PROPHETIC WORDS

THE BATTLE FOR YOUR THOUGHT LIFE

by Lyn Packer

March 2021.

I felt the Lord emphasise to me this morning that we are in a season where we must be aware of what is filling our minds. The Spirit of God is reminding us afresh about the importance of our thought life – that there is a battle raging over who will rule our thoughts, and what will fill our hearts and minds.

With so many voices saying so many different things we need to realise afresh that our mind is primarily a receiver that is constantly receiving and taking in information from various sources. There are several sources constantly sending out information that our brain picks up – the Trinity and the heavenly realm, the demonic realm, and the natural world around us. Our brain is a giant processor that seeks to sift through, accept or discard, make sense of, and then file away the information we receive. It seeks to make habitual thinking patterns out of thoughts that we reinforce often, and those habitual thinking patterns create habitual responses and behaviours that we then begin to live from automatically.

The Lord is reminding us that we have been given the mind of Christ to access and we must choose to access it in this time if we want peace to rule our hearts and minds (1 Cor 2:16; John 14:27; Col 3:15). Scripture urges us to take captive every thought that exalts itself above the knowledge of Christ (2 Cor 10:5). The knowledge of Christ is not just us ‘knowing Jesus’, it is us receiving His wisdom, His understanding, His knowledge. Christ has brought us into freedom and we must not allow ourselves to be drawn back into bondage to negative or destructive thought patterns.

I felt the Lord urging us to be intentional, that we must not live on ‘automatic pilot’, but are to be watchful and guard our hearts and minds. This is critical in the times we live in.  We must choose what we give our focus to; what we give our focus to, and allow to fill our minds, will rule our lives and set the course of our behaviour.

The Father is reminding us that He has made available to us the provision in Christ for our minds to be renewed. He has given us the mind of Christ and in doing so He has given us the peace, rest, and wisdom that the Godhead possess in themselves. Not only that, the Lord is reminding us that we live our lives by the faith of the Son of God (Gal 2:20). As our thinking is renewed our lives are transformed, and we we can then establish the reign of peace in our hearts and minds and not be tossed about by every wind that blows and every idea that is spread abroad. The renewing of our mind is critical and necessary for our maturity in Christ and it is critical for living a life that is stable, not unstable and doubleminded, tossed to and fro and given to worry. fear, anxiety, doubt, etc (James 1:8).

What fills our minds will determine whether we get caught up in swirls of thought that take us down destructive pathways into confusion, negativity, and end up tearing our lives, and others’, apart, or whether we get caught up into the faith and life-giving power of God as we think on those things that are pure, lovely, worthy of praise (Phil 4:8,9) – things that are constructive, releasing faith, life and hope, and give us a future that is one to look forward to. It is the things that we have learned, received, heard from Christ, or seen in Him, and put into practice that release the peace of God around our lives.

God is reminding us in this moment, “Your thought life is that powerful – it will literally shape and determine your life, as well as having a huge effect on the lives you connect with.”

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