Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious.. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.

It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That’s why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

The mind should be kept peaceful. As the prophet Isaiah tells us, when the mind is stayed on the right things, it will be at rest.

A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones. Proverbs 14:30

The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.

We like everything instantaneous. We have the fruit of patience inside, but it is being worked to the outside. Sometimes God takes His time about bringing us our full deliverance. He uses the difficult period of waiting to stretch our faith and to let patience have her perfect work (see James 1:4 KJV). God’s timing is perfect. He is never late.

Asking for something is easy… being responsible for it is the part that develops character.

Our past may explain why we’re suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Discouragement destroys hope, so naturally the devil always tries to discourage us. Without hope we give up, which is what the devil wants us to do. The Bible repeatedly tells us not to be discouraged or dismayed. God knows that we will not come through to victory if we get discouraged, so He always encourages us as we start out on a project by saying to us, “Don’t get discouraged.” God wants us to be encouraged, not discouraged.

We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the Word if we are not thinking in the Word.

Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory.

Remember, you become what you think. Think discouraging thoughts, and you’ll get discouraged.

A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them. Ezekiel 36:26,27

DON’T GIVE UP! When the battle seems endless and you think you’ll never make it, remember that you are reprogramming a very carnal, fleshly, worldly mind to think as God thinks. Impossible? No! Difficult? Yes! But, just think, you have God on your team. I believe He is the best “computer programmer” around. (Your mind is like a computer that has had a lifetime of garbage programmed into it.) God is working on you; at least, He is if you have invited Him to have control of your thoughts. He is reprogramming your mind. Just keep cooperating with Him—and don’t give up!

Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11

The mind is the leader or forerunner of all actions.

your life will not get straightened out until your mind does.

Pray for your enemies, and bless those who mistreat you” (see Matt. 5:44).