Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. This week I am encouraging you in the area of renewing our mind. Our minds can be renewed day by day by making our thoughts obedient to Christ. Our body needs to be brought into obedience to do God’s will by daily making choices to do what is right. Both our soul and our body are controlled by thoughts, which turn to actions. So this week, we’re talking about getting our thoughts to line up with God’s thoughts. Right thoughts lead to right words, and right words change your actions, which can change your life. Here’s your dailyeword!
Good mental fitness involves making our thoughts line up with the Word of God, and that can seem like a daunting challenge. Renewing our mind takes daily practice. Each day we choose what we put into our bodies for food, sometimes it is good and sometimes it is way bad! What happens over the long haul in our body is that what goes in does affect not only our appearance, but our health. Because we don’t see our thought life, it seems like it is easier to let things slide. We can be thinking thoughts that are very contrary to what God thinks about us, and can do it day upon day, week upon week, year upon year without realizing that damage is taking place. But damage is happening. So stop the damage today and make a change.
Thoughts lead to imaginations and imaginations lead to strongholds as it talks about in II Corinthians 10:4-6. Thoughts are much easier to deal with than strongholds. So we have to learn to nip wrong thoughts in the bud. Don’t let them hang around even for a minute. As soon as they find a way into your thoughts, determine if they are not of God, that you will capture them immediately. Take control of your thought life by capturing the wrong thoughts and replacing them with a thought that lines up with God’s Word.