Combat negative thoughts by making the effort to pour the truth into your mind! This is KEY to helping you create “Your Heavenly Home”.
Turn these power-packed scripture verses into prayers. Life is brighter when you focus on what God has to say rather than your own fickle feelings.
Think of the difference in wet cement vs. solid, firm cement when you think of your mind. We must use the truth daily to keep our minds firm. Work to “set” your mind firmly on the higher things of life.
The results can be astounding and are in direct proportion to the degree of mental self-discipline we exercise. Our “natural” emotions/feelings are “fickle” and will often change for the worst just when we need positive feelings the most!
They are often determined by such variables as sleep, food, other people’s moods, “that time of the month”, our state of health, habits learned while growing up, etc. Do you want your life’s destiny to be at the mercy of things so unpredictable, undependable and vulnerable?
Start to develop a firm mind by identifying perhaps five of your most frequent negative feelings. (See examples below to get you started!) Choose your favorite faith-building scripture truth verse for each and post them all around your house until you have them memorized. Then choose another five and keep going for a better life for not only you but your entire family.
What a great blessing this will be in your life! I cannot count how many times I have used Isaiah 40:31 (see below) when I “felt” like I was perhaps too tired to serve a need in my home or family.
And yet after running the verse through my mind, that “feeling” would dissipate and I could continue on doing what I needed to do with renewed strength and energy.
However, it doesn’t work so well if we consistently choose to stay up late, eat poorly, and never move our bodies!
Let us beware to never mistake our “natural feelings” for the Spirit of the Lord. “Emotion” does not always equal a “spiritual experience,” but very likely just an “emotional experience“, which blood sugar and hormone imbalance, etc. can often play a very large role!
We can and must have spiritual feelings, of course, but they will be positive, uplifting, nourishing and sometimes they may even be a warning. But they will be consistent with a clear, peaceful heart and mind. We must learn to distinguish the difference at all times or we may hurt others and deceive ourselves!
So what are you waiting for? Change your thoughts and change your life.
This post is all about scripture prayers.
“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
Ephesians 6:17
“Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”
Jeremiah 23:29
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
Isaiah 55:11
If you’re feeling overwhelmed:
“There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
Joshua 1:5
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Romans 8:28
If you’re feeling exhausted or fatigued:
“But they that wait upon the Lord [as in serve] shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:31
If you’re feeling forsaken or unloved:
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
1 John 4:19
“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
Romans 5:3-5
“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.”
Jeremiah 15:16
“Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? [She] that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up [her] soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. [She] shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of [her] salvation.”
Psalm 24:3-5
If you’re feeling discouraged:
“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”
Psalm 27:13-14
If you’re feeling fear, worry, or anxiety:
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.
1 John 4:18
He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
“O…greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.”
Daniel 10:19
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
2 Timothy 1:7
If you’re feeling confused or indecisive:
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
Psalm 119:105
“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
Joshua 1:8
If you’re feeling concerned about the behavior of loved ones:
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
2 Timothy 1:7
If you’re feeling doubtful:
“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”
1 Peter 1:7-8
If you’re feeling lazy:
“[Jesus] went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”
Acts 10:38
“But wilt though know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead.”
James 2:20
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”
Romans 8:5-9
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
Galatians 5:22-23
If you’re feeling weak or unconfident:
“Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, not be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
Deuteronomy 31:6
“If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.”
Matthew 17:20
If you’re feeling self-pity:
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
James 1:2-4
If you’re feeling persecuted or
verbally attacked:
“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”
Ephesians 6:16
“Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.”
Isaiah 51:7
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”
Matthew 5:44
“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
Proverbs 15:1
If you’re feeling impatient with others:
“And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
1 Peter 4:8
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If you’re feeling tired:
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”
Matthew 11:28-29
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Galations 6:9
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.”
Colossians 3:23
If you’re feeling proud:
“Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 18:4
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
Matthew 5:5
“The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.”
Psalm 146:6
If you’re feeling angry:
“Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”
Ecclesiastes 7:9
“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”
Proverbs 16:32
“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
Proverbs 15:1
“Let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil.”
Ephesians 4:26-27
And why exactly is all of this SO IMPORTANT?
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
Matthew 12:36-37
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
Proverbs 4:23
“Finally, brethren[ & sisters], 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.”
Philippians 4:8
Happy mind “exercising”!
Karolyn
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