Sooner or later, every Christian will realize that this Christian life is not a playground but a battlefield. I’ve come to realize this in my own life. The mind is a battlefield, and it wages war against the Spirit. Paul the apostle knew what this kind of warfare was all about. He says first that our weapons are not carnal; why is that? Well, because the battle is not carnal. It is not possible to fight spiritual battles with carnal weaponry. You must know that the invisible is more real than the visible.

The things that we think about in our minds, our thought life, we must cast them down, take control of them, and make them submit to Christ. Our problems can seem bigger than our God in our thought life. Don’t allow your thought life to direct your God-life. God can do all things; we must allow God to take every thought captive and bring them down and allow him to help us to fight back against the thoughts that are messing up our minds.

We must pray, read the Word, and meditate upon the Word of God. Win the battlefield that is in your mind through the Word of God. We can fight the