Casting Down Imaginations

This morning as I was exercising on the bike and reading the "Power Thoughts" book, the chapter I read was  talking about how powerful are thoughts are.  If we think negative, than most likely our outcome and circumstances will become negative.  But if we think positive, just think of how our circumstances and even our desire to be healthy will turn out!  We have the power, through the Holy Spirit to train our thoughts to think on good positive things and not on the bad and negative things.

You see, this is a very timely message for me. I have been reading and listening to a lot of scriptures and messages about our minds and how the enemy, satan, works to try to take hold of many areas in our lives, by telling us lies.  He wants nothing more but to destroy and to kill us!  These are strongholds that he has created in our mind, and unless we learn how to renew our minds by speaking the word of God out loud, and begin believing the word of God, we will continue on living a defeated life...A life of disobedience, because believe it or not, when we let the flesh win out over the spirit, we are disobeying God...because we are not trusting Him in all areas of our lives. We are fighting something far greater than our flesh...we are fighting against the principalities of darkness. But we have the power to fight against these strongholds in our mind!

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 says "(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ:"

We must bring our thoughts into captivity.  When the enemy tries to get us to believe these lies, that we will always be fat, we don't have the courage of discipline to change, we aren't good enough or worth it to change or be healthy...on and on and on...we HAVE to say NO!  That is not what God says!  God wants us healthy.  God wants us living an abundant life.  Because when we are healthy we can accomplish so much more for Him than when we are fat, un-healthy, tired all the time, no energy, defeated, no hope...I could name many more ways that obese people probably think about themselves.

I very good friend of mine shared this scripture with we several weeks ago, and it has really spoken to me.  It is in Proverbs 3:5-12 (MSG)
Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own.  Listen to God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he's the one who will keep you on track.  Don't assume that you know it all.  Run to God! Run from evil!  Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life!  Honor God with everything you own; give him the the first and the best.  Your barns will burst, your wine vats will brim over.  But don't, dear friend, resent God's discipline; don't sulk under his loving correction.  It's the child he loves that God corrects; a father's delight is behind all this.

God loves us!  He wants us to succeed.  He wants us to be healthy.  He wants us to live an abundant life!