Breaking Bad Mental Habits

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Dear Friend

Good Morning!

I woke up a bit late today, and as usual my morning includes some intentional expressions of loud praises and thanksgiving to my Creator. I thank Him for many things: His saving grace, eternal life, the opportunity to become better today, and most importantly, His mission for my life. 

By the time I go through this list, my anxieties, worries, and emotional lows take wings and flee from my mind. My thinking becomes better positioned, and my body feels more energized to take on the day with purpose and joy.

Dear friend, most of our feelings are not facts. When we intentionally think and speak God’s thoughts, we immediately experience a shift from darkness to light, from gloom to a sense of bloom. God is not in control of our thinking, we are. The control is in our hands. He has given us the ability to guard, direct our thoughts and renew our mind.

As I often say, demons are not always poking their scrawny fingers into our minds. However we can allow a flood of harmful thoughts to take our minds captive. What we repeatedly allow into our minds becomes our master.

This is how most habits are formed: when we entertain the wrong thoughts often and think about them repeatedly, they develop into mental patterns. These mental habits lead to actions and behavioral bondages that may make us feel helpless and unable to overcome them.

So, what is the solution? The same way wrong habits were created is the same way they can be broken and replaced with new ones. Start to intentionally and repeatedly think thoughts that are helpful than harmful. In other words, meditate on better things and intentionally disconnect from wrong thoughts that try to invade our mind.

Read these scriptures - Philippians 4:8, Isaiah 26:3, Philippians 2:5, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Romans 12:2, and 2 Corinthians 10:4–5.

Breaking bad mental habits becomes simpler when you know the Way. John 14:6.

Stay Blessed!


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Shalom!


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