The battleground is the mind

[marie glen]

 :thumbsup: good morning!

The battlefield as we know is in the mind (and heart / psyche?). In Revelation there's the two "foreheads" mystery babble-on (and on) and then there's the other, the opposite, the "seal of God on the forehead".

A main enemy, I think, would be to put distance between Jesus' own - His followers - and the Word of God, the Bible. Any sort of distance.. of all different degrees. I keep picturing John the Baptist crying out "make straight the way of the Lord" (for He is coming). Jn the baptist being His forerunner.

Any wedge between His people and the Bible, is playground for the enemy. Not grounded and appreciative of His Word results in my mind wandering. Instead of meditating in His Word day and night, its meditating upon my own thoughts and ideas. And no matter how lofty, those just don't get it!

I'm totally convinced that in the age to come (2?) that what we will be teaching (ministering if you will) will be the Word of God, yes, the literal printed version.. which is a copy of what is being written in our hearts.. an iron rod.. Life is! Because He is life! And Truth, and Perfection.. the light and fire which burns away all and any imperfection and untruth.. etc. It is in the essence of light to swallow (eradicate) darkness. The unavoidable iron rule..?

We should always be on our guard! May we pray there be none who fear God's Word because the pagan hell was inserted.. for as we know, that is no reason to turn away from God's Word. Indeed when that occurs.. well " a little leaven" (in this case, untruth) "leavens the whole lump".. The whole message.  And of course too, the majority of those timidly(?) investigating the 'novel' but intriguing(!) idea of UR, once they catch any scent of non biblical teaching, they will back away from UR and the true glorious gospel is once again hindered.

just some thoughts I had while the forum was down.. :dsunny: :Peace2:

[Ross]

Would seem to be why the concept of repentance is referred to a lot.
Jesus started out saying repent.
Paul says not to be conformed to this age but transformed by the renewing of the mind.

Powerful place- controls the actions we make; subconsciously controls the body functions.
Many books written about the battlefield of the mind. All emphasize the control factor, but not many state who has the ultimate control over everything with a magnificent plan to train us in the right way to think and process.
Paul indeed encourages us to think positively about good things. This seems to then affect our nature and make us more uplifting towards others.
All that amazing thing!!! Glad we know Who is actually running the show.

[jugghead]

Would seem to be why the concept of repentance is referred to a lot.
Jesus started out saying repent.
Paul says not to be conformed to this age but transformed by the renewing of the mind.

Powerful place- controls the actions we make; subconsciously controls the body functions.
Many books written about the battlefield of the mind. All emphasize the control factor, but not many state who has the ultimate control over everything with a magnificent plan to train us in the right way to think and process.
Paul indeed encourages us to think positively about good things. This seems to then affect our nature and make us more uplifting towards others.
All that amazing thing!!! Glad we know Who is actually running the show.

:thumbsup:

I  believe it also has to do with the way we even write things out ...... the word "repent" means to think differently.

A lot of people have been engraved with the idea that "repentance" is a one time act that they have to perform rather than a process they enter into. It is because of this, repentance becomes an act of the flesh that they think they never have to do again.

To be brought into His Spirit is to enter into the process of the renewing of the mind, it becomes a lifestyle (ongoing process) of the Spirit rather than an act (one time act) of the flesh.

When we talk or write about repentance, I believe we need to define to another what the Spirit has shown us.

Just like what you said Ross, but written with what we believe:

Would seem to be why the concept of repentance (thinking differently) is referred to a lot.
Jesus started out saying repent (think differently)
Paul says not to be conformed to this age but transformed by the renewing of the mind. (transformed by thinking differently)

Which also goes with what you said MG ... "the pagan hell was inserted" ... and that is believing in the theory of evolution (in a sense) the evolution of "Sheol" into "a place of torment"

:2c:

[marie glen]

Amen!! An ongoing process! :thumbsup:

So to be a "vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work." - 2 Timothy 2:21

Sheol may have 'evolved' (morphed) into the blasphemy called 'hell' but as we know, it's not there originally..
It's not a part of God's Word!

"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." - John 17:17 (Jesus' prayer!)

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." - 2 Timothy 3:16-17

"..sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word" - Ephesians 5:26

"44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. 45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. 47 Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his property." - Matthew 24:44-47

[sheila]

Babylon is a very old city[she-ol[d]  the strange woman../confusion of tongues[dragon given power over all

tongues]..adultress....Proverbs 2;16 5;3 for the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb and her mouth is

smoother than oil,but her end is bitter as wormwood,sharp as a two-edged sword[not rightly divided] Her feet go

  down to death;her steps take hold on hell.

