"HAVING THE RIGHT MIND"Dear Polly, Let me thank you again for being a vessel fit for the Master's use... I sometimes tell my ladies in SS class that the Lord allows some trials my way so that i'll have something (of my learning) to share to others or so that I would be a more effective (experienced) comforter...Knowing I am not alone in my "mind struggles" have been of great help esp. the past few months when the Lord allowed me to connect with "weathered" saints who go/have gone through similar struggles themselves. We have been greatly encouraged as we pray for one another and share verses the Lord has given during our "Zelda moments."The last couple of months, I had "Casting down imaginations... bringing down every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" at least three times in my journal and preaching notes...Also, Col. "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility"and Eph. 6:11 "stand against the wiles of the devil..." In one of my entries I wrote: Today, the Lord reminded me who the author of non-productive imagination is = the devil. To give in to wrong thinking is to give in to the subtle workings of the devil!!!Where can I go for power to DELIVER me from this DECEIVER? In Daniel 5:12, it said Belshazzar extolled Daniel for the "excellent spirit, and knowledge.. and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and DISSOLVING DOUBTS.." found in him. These, Daniel acknowledged as all of the Lord, Daniel 2:20-23 "Blessed be the name of God... fo wisdom and might are His... He knoweth what is in darkness and the light dwelleth with Him.."I need to go to Daniel's power source and ask Him for help (I loved your "ezer" study) to dissolve all doubts, to not listen to the devil's lies and to not entertain these doubts AT ALL! For all trouble starts when we START taking the lies as truths and then reacting to those lies, sadly, usually in a sinful way.I daily have to pray to have a MIND set on the Lord and not on IMAGINATIONS that "borrow trouble from the future.""This I recall to my MIND, therefore have I hope. "It is of the Lord's mercies that (I) am not consumed (by my imaginations) :-) " Lam. 3;21-23"Prepare your minds for action... fix your hope completely on the grace of God" 1 Pet. 1:13"Be renewed in the spirit of your mind" Eph. 4:22-24Four days ago, my last entry quotes: "Let the peace of God RULE in your hearts" which suggests that THERE is an ongoing struggle between angst, fears, worries and trusting God. I need to let His peace RULE or should I say OVERRULE these wrong thoughts.Twas lovely to have a lot of these gleanings spoken back to me today.love from your newest prayer warrior,Ina
"Without Christ, INA can do nothing...butIna can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth her.."John 15:5 & Philippians 4:13
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"Without Christ, INA can do nothing...butIna can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth her.."
John 15:5 & Philippians 4:13
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