My friends, check out the useless graffiti you just wrote on your thought-closet door! Let it remind you to not just throw something in the closet because you constantly hear it. Loser. Idiot. Airhead. Worthless. Refuse these thoughts entry. Those ill-fitting thoughts don't come from within you. At least not until you give them shelf space. So don't let them in.
You can't always control which thoughts pop up, but you can control, through God's Spirit, what you do when one knocks. Be alert and say "no entry."
Oh girls, just because the lion keeps roaring all day---just because the destructive thoughts keep assaulting your mind---doesn't mean you have to become desensitized; and it certainly doesn't mean you have to open the door! In fact, put a big smackin' X across the door! Those phrases and words are poison, unacceptable, and unwelcome!
Let the lion roar outside the door all he wants. The more he's ignored or reprimanded with truth, the sooner he will take his dumpster designs elsewhere.
Here's something I want you to prayerfully consider today: To accept lies is to reject truth. You must tell your soul to awake to sin and the Enemy. It is sin to believe lies when God equipped you to recognize and receive truth. Ponder that today.
Formulate a prayer asking for God's help and post it here.
Lord Jesus, Help me to be alert and recognize the voice of the enemy so that I can slam the door to any negativity before it gains entrance. Help me to focus on Your truths. As the song says, "Awake my soul declare the entrance for your glory, and let my heart become the throne for you to dwell. And when I need your Holy Spirit more than life itself, then Christ is formed in me". Help this to be the song of my heart today. In Jesus Name, Amen
ReplyDeleteFather God, Help us today and everyday to accept your truth over satan's lies. Use your Word and Spirit to awaken my soul to quickly identify sin and temptation from the enemy. Forgive me for sinning against you by believing and falling for his lies in the past. You have equipped me to recognize truth and receive it and I ask for Your help in doing just that moment by moment of every day of my life. Amen.
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