You can expect to have battles of the mind. The question is, what are you going to do about them? The devil can’t get into the soul of a born-again Christian, but he can get into the mind. The devil tries in every way to knock people down with his depression and oppression, rob them of sleep and peace, make them dread to face each new day. The battles of the mind can snatch the life and heart out of a person as the devil works away.

If you can’t get the enemy’s thoughts of vexation and distress off your mind, you are being battled. Over and over he agitates and brings discontent. You try to shoot down his bad thoughts with good thoughts; sometimes you can, and sometimes not. You have done your best to fight these battles, but the Lord has a word for you: The battles of the mind are not your battles to fight. The battles of the mind are the battles for the Holy Spirit to fight. The Lord is offering you His power, His anointings to take into your soul. The Holy Spirit Himself will use the mighty, ultimate power of God for your mind when you yield a clean mind to Him. Don’t think you have to battle through alone; turn your mind over to the Holy Spirit. You can do it with the greatness of God in your soul, with the ultimate power of God. Take His great anointings into your soul and let the Holy Spirit flow the greatness of God from your soul right into your mind when you are troubled; let him wash out all those troubles and replace them with the things of God. The Lord told me that He wants His people to do His work and not to be battling on the inside.

The Word of God Defeats the Devil

John the Baptist saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him [Jesus] (Matthew 3:16). After Jesus received the Holy Ghost He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness where He fasted forty days and nights. When He had finished fasting, the devil came hoping that Jesus, in His weakened condition, would bow down to him. But three times, Jesus turned the devil back with what was written in the Word of God.

Remember, Christ, in taking on human form, came into all the inabilities and weaknesses of the human race. As a man He stood before the devil. He could have given in to the devil, but He didn’t. He resisted the devil with exactly the same power we can use to resist him: the power in the Word of God. Battles of the mind come when you cease to use much of the Word. Sometimes you don’t use any of it for hours at a time. That’s the reason the devil can fill you with worry, rob you of sleep. You must have the Word of God in your heart and use it in your mind.

Some people fall asleep hugging their Bible to them. It quiets their fear and gives them a deeper sense of God’s presence. They feel the calming influence of the Word even in book form. If you can hug the Bible to you and feel the results, think how much more the living Word inside your soul will work through divine blood! Jesus said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4).

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). To take on the mind of Christ, you need to come into the knowledge of how the mind of Christ worked when He walked the earth in human form. The mind of Christ was a human mind kept free by divinity, divinity that seeks to keep your mind free in the same way.

Turn Your Mind Over to the Holy Spirit

The Holy Ghost will protect the mind, saith the Lord, in this the Bride’s final hour. He will be able to protect the mind more thoroughly than He has been able to protect any minds since the Early Church because there will be such a yielding to the Holy Spirit.

Battling the hurts, depression, anger, fear or other troubling things that seem to stay on your mind is difficult. All your peace can be destroyed with mind battles. It doesn’t need to be that way. The time has come to yield to the Holy Spirit and overcome all. You can’t defeat the mind battles on your own; you need to turn your mind over to the Holy Spirit; let Him flush it and then fill it with the things of the Lord. It is a simple thing, really, to turn your mind over to the Holy Spirit for the flushing of whatever hindrance is there. When you yield your mind completely to Him, He will replace that hindrance immediately with edifying thoughts. Busy yourself in serving what He gives you, and your mind troubles will fade, taken care of by the Holy Ghost. He is your teacher, your guide, your helper, and He will help you with the mind. Everyone who has salvation not only has a pure, clean and holy soul that can hold all the greatness of God; they also can have deliverance for the mind.

Unbelief causes battles of the mind. If the devil is able to plant a little seed of doubt in the mind, he can defeat the plan of God for you. Mistrust makes you afraid the Lord doesn’t hear your prayers, afraid disaster will strike, afraid the Lord will not honor His promises. Depression and oppression are free to come in and stay because of unbelief. It’s all part of the battles of the mind.

