Sunday, July 6, 2014

Are Secret Thoughts Stealing Your Joy?


One minute we may be up and the next minute we may be down. Sometimes we may be able to sustain our joy, or life of abundance for weeks or even months at a time. When I say life of abundance I am referring to the life Christ lived and died for us to have. As we read in John 10:10 the thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. The reason we are unable to sustain our joy or life of abundance is described in the same verse.

The thief, that dreaded enemy comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy. He does everything he can to prevent you from enjoying your inheritance of joy, peace, provision, prosperity, strength, health and all that the resurrected Christ represents.

Think about it. Think. One of the definitions of the word think is to have a certain thing as the subject of one’s thoughts. A certain thing. Oftentimes it is a certain thing that we are thinking of that allows the enemy to steal our joy whether momentarily or for an extended period of time.

What is that thing? That thought that is stealing your joy, the thought that prevents you from enjoying a daily life of abundance?  That thought that lingers in your mind no matter how you try to dismiss it. Notice the emphasis on the word you.

The enemy uses the fiery darts that he shoots at us to attack our mind. That is why we are to use the shield of faith to quench or extinguish those fiery darts, or thoughts that plague our mind. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Without faith it is impossible to prevent the thoughts planted in our mind by the enemy from taking root.

You wake up one morning with joy in your heart. The enemy sends a fiery dart your way. Whatever the thought may be it causes you to doubt that God can take care of it for you. Your faith in this situation has been replaced with doubt. What has changed? You, or your mindset has changed, God has not changed. The same God that awakened you with joy is the same God that will see you victoriously through whatever thoughts Satan has placed in your mind.

We read in Romans 7:22-24 for I delight in the law of God after the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and brining me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

When we are born again our spirit relishes in the love of God. We desire to serve Him, to walk by faith and not by sight. But our flesh, in which the carnal mind lives wars against the knowledge of the truth that abides in mind of our spirit. So unwillingly, if we do not seek The Holy Spirit we give in to the thoughts of our carnal mind, and lose our peace.

Sometimes it is those Secret Thoughts that we do not dare to share that wreak havoc in our mind.

We read in 2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into capitivity every thought to obedience of Christ.

It’s a given, thoughts that are contrary to the thoughts God wants us to have will be placed in our mind, but it is imperative that we not allow them to take root. It is up to us to replace the thoughts that are contrary to Gods word with thoughts that align with His word.

 

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