Do not walk by your thoughts, but walk by the Spirit of God – a disaster many calling themselves of God commit.
Gal 5:6 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh
See how to walk by the Spirit of God
Do not Walk by Your Thoughts – Walk by the Spirit of God
The body of a human being is the temple of God with 3 main parts as was the Old Jewish temple;
- The Flesh represented by the Outer Court
- The Soul represented by the Inner Court
- The Spirit represented by the Holy of Holies
See the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and the Old Jewish temple
The soul constitutes of the mind – the mind is the source of thoughts and imaginations in a man.
As I taught you in, God can speak to you but not be dwelling in you, Satan areas of attack to a human being are the Soul (mind, thoughts, imaginations, etc) and the flesh (eyes, ears, etc), and after this he captures entire temple (the body).
The biggest battle area is a person’s mind, through thoughts and imaginations.
It’s written,
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (2 Cor 10:5)
What does this means? This means that the imaginations and thoughts of a man are not in obedience to Christ Jesus unless a person casts them down and brings them to obedience.
One powerful weapon of warfare we have, is to cast down imaginations and bring to captivity every thought to obedience of Christ Jesus (2 Cor 10:4-5). Remember our war is not physical, of flesh and blood.
When the enemy came to the Woman in the Garden of Eden, the enemy planted thoughts and imaginations to her mind, she entertained them and that was the start of the fall.
Sin enters through thoughts and imaginations. The enemy plants a seed of a thought or imagination in your mind and as you entertain it, the flesh desires and you sink into sin.
As long as you are a human, the enemy has the power to plant thoughts and imaginations in your mind even without being in you – the problem is entertaining them.
To win this battle, you must also set your mind on things above not on earthly things (Col 3:2). Humans fall into sin the moment their minds are on the earthly things.
And this can only be accomplished with a renewed mind.
Rom 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
You will only have a renewed mind if you have great faith in Jesus Christ. Every faithless and doubter conforms to the world. See levels of faith
The capability to understanding is in the mind. Reason Scripture tells us,
Prov 3:5 Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding
Trusting the Lord with all your heart means walking by His Spirit not your thoughts and imaginations
God does not want you to use your thoughts and imaginations
When God told Moses that they will eat meat for a whole month until it comes out of their nostrils, Moses started using his thoughts (Num 11:18-23) – a mistake for in his thoughts he limited God.
When the spies came back from exploring Canaan, their flesh saw giants, and their imaginations and thoughts became dark, shut their eyes from seeing God but only giants (Num 13)
You are a human – your thoughts and imaginations are limited and they will always be a hindrance, shutting you from seeing and trusting God, and will limit His Power
Isaiah 55: 8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts
If you closely look at Paul’s writings, he distances what is from his mind from what is God’s – because Paul knew our thoughts and imagination may not be God’s.
Our problem is that we trust our thoughts and imaginations and walk by them – the result is always us going/doing against God and His Will upon us.
Today church is out empowering thoughts and imaginations of a man, giving flesh strength, instead of making man cast them down and bring them to captivity in Christ Jesus.
One verse widely misquoted is,
Prov 16:9 The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps
A man can direct his steps. If you plan to steal and go to steal, who has directed your steps – God or yourself? Do not make God a sinner – do not charge God with wrong.
Not all man steps are directed by God – a man can direct His steps and do what’s against God and His Will. God only directs steps of a person walking by the Spirit.
A person may claim how righteous and holy they are, but they have forgotten we sin in our thoughts and imagination, in our minds we sin – the mind has power to lie to you. See righteousness is a robe of Jesus Christ
Before a man’s eyes, all his/her ways including thoughts and imaginations are right before him/her, but this may not be so with the Lord.
God is our Father. Our thoughts to God are like thoughts of a child (a kid) to the Father. Does a loving father allow his kid to walk by his/her own thoughts? No! Unless the kid is disobedience and rebellious. It is the father who knows what is good for the child. Are you a child before God or a grown up walking by your thoughts and imaginations?
Cast down your imaginations and bring every thought to captivity in Jesus Christ
Learn to separate your thoughts and imaginations from God’s Word, His voice, voice of the Holy Spirit and the Truth, and you will live in obedience to Jesus Christ. See 3 major ways in which God speaks and obedience is a fruit of faith
The moment you use your thoughts and imagination, it’s very hard to obey Him and walk by Him – the woman’s mistake in the Garden of Eden was using her mind not asking God what He is saying.
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