Internal Voices
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Do you know there are other spirits that are also looking for a temple?
God our Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit have not lost their voices. They are in the temple and they are able to speak to us and through us right through our thought life.
We are very interestingly made, one moment we are lifting up the Lord and the next moment we can be thinking and saying some awful bad stuff. Why is this?
We are like a house with many rooms. Some of these rooms we visit often; some of them we never visit and have no desire to. My friend Dr Bruce Morgan spoke of the dragons in the cellar. I sent him a card several years ago with a picture of a dragon sitting under a tree with a long spear picking his teeth. There were pieces of armor scattered all around on the ground and the statement on the bottom said; “sometimes the dragon wins”. I think we can all relate to that.
We all have emotions, and it is like we have a different room for each one. All these emotions seem to have something to say and at times want to be heard. We don’t always speak what these emotions are saying to us but we are often hearing what they are saying in our mind. They can be very troublesome to us. Indeed we must be on guard that other spirits are not allowed to enter into some of these rooms within us.
I don’t think we have to worry about the rooms that are filled with love, peace, joy and are placing wonderful thoughts in our minds and mouths. The rooms we need to be mindful of are ones that contain anger, bitterness, resentment, and unforgivness. These all want to be heard in our mind and through our mouth. These are the rooms that other spirits will quickly enter in, if given any opportunity. They will trouble your mind and rob you of all peace love and forgiveness. These thoughts are our worst enemy and you are the one that must gain the victory if you are to have peace.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
There are thoughts that rise up in us that need to be taken captive and if they are not, they are going to torment us. They come from those places where we have allowed anger, resentment, bitterness and other ugly things that are sin