How To Discipline Your Flesh – Kenneth Copeland (1)

Let’s break it down and examine it step by step and see exactly how it works. We’ve already established the fact that Satan is not going to begin by trying to totally wipe out every trace of God in your life. He’s not going to waltz in and suggest, right off the bat, that you fly to Las Vegas and blow $8,000 gambling.

He’s not going to start pushing you toward adultery the first day. He’s much more subtle than that. He begins by planting a thought in your mind. A simple thought. No big deal, really. Oh yes, it’s a thought you know you shouldn’t be entertaining but.. .it seems harmless enough at the time. Let’s say for example, that someone at work treats you unfairly You know you should forgive him and forget it, but instead you begin to go over the incident again and again in your mind.

A little bitterness sprouts up. I know I shouldn’t be thinking like this, you say to yourself but I just can’t help it. After all, that guy had no right to treat me that way. Instead of restraining that thought, you just let it go. After all how much harm could one little thought do? you think, and you allow Satan to deceive you into believing such thoughts are too small and insignificant to bother with.

All the while, however, he knows he’s planting the seeds of your destruction one little thought at a time. Then, almost before you know what’s happening, somebody walks into the room and your mouth flies open and you start saying ugly things about that person at the office. You start gossiping. You’re thinking all the while, I need to stop this.

I need to quit saying these unloving things. But you don’t stop. You failed to restrain your thoughts and now you’re unable to restrain your tongue. Don’t fool yourself by thinking you can talk ugly about somebody and then act loving toward them either. You can’t. Your actions are going to fall right in line with your words. That’s a biblical principle. The book of James tells us bluntly that if any man can control his tongue, he can control his whole body.

Your tongue is the rudder of your life. It determines your course; and no matter how hard you try to stop it, it’s eventually going to start repeating those thoughts you’ve been entertaining in your mind. One of the most deadly results of unrestrained thinking is doubt. That’s right Doubt Is a direct result of lasciviousness.

Doubt comes when you allow yourself to indulge in thoughts that are contrary to the Word of God. Instead of thinking about what the Word says concerning your health, for example, you allow yourself to start thinking about sickness.

How to Discipline Your Flesh “We are more than conquerors.” That’s what the Word of God says about us as believers. But there was a time in my life when that victorious description just didn’t seem to apply to me. I was born again; I had made Jesus Christ the Lord of my life, but something was still wrong. Instead of living like a conqueror, I was getting conquered by everything from sickness to cigarettes to coconut pie.

It’s not that I didn’t put up a fight against those things. I did! I tried—and failed—to whip them, over, and over… and over again. You know exactly what I’m talking about, don’t you? You’ve been there, and you’re not alone. There are believers everywhere who are caught right now in that kind of defeat, Most of them have “repented and rededicated” more times than they can remember. But every time they take a fresh stand against the devil, he just knocks them flat again.

It doesn’t have to be that way. That’s what I found out more than 20 years ago and my life has never been the same since. I found out that I could live as “more than a conqueror. That I could fight the good fight of faith like a winner so that when the fight was done, the devil would be the one left sprawled on the mat.

You can do the same thing. No matter how many areas you may have failed in, no matter how many times those failures have been repeated, if you’ll apply the truths I’m about to show you from the Word of God, you can turn those failures around. You can finally begin to live like the mighty and victorious conqueror you have been born again to be. The Battlefield of the Mind Before you can consistently enjoy that kind of victory, however, you must go to the Word and learn something about the strategies the devil is using against you.

You must learn how he operates, so you can put a stop to those operations in your life. You must find out, for example, exactly where he’s going to attack you. After all, you can hardly expect to win the war if you can’t even find your way to the battlefield. Hebrews 12:1-3 will help turn you in the right direction.

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