The devil loves to rob you of joy. If you are not using joy in your soul, you are not using the strength of the Lord. The joy of the Lord is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10). The joy of the Lord will give the Bride strength to do the work of her Lord in this final hour, to bring in the harvest of souls.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:5). Not only is the love of God, the joy and peace shed abroad in your heart, your soul, all the other things of God are shed abroad in it also. But you must have the things of God in the soul before He can flow them into your mind. You must have the things of God there for Him, saith the Lord. The Third Person in the Trinity of the Godhead is great, wonderful, and He has come to live inside the hearts and souls of those who are born again and filled with Him.

If the Holy Spirit can flow the love of God into your mind, He can flow anything else into your mind from your soul. As you yield to the Holy Spirit, you won’t make the mistakes you have in the past.

Abraham Staggered Not

Abraham had battles of the mind, but he had to get rid of them before he could use the faith of God. God had promised him a son by Sarah. For God to perform the unbelievable miracle of giving him and Sarah a son when Sarah was ninety and he was one hundred, Abraham had to use the faith of God. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform (Romans 4:19-21). Why didn’t Abraham stagger at what God said? Because he was strong in faith, giving God the glory.

Sarah staggered; she had battles of the mind. Hearing the angelic visitors tell Abraham that she would have a son, she laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also (Genesis 18:12)? She couldn’t imagine a ninety-year-old woman having a baby. But when the angel rebuked her, Sarah denied that she had laughed. Abraham, however, believed God.

The Bible talks of Abraham’s faith and the Lord will talk about the great faith and love of the Bride. She will have the same characteristics that Jesus had when He was on Earth, the same personality. The blend of the human and divinity will mark her walk in this last and final hour. Just as the Holy Spirit blended with Jesus to make the beautiful personality of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit will blend with your human spirit if you yield to Him. You will wear the shoes of Jesus, talk and act like Him, have hands like His to do the work the Lord wants you to do. However, you can’t do His work when you are weighed down with the battles of the mind.

Stand Still and See the Salvation of the Lord

Consider Moses and the Israelites. In spite of the many battles of the mind, the Lord had been able to send miracles, miracles, miracles into their midst. Then came the final miracle, the greatest one for their deliverance, and they were set free from Egyptian bondage. The Bride of Christ will soon experience her greatest miracle, that of being changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, set free from the bondage of flesh and given a glorified body.

At the brink of the Red Sea, with the Egyptian army in pursuit, the Israelites heard Moses say, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord (Exodus 14:13). Moses repeated what God had told him; the Word from God that Moses spoke went into them, bringing a calmness. The Word captured their attention, the Holy Spirit was able to flush their minds of hindrances, and the ultimate power of God flowed, the waters of the Red Sea began to separate, and they walked across on dry ground. They saw the glory.

However, after just three days into the wilderness, the Israelites let their minds cloud over again, and they began to grumble and complain because the waters were bitter. They so recently had seen God separate the Red Sea, but the battles of the mind blotted out the great miracle hand of God. Had they only become quiet, yielded to the greatness, to what had been placed in their souls, God could have led them in the way He wanted. But they could only think they were about to die without water, that God had brought them out of Egypt to perish in the wilderness. The Lord could not purge the minds of the Israelites until they yielded to Him.

The devil preaches mind battles. When your mind is cloudy, the devil can bring fear, depression, doubt, weakness. But listen to what the Spirit is saying, and you won’t have room to hear the devil.

When you are quiet in His presence, the Holy Ghost is able to teach you. However, when your mind is clouded, when you are upset with unpleasant thoughts, your mind is not still. Turning away from all gossip, the Bride will cry: Tell me something about my Master! Listen to that which will edify, bless and help you do what God wants done. In the Psalms we read, Be still, and know that I am God (Psalm 46:10).

Holy Boldness

The Early Church prayed for holy boldness: And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness (Acts 4:29-31). Some Early Church members lost their lives because of their boldness; others were put into prison. They paid the price, for their minds were purged, the battles of the mind taken care of.

James was killed by the sword, and because Herod saw that his murder pleased the Jews, he imprisoned Peter. Was Peter battled in the mind? Believing he probably would soon be executed, Peter fell asleep. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him (Acts 12:6,7,10). Most people in such a situation would have been wide awake with battles of the mind, but Peter was sleeping so soundly that the angel had to smite him to wake him. He was not troubled in mind, worrying about himself and others. Peter had turned the battles over to the Lord, and he was ready to die for the sake of Christ. Jesus, in death as well as in life, was his example. Peter knew that he had the same Holy Ghost, that divinity dwelled on the inside, that he was a partaker of the divinity of Christ. The Holy Ghost had purged his mind of battles with what had been placed in his soul. The ultimate power of God worked in and through Peter. His deliverance was beautifully done, and it was supernatural.

