Winning the Battle for your Mind

This powerful message confronts a reality we all face: the battle for our minds is the greatest spiritual warfare we will ever encounter. Drawing from Isaiah 26:3-4, we discover that God promises to keep us in perfect peace when our minds are stayed on Him. The truth is, when we said yes to Jesus, we became enemy number one to the devil, and his primary battlefield is our thought life. As Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, as we think in our hearts, so we are. This means whoever controls our mind controls our life in any given situation. The enemy knows this, which is why he constantly bombards us with negative thoughts, feelings, and emotions designed to move us away from God's Word. But here's the good news: we have a choice. We can choose to be controlled by our feelings and emotions, or we can choose to be controlled by the Word of God. We can choose torment, or we can choose perfect peace. The message challenges us to stop reacting to every thought that comes our way and instead to stand firm, resisting the devil by speaking God's Word over our situations. When we learn to cast down imaginations and bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, as taught in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, we begin to walk in the victory Jesus already won for us.