Every Thought

“Something bad is going to happen to you!” It was such an insistent thought, and it kept coming. There I was lying weak and sick on my bed, and my mind was just filled with these morbid thoughts. It was a struggle even to get those thoughts out of my head so, strange as it sounds, I accepted them.

Needless to say, a few hours later, something bad did indeed happen; it’s just a day I want to forget!

2 Cor 10:5 says, We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. I’ve never seen a verse truer to my situation than this one. When sinister thoughts, thoughts that do not seem to be coming from God enter our minds, we need to take those thoughts captive and make them obedient to Christ. We need to “correct” those thoughts with the word of God. For example, an evil thought comes: ‘You’re going to die; you won’t recover from this illness’. Don’t accept it! Refute that thought with the word of God. “I shall not die, but live to declare the works of the Lord” Ps 118:17. Evil thought number two: ‘No one cares about you’. That is NOT true. Take that thought captive and say, “My heavenly Father has loved me with an everlasting love!” Jer. 31:3.

Faith, we know, moves mountains. However, negative faith is also a force to reckon with. That ancient serpent the devil is such a liar. He’s been lying from Adam and Eve’s day, and he’s very good at it. The tragedy is, once you believe his lies, you’re trapped! Have you noticed how quickly people who have lost the will to live die? Once you believe you’re going to die, you die. It’s as simple as that!

Well, which lies of the devil have you accepted, consciously or unconsciously? It’s not too late! Take that thought captive and refute it with the word of God! Remember, faith is just believing what God says He will do. Believe the Word, and His word (which is true anyway) will come true in your life! Trust Him! He’ll do the rest.