The Holy Spirit cannot purge your mind from whatever is troubling you until He gets your attention. The mind can wander. Very quickly it can forget about the keeping power of the Spirit in your soul. The devil would like to make you believe that you can’t yield to the Holy Spirit and His love. If you can yield to the devil’s fear, you can yield to God’s love that is much greater than fear. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear (I John 4:18). Only in the mind can the devil bind a child of God, not in the soul. When you have salvation, you have love in your soul; Jesus is there, for you have been washed clean by the blood of the Lamb.

Move your thoughts from troubles and place them on the Holy Spirit and the wonderful things of divinity in your soul: your salvation, redemption, the blood of Jesus, the greatness of God and all He seeks to do in this last and final hour. Precious, divine blood flows in the souls of all who are born again.

God is pouring out His Spirit on the whole Earth just before Jesus comes. And it shall come to pass in the last days saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh (Acts 2:17). Let the Lord pour His Spirit into your soul. Nothing can take His Spirit from you when you are born again; only if you willfully sin can you lose it. Don’t panic in time of trial: Stand still and see the glory of the Lord. This is the hour of victory, deliverance, miracles and healing, the hour of miraculous manifestations of the Holy Spirit. There is no scarcity of God’s power.

A Perfect and Upright Man

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil (Job 1:8)? The Lord didn’t say anything to the devil about Job’s wife. He held up Job. Job’s wealth was destroyed, his children killed, but Job did not blame God for the terrible things that happened to him. When tragedy struck, he said, The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly (Job 1:21,22). Job blessed the Lord when things were going well; he blessed the Lord when troubles overwhelmed him. Turning to the Lord for every part of his life is what sustained him. He loved God and knew he had done nothing wrong.

Job’s wife probably was all right before calamity fell, but in her husband’s trying hour said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die (Job 2:9). In her soul she didn’t have what she needed; she didn’t yield to God. Job told her she talked like a sinner.

Although he had to deal with cluttered minds—his wife’s as well as those of friends who had came to accuse him—Job kept his mind clear through the Spirit. The Holy Spirit could flush his mind even in his terrible physical suffering when everyone turned against him. It was during this time that he gave this wonderful prophecy: For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God (Job 19:25,26). Job knew where he stood with God. He said, Behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high (Job 16:19). That faith was in his soul.

At the end of Job’s ordeal, the Lord had some words for him: Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me (Job 40:7). Job was ready to listen. The Spirit of God had found a stronghold in his mind and the devil couldn’t take it. The Lord blessed Job now more than He had blessed him in the beginning. Wealthier than he had ever been, Job had seven more sons and three more daughters. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations (Job 42:16).

Job was a blessing, a witness for God in his most trying hours. If Job, in the terrible condition he was in, could yield to God and keep his mind uncluttered so that God could deal with it, so can you.

Greater Is He That Is in You

Have you been battling in your mind? Know that you don’t have to struggle with the mind battles any more. The Holy Ghost has everything needed to work for your mind so that mind can work for Jesus. From the pure soul to the clear mind will flow all the greatness of Heaven, and from the mind goes the greatness of God to the people. It is sent forth in the voice, in expressions, in hands and every action just like it was through Jesus.

God is calling you to do His work, work you can do only through His power, His greatness. Jesus did the works of the Father through the power of Heaven. He told the disciples: Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John14:12). How will you be able to do those greater works? Through the power of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter. Jesus said, I will pray the Father; and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever (John 14:16). When the Holy Ghost came, so did the greater works. Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4).

The soul is sealed by the Holy Spirit with the blood of Jesus when that soul is made new, protected by the blood of Jesus. The blood abides in our souls for us to use at all times for our minds. In this we have the Holy Spirit who plays a great part; He knows just how to use the divinity in our souls for our minds. From the soul the Holy Ghost flows divine love, divine grace, divine power, goodness and mercy to a clear mind.

