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Perfect Peace · The Call to Women in Faith Podcast

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  Hello there. Our mind holds the key to how we act and perceive things.
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  Protecting the mind is very important for everyone, Christians and non-believers alike.
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  How you think shapes what you do, what you attract into your life, and how you live.
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  Your mind controls your conscious and unconscious state.
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  In chapter 52 of the book, Your Life is Worth Living, Fulton Sheen gives his
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  perspective on the mind and how to perfect it.
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  In my simple words, it is the root of your being in happiness.
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  It can take you down a path of self-abhorrence or arrogance.
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  It needs watched and submitted to Jesus.
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  What impacts your mind? I think what you read, what you spend time watching,
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  doom-scrolling, who you spend your time with, your perception of others and
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  yourself, not having guardrails around what your mind is being fed.
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  All of this will result in strange behavior that is hard to explain even to yourself.
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  For instance, you'll experience bouts of anger, preconceived notions put in
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  place by something or someone other than you.
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  You let these ideas get into your head without your control.
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  I had the good fortune of resolving a conflict with a loved one recently,
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  and I noticed that a lot of accusatory words were being thrown at me.
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  They were not coming from a place of hate.
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  They were coming from a place of strongholds that were embedded into the mind of this individual.
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  When we sat down to parse it out and see that the issue at hand needed resolved
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  with the data that we currently had and not the past, present or future,
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  we were able to resolve it.
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  But it gave me a chance to help them realize that their mind was drifting away
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  from Jesus and hence the strongholds.
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  When we do not protect our mind, we lose control to how we think and act.
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  Satan and his minions get a chance to mess with us and make us feel like we
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  are not in Jesus' loving embrace.
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  It impacts our relationship with God and others. It is a slippery slope that,
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  if not checked, will lead to lots of heartache and pain.
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  How do we submit our mind to Jesus?
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  First, easy step, is to spend time in Scripture.
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  Second, when you have thoughts pop in your head, take them to Jesus.
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  Initially, you will feel like everything is slowing down.
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  But once it becomes a habit, it is like having a conversation in your head. Only it's with Jesus.
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  Third, start your day with prayer. Pause every chance you get to pray and end your day with prayer.
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  Ask God to lead and guide you through everything you think and do.
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  Quote, Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against
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  the knowledge of God bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
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  2 Corinthians 10.5,
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  Jesus, Paul, and Isaiah in the Bible have really good advice on this topic,
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  on how to renew your mind. This should not come as a surprise.
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  Quote, Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
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  with all your soul, and with all your mind. End quote.
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  Matthew, chapter 22, verse 37.
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  Quote, And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing
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  of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. End quote.
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  Romans chapter 12 verse 2. Quote. Set your mind on things about, not on things on earth.
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  End quote. Colossians chapter 3 verse 2.
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  All this for the peace only he can give us. Protect your mind and enjoy the
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  blessing you will experience.
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  May peace reign your life. Quote, you will keep him in perfect peace whose mind
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  is stayed on you because he trusts in you. End quote.
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  Isaiah chapter 26 verse 3.
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  Dear God, please help me stay close to you and never take my mind off of you.
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  Help me protect my mind from the worldly noise that tries to separate me from you.
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  May my thoughts and actions be for you and through you. In Jesus' holy name I pray. Amen.