Until your pain is greater than your desire, you will never overcome it.
It’s sad for me to see someone struggle with the same issues over and over again. Running back to the same dead relationship, trying to breathe life in a relationship that was never ordained by God to begin with. The person who refuses to put God as the priority of there life, but doesn’t understand why there is so much confusion around them. The person addicted to drugs, sex, alcohol, money, or their job, the list can go on and on. The bottom line is, you’re not going to stop until your pain is greater than your desire.
When you get sick of being in the same situation and decide to change your life; you have to start with your thinking. True repentance is change, change in your heart; and remember the battle field is in your mind. You must renew your thoughts, by controlling what goes into your ear gate, and eye gate. This is how you protect your heart.
It’s sad for me to see someone struggle with the same issues over and over again. Running back to the same dead relationship, trying to breathe life in a relationship that was never ordained by God to begin with. The person who refuses to put God as the priority of there life, but doesn’t understand why there is so much confusion around them. The person addicted to drugs, sex, alcohol, money, or their job, the list can go on and on. The bottom line is, you’re not going to stop until your pain is greater than your desire.
When you get sick of being in the same situation and decide to change your life; you have to start with your thinking. True repentance is change, change in your heart; and remember the battle field is in your mind. You must renew your thoughts, by controlling what goes into your ear gate, and eye gate. This is how you protect your heart.
Act 3:19 AMP
19 So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord
Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Living for God can’t be a part time job. It’s a lifestyle. On a personal note, I got tired of doing the same thing, expecting a different result. –CRAZY- I woke up one morning and decided to try God. You know what? It was the best decision I ever made. Now I focus on things that are pure and true. It’s not hard, because it’s a lifestyle. What you feed your body, you will crave, and the same goes for your spirit. You can change your life by changing your thinking.
Philippians 4:8
For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them].
I totally agree, it's a lifestyle, it becomes ao much a part of who you are that it comes naturally. I too pray for those who fail to learn the lessons that Christ tries to teach us, and end up falling for the same old thing over and over again. Never realizing that satan is trying to literally destroy them. Thanks for the wonderful words of inspiration!!!
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