Battle of the mind.

I was reading some interesting articles on the mind. From a Christian man. It was encouraging to say the least. I don't know about you but I personally struggle with guilt and bad thoughts on a daily basis. It has always controlled how much peace I obtain in my life. But I didn't realize how much our thoughts have power over us. A single lie we believe can birth sin in our lives. If the enemy can just make us agree with that one single thought he put in our mind. Then he has his foot in the door to Minipulate and tempt us further. Now this is only my thoughts. But I can even relate it to my own mind. Like I sin as a Christian and I make mistakes but why would I beat myself over one sin and not all of them.?? Why only the one i feel most guilt for??? Why? I am beginning to believe I am believing a lie. The enemy tells me that "oh wow want Believe you would think or do that. When in reality all sin is sin in God's eyes. But where there is repentance there is forgiveness. But I think if we really begin to understand our thoughts and how they attack and condemn us. We can start understanding how the enemy works to set us up for further failure. (Yup can't sleep. You get stuck in my head a little bit.)

If you ever have the time go and read this book from Dr MK Strydom.

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"Let us be reminded, it is easy to get caught up in too many 'worldly' things, often causing
the mind to become confused and unmanageable in constructive thinking. When something
of value is learned from 'mistakes', hopefully we learn of a better quality of living our life, and
to adjust our attitude and behavior accordingly. I learned long ago, too often my selfish ways
often caused bad decisions. Thank God, since I turned my life over to God's care, and strive to
live by God's 'principles' of life, my life has become much more orderly and manageable. It is
important to focus on what is really important in our life, such as family and a peace and well being."

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Welcome aboard, sadly you won't find much help here. You will only find a bunch of arguement.
Yes, your mind is the battle ground, and there is many things that we can do to fortify our minds.
One major thing you can do is read and pray the psalms.
Another is you can look to the sacraments. Yes your baptism, and the supper, and confession and absolution.
So let's look at the words of Jesus.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:16 ESV
It's clear you believe and are indeed baptized so you will as Jesus says here be saved. Which means also sins forgiven.

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
John 6:53‭-‬58 ESV

Here you have another promise from Jesus about partaking in his supper, that when you take his body and blood into you body, in the form of the bread and wine, that you will live forever, that you abide in him and he in you, which also means sins are forgiven.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
John 20:22‭-‬23 ESV

Here you have Jesus turning over the earthly ministry to his disciples, and giving them the ability to in his name pronounce forgiveness of sin.

I hope this helps.
Trying to understand all the tactics and wiles of the devil is an exercise in futility, what you need is the tools God gave us to combat those attacks.
God gave us real tools in the real world.

Thank you. I appreciate your comment.

I was reading some interesting articles on the mind. From a Christian man. It was encouraging to say the least. I don't know about you but I personally struggle with guilt and bad thoughts on a daily basis. It has always controlled how much peace I obtain in my life. But I didn't realize how much our thoughts have power over us. A single lie we believe can birth sin in our lives. If the enemy can just make us agree with that one single thought he put in our mind. Then he has his foot in the door to Minipulate and tempt us further. Now this is only my thoughts. But I can even relate it to my own mind. Like I sin as a Christian and I make mistakes but why would I beat myself over one sin and not all of them.?? Why only the one i feel most guilt for??? Why? I am beginning to believe I am believing a lie. The enemy tells me that "oh wow want Believe you would think or do that. When in reality all sin is sin in God's eyes. But where there is repentance there is forgiveness. But I think if we really begin to understand our thoughts and how they attack and condemn us. We can start understanding how the enemy works to set us up for further failure. (Yup can't sleep. You get stuck in my head a little bit.)

... Like I sin as a Christian and I make mistakes but why would I beat myself over one sin and not all of them.?? Why only the one i feel most guilt for??? Why? ... When in reality all sin is sin in God's eyes. But where there is repentance there is forgiveness.

Like I sin as a Christian and I make mistakes but why would I beat myself over one sin and not all of them.?? Why only the one i feel most guilt for??? Why?

I was reading some interesting articles on the mind. From a Christian man. It was encouraging to say the least. I don't know about you but I personally struggle with guilt and bad thoughts on a daily basis. It has always controlled how much peace I obtain in my life. But I didn't realize how much our thoughts have power over us. A single lie we believe can birth sin in our lives. If the enemy can just make us agree with that one single thought he put in our mind. Then he has his foot in the door to Minipulate and tempt us further. Now this is only my thoughts. But I can even relate it to my own mind. Like I sin as a Christian and I make mistakes but why would I beat myself over one sin and not all of them.?? Why only the one i feel most guilt for??? Why? I am beginning to believe I am believing a lie. The enemy tells me that "oh wow want Believe you would think or do that. When in reality all sin is sin in God's eyes. But where there is repentance there is forgiveness. But I think if we really begin to understand our thoughts and how they attack and condemn us. We can start understanding how the enemy works to set us up for further failure. (Yup can't sleep. You get stuck in my head a little bit.)

I was reading some interesting articles on the mind. From a Christian man. It was encouraging to say the least. I don't know about you but I personally struggle with guilt and bad thoughts on a daily basis. It has always controlled how much peace I obtain in my life. But I didn't realize how much our thoughts have power over us. A single lie we believe can birth sin in our lives. If the enemy can just make us agree with that one single thought he put in our mind. Then he has his foot in the door to Minipulate and tempt us further. Now this is only my thoughts. But I can even relate it to my own mind. Like I sin as a Christian and I make mistakes but why would I beat myself over one sin and not all of them.?? Why only the one i feel most guilt for??? Why? I am beginning to believe I am believing a lie. The enemy tells me that "oh wow want Believe you would think or do that. When in reality all sin is sin in God's eyes. But where there is repentance there is forgiveness. But I think if we really begin to understand our thoughts and how they attack and condemn us. We can start understanding how the enemy works to set us up for further failure. (Yup can't sleep. You get stuck in my head a little bit.)

I love that. Thank you for sharing.

Welcome to CC, Hallz...

I’d like to address just this one thing you mentioned.

God knows about all your sin, but He also knows what is best for you. You would be overwhelmed if He dealt with all your sinful patterns in one session. He is working on one thing right now. When that’s sorted, He’ll work on the next thing. Don’t beat yourself up just because only one thing bothers you at a time. Trust God to sort it all according to His timetable.

But where there is repentance there is forgiveness. But I think if we really begin to understand our thoughts and how they attack and condemn us. We can start understanding how the enemy works to set us up for further failure. (Yup can't sleep. You get stuck in my head a little bit.)