Battlefield of the Mind: How to Win the War in Your Mind by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer [Meyer, Joyce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Life - General, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality
ISBN: 9781577941699
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 1995-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

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This statement is certainly true concerning the area of passivity. Most Christians are not even familiar with the term, nor do they know how to recognize the symptoms.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge....

hosea 4:6

Passivity is the opposite of activity. It is a dangerous problem

because the Word of God clearly teaches that we must be alert,

cautious and active (1 Peter 5:8) - that we are to fan the flame and

stir up the gift within us. (2 Timothy 1:6.)

I have read various definitions of the word "passivity," and I

describe it as a lack of feeling, a lack of desire, general apathy, luke warmness

and laziness. Evil spirits are behind passivity. The devil

knows that inactivity, failure to exercise the will, will spell the believer's

ultimate defeat. As long as a person is moving against the devil

by using his will to resist him, the enemy will not win the war.

However, if he enters into a state of passivity, he is in serious trouble.

So many believers are emotionally ruled that an absence of

feeling is all that is needed to stop them from doing what they

have been taught to do. They praise if they feel like it, give if they

feel like it, keep their word if they feel like it - and if they don't

feel like it, they don't.

empty space Is a place!

Neither give place to the devil.

Ephesians 4:27 kjv

The place we give Satan is often empty space. An empty, passive

mind can be easily filled with all kinds of wrong thoughts.

A believer who has a passive mind and who does not resist

these wrong thoughts often takes them as his own thoughts. He

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