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Just A Thought: New In Christ

December 15, 2013 0 comments

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2 Corinthians 10:3-6 3 "For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete."

Christmas ultimately means we are at war! It’s not all lights and gifts and parties. At Christmas, I'm more reminded than ever that we in the Body of Messiah are at war spiritually. And he came to wage war over everything that destroys our peace with the Father. Constantly contending in our minds, we battle over thoughts and emotions. The enemy often attacks by bringing up issues from our past. Failures, regrets, wounds, and traumas all have the potential to drag us down into doubt and despair. Our challenge is not to respond to these memories with old destructive thought patterns. Our victory lies in responding to these thoughts and feelings with the mind of Jesus as new creations in Him.

While we don't necessarily ignore thoughts and feelings from the past, it is vital that we don't allow them to control our souls and emotions, but that we take them captive through prayers and declarations inspired by our spiritual mind. For example, is the enemy speaking rejection to me causing me to feel unwanted and unloved? I will respond that I am ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED and that the Lord has shown His love to me in many ways by His spirit and through His Body.

A powerful illustration from the Old Testament is the Lord's forbidding the Levitical priests from entering His Presence if they had touched any dead thing. This is a lesson for us – leave the old, dead mindset behind, the ways that you used to respond to things in the past. The battle over past issues is won when the Mind of Jesus in us takes authority . With Jesus on the throne of our hearts and minds, everything in our past, present and future is brought under His authority and works together for our good!

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