Freedom Behind Bars

Here is your/her question, i pray it speaks to someone. 

“I know we are supposed to guard our hearts, and I do, but how am I supposed to guard my heart when my mind is starting to believe everything the world says about me and convince my heart of that? I am treated like an idiot by 90% of people surrounding me. No matter how many times I refute that and quote what God says about me, when I’m trying to sleep at night, it gets so hard to shut my brain up and just go to sleep. How do I get past this? I know God has more, better things for me.”

God wants your heart for Himself. He does not want you to share it with the enemy by laying awake at night entertaining his lies. He does not want your heart to accept the things that contradict what his scripture teaches and what he tells you himself. It was the basis of your original union with Him.  God asks for faith. The enemy despises your heart because it is with your heart that you believe unto righteousness.

• “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:10).

Divine peace is one of the greatest security systems you can use to guard your heart. This peace is born out of prayer. It causes you to trust what you cannot trace. It leads you to rely on the character of God. A character cannot be proven; it must be believed. Nothing you read will replace the personal experience that evolves from prayer and praise and from time spent learning to know the God your heart has believed. There is a realm of faith that supersedes believing, and that is the realm of knowing.

God’s peace will guard your heart and mind. How do you find peace? God will give us peace when we stop lying awake at night to focus on the negative things people say or do to us, stop focusing on the enemies lies, stop focusing on what the enemy says we are worth, and start seeking God. When you are more dedicated to worship, more dedicated to praying without ceasing, more dedicated to reading scripture so that you may hide the word in your heart and not give the enemy any more footholds, that is when God will begin to give you more peace; when you allow him to do so. [Redirect your focus] It will cause you to pick out what thoughts you will entertain. If you know the story of Samson, Samson entertained Delilah, and she infiltrated his heart and took his secrets. Avoid entertaining thoughts that will destroy your peace. Whenever I catch myself rehearsing problems over and over, I know I am entertaining those problems. They will “cut my hair of anointing” if I don’t abort them! How can a thought be “aborted”?

• “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you” (Philippians 4:8-9).

If life has dealt you some tough cards, don’t give up. You may be down, but bless God, you are not out. Strengthen the things that remain and go on. You will never survive the challenges of life if you make decisions without consultation. God wants to teach you the significance and power of daily communion with Him.

You are in the ring with a formidable opponent who wants to take you out right now! Your enemy knows that God has predestined you for greatness. He would love to destroy you with a single blow. But he doesn’t have the power to take out a woman who really prays.

Make a commitment to stand in God’s strength, regardless of the challenges or questions life brings and regardless of how hard you are hit. You may feel the sting of the devil’s blows, and you may even wince in pain, but give him a clear message with fire in your eyes. There will be no towel-throwing in this fight.

That snake isn’t fighting a limp-wristed, coward of a woman who has no stamina. You’ve been to hell’s door and back again for yourself! You have been created and trained in the likeness and image of his worst nightmare! You are a resurrected woman! You have been renewed in your faith, and you are firm in your conviction. Tell the enemy, “I am a woman of prayer. I will be knocked no lower than my knees!”

The best advice i can give you is to redirect your focus from those problems, words, etc. to God and his word. You say that you know it, but read it until you believe it, pray until he tells you himself, focus on worshipping him and running to his arms. When you try to run from your problems, you will notice that you can never run fast enough. When you run to God, he will meet you where your at, clean you up, and you will see the way he sees you, notice the way he looks at you, hear the words he speaks over you. The lies that the enemy speaks will lose power and authority over your life once you give the authority back to God, stop trying to handle it ourselves, and give him control. Know you are NOBODIES idiot. You are NOBODIES fool, you ARE  a child of the MOST HIGH KING!

I pray this helped a bit, and after i send this, know i will surely pray for you as well!

In Christ, Dan