“The mind is the battleground. It is the place where the biggest conflict is. It is wearing you down. Half of the things you thought were gonna happen never did happen. But if you allow those thoughts to dwell in your mind it will succeed in robbing you of your peace, robbing you of your joy, robbing you of your life, just because you thought yourself into a nervous breakdown. You thought yourself into depression. You thought yourself into defeatism. The warfare is in your mind. It’s not in your checkbook. It’s not in your savings account. It’s not in your job. The fight that you’ve got to fight is in your mind.”
This is a speech I heard recently that has made me ask myself several questions lately. What kind of fights am I fighting with in my mind? Am I fighting the fights that God wants me to fight? Or am I just letting the negativity of my own mind weigh me down and discourage me from fighting the good fight at all? What are the things that are hindering me from having this attitude to always win these fights?
I am a strong believer in the power of a positive attitude. He who thinks he can and he who thinks he can’t…are both normally right. So many times in life it seems we just let one small obstacle in our path send us spiraling down in a negative direction. We let our minds runaway and with that comes feelings of sadness, when really there is nothing to even be sad about. God blesses us all beyond measure everyday, but yet we let small things make us lose our grip on the big picture.
One of the greatest blessings and abilities God has given us is the power to direct and focus our mind upon a task. Whatever the mind feeds upon, the mind attracts to you. What are we focused on? Are we focused on doing God’s will? If we are then we know what the battles are we have to win in our head are. The question is…why aren’t we winning them?
One of the biggest reasons I hear that people have trouble with is just thinking that they can’t do something. I believe that to be one of the biggest tools Satan uses against us. Making us think that we can’t. That we aren’t good enough. That we shouldn’t even bother making an attempt, because it’s just going to end in failure anyways. Luckily for us as Christians, God has given us tons of verses to reassure us that not only can we win the battles we face, but he wants to help us win them.
In conclusion, we need to have a positive attitude in life. We need to know that we were made to glorify God and accomplish His will. We need to understand that we can win the fights that we face every second of every day against ourselves
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