If thieves came to your door, would you invite them in? No, you\u2019d call the police and have them arrested. And that\u2019s what you need to do when wrong thoughts come to your mind! Take them captive\u2014before they take you captive. And you must do it the moment the first one tries to enter your mind. When you entertain a thought, you empower it, and it will overcome you. <\/p>\n
The Bible says, \u2018Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.\u2019<\/i> (James\u00a04:7\u00a0NIV) On your own you don\u2019t have the power to resist Satan, so don\u2019t try it! But the moment you call on God and submit your will to Him, you\u2019re more than a match for Satan. You<\/i> get to decide who will control your mind: \u2018The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a08:6\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
When a thought keeps turning over and over in your mind, ask yourself, \u2018What direction is this thought leading me in? Is it towards spiritual death, or towards \u201clife and peace\u201d\u2019? Think about it: you don\u2019t buy insurance after a storm has flattened your house. If you\u2019re wise, you do it before the storm comes. So instead of failing and saying, \u2018I\u2019ll never be any different,\u2019 look back and ask yourself, \u2018What was I thinking<\/i> that led to my failure? Was I in the wrong company, or the wrong place, or the wrong mindset? Have I been reading God\u2019s Word and praying regularly? Have I built my life around people who strengthen me?\u2019 In the long run, monitoring your mind pays great dividends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If thieves came to your door, would you invite them in? No, you\u2019d call the police and have them arrested. And that\u2019s what you need to do when wrong thoughts come to your mind! Take them captive\u2014before they take you captive. And you must do it the moment the first one tries to enter your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}