Change Your Thoughts, Change your LIFE

Welcome to the first post of Morgan Counseling Minute! As an introductory piece, I have chosen Angela Brittain's Its a Battle for the "High Places." Angela provides the perfect backdrop for Morgan Counseling Services, as my primary way of helping you create change is rooted in changing the way you think.
Please enjoy her articulation and look forward to more posts of all kinds on the Morgan Counseling Minute.
God Bless You

It’s A Battle for the “High Places” by Angela Brittain
You’ve heard the Proverb, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he…” (Prov. 23:7). Well, the devil knows that is true. The enemy knows that where the mind goes, the man follows, and that what you think about, you become!!!! The mind and thoughts of a man are powerful, and that is why the devil fights so hard to get your thoughts to focus on anything but the Word of God.

Paul knew what a tremendous spiritual battle was going on when he wrote in Philippians 4:8, “Think on these things: whatsoever things are pure, lovely, true, …” Yes, it is possible to control your thoughts! Look here at 2 Corinthians 10:4: “The weapons of God are not carnal, but are mighty before God to pull down strongholds. In as much as we refute arguments and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the knowledge of God – we lead every thought and purpose captive into the obedience of Christ.”

What are these verses talking about? Thoughts!! High and lofty things are thoughts…but we have authority in Jesus to pull them down!!!! They must come into the obedience of God’s word!! Let’s go to Ephesians 6:12: “We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, and rulers of darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places.” I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is not just referring to heavenly places, but also to our minds. Our thoughts. The “high places” are our minds – where we think and feel. It is a battle for those high places and let me tell you the enemy knows the value of having our thoughts. In fact, big business even knows the value of our thoughts!

It used to be that advertisers just wanted to get their product within physical proximity to you. Coca Cola used to have a goal to get a Coke product within 8 ft. of everyone on the planet. Now they want a certain percent of every individual’s “mind share.” They want a certain portion of your thoughts every day to be about Coca Cola!

Well the enemy wants a certain portion of your thoughts to be about the plans he has for you instead of the plans God has for you. But I am here to tell you that I am not going to give up any of my “mind share” to the enemy. I am not going to share any part of my mind with the devil and neither should you!!! Because when we get into fear and into thinking that God’s not going to do what He says He’s going to do, that’s when we start getting anxious. When we get our eyes off God, we get into trouble because we move into fear and move out of faith.

If we want to change our lives, we’ve got to change the way we think, and it starts with getting rid of the enemy’s words and replacing them with God’s Word!!!! Glory to God!!!