[marie glen]

Amen, confusion! mystery babylon! "guilty of all slain upon Earth" ..and now man's empires joining.. and becoming as one system, going global, all seven continents corrupted, ruining the earth.. will fall in an hour.. and in a day.. "when the towers fall" Isaiah ..the last empire of man.. of tower babylon.

Separating of wheat and tares.. true and not true.. truth from confusion and confusion from truth.. Oh and aye won't it be a wonderful thing when only truth remains!!
       :cheerleader:

Sheila, how's your sister Rose? haven't seen her around here for awhile.. missed you gals..

[jabcat]

Amen, confusion! mystery babylon! "guilty of all slain upon Earth" ..and now man's empires joining.. and becoming as one system, going global, all seven continents corrupted, ruining the earth.. will fall in an hour.. and in a day.. "when the towers fall" Isaiah ..the last empire of man.. of tower babylon.

I like that explanation   :thumbsup:

[marie glen]

      :ty:

[sheila]

Hey,Marie..she's busy with grandchildren and farm animals! and seeking Him in quietness..... the battleground is the mind!  I woke up to this..this morning...

   Joel chapter 3   I will also gather all nations and bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat..and will plead with them there for

  MY people and MY heritage,Israel,of whom they have scattered among the nations and parted My land. v 10..beat your plowshares into

swords,and your pruning hooks into spears....v 13  put ye in the sickle,for the harvest is ripe.


    these scriptures are very relevant at this time.  Now,we know the mind of Christ and God are the Spirit and Will of God..even a two-edged

  sword out of His mouth that rightly divides motives and intents of the heart  of man...and of Kings...and the Prince of this world.

  while reading and meditating on these things today...I could but not think of the Gospel Of Christ...goodnews for all men that a Saviour

Son had been given...and the kingdom of darkness's inroads and divisions of the Lord's LOT even the salvation of ALL men per the gospel

  trampled "neath the feet of the dragon...and overcome of the beast..as the testimony of the Two witnesses[gospel/word of God/Holy Spirit]

  lying as dead..in this earth...a gospel divided against itself[not a stone left on a stone] a House that can not stand. Yet,destroy this

'temple"/Christ's body..of believer's divided and sent far away into different denominations/divisions...sold unto the Greeks/as vain

philosophy's and wisdom of this world...a boy  sold for a harlot[Babylon] ...a girl for wine[filthy cup of Babylon's abominations]


    when you see these things occurring lift yourselves erect[stand on your feet/two witnesses] and Come up here! Your

DEliverance  draws nigh!       God's Land divided when A&E partook of TOKOGAE

   we are at the time where every man's sword is against his brother[fellowman] the beating of plowshares into swords/and pruning

hooks..literally in the flesh of nations/parties/kingdoms/families....and also spiritually in man through Babylon and Satan's

great deception...and dragon floods.


      HE WANTS IT ALL...AND WILL CLAIM NOTHING LESS....He will NOT accept Isreal divided with the uncircumcised claiming

    a portion..of what is HIS.  ALL men's spirits  are HIS...the flesh counts for nothing..it is but dust[of the nations] on His scales

  when He 'weighs in the Balance" and judges and proclaims His decisions.[He has long been patient with the vessels fitted for

destruction[our flesh with 'sin' in it..which can not inherit] in order to make His mercy known unto the vessels of mercy[man

  in honour bearing the image of the Glorious freedom of the Sons of God/even Our Deliverance from these bodies undergoing

this death]


    He who brings the peril of these times..will keep us through them...our strength will come from quiet trustfulness in Him..

    get not involved in all these divisions/wars.........render not an eye for eye...seek not to preserve your life in the flesh...

   during these perilous times...when the end of all flesh comes..love not your lives in this world.


      He sends forth His angels to separate...and bind into bundles[divisions]..for burning[even nations/factions/flesh captive

  and deceived of the Prince of this world[though the spirits of these men be in the iron furnance of affliction in Bablyon] His

Spirit is with them in that Babylon furnance and what binds them shall be burnt/consumed by the breath of His coming.


    there is a GREAT supper of the Lord...the kings of the earth and all their armies are the flesh consumed..of all the 'fowl"

   both small and great.  There is a wedding supper,too!  it is a SPIRITUAL FEAST for the circumcised[flesh cut away]


    Joseph parabolized  Christ and this feast of family re-union..when He sit them at the table in their 'BIRTH" order[each

  in his own order] Joseph's 'dream" the sun,moon stars..bespoke of spiritual birth from ABOVE. The Bride in SOS comes

  walking UP out of the wilderness[of this world] leaning on her lover....like the sun,moon and stars in procession....



   The SPIRIT of GOD and Christ LOVES YOU AND WILL NEVER FORSKE YOU....and even though on the cross Jesus cried out

  when His flesh was put to death..'My God,My God, why hast THOU forsaken me"  we know very well that HE WAS NOT

FORSAKEN OF GOD IN THE DEATH OF HIS FLESH AND BLOOD..but WAS RAISED UP IN GLORY!  So fear NOT those who can

kill the body then do nothing else!   the little children were partakers of flesh and blood,so likewise He partook.


   TOL is UNION  and no division but ONENESS OF ALL and is of GOD and ONE SPIRIT..in ALL and through ALL.......and is

   LIFE ETERNAL.     :2c:

[jugghead]

What was brought to my mind today was the scorpion and its tail (its end)

Religion in the ET mindset takes their tail , what they think "the end" (tail) of mankind will be and lift it above their heads (above Christ's way of thinking who is supposed to be their head) curling (another way to say twist) it around and strike what is in front of them, they strike their beginning,  making their end their own beginning

Their end and beginning are death whereas in Christ our beginning and end is life, for we originated in Him and so we shall return

P.S. Don't know if that makes sense or not to others, but if I am causing confusion, I will shut up

[sheila]

 I like it..good analogy...those sealed know death has no sting..it's the way home.......Peter spoke of Paul speaking some things hard to

understand..and it being twisted unto their own destruction.2 Peter 3;16  that is what has happened with the Gospel of Goodnews unto all

men..it has been twisted as a tool for man's condemnation[ET/ED]

    Jesus said '....and the commandment was unto life" He received Father's command for him...that through Him all men should live......

  as the Lamb that would take away all their sin.

     authority by the Holy spirit to trample under your feet serpents and scorpions..........

[marie glen]

Amen, Sheila, Jugghead.. the enemy/adversary confuses truth.. mixes with it.. Tapestries of his making, confiscates one true thread and weaves it into his tapestry of lies to hold the tapestry together.. And use the one thread of truth to entangle and imprison uninformed ones into his tapestry of lies..

The floods he spews upon earth and the sand he throws in our eyes (humankind).. the bites of the enemy which sting.. Even threw fires of hell (baal?) into God's Holy Word.. changing God's image into the likeness of man.. and serpent..

All these appeal to and pull at the flesh.. the lower nature.. imperfect.. but, amen, that lower self and nature is what is pulled away in our spiritual circumcision.. Oh happy day!! We are born again.. and receive the notary stamp upon our heart, the seal of the Spirit which cries "Father, my Father!" and is the pledge that we are His and is the down payment of all that which is to come, and of all the promises He has made. His promise to us, He has given us His Word. We are His.. And He will complete the work He has begun in us.. Love not our life.. For where our treasure is there our heart will be..

The Valley of Tophet (drums) where the tares will be gathered to Armageddon..(rev.12:17;7:5-8;mt.23:39) "When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies.." ..."when you see set up the abomination which desolates where it ought not to be.."

Daniel wrote - (when you see?) "the daily sacrifice" (place of perpetual prayers?) "taken away, removed" abolished/demolished? "Not one stone" of the temple complex "will remain standing one upon another" - Mt 24:1-3).. "then 3.5 Hebrew years, plus one leap month, or that is, 1,290 days later, will be set up the" (final) "abomination which desolates" (the temple, temples? human?) "and, happy is the one who waits and comes to day 1,335" - (45 days later?) Daniel 12:11,12

"It will be cut short, for the elects sake, lest no flesh survive.." Mt 24

Sheila

Hey,Marie..she's busy with grandchildren and farm animals! and seeking Him in quietness....

That's the best!! "seeking Him in quietness". And grandchildren and farm animals, the best too! Please tell her I said hello :hiya:

...p.s. also, farm.. best place to be come those late days?!!

[jugghead]

As I read John 21:9 yesterday, the Lord showed me something I thought was pretty cool.

"As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread" (John 21:9).

If Christ is a fisher of men (which we know He is) and the disciples are the fish He caught, and Christ is also the bread; what we see in this example is the physical manifestation of what was pictured with the fish and bread. We see both, the fish and bread AND the physical manifestation of it in the disciples and Jesus. And with the fish being laid on the coals is a picture of them going through the purification process becoming the church, the body of Christ which is to be consumed.

Just some thoughts