WINNING THE WAR IN YOUR MIND!

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Do you constantly have a war in your mind and have to battle with some of your thoughts? Well, I believe that most of us do. Do you constantly have to center your mind on positivity and godliness because your mind keeps running to the negative side? You are not alone. Winning the war in your mind is possible and it can be done. And that’s what we will talk about today.

Let us look at the life of Joseph.
What are the lessons one can learn from the story of Joseph regarding winning the war in your mind?
God always watches over His word to perform it.
God’s timing is not always similar to yours.
When winning the war in your mind, never forget that God is the God of the Suddenlies
Wage war with the promise spoken over your life as this will help you in winning the war in your mind.
The enemy will always contradict God’s word.
Conclusion.

The greatest battlefield is your mind, and once you can win the mental battle, you have won the war. This is because we constantly have endless thoughts that come into our minds and the battle is to choose what we decide to believe. This gets even harder once you become a believer because now the enemy is fighting you.

Maybe God has given you a promise and although you know God is not a liar and that when He says that He will do something, He most definitely will.

But because of past disappointments, you have a hard time believing them. And maybe some questions that run through your mind are: why would it happen to me when I have not been my best self? Why would God bless me, yet I am always falling short? Don’t I have to be perfect for me to be worthy of the gifts and promises of God? This sounds too good to be true. How will it happen considering my situation?

Are these some questions and thoughts on your mind regarding the promises God has spoken over your life? Do you find it hard to believe that God can do it for you, too? Maybe, just maybe, this blog today will raise your hope to believe the impossible. But before we get to the practical, let us look at one person in the Bible who had to wage war with the promises spoken over his life.

Let us look at the life of Joseph.

This is the story of Jacob. The story continues with Joseph, seventeen years old at the time, helping out his brothers in herding the flocks. These were his half brothers actually, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. And Joseph brought his father bad reports on them. Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was the child of his old age.
And he made him an elaborately embroidered coat. When his brothers realized that their father loved him more than them, they grew to hate him—they wouldn’t even speak to him. Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said, “Listen to this dream I had.
We were all out in the field gathering bundles of wheat. All of a sudden my bundle stood straight up and your bundles circled around it and bowed down to mine.” His brothers said, “So! You’re going to rule us? You’re going to boss us around?” And they hated him more than ever because of his dreams and the way he talked. He had another dream and told this one also to his brothers: “I dreamed another dream—the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed down to me!” When he told it to his father and brothers, his father reprimanded him: “What’s with all this dreaming? Am I and your mother and your brothers all supposed to bow down to you?” Now his brothers were really jealous; but his father brooded over the whole business.
Genesis 37:2‭-‬11 MSG

God gave Joseph a dream at around 17 years. In the dream, Joseph’s brothers and his father were all bowing to him. Now the interesting thing is that he had the dream twice, the same concept but different dreams. At the time Joseph lived with his father, the dream somehow seemed possible.

This is because Jacob, his father, loved him so much and he was his favorite. To seal the deal, Jacob had a special multicolored coat made specifically for him. Since he was his father’s favorite, it is easy to see how he would be the leader of his brothers. I think it is safe to say that his father would have chosen him as the heir. After all, he was his mother’s first son. The father might have used this. This is all speculation, mind you.

Fast forward to his brothers selling him into slavery. Imagine how hopeless, he must have felt when he was sold into slavery, going from the most favored child now a slave who, in simple terms, was someone’s property.

Now then was the dream ever going to come to pass, considering his circumstances? How was he supposed to keep the dream alive when all around him everything looked bleak?

Just picture the thoughts that must have been running through his mind while on his way to Egypt as a slave.” That must have been my imagination. There is no way this dream will ever come to be. Maybe my best days are behind me and I should just throw in the towel and accept that I am just average.”

What other thoughts do you think went through Joseph’s mind? Comment down below, I would love to read them. Anyway, back to Joseph’s story. Everything around him told him to let go of the dream and I can bet he had those thoughts too.

Joseph had to constantly with intentionality choose to believe that What God said would come to pass.

And even when everything around him contradicted the promise, he had to hold on to it.

How difficult it must have been for Joseph. And we see 13 years later, he got to see the fulfillment of his dream where he became second in command in Egypt. Quick summary: There was a drought in the world and this no food except in Egypt. This is because Joseph could interpret Pharaoh’s dream about the 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of lack. Because of interpreting the dream, Egypt could prepare for the famine by storing up food. Thus, they had enough to sell to others. When Joseph’s brothers heard that there was food in Egypt, they went so that they can buy it. Because Joseph was the one who controlled the food distribution, his brothers had to go through him to get the food. And as a way of showing respect, they ended up bowing to him and thus the dream came to pass.

What are the lessons one can learn from the story of Joseph regarding winning the war in your mind?

God always watches over His word to perform it.

In Jeremiah 1:12, God tells Jeremiah that He watches over His word to perform it. This means that when God speaks a word over your life, it will definitely come to pass. This scripture is especially helpful when you are in a constant battle of winning the war in your mind. Recognizing that God will do what He said He will do will help anchor you when your situation contradicts the promise. This is because He is not a man that He should lie and He is faithful to keep His promises. In the natural, it did not seem like Joseph would ever live out his dream.

But God knew he would. Circumstances do not limit God, and He can turn them around for your good. He is the God of restoration, second chances, and redemption. He always has a plan as He is Sovereign. Not only that, but in His Sovereignty, He has the ability to work every situation in your favor. He can work every move.

There was no way that Joseph could have predicted that he would be second in command in a land where he was brought in as a slave. And to make matters worse, they had imprisoned him because of false accusations by Potiphar’s wife. The accusations themselves would have hindered him from being in a place of authority. Because how would he be trusted to lead with such accusatory remarks against him?

But despite that, God restored Joseph, and although it took 13 years, there came a time when suddenly his life transformed. He came from the prison to the palace suddenly. And that is what God does. He will transform your life in a day when the set time comes. This then proves that there is such a thing as God’s timing.

God’s timing is not always similar to yours.

Can you imagine having to wait for 13 years for you to receive the fulfillment of your promise? In Isaiah 55, God says that His ways are higher than your ways and His thoughts are higher than yours. A thousand years is like a day to God. And this just echoes the fact that God’s timing is not similar to ours.

That is why in Isaiah 60:22, He says that when the time is right, He will make it happen. This just proves that there is a set time for your promise fulfillment. And the best part is when it is time, even a dead clock will tick.

The beauty of a Kairos moment is that it is not determined by your works or your faithfulness, but by His faithfulness. And this is because Jesus did not come to save us because we deserved it or had earned it, He did so while we were still sinners.

When God fulfills His promise in your life, He does so because He wants to and not because you deserve it. After all, in actuality, no one deserves it. So rest in the truth that when the Kairos time arrives, everything will come to pass. Don’t worry about the how because the Who has all that covered. Winning the war in your mind will become possible when you recognize that God’s timing will not always be similar to yours.

When winning the war in your mind, never forget that God is the God of the Suddenlies

God does not have to wait for everything to fall in place for Him to bless you and for His promises to be fulfilled in your life. He has a way of making the impossible possible. Who knew that all that was required was for Joseph to interpret a dream and have his life changed? See how simple obedience can lead to your elevation? Joseph was operating in his strength and gift, and that is what God used to elevate him.

Do not despise the gifts and talents that God has placed inside you, as that is what God will use to elevate you. He says that your gifts and talents will make room for you before the kings and queens of this world. What’s your gift? Do you know it? Are you using it? Even in the wilderness, you still have something to give. You are never fully depleted.

God will use what is inside of you to promote you and so why not make use of what God has placed inside you. Follow His leading and watch the transformation happen in your life. Do not grow weary in doing good, because you will reap if you do not faint.

Wage war with the promise spoken over your life as this will help you in winning the war in your mind.

Paul urged Timothy to wage war on the promises spoken over him, as that was his weapon. We realize that God’s word is true and alive and it never goes back to Him void until it has accomplished that which He sent it out to do. But for it to come alive it has to be spoken. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. So decree the promises spoken to you. Speak what God has spoken over you. Don’t partner with words that contradict your promise. It is okay to acknowledge it as a fact. But always remember that facts are not necessarily the truth. Just like Mary, treasure the words in your heart, meditate on them, speak those things that are not as though they are.

There is power in your tongue and you can create the life you want because God created you in His image.

Now that you know this why don’t you choose to partner with God and have His kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven? He wants to bring His kingdom on earth through you. Every time a thought comes that contradicts the words spoken by God, counter it with God’s word. Resist the devil and he will flee.

The enemy will always contradict God’s word.

When you know the truth, you will be a step closer to winning the war in your mind. The best way to know that the words spoken over your life are true is by the contradiction of the same in the natural. The enemy will always contradict God’s word to cause you to doubt what God has said. Never forget that when God speaks a word, the enemy will try to fight it and when that happens it should give you the proof you need to stand on God’s word.

In those moments, what you need to do is to have faith that what God has said will come to pass. He says that after you have done everything to do, stand. What this means is that don’t lose hope, just hold on to what He said, as He is not a man that He should lie. His promises are yes and amen and though it tarries, they will surely come to pass.

Conclusion.

Winning the war in your mind can be done. Use the truth, which is God’s word, to overcome. Remember, when God speaks a word, it will come to pass. God will never tell you anything and not fulfill it. That is not in His nature. In Him, there is no shadow of shifting, and this means that He will not change His mind.

Remember this, even in the moments when you are faithless, God remains faithful because He cannot deny Himself as that is who He is. Beloved, do not faint. Keep waging war over the promises God spoke over your life.

Be patient because, at the right time, He will surely make it happen. You can be sure of this. He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion. And your latter years will always be greater and better than your former years. As long as you are alive, He is not done with you yet. And even when everything around you tells you to give up on the dream, don’t, because God will surely bring it to pass. Be encouraged.