about what happens if you drink old expired milk? It makes you sick....so it is in the natural so it is in the spiritual. The reason why your life is in shambles and your relationships are failing is because your mind is spoiled, your way of thinking has been contaminated and it is making your life sick. I am here as a living witness that Jesus is your antibiotic, the word of God is your elixir to soother and heal all area of your thinking to renew your mental processes and give you the mind of Christ. There has been a battle going on in our minds and we have been getting a beat down from the enemy. He has infiltrated our thoughts and took over our thinking.
Every time I ever fail prisoner to sin and temptations it was always because I entertained a thought and did not bring it under submission to the word of God. I fell back into sexual sin because sex was on my mind and instead of praying for strength I re-winded the images in my head of an old encounter, the reason why I cursed that person out is because I entertained the thought to curse that person out for making me angry instead of praying God to bridle my tongue. I entertained anger and lust instead of thinking about the scripture that says vengeance is the Lords' and love thy neighbor as thy self and flee from all acts of sexual impurity. Let me make it more clear. See the reason why you can't see how beautiful you are in-spite of all the compliments you get is because you have allowed yourself to think that you are ugly. You have allowed situations to make you think that you are ugly. If have allowed the way people treated you and wrongly loved you change how you think about yourself. The reason why you keep staying with him/her after he/she beats you and emotional and mentally abuses you is because you have allowed yourself to think and believe that's what love is and that somehow someway you deserve it. You buy the hottest outfits and rock the sickest shoes but you still see nothingness in the mirror because you have allowed your expired mindset to contaminate your thinking thus making your life sick. You can change your hair, you can change your make-up, you can change your body and your clothes but until you change your mind you will always look and feel the same.
Always remember that outter change can never truly be achieved until inner change has been accomplished and inner change can never be accomplished until mental change has started.
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