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Thought Process and Temptation

The Thought Process and Temptation War

Battle Your Thoughts by Changing Your Thought Process

Ephesians 6:12,13, ‘For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the Sovereignties and the Powers who originate the darkness in this world, the spiritual army of evil in the heavens. That is why you must rely on God’s armor, or you will not be able to put up any resistance when the worst happens, or have enough resources to hold your ground.’

Pray to Jesus and ask Him to clothe you in the armor of God and the helmet of salvation and the double-edge sword of truth and the shield for protection against your enemies. Pray always to God for strength to resist any and all temptations and self-indulgences and ask for help with your thought process.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5, ‘We live in the flesh, of course, but the muscles that we fight with are not flesh. Our war is not fought with weapons of flesh, yet they are strong enough, in God’s cause, to demolish fortresses. We demolish sophistries (deceptive reasoning), and the arrogance that tries to resist the knowledge of God; every thought is our prisoner, captured to be brought into obedience to Christ. Once you have given your complete obedience, we are prepared to punish any disobedience.’

James 4:1-3, ‘Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves? You want something and haven’t got it; so you are prepared to kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. Why you don’t have what you want is because you don’t pray for it; when you do pray and don’t get it, it is because you have not prayed properly, you have prayed for something to indulge your own desires.’

Our minds have never been trained to have positive outlooks in our thoughts. Our thoughts are more accustomed to producing negative outcomes in our thought process. It’s because we have not invited God into our heart, mind and emotions.

Worries, Fears and Doubts Kill Our Faith

We don’t realize that without God in our lives, we are alone to fend for ourselves. We have no knowledge of who our enemies are and much less, know how to fight them. We are so weak spiritually that we give in to worries, fears and doubts. Our thought process runs rampant. When we give in we end up making wrong decisions, we find ourselves wallowing in self-pity, or depressed. Along with all this, it controls our negative emotions like, anger, patience and so on.

The sad part about all this is sometimes we try to fix this with things of the world that will help us forget, or bring us some sort of happiness. We end up putting our hopes in the wrong place, or by using alcohol and/or drugs to suppress our thoughts and feelings till we become numb. We also search for other ways in the world to make us happy but, when we do find some happiness, it doesn’t last long because it’s only temporary.

God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit Knows All That is Going on Within Us

Psalms 64:6, ‘Who can probe our secrets? Who? He who probes the inmost mind and the depths of our heart.’

Hebrews 4:12,13, ‘The Word of God is is something alive and active: it cuts like any double-edged sword but more finely: it can slip through the place where the soul is divided from the spirit, or joints from the marrow; it can judge the secret emotions and thoughts. No created thing can hide from Him; everything is uncovered and open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves.

God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit know everything that is going on with us. This is why we need them in our life so they can help us to overcome our darkness and end up in heaven with them for eternity. We need to lean on them, give up our will to God and pick up our cross and follow Jesus daily.

When you make a commitment to Jesus that you WILL pick up your cross and follow Him, you need to keep that commitment. Stay focused on building a relationship with Jesus at all costs. Don’t make a start with Him and then one day decide to take a rest on a park bench while Jesus keeps on going. He is not going to stop and wait for you, so don’t lose sight of Him.

Pride versus Humility

Luke 9:46-48, ‘An argument started between them about which of them was the greatest. Jesus knew what thoughts were going through their minds, and He took a little child and set him by His side and then said to them, ‘Anyone who welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me, welcomes the one who sent me. For the least amongst you all, that is the one who is great!’

Pride has its lows and its highs, in this case, it is a high form of pride that this battle is all about. They are trying to exalt themselves above one another. Jesus sees what is going on and tells them that they need to come to Him as a child.

A child has to be learned, a person going to the Lord thinking that he knows everything is doing so with pride. He will need to be humbled first before he can be taught the way of the Lord. That is why we must come to the Lord as a little child.

Draw Nearer to God and Change Your Thought Process

James 4:8, ‘The nearer you go to God, the nearer He will come to you. Clean your hands, you sinners, and clear your minds, you waverers.

Focus on God, not the world. The world and the things of it will cause you to waver back and forth as if you were intoxicated. Stay sober and keep people, places and things behind you so they don’t obscure your vision and you wind up losing sight of the Lord. Don’t let them cause you to wander around away from the Lord.

Set Your Hearts on His Kingdom First

Matthew 6:25-34, ‘That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and how you are to clothe it. Surely life means more than food, and the body more than clothing! Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are?

Can any of you, for all his worrying, add one single cubit to his span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin, Yet, I assure you that not even Solomon in all his regalia was robed like one of these. Now if that is how God clothes the grass in the field which is there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will He not much more look after you, you men of little faith?

So do not worry, do not say, ‘What are we to eat? What are we to drink? How are we to be clothed?’ It is the pagans who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all. Set your hearts on His kingdom first, and on His righteousness, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’

Jesus is telling us not to have so much emphasis on our worldly lives but, focus more on our spiritual life. Concentrate and seek more on spiritual things than unspiritual things. When you have worries, fears and doubts about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, you lose your faith and trust, and if you have no faith or trust in them how are you going to prepare for the next life?

May God Give You the Grace You Need To Get Nearer to Him

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