"A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones."
Proverbs 14:30 (The Message translation)
Proverbs 14:30 (The Message translation)
After 35 years of studying health and medicine, I have discovered that nothing affects our health more than our feelings and emotions. We often don't notice these negative feelings until they are triggered by circumstances. But did you ever consider that the feelings and bad reactions were trapped inside your body before the bad circumstances occurred?
These negative emotions are like the thorns that choke out the good seed in the Parable of the Sower. In order to see healing and breakthrough in every area of our lives, our hearts need to be transformed to believe God. We are double-minded in our heart because of these trapped emotions. Once we are single minded, we will have faith for the impossible.
I have seen more people healed by praying the "prayer of transformation" included in this article and replacing negative thoughts and emotions with the truth of God's Word than anything else in 40 years of walking in the miraculous. The Prayer of Transformation.pdf
Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 10: 4-5 how to deal with the destructive thoughts and feelings that come to us as a result of hearing or believing things that are not true. In verse 4 he says "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds." The word "weapons" could just as well have been translated as "tools." Paul says these "tools" are not based on the flesh, but they are mighty for the pulling down of strongholds.
These are not demonic strongholds. They are intellectual, cultural and religious strongholds. They are philosophical structures. And Paul says in verse 5 that with these tools, he's going to cast "down arguments [King James says 'imaginations'] and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of [Messiah]."
Bringing something captive to the obedience of Messiah means I'm going to make a determination: Does this argument or imagination or doctrine really line up with what Messiah accomplished through His obedience? If it doesn't, then I've got to totally reject it.
All of our destructive behavior is driven by some destructive feeling. The problem is, we either haven't understood how detrimental that feeling is.
There is a Biblical principle that says "every seed bears after its own kind." If a negative feeling or thought drives me to speak words or take certain actions,the outcome of those actions will produce more of the negative feelings that started the whole process.
We can't be driven by negative feelings and expect to have healthy, positive outcomes. For example, many times we're moved by fear and we try to tell ourselves it's faith. We waver from one opinion to another because we don't keep our thoughts and feelings in harmony with the promises of God.
Bringing something captive to the obedience of Messiah means I'm going to make a determination: Does this argument or imagination or doctrine really line up with what Messiah accomplished through His obedience? If it doesn't, then I've got to totally reject it.
All of our destructive behavior is driven by some destructive feeling. The problem is, we either haven't understood how detrimental that feeling is.
There is a Biblical principle that says "every seed bears after its own kind." If a negative feeling or thought drives me to speak words or take certain actions,the outcome of those actions will produce more of the negative feelings that started the whole process.
We can't be driven by negative feelings and expect to have healthy, positive outcomes. For example, many times we're moved by fear and we try to tell ourselves it's faith. We waver from one opinion to another because we don't keep our thoughts and feelings in harmony with the promises of God.
