In today’s podcast, we want to discuss principles and precepts for Battling Your Mind. There is a series of video games entitled Battlefield. In this game, there are tanks, battleships, and airplanes. Rockets and bombs exploding, machine guns firing, hand-to-hand combat… the game was created to simulate the realities of a battlefield where you must fight for your survival against a host of enemy soldiers.

Battling your mind is not a game. It is a reality that all of us are confronted with. Jesus himself in the garden of Gethsemane had to battle with His mind. The night before Jesus Christ was crucified, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. Luke, a physician, recorded that Jesus’ sweat was like drops of blood: “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44).

Agony is defined as a violent, intense, extreme struggle displaying both physical or emotional pain. The human experience consists of our thoughts and emotions that influence our behavior. There will always be some things that cause us to struggle or cause some sort of emotional distress, this is all a part of the battle for our minds.  Jesus, the Son of God was battling His mind; which consisted of His thoughts and emotions that influenced the reality of agony that He experienced in Gethsemane. The struggle is real.

The key to Jesus victory over His thoughts and emotions that impacted and influenced His body (sweat like great drops of blood) was His prayer...."Not my will, but Thy will be done." This is how we gain victory in Battling Our Mind.