Think About What You Are Thinking About

Do you ever find yourself thinking, and your mind is on everything but what you are thinking about? While sitting in church sometimes, and my husband is up preaching his heart away, I find myself home in the kitchen cooking dinner or stopping at the store picking up a few things. My body is in church, but my mind is at the store shopping. I wonder if there was a special deliverance in the message for me?

That is how quickly the enemy can distract our thoughts. We start out focused, and before we realize it, the devil has stolen our important moments away. When my husband preaches, he says so many things to help me further on down the road. But the enemy doesn’t want me to hear it.

So I decided to take control of my mind, and to think about what I am thinking about. The word says that whatsoever is lovely, pure, just, and of good report, we are to think on those things. We cannot allow idle and ineffective thoughts to dominate our minds. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ 2 Corinthians 10:5.

If we look up the word cast in a dictionary, we see that not a lot of effort is involved in the actual act. Therefore, if a thought is not in line with the Word of God, cast if down. We should have the mind of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 2:5).

If we would keep God’s word before our eyes, then it will stay in our mind. We must not allow the devil to rob us of what God is trying to tell us or reveal to us. Our mind is a battlefield, and in it the war is won or lost.

If God has shown you things that He wants to do in your life, I want to encourage you to hold on to the vision. Keep your mind on what He has said in His Word. Think about what you are thinking about so that you can accomplish the things that God put in your heart.

Lindia Brown