Yesterday, we learned about the idea of winning the war within. If there is one thing that is relevant to us today, it is the fact that spiritual warfare is real. Most of life’s battles are won or lost within our minds and in our brains. This is where the enemy attacks us the most is within our minds. What we need to understand is that we need to be paying attention to what is going on so that we do not give the enemy the authorization as well as the clearance to proceed into our minds. When it comes to our lives, we are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. If we are always thinking positive thoughts, then we are going to live our lives in a positive way. If we think negative thoughts, then we are going to live in a negative way. What we think determines how we are going to live our lives.
In 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, the apostle Paul speaks about how we need to “take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ” (NIV Translation). In other words, we need to take every negative thought that comes into our minds and reverse engineer it to making it follow the commands of the Lord. It takes more energy in our body to think and act negatively than it is positively. He also talks about how we do not wage war as the world wages war. In other words, the world uses manmade weapons while God’s soldiers use the Bible. That is the only offensive weapon that we need. We need to understand that God is always going to be with us no matter what. While there are waves crashing around us, we need to be focusing on Christ. Only He can lead us through.
Scripture
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NLT Translation)
“3. We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. 4. We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock don the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. 5. We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.”
Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, help us to always be following You no matter what season of life we are going through. Remind us each and every day that You are for us and is with us always. Help us to surrender our hearts and minds to You. Let us come boldly to Your throne without any sense of fear or hesitation. Let Your love and grace wash over us and let us go out and be Your hands and feet to the world. In Jesus name, amen.