How to Change the Thought Process, and Gain Victory over the Mind.
To be victorious over our
minds we need to have a personal relationship with God and find out the truth that he says about us in his
word. When we do this we can recognise the negative thoughts and lies that come in and discard them before
they become part of our thought process.
Our thought system is
formed by the age of 12–13 years of age, usually taking on the families beliefs and mindsets with things like
relationships, religion, education and culture to name a few. We tend to carry this belief system into our
adult years. Out thought system controls the way we think and act, Because of the wrong thinking from our
past we may have wounds and issues with fear, rejection and shame etc which can be detrimental to walking
into our destiny.
We need to find out the
truth about ourselves in the word of God and replace the lies we have believed from the past with the truth.
Here are just a few
truths that God says about us that we can meditate
on:
We are Gods
Children adopted into his family
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1Jn 3:1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be
called children of God! And that is what we are! |
We
have an inheritance by his Holy Spirit
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Heb 9:15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who
are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance |
God has
only good things planned for us
Jer 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to
prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Psa 139:16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were
written in your book before one of them came to be.
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We are called
to be like God
Eph 5:1-2 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life
of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to
God.
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When we
do not deal with negative thoughts in the correct way, we eventually become familiar with these thoughts and end
up unaware that they are lies.
We all
have some ungodly beliefs we have believed, we can have an experience that causes us hurt and if we don’t
intervene there at that point with what God says about us then we can believe the lie given to us. At that point
we can then form our thoughts to think negatively or positively and this will bring about the law of sowing and
reaping, next we behave according to how we have thought.
As we
come to see the truth about ungodly thoughts we learn to take our thoughts captive immediately at the point of
the hurt so it doesn’t have a negative impact because Satan will have access to the mind through any lies we
believe, and we don’t want this to happen.
If we
lash out when we are hurt then we can cause the other person emotional pain, we may accuse them, accusation
brings feelings of guilt and condemnation, negative words can become a curse that holds us in
bondage.
Satan
likes to get us to destroy each other by the power of the tongue
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Pro 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will
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We can
destroy ourselves to with self cursing when we speak negatively about ourselves, eg “I will never amount to
much”
We need
to use our tongues wisely to build each other and ourselves up.
How to
Change the Lie of the Enemy:
Identify the ungodly beliefs
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Ask the Holy Spirit to show you the ungodly beliefs you have believed
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Write down all the ungodly beliefs
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Ask God to show you where the root of each lie you believed originated
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Forgive anyone who was involved at the time you established that ungodly belief
Action
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Submit to Holy Spirit
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Find truths for lies in God word and break the lies in Jesus name substituting the truth in place of the
lie.
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Do this for each lie individually
Prayer
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Confess the sin of believing in the lie
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Forgive anyone involved who contributed to the lie being formed
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Forgive yourself for believing the lie
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Ask God to forgive any judgment’s you have made because of the ungodly belief
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Renounce and break agreement with the ungodly belief and any agreement with the powers of darkness and
demons
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State that you choose to accept and believe in the truth of the Godly belief you found in Gods
word.
The new
Godly beliefs need to be meditated on daily for 30-40 days to establish the new patterns of thought and to
prevent you from going back to the old thought patterns.
Bitter
Root Judgments:
Satan
would like nothing better than to keep us as victims where we wallow in self pity and think woe is me look what
I’ve been through.
When we
do this we can develop bitter roots in our heart we put up defense systems to prevent us from being hurt again
and we can end up controlling, condemning and judging others when we are hurting.
We need
to have our root system planted in Jesus so that we can draw our life source from him.
There
are spiritual laws that relate to judgments and sowing and reaping
Mat 7:1-2 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge
others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Gal 6:7-8 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The
one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to
please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life
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How to
get free:
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We need to forgive anyone who has harmed us in any way
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Repent of what judgment we made against them, i.e. anger resentment etc
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Any strongholds formed we will need to be delivered from
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Any inner vows made at that time will need repentance and deliverance from.
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