Your Mind is not a Garbage Dump

Culled from ‘Defying Mental Illness-A 31-Day Devotional’

Your mind records everything that your brain perceives. The things you see, hear and feel. Your attitude determines how you interpret what you receive from your senses.

Passively recording everything that our brain receives in the mind results in a mind like a garbage dump where all kinds of things end up. If however, you apply rules to what is recorded by your brain and retained by your mind you would have a tidy and focused mind.

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And now, brothers, as I close this letter, let me say this one more thing: Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others. Think about all you can praise God for and be glad about.

Paul’s advice to the Philippians Church above is an excellent filter for what you allow into your spirit by recording it in your mind from information recorded in your brain from sensory perception.

Listen with your spiritual ears. Jesus was reported by Mark to say “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides. For whoever has, to him more will be added.

When Jesus healed the sick He always instructed them not to return to the actions and environment that resulted in their ailment.

Sickness is a corruption of the perfect creation that God formed us in His own image and likeness. The body has the ability to heal itself of any ailment given the right environment .

Very often whatever is applied to the body or the environment of someone with an ailment is to give the body time to repair itself by halting the spread of corrupting material.

When you wash an utensil that has been in dirt it is essential that you do not return it to the same dirt it was in. Much in the same way as is required to keep the utensil clean, your healing is maintained by not returning to the environment that caused the need to be healed.

Where this is not feasible you need buffers to protect you from that environment. God’s Word in your heart, in your mouth and before your eyes constantly is the most effective buffer of all.

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