The greatest battles to be fought in the future will not be with nuclear weapons that have the
power to transform planet Earth into a spinning graveyard the greatest battle that you're going
to fight in the future will be on the battlefield of your mind but whether you realize this or not
you're in a war and this war has an enemy and he is after your mind every day we have an
enemy right we have the enemy of our soul the devil who's out to steal kill and destroy our
faith and our joy and his number one tactic and his number one ploy against the children of God
our thoughts the fiery darts of the enemy they're aimed right at our mind that's why we have the
shield of faith right but the greatest battlefield of the ages will not take place in some country
on some piece of land it will happen between the ears so satan works he doesn't work on your toe
your leg or somewhere else he works in your mind it's the battlefield in every person's
life it whatever goes on right here is going to affect every single aspect of your life it is a
battle for the mind a deadly war that is between God and Satan and the battleground is your mind
the devil wants to get your mind because the devil knows that he can get your mind he can
corrupt you he can pull you away from the Lord Jesus Christ Satan wants to control your mind
the world wants to control your mind and and there's a battle for the way you think
why because whatever gets your attention gets you the mind is the battleground where satan tries
his level best to take control of our lives the battlefield of the mind is where the destiny of
men and nations is determined the Bible has much to say about your mind Isaiah 26:3 says I will
keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee Mark 12:30 you shall love the Lord with
all of your heart with all of your soul and all of your mind Romans 12:2 be strengthened in the
renewing of your mind Philippians 2:5 let this mind be in you which was also in Jesus Christ
second Timothy 1:7 God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love and of a sound mind
James 1:8 a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways Second Corinthians 11:3 but I fear
that satan through his subtlety should corrupt your mind concerning the simplicity that is in
Christ your success or failure in life and in the kingdom of God is going to be determined
on the battlefield of your mind satan wants to pull you one way God the other satan has never
done you any good he's lied to you deceived you and made your promises not a single one of them
has ever come true but I remind you that Adam and Eve got in trouble in the Garden of Eden
and how did they get in trouble they were deceived the devil messed with their mind
the devil messed with their mind and so we see
the the warfare of our foe the devil wants our minds we see the weakness of our flesh that we do not have what it takes to overcome
satan's desire is to conquer and to control your thought life and then to make your thought life
a citadel from which he can war against God because look if you will here it says here
every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God Satan wants your mind
in Genesis chapter 3 specifically you have the account of where sin entered
the Earth we call it the fall of mankind God had given Adam and Eve instructions
and then on the scene comes satan he wants to derail the plan of God he wants to take us captive
so how does he do it in the Garden of Eden in Genesis chapter 3 does he do with a gun
he doesn't even use intimidation what is he you he uses a thought which is a lie
satan comes to Eve and he says did God really say those are the first words satan spoke to mankind
did God is that really true what God said and with that thought which was a lie because remember the
devil cannot defeat you until he disarms you and so the mind is very important and can be easily
deceived by the devil unless you fill it with the truth of the word of God surely we can learn
to compare our thoughts to the word of God and if what we think does not line up with what God said
we can say I refuse to think that that is not my thought and I am not going to take ownership of it
the more you think about something the more it becomes a part of you and you're going to think
about something anyway so you might as well think about something that's going to do you some good
and produce some good fruit in your life change your thought life and you change your world so
the question is what are you putting into your mind pick up the good news feed your mind on
the peace of God don't think less of yourself than God thinks and he died for you no matter
what somebody else says about you you are a child of God once you've trusted Christ as your savior
so we're the ones who determine what we're going to be and so forth because it's the way we think
and this is why people can come from nowhere the worst kind of situation circumstances you'd think
they'd never amount to anything in their life and they excel excel excel beyond even their
imagination what they started thinking rightly about themselves and about the Lord and about
his place and position in their life because when you were born again you were born to win
God did not save you for a defeated life God's plan for you precious friend is victory
and he has a plan for you for victory in your thought life Satan comes to kill steal and destroy
but Jesus said I came and I'm so glad he did I came that you might
have and enjoy your life and have it in abundance to the full until it overflows
I belong to Jesus Christ he's won the battle for me
he has given me authority and because of that I have this courage and I am going to win
this battle center your mind upon the Lord Jesus don't let the devil take away your pure-hearted
devotion to the love the Lord Jesus Christ stay in love with the Lord Jesus Christ think about Jesus
think about Jesus you've heard that old cliche you become whatever you think about most
well you think about Jesus guess what you're going to become like like Jesus