Set your mind free...

Set your mind free...submit it to God's truth & seek the Holy Spirit for direction-He has all the answers! The mind desires a sense of control to sustain stability & safety, but apart from the Holy Spirit's direction, the mind will manifest agitation, fear & an overall uneasiness. When faced with a dilema large or small, it's crucial to remember God's gone before you & handled it. Our tendency is to dismiss small dilemas as no big deal & believe we can handle them or to panic when we're faced with a big dilema because we've eliminated God from the equation...both responses invite doubt to set up lies in our thought process. We do nothing apart from Jesus & with Him all things are possible! Regardless of the size of the dilema, immediately give it to God & seek the Holy Spirit for direction. Immediately is the operative word...delay opens the door for doubt to enter the mind. Doubt disguises itself as godly wisdom & imposes lies in your thought patterns. It's a subtle & sophisticated ploy of the enemy twisting scripture & presenting it in a logical perspective that seems to be godly wisdom. If you've knowingly or unknowingly have done this, ask God for wisdom...He gives it generously without finding fault. Then ask the Holy Spirit for revelation-He will lead you in all truth giving you spiritual thoughts & spiritual truths. Despite the help & truth God offers us to turn mistakes around, many get caught in yet another mind game by the enemy-he comes at us with "how many times are you going to let God down?" Don't take the bait of satan-it's true, we mess up a bunch, but God's grace is bigger than any mess we can make! Grace doesn't excuse us from deliberate disobedience, but it always catches us when we've reached an end- providing hope & a way out with the love of Jesus. In any of the above situations remember this...God wants you to succeed-He made you because He loved you first, but He also purposed you to do the works that He planned long ago. You agreeing with His truth & having the confidence of the Holy Spirit guiding you in all truth allows you to fulfill these plans He made. He's not going to give up on you...so don't give up on Him!!! (Jn 8:32, 15:5, 16:33, 14:26-27, Phil 4:13, 1 Cor 2:13, James 1:5, Eph 2:10, Phil 1:6) 12/6/13LMM/CIFL