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The Mind & Your Words  Where do we fight our adversary the devil? Where is the geographical location of our battles? Where does the war take place? In our minds and mouths.  Our thoughts are real. They are tangible and take up space in our brains. Our thoughts become our words and our actions. Our thoughts tell our body what physical actions our DNA what to do and what not to do.  How do our thoughts translate into creating the world around us and, determine if we will see and experience life or death? Analyzing our thoughts and protecting our words.   What are our weapons?  - 2 Corinthians 10: 3-5 Dr. Caroline Leaf explains our minds and brains very well. Our brains are neuroplastic. We can change our brains to become healthy. We do control our thoughts.  - “I take every thought captive unto the obedience of Christ” not our obedience but the obedience of Christ  - Romans 5:19 We must analyze our thoughts like they are soldiers and we must dec...

To know how to obtain and receive victory you must first identify your enemy and know them. We are in a war every day. The enemy is unrelenting and so must we be. God has equipped us with an overabundant supply of arsenal, authority, and power to be victorious. Once you know your enemy you must then, as the military say “go behind the wire” or your home base that is a safe place. You must go through and take inventory of your arsenal supply. What do you have? What are you running low on? What are you completely in need of? What breaches need to be fixed? What areas on your body need to be bandaged and healed? Who do you have with you? What are other areas that first need to be taken care of before you head back out to war to prevent the enemy to gain access? What are your weak points? What are the latest updates from intelligence (holy spirit)? What is the strategy and commands set forth from your officers? What has changed? Review the geological location of the strongholds and enemy t...

Debunk the myth that only a certain version of the Bible is the “Correct” version to read. That is not so. Versions of the Bible are provided for current language and understanding. I use AMP, NLT (new living), KJV, Vines Concordance, YouVersion search feature. You need to pray for God’s supranational understanding, wisdom and that He shows and explains the deep hidden things of His Word to you  Don’t make quantity your main goal, priority, or focus. It needs to be wisdom and understanding. Quality time spent with the Lord. Remember, the Lord is the Word made flesh. So when you are studying and reading the Word you are in all actuality studying and reading Jesus. Make sure you know what you are reading.  A good test to making sure you understand it is to ask yourself if you can fully explain it to someone else. If you had to teach this in a Bible study, could you? If yes, you then have the understanding acquired. If not, keep meditating on it and ask the Lord to show you what ...

Forgiveness & renewing the mind are two of the most important decisions you could ever decide to do. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger. So when you wake up you can form your new mind with health and wholeness and God’s best for your life. Not with the bad or negative “trees” that would form if you hold on to unforgiveness and/or bitterness. Dr. Leaf explains that every night and morning, your mind goes through the process of epigenetics, which explains and coincides with the scripture that says “God’s mercies are new every morning” and “you transform your life by the renewing of your mind” - you can only do these things if what is in your mind is first good and worth thinking about according to God’s standards. If you wake up with bitterness and un-forgiveness and you keep going over and over the same unworthy things that you are thinking about then the only result would be for the “bad trees” to form in your brain and your neurogenesis would then be polluted. And, this is h...

Bible says Judas kissed Jesus with fakeness. Are there people you hug upon greeting as a real friend that you are not sincere about? Do you greet people at work with a smile and then proceed to talk about them behind their backs? Do you routinely take credit for someone else's work to get that promotion but act like you are best friends with the person you just stole from? Do you greet people with an empty and selfish heart at church? And you say hi to people with a fake smile? Have you ever told someone you'd pray for them on social media but just muddled under your breath about them instead? Have you ever pretended to give warmth to someone purely because you wanted to get something from them? All of these are examples of being a Judas. No one wants a Judas in their friendship circle even though most of us have experienced it. If you are the Judas, you must realize that in the end, Judas felt so much remorse for what he did, he hung himself. It was all for money. That is not ...

Do I want to heal my pain? Choose life or death. Naomi suffered loss. Ruth found Boaz. Also blessed Naomi.  The blessing outweighs your former hurt and shame. God rewards those who do not faint. Restoration. God also knew and understands great hurt and pain. He knows what it’s like to have the most precious and valuable thing to Him be ripped away and crushed. Hopes. Dreams. Plans. Love. Family. Friends. God also made a decision. He chose to allow temporary pain for a forever reward. He kept His eyes focused on the outcome. On the greater good. He knows what it’s like to lose to gain. The gain is always better, more, and higher than the price it took to get you there. Joshua - before crossing over from the wilderness the men had to be circumcised for the second time before entering the promised land. God will also ask you to make a decision. And, not only a decision but to pay a price. To also make a sacrifice. But, by the grace of God, it will never outweigh what He already paid f...

Acts 7:25 He expected his brethren to understand that God was granting them deliverance by is hand [taking it for granted that they would accept him]; but they did not understand. Moses when he avenged the oppressed Israelite by striking down the Egyptian and slaying him (v 24) People do not always understand your actions or what is in your heart. They are not privy to and they sometimes can lack the knowledge and wisdom and explanation of things that God has placed in your heart. They can also lack common sense. They can lack your viewpoint and your judgement of a situation. Do not be surprised when mere men or women do not grasp the knowledge of what the Lord is wanting to do in their own lives through you. God might have sent you to be a believer of a particular group of people but will not send the word of knowledge ahead of the event and/or you arriving on the scene to do so. He will often not magnify their hearts to this change and/or deliverance because it obstructs the decision...