Wrong Thinking Comes First. Wrong Actions Follow. Fix Your Thoughts!

Many of you remain somewhat innocent. You have made good choices. You have not done things that destroy lives.

BUT—the destruction of your life begins in your mind. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7.

Your thoughts will become your destiny. Your identity is not determined by your feelings, which come and go. We are all tempted and enticed by things that are bad for us. But what attracts you does not define you. That is not WHO YOU ARE. Who you are is defined by who you are in Christ. God created you, so God gets to decide who you are.

However, your thoughts will shape your identity because they will shape your choices. If you think of yourself as a sinner who has been forgiven and transformed by Jesus, with spiritual gifts and an amazing, God-centered, grace-filled destiny, then that is who you will be.

But if your view of yourself is mediocre and half-hearted, if you see yourself as just another struggling loser in a world full of misfits, then you will live that out and that is what you will become.

God has a plan for your life. But as Beth Moore says, “the devil also has a plan for your life,” and he seeks only to steal, kill, and destroy. And he starts by whispering lies into your mind. They sound like your OWN THOUGHTS, but that’s how the enemy works. The only way to battle that is to fill your mind with God’s Word.

Paul says to “take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ,” 2 Corinthians 10:5.

Check your thoughts. Question your beliefs, especially the negative beliefs, or the ones that don’t line up with the Word, or beliefs that you know other respected Christians do not share. If you are in the minority among God’s people, maybe you are in the wrong. Question it. Be vigilant—because the devil lies to you every day.

Please take every thought captive. Grab your thoughts, wrestle them to the ground, and put them in handcuffs.

Then go to the Word and make sure those thoughts are from God. If they are not, give the wrong thoughts the death penalty. That’s the only way you will ever achieve God’s great plan for your life.

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