You must have the mind of Christ in this final hour, and you can’t have it when your mind is constantly battled. Some of you may feel it is all you can do to hold on to your sanity. You can’t keep your mind on the work of God and what God wants because your mind is always churning. You are seeking the Lord, trying to come out of your battles, but sometimes you wonder whether or not you have backslidden. Has the Holy Spirit left me? Where are you, Lord? I don’t feel you, Lord! In your mind, you become very uneasy.

The Bride will defeat these kind of battles. She will deliver the multitudes, and to do that, she must go into the valley of human needs with a clear mind. Jesus is her example. She will follow in His steps, live and breathe to help others.

Every Man Stood in His Place

I wonder how we would have been affected by mind battles had we been in Gideon’s place. An angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon with the news that he, Gideon, would deliver Israel from the hands of the Midianites. Gideon said, If the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles (Judges 6:13)? If people tell me they are highly favored of God, I ask them where are the miracles.

Gideon gathered an army of thirty-two thousand. And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thouand (Judges 7:2,3). Twenty-two thousand had nothing in their souls but fear and disobedience. An army of thirty-two thousand put confidence in Gideon. Now suddenly he was left with only ten thousand, and the Lord told him that was still too many.

Gideon’s army finally was pared down to three hundred. If you started out with an army of thirty-two thousand and saw it dwindle to three hundred would it cause you some alarm? Gideon’s mind was battled—and our mind will be battled again and again, saith the Lord, but turn the battles of the mind over to the Holy Ghost and He will take care of them. The moment you yield to the Holy Spirit, He will purge you of the battle; it will go if you let it go. Put your trust in divinity for it to happen, and the Holy Ghost will give you the victory.

The Lord gave Gideon a few minutes to clear up his misgivings. Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host: And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host (Judges 7:9-11).

That night Gideon and his servant crept down to the camp of the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east. They were like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude (Judges 7:12). Two of the enemy were talking. One said he dreamed a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host, smote a tent and overturned it. The other fellow interpreted the dream: This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host. And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian (Judges 7:14,15). Gideon’s mind was clear now. He had given over to the promises of God.

With great peace of mind, Gideon led the three hundred into battle. Dividing his men into three groups, he gave each a trumpet and a lamp inside a pitcher. Look at me, he said, and do what I do. They came to the camp of the enemy, blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, held up the lamps in their hands and cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled (Judges 7:20,21).

The bridal company, vessels of clay, will stand with the light of the Gospel shining out from each member. Through and through the Bride will thrill at the hand of the Lord. Sounding to the ends of the Earth, the Gospel trumpet will be heard. God’s enemies will be defeated through the Gospel trumpet and the Jesus light. Followed by signs and wonders, believers will carry the great promises of God as the Lord reveals Himself. He is getting His people ready for battle, ready to be real soldiers.

You can fill your soul with fear, or you can fill it with eternal blessed things. Since the soul is eternal, why not fill it with things that are eternal? Put into it everything good, wonderful and great that the Lord sends down from Heaven. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights (James 1:17). If you receive a gift with imperfections, it is not from God. Wait on God’s package. The devil could fool you, giving you the wrong package from the wrong place. How many times has your mind signed for the wrong package? You opened it and then you had conflict and trouble. If the mind is not in good shape, you make mistakes. If a cook substitutes salt for sugar, the recipe is ruined. It looked all right, but looks can be very deceiving. In your spiritual life, things that seem right may be very wrong. Don’t go by looks but by the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Go by divinity, and you will make no mistakes.

An Angel Shut the Lions’ Mouths

Think of Daniel. One night he slept with lions. Had his mind been fogged up, he would have stayed awake in terror, drawn up into a knot and shaking like a leaf. Every time a lion yawned, he would have thought his time had come. But he knew an angel had shut the lions’ mouths. In the morning Daniel told the king, My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me (Daniel 6:22).

That angel of the Lord is a type of the Holy Ghost. In every “lion’s den” we enter, the Holy Ghost is there to shut the enemy’s mouth. Our minds will be so clear that the Lord can give us the same perfect deliverance He gave Daniel. Had God not been able to work through the mind of Daniel, He could not have given him that miraculous deliverance. A mind purged again and again trusts in the Lord, a mind purged by the Holy Spirit using the greatness of Heaven.

The Fourth Man

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were given every opportunity to bow to a golden image, but they stood firm. Had they been crippled with battles of the mind, they would not have overcome. Refusing to bow to a golden image, they were thrown into a fiery furnace heated seven times hotter than ever before. It was so hot, it killed the men who cast them into it. The king looked in, astonished, and said, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God (Daniel 3:24,25).

The three Hebrew boys stood, and the Bride is going to stand in this final hour. She will not compromise with the world, for her complete trust is in the Lord. She knows the Lord, the fourth man is with her outside and inside the furnace. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego didn’t know if death awaited inside the furnace, but it didn’t make any difference because they had yielded to the promises of God. They were in the hands of God, their minds clear, established in faith, love, deliverance, greatness and eternal life. Through divinity, through yielding to God, they allowed the devil no chance to put anything into their minds; they rejected it all. They knew God, and the Bride, too, will know God. Each member of the bridal company will know Him. How wonderful it will be!

Let all the promises of God be living reality to your mind. The Lord works through the mind. Any time you need help from Him, He will give it. You won’t struggle, waiting days, weeks or years for victory; you will see it right away.

A Prophet of Miracles

Elijah’s mind was clear when he stood before King Ahab and said, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith (I Kings 17:1-3). For three-and-a-half years it didn’t rain. Some people would have been tormented with battles of the mind about where the food would be coming from. Elijah’s mind had the promise of God: Thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there (I Kings 17:4). Elijah lived on the promise that brought ravens morning and evening with bread and flesh. Where did the raven get those supplies? The Bible doesn’t tell us, but I like to think it was from Ahab’s storehouses.

Then the day came when the brook dried up. Elijah could have been battled in his mind, but he had the kind of mind the Lord could deal with and direct. The word of the Lord came to him, telling him to go to Zarephath, Behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee (I Kings 17:9). Through Elijah, God was going to perform a miracle on her meal barrel and oil cruse.

What a mind battle that woman must have struggled with as she watched her food supply dwindle to almost nothing! When Elijah met her she was about to prepare the last meal for herself and her son, and then she expected they would starve to death. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth (I Kings 17:13,14). The widow was a good woman; she heard the Word of the Lord and obeyed. Obedience was in her soul, and the Lord was able to pump it into her mind. When Elijah gave her directions from the Lord, she went into action. That’s the kind of obedience the Bride will have.

In the third year of the drought, the Word of the Lord came to Elijah saying, Go shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth (I Kings 18:1). Elijah obeyed God. He told Ahab to gather all Israel including the 450 prophets of Baal, then he challenged the prophets to prove themselves. Call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God (I Kings 18:24). The prophets of Baal put an offering on the altar and called on the name of Baal from morning to evening, and Baal did not respond.

Then Elijah repaired the altar of the Lord that had been broken down, put the sacrifice on it, instructed that four barrels of water be poured on it and on the wood. This was done three times. Finally Elijah prayed a little prayer of just sixty-three words, and then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench (I Kings 18:38). What happened to the 450 prophets of Baal? Elijah slew them. God wanted Baal worship destroyed from His people.

And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain (I Kings 18:41). Just as Elijah had prophesied, the rains came. After all the greatness of God, after God had used Elijah in such a miraculous way, the news that Jezebel wanted to kill him made Elijah flee for his life. He went a day’s journey into the wilderness, sat under a juniper tree and prayed to die. He didn’t take time to reason with God or to seek divine help. He had seen God’s miracle hand in his life, been fed through the hand of divinity, but now he said It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers (I Kings 19:4).

Through discouragement, depression and a feeling of worthlessness as well as many other things, the enemy battles the mind. Through the mind, the enemy can get control of a child of God and hold back the answer from Heaven. But the enemy couldn’t discourage Elijah very long. The Lord wasn’t done with him. An angel of the Lord, a type of the Holy Ghost, came to Elijah and served him a hot meal from Heaven. Watching over Elijah, he let him sleep…woke him, fed him again, and Elijah went in the strength of that food forty days and nights to the mount of God.

The Word of God was in Elijah’s heart, and he had so much favor with God that God took him alive to Heaven in a chariot. Had God answered his prayer to die, Elijah would have missed the greatness of God in store for him. It is essential to have the Word in your heart, to have a holy soul the Lord can use, for God can use only that which is holy.

From Paul Poured the Deepness of God

After his conversion, Paul became a wonderful person in the Lord. Although enduring much hardship and great suffering, Paul was clear-minded, and the Word of God was poured through him. No one else wrote about the gifts or the fruits of the Holy Spirit except Paul. He had all of this; it was delivered through him. The deepness of God had been poured into his soul and the Holy Spirit flowed it to his mind.

Why worry and battle in your mind? Your soul is filled with things that are divine when you are born again. The Holy Ghost is living there, and He is ready to work. Delight in the Lord; rejoice in Him; think on the plan of God for your life. Use the things He has given you to help and encourage others. Ask the Lord what Jesus would do in your situation. You are taking His place, here to carry out the work He wants done.

Why worry about dying with some terrible disease? The Bible says that the Lord is the one who healeth all thy diseases (Psalm 103:3). Keep your mind on the promises of God, not on fear of the enemy. Think on the one who heals all manner of sickness and disease instead of thinking about your disease. Picture a miracle of life, not death. Praise God for the miracle of being made whole. Jesus asked people, Wilt thou be made whole (John 5:6)? Those who believed were healed.

The battles of the mind will be ferocious in this hour. Unless you learn how to handle them, they could take up almost all your time. Put yourself in the place of those in the Scripture who overcame in the face of great difficulties and persecutions. How did they do it? Turning from the battles, they gave them to the Lord. They realized the battles weren’t theirs, and they settled down into the faith and obedience of God, doing what God said to do. All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28).

You Need Jesus

You who are lost and undone without God: You need Jesus. You who are backsliders: You need Jesus. You who are lukewarm in the Lord: You need Jesus. You can’t afford to be left to the horror of the Tribulation Period. Don’t let the devil cloud your mind, making you think you will be all right when you won’t be. If His greatness is not in your soul, you are not all right. If you are not living holy, you’re not all right. Lift up your heart to the Lord and say, Oh, God, save my soul! I am so sorry I sinned against you. But I have come home, and I’m going to serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. Now I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all my sins. Come into my heart Jesus! Come into my heart!

If you believed that prayer, you can say, Hallelujah, He has come! Hallelujah, Jesus is mine! Daily let Him shed abroad the greatness of your soul’s salvation to your mind. The greatness of His blood that flows in your soul brings you His blood love, His blood joy, His blood deliverance and eternal life.

You who are sick and afflicted: Use this prayer as your point of contact to reach God for your healing. The divine gifts in my life are gifts of the Holy Spirit, operated by Him. I am not a healer; I am the Lord’s believer. Jesus said, These signs shall follow them that believe (Mark 16:17). Believers can receive healings, miracles. If you have a sickness or disease, it doesn’t necessarily mean you are disobedient to God; it means you can have healing. Healing is promised to the children of God. Lord: I bring the sick and afflicted to you. You told me and ordained me to bring them to you, and I bring those with heart trouble, diseased lungs, cancer, diabetes, those who are crippled. I bring the little ones who may have just part of a brain. Some of them will never be normal without your great power moving upon them. I bring them all to you. As the servant of the living God I come with your gifts, Lord, for the healing and deliverance of the people. Through the power of the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus it comes. Through the gifts of healing and the gift of miracles, I inject miracle healing power: Heal! in the name of Jesus! Heal in the all mighty name of Jesus! Heal! in His holy name.

The healing power is flowing from His supernatural gifts. By His faith and His love, soak up this power and watch Him get you or your loved one well. Remember that with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). Jesus said, Fear not: believe only (Luke 8:50). Don’t let the devil battle your mind, telling you that you won’t get well. Let the Holy Spirit shed abroad God’s love, faith, greatness and healing promises to your mind daily.

The Lord gave this special message to you to clear up much. If you take heed to it, you will be a different person. If you take heed, you will step into a different place, a different role will be yours. With the mind of Christ you will take your place in the Lord that He desires you to take. Rejoice in the joy of Heaven as you come out of your afflictions and mind battles. Remember, the battles are the Lord’s, and the victories are yours.