Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are rounding out with

day three of our who controls your thoughts, devotion on the Bible app. There's a link to

that in the description of the podcast that you guys want to follow along with us and as

always I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori's going to pick up with the divo. Let's

do it. The scripture is Philippians chapter four verse eight and it says this,

and now dear brothers and sisters one final thing, fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable

and right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy

of praise. The devotional says one reason Satan strongholds are so powerful is that they become

entrenched. This happens when Satan can get you to buy into the lie that your situation is hopeless.

His goal is to get you to believe that by nature you are a drug addict or a manipulator or a

negative person that you are controlled by fear or shame that nothing will ever change and so on.

Once you give into and adopt this line of thinking these fortresses become difficult to remove.

Your behavior deteriorates even more since all of us act according to who we believe we are.

The only solution is to tear down these fortresses by taking every thought captive to the obedience

of Christ. Reprogram your mind and release yourself from captivity. This is how you unleash your full

potential and free yourself up to then help other men rise to do the same. The solution is too

fold but straightforward. First, identify Christ thoughts on a matter and secondly, align your

own thinking under the rule of his truth. Then the truth will set you free. The question today is

and what areas of your life do you need to take your thoughts captive?

Yeah, I think this one was really timely because it made me think about something you mentioned

in the devotional which was that your behavior deteriorates even more since all of us act according

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