Depression, bitterness, anger, fear, rejection, hopelessness, loneliness, rebellion, temptation, evil and many diseases all begin in the mind. These things can control your life unless you take control of your mind first. That's why God instructs us not accept as truth everything we think.
There is a universal problem we all face each day.....the lies the enemy put in your minds about our lives. Many times men battle these lies and as such directs their moods and behavior. We usually see these moods changes and pass it as "just the way he is". What we need to realise is that, the mind battles they endure does not have to be written off as just they way they are nor do they have to fight them alone. If we are one with our husbands then an assault on their minds is an assault on ours as well. We can stand with them in the battle to declare that, "This is not God speaking into their lives, its the voice of the enemy.
Men have an enemy who wants to undermine what God desires to do in their lives....Women have the same enemy buy men seem to be more vulnerable to his attacks in certain areas. Even the strongest man can get exausted, overwhelmed, burdened, desperate or caught up in things that keep him away from the presence of God. He doesn't always see the traps of an enemy who wants him to believe that what he faces is insurmountable. His mind fills with words like "hopeless," "no good," "failure," "impossible," "it's over,"and "why try?" A wife can pray that her husabnd will discern the lies and hear instead words like hope, " "prosperity," "possibility," "success," and "new beginning," and know that there from God.
Let's pray for our husbands to receive the mind of Christ and bring every thought captive under God's control.
PRAYER
PRAYER
Lord, I pray for Your protection on my husband's mind. Shield him from the lies of the enemy. Help him to clearly discern between Your voice and any other, and show him how to take every thought captive as you instructed us to do. May he thirst for Your Word and hunger for Your truth so that he can recognise wrong thinking. Give him strength to resist lying thoughts. Remind him that he has the mind of Christ. Where the enemy's lies have already invaded his thoughts, I push them back by inviting the power of the Holy Spirit to cleanse his mind. Lord,You have given me authority "over all the power of the enemy" (Luke 10:19). By that authority given to me in Jesus Christ, I command all lying spirits away from my husband's mind. I proclaim that God has given (husband's name) a sound mind. He will not be tormented with impure, evil, negative, or sinful thoughts, but be transformed by the renewing of his mind, that he may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12:2).
Enable him to "be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might" (Ephesians 6:10). Help him to be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let his requests be made known to You; and may Your peace, which surpasses all understanding, guard his heart and mind through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:6,7). And finally, whatever things are true, noble, just, pure, lovely of good report, having virtue, or anything praiseworthy, let him think on these things (Philippians 4:8).
SCRIPTURE FOR MEDITATION
II Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Mark 12:30
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.
#inspired...ann #WiseQuotes
*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Wife(2006)
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