Nobody is successful in any venture by just wishing they would be. Successful people make a plan and talk to themselves about that plan consistently. You can think things on purpose, and if you make what you think about what you want to do, your feelings may not like it, but they will go along. I slept great last night, and when I woke up at 5:00am., I didn’t feel like getting up. It was so cozy under the fluffy cover, and I felt like staying right there. But I had a plan regarding working on this passage. I had decided how many hours I would write today and in order to do that I had to get up. I thought, I am going to get up now, and I exercised willpower and I got up!
Do you even pay any attention to what you are thinking? Do you make an effort to choose your thoughts or do you just meditate on whatever falls into your head, even if it is in total disagreement with that you have said you want out of life? You don’t have to be trapped by negative thoughts. When your thoughts are going in a wrong direction, do you cast them down and out of your head as Bible instructs (see 2 Cor. 10:5)? How much are you letting your thoughts and feelings rule you? If you don’t like your answers to these questions, the good news is that you can change. As I have said for years, we are in a war and the mind is the battlefield. We either win or lose our battles based on winning the war in our minds. Learn to think according to the Word of God, and your emotions will start lining up with your thoughts.
If you have had years of experiencing wrong thinking and letting your emotions lead you, making the change may not be easy, and it will definitely require a commitment of study, time, and effort. But the results will be worth it. Don’t say, “I am just an emotional person, and I can’t help the way I feel.” Take control. You can do it!
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