The scripture tells us in Proverbs that as a man thinks in his heart, so he is.

As you think in your heart, so you are the Proverbs tells us.

See, that tells me that my life is going to go in the direction of my most prominent thoughts.

Those thoughts that I allow to linger in my mind and then drop down and take root in my heart.

You see, if we are going to be everything that God intended us to be, we have to take captive

the things that are going on in our mind, the thoughts that are ruling our life.

You see, we have to take captive of these thoughts because we don't want these thoughts

pushing us around.

We want to push our thoughts around.

We want our life to go in the direction of our thoughts.

So what does that mean?

That means we have to be on guard about what we are thinking about.

Listen, do you want your life to go in a certain direction?

Start thinking that direction.

Start pushing your life that way, but the thoughts you are thinking.

If you need victory today, you need to start thinking overcoming thoughts.

If there are some areas in your life where you feel defeated, you feel down.

Start thinking overcoming thoughts.

Start saying, if God be for me, who dare be against me, He overcame so that I can overcome.

In fact, He's called me more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus.

You see, we've got to learn to recognize those thoughts that are trying to defeat us.

God wants us to know that there are strategies and schemes that want to come against us so

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