YES to GOD: Ch. 5: Tune In, Awake, My Soul

With the death of two loved friends in less than one week...one the young age of 65 and the other the tender age of 3, my heart has not been focused on blogging at all. Why God allows what He does is beyond me, but yet I still trust He knows what He is doing. So many in the world are hurting and yet I sometimes have the nerve to complain about things that God must find just utterly ridiculous.


Anyway...let's get to Chapter 5 of this incredible book by Jennifer Rothschild, Self Talk Soul Talk. I hope we are all APPLYING what we learn or really we might as well just put the book back on the shelf we got it from. Without application of what we are reading we will remain the same and Lord knows we don't want that, nor does He. ~smile~

CHAPTER 5: TUNE IN: AWAKE, MY SOUL
Remember...anything in blue is a quote from the book.

Keeping something clean is easier when you tend to it daily.

The same is true with our thought closet.

Guarding the doors of our thought closets includes becoming alert enough to refuse any junk to enter.

Oh, do I know this so well. When I had my affair it was because I did not tend to my thought closet or my heart on a daily basis. Oh, I spent time with God...I was even on the youth leadership at the church we attended. But one all that would change when I allowed my thoughts to turn into actions.

We risk what is most precious to us when we are not alert.

I risked my marriage. I risked my kids' security of an intact family. I took a babies life. My relationship with God was temporarily severed.

I risked much for nothing.

My affair was with someone from my past and because I was not alert I allowed him to come back into my life and became willing to give up everything for what I convinced myself I needed. I wish now I would have spoken the words David did of "Awake my soul!" in Psalm 57:8.

When we are not alert to the enemy and his tactics we go from "I would never" to " I can't believe I just..." in the matter of moments.

I really loved the part of this chapter titled Roaring Lion. As a matter of fact, I have a post ready to go later this week about this very thing. Something I was going to share a few weeks ago and never did.

I thought Jennifer really nailed the truth to the wall in this chapter.

We grow so accustomed to the distractions around us that we barely notice their influence. And that's when we become easy prey.

I really got much from all Jennifer said in this part. Here are a few things she wrote that just got me...

Until I let a thought in, it's not my thought. It belongs to the enemy.

Thoughts aren't yours until you embrace them and invite them into your thought closet. If you do, you'll find yourself wearing them again and again. But when you are alert and recognize where they come from, you will refuse them entry.

Our thought closets can become arsenals stocked with the weapons of truth.

MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE!

So be aware of the real enemy. Talk to yourself about his tactics, and tell your soul to tune in. Remind your soul that the One who lives within you is greater than the one who roars at the door!

I just loved that. Be aware Jennifer tells us. 1 Peter 3:8 says this very thing to us. Be aware! We hold responsibility to what we allow into our minds and eventually our hearts and souls. We can't just be walking around unware of where we are and what we are doing. We must be aware at all times because its those times we let our guard down that we become the devil's dessert.

Oh Lord.

This enemy of ours wants to not just disable us, he wants to cause destruction. He wants to kill us. What are we fighting against him with?

I can't imagine when these soldiers that are fighting for freedom are prepared for battle that their commanders just send them out into the war zone without being prepared. When these men and women take their stance to fight against the enemy they are prepared mentally and physically with weapons that will take out the ones trying to kill them.

This spiritual battle we are in is so real ladies, and the enemy will never leave us alone as long as we are a Christian. He knows if he can get in our thoughts he can get anywhere in our lives.

Let's be prepared and guard our thought closets.

Next week: Chapter 6~Look Up Hope In God, My Soul

~Many Blessings~