Today’s Theme: Mind Management
Today’s Dare: Dare to Gaurd your Thoughts and Fill you mind with Good ( Page 102)
“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” Col 3:2
Ok. Who wrote this book?
I just loved today’s dare, and yesterdays….God is really meeting me each morning with these Faith Dares. So here’s the deal about today’s, lies like flies can torment us, taking us down to a place of fear, or self-focus. Shoo flies Shoo! Shoo lies from hell and lies from my own dysfunctional thinking!
Today I am going to make an effort to notice the lies and replace them with truth. Taking the dare that the “author” wrote: ” Each hour on the hour, stop and thank God for something positive in your life.”
Ok…here we go! Setting my mind on good things…like God giving me bread and not a stone….like God being good….like God forming me….like God being my every provision….like I truly am hidden in Him, and He truly does guide me through the practical things of each day, one day at a time.
Yay! I love this Living Up stuff!
Happy Day!
Debbie
FLIES! When they enter my house they are intent on contaminating everything they land on! So I go on a mission kill and destroy them. Side note did you know that they fly backwards when they take off,it is what make them so hard to hit.
LIES! When they enter my mind they are intent on contaminating everything they can. So my mission should I decide to except it is to kill and destroy them. God has given me the tools but I must choose to use them. Oh that I would be as diligent to go after my thoughts as I do flies!!
Satan’s flies feast on the things we with hold from God. Get rid of the “doo-doo” and get rid of the flies. 🙂 just a note from your Technicolor friend! Pooper-scooping for freedom in Christ!
The morning took a turn that kept me from this email earlier. But I’m rolling with God’s plan for the day.
Today’s dare is about guarding our thoughts and filling our minds with God. I woke up this morning at 5am from a disturbing dream. I couldn’t shake the thoughts even though I kept praying for God to take them from my mind. I tossed and turned until I got up at 6 and read this dare. He know what the day’s dare would be. I didn’t. How appropriate it would be about the mind after my dream.
I hate flies! We had a rat die under our house once and we didn’t find it because of the smell. I wish we had because the flies were so much worse. We ended up with tons of flies in the house. We swatted and swatted. I cleaned and cleaned the sliding glass doors. Man, was it disgusting! It took about two weeks to get rid of them.
I love the analogy of flies and lies, or annoying, bad thoughts. You can handle a few, but then they become overwhelming and you feel like they will never go away. They consume you until you are in complete hysteria.
I did a word study on Philippians 4:6-7 “Do not be anxious about anything…” The word “guard” in verse 7 means “to prevent from hostile invasion” like I a war. How often have your thoughts, when you dwell on them, change your mood and the tone of your day? In either direction. I have seen a perfectly lovely day be ruined by me dwelling on some negative thought. Yet I have seen the light of Truth shine through some dark, cloudy days by focusing on Jesus.
I hate cleaning bathrooms! It is the one room in the house I could easily forget about, but it is used often and needs to be cleaned. I caught myself starting to grumble about it the other day. But as I started, I realized that I needed to be grateful that I had a bathroom to clean. I praised God and thanked Him for giving me a bathroom to clean. I still don’t like it, but I cleaned with praise on my heart and mind ant the task wasn’t as difficult or displeasing and even got done quicker. Wow! A spiritual cleaning of my mind as well as a clean bathroom! A good gift from above.
I am learning to put a spiritual spin on my situations. Not to hide behind “smoke and mirrors” like politics, but to clear the smoke of the world and see everything through the lens of the Lord. What a difference it makes. I have been very conscious today to be more thankful about the changes. It has been a great day.