Excerpt from He Will Hide Me in His Pavilion by Byron Gene Mace
The Mind
The Word of God is every believer's refuge from the world. The mind needs a
rest from the world--a rest from the world and its bombardment sinful, dark ways of
thinking. The Word is our rest from the world. When the mind has been cleansed
from all the trash of the world, then the body can rest. The body will follow the
leadings of the mind, whether good or bad.
But the strongholds of the mind are still there to remind the believer that he does
not fit into the world's mold of how to believe, think, respond, or act. If the mind is
deluged by the surrounding flood of darkness and becomes discouraged and
depressed, the body will follow by becoming sick or at least nervous. The new
believer must begin new habits, one of which is learning who he is in Christ Jesus.
Another related to that, is reading and hearing the Word of God daily and
strengthening his faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
(Romans 10.17).
We have listened to what Jesus told us in His gospel when a minister us preached
the gospel to us and told us the Word God has for us, and upon accepting the Word
and Jesus into our hearts, we have received the cleansing (purifying) power and have
been received in the family of God. It is His blood shed for us.
Ephesians 1.7 [ESV]
In Him we have redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of His grace.
The truth-power of the Gospel has cleansed us--the Cleanser is Jesus Christ-Who
died for each one of us and by the simple act of faith in Him--by our reception of
Him as our personal Savior, we have begun a new life as new creations to live new
lives for God.
God sent His Son to die for us--who were once sinners and to bring us back to
Him (forever) and this is what the Bible means by grace.
Ephesians 2.4-5 [ESV]
But God, rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when
we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have
The Mind
The Word of God is every believer's refuge from the world. The mind needs a
rest from the world--a rest from the world and its bombardment sinful, dark ways of
thinking. The Word is our rest from the world. When the mind has been cleansed
from all the trash of the world, then the body can rest. The body will follow the
leadings of the mind, whether good or bad.
But the strongholds of the mind are still there to remind the believer that he does
not fit into the world's mold of how to believe, think, respond, or act. If the mind is
deluged by the surrounding flood of darkness and becomes discouraged and
depressed, the body will follow by becoming sick or at least nervous. The new
believer must begin new habits, one of which is learning who he is in Christ Jesus.
Another related to that, is reading and hearing the Word of God daily and
strengthening his faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
(Romans 10.17).
We have listened to what Jesus told us in His gospel when a minister us preached
the gospel to us and told us the Word God has for us, and upon accepting the Word
and Jesus into our hearts, we have received the cleansing (purifying) power and have
been received in the family of God. It is His blood shed for us.
Ephesians 1.7 [ESV]
In Him we have redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of His grace.
The truth-power of the Gospel has cleansed us--the Cleanser is Jesus Christ-Who
died for each one of us and by the simple act of faith in Him--by our reception of
Him as our personal Savior, we have begun a new life as new creations to live new
lives for God.
God sent His Son to die for us--who were once sinners and to bring us back to
Him (forever) and this is what the Bible means by grace.
Ephesians 2.4-5 [ESV]
But God, rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when
we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have