What
we believe - both negative and positive - colors our life. Some beliefs, such
as salvation through Christ, positively impact us; others, such as we are
"not enough" or "flawed" in some way will have the opposite
effect on our daily quality of life.
Our
beliefs about our self, and about life, limit our fulfillment and the
prosperity in our soul (3 John 1:2). Negative lies nestle into our subconscious
mind and slowly poison our soul with their false and destructive thoughts.
These thoughts then affect our emotions and behavior.
Negative
thoughts and beliefs sabotage our faith in God, our reliance on the truth of
God's Word, and our victory each moment of our day. Some of these falsehoods
come from other people both in our past and in our current life. They lodge in
the recesses of our subliminal mind and steal our ability to succeed on a daily
level.
Our
identity and our patterns of thought, attitude, motives, desires, way of
communicating, behavior, and the health of our body and soul and spirit are tainted
by these limiting lies, which bind us to these destructive, demeaning beliefs.
There
is hope, however, because we can exchange the lies with God's truth about us,
if we are willing to spend uninterrupted time with God's Spirit as He cleanses
us from all iniquity (1 John 1:9). Our identity then becomes based in His truth
rather than in satanic deception.
Awareness
of the lies that demonic forces perpetuate in our mind is half the battle. Once
we identify the lie, we ask God to reveal to us His truth about the concept,
which we formerly adopted as our own belief system, and He heals us of it for
eternity.
Prayer:
Father
God, scientists teach us that negative beliefs put ruts into our sympathetic
nervous system, and perpetually impair us from functioning mentally, emotionally
and spiritually in these areas. Remind us that these beliefs are only repaired
through truth communicated by Your Spirit's intervention to change our beliefs
and to repair these breaches in our body and soul.
Help
us to understand that our beliefs about current issues in our day run through
the files of thoughts in our subconscious mind. These beliefs then influence
our reactions to the person or event we are currently facing. We often act from
our flesh, and wound the very people whom we profess to love and care about.
Remind us that Jesus died to free us from this devastation caused by sin, and
that we can walk in Your wisdom and compassion for our self and others in our
life.
Thought
for the Day:
These
and other false beliefs color our daily patterns of thoughts, words, emotions
and actions:
· You’ll never win. I
always lose.
· You’ll never get it
right. I'll never learn.
· You’ll never amount
to anything. I’ll never be successful.
· You’re wrong. I’m
never right.
· You’re just like…
(your father, mother, etc.) I can’t change my genes or who I am.
· You’re not to be
trusted. I can’t trust myself or God.
· You’ll do as I tell
you. I have no control. I’m always the victim.
· Money goes through
your hands like water. I’ll never have enough money to pay my bills.
· You’ll never be able
to succeed… I'm not smart enough to make a difference in my life.
· You’re worthless. My
life has no value, and I can't contribute to my world.
· Who do you think you
are? I’m a no-body, and I do not matter.
· You’re a loner and
always will be. I’ll never have close friends, associates and family members,
etc.
· You’ll never change.
I will always be flawed and useless.
· You can’t have that.
I am not worthy to receive what I need.
· You’re such a loser.
I am worthless.
· Not now, I’m busy,
we’ll talk about it later. Someone or something else is always more important
than I am.
· You are hopeless. I'm
not enough, and never will be.
God's
Truth is the only way that we are totally set free from these and other
negative "tapes" that constantly replay in our subconscious mind;
counseling mind-to-mind, and words that are taught to us, are not usually
cleansing, because only the truth that is caught by our spirit from God's
Spirit will truly change our beliefs, behavior, thoughts, emotions, desires,
etc.
