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Oct 1, 2010 · Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 Topic: Life of the Mind. A violent battle is raging around us twenty-four hours per day. In 1965, Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote a book about it called The Invisible War. It is the battle for your mind, and that battle is vicious. It is intense. It is unrelenting, and it is unfair because Satan never plays fair.
We try to fight the fear on our own, but we come up lacking—because the battle is spiritual, and we don’t have the right weapons. But God “has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7, NKJV).
The battle we experience in our thoughts and emotions is often influenced by unseen forces. The enemy knows that if he can control our minds, he can control how we live. That’s why he works so hard to plant seeds of doubt, fear, and insecurity in our minds.
Nov 1, 2023 · Explore how the teachings of 2 Timothy 1:7 can empower us to replace fear with faith, love, and self-control. Join us in this reflective journey towards understanding and applying God's Word in our daily lives.
2 Timothy 1:7 – for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. Hebrews 4:12 – For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Replace those wrong beliefs with right beliefs based on God’s Word, and you will eradicate those fears and anxieties. Through the power of right believing, you will win the battle for your mind. This devotional is taken from the book 100 Days of Right Believing—Daily Readings from The Power of Right Believing.
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Oct 22, 2018 · Because of our mental strongholds, battles are won or lost in our minds before we make a single move. Our minds become a battlefield as we wrestle with our thinking. Often, we don’t take hold of our thoughts.
