The Battle For Your Mind

I mean, everyday I come up the toll way from Frisco to church and we’re dealing with a lot of construction. They’re deconstructing the old roads… It looks like Fallujah or Iraq up there. They’re deconstructing all the old roads and reconstructing and rebuilding new pathways, new super highways that we’re all going to enjoy once its ever done!

So in life… in our behaviors in this journey with life, we need to ask God to renew our minds by deconstructing… tearing down those strongholds that have occupied our mind and renewing ourselves in the Word of God. That’s why the Scripture says, “And take the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.” The way you renew your mind… the way your mind is transformed is by the teaching and the training that takes place when we open the Word and the Word begins to cleanse us, the Word begins to sanctify us, the Word begins to develop new patterns and ways of thinking in our lives.

And I’m saying sometimes that takes some time. It may take biblical counseling. That’s why James 5 says if you have a fault, what are you supposed to do? You’re supposed to go and confess it to one another, and pray for the healing of God. And so it may take others to encourage you, to help you along. So, I’m saying that Jesus does it all, but that doesn’t mean He does not use means, and His primary means is the Word of God and taking our thoughts captive!

God has so made us, this is a great truth! God has so made us that we can only think one thought at a time. If I’m thinking the right things, I can’t be thinking the wrong things. And what we need to learn how to do is to replace the way we think, not of thoughts of evil but of thoughts of God. [Philippians 4:8] “Whatsoever things are true and honorable and good report, think on these things!” Get it? That’s the renewal of the mind! We must rebuild godly fortresses of truth and habits of holiness and purity. We must learn to love God more than our sin.

When is the last time you said a good healthy wholesome NO! in the power of God to the enemy and all of his temptation? Because I assure you every time you win… every time you say no… every time you defeat the enemy… every time you draw the sword of the Spirit and run the enemy through, you’re building a strong spiritual tower of faith in your life. You’re taking your your thoughts captive.

The last thing is to resist Satan in the name of Jesus. Remember Satan has no right or authority in your house. Throw the bum out! In the name of Jesus! James 4:7 “Submit yourself therefore to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.” When we resist, he runs! And if you in Jesus’ name will submit to the Word of God in obedience to Him and His Word and to His will, you stand… That’s the idea again that we found in Ephesians… to stand, to stand, to stand, to stand and resist, to trust in the power of God, to wait patiently on the Lord and His timing, to heal our thoughts, to heal our emotions, to heal our… our brokenness, to tear down the strongholds. And when we do that… when we resist the devil, he will flee from us. When you do this in Jesus’ name, giving Jesus His rightful place of authority and control of your mind and therefore, ultimately your behaviors, the footsteps that you hear fleeing behind you won’t be yours but the devil himself running in the presence of a powerful believer who is more than conqueror through the Lord Jesus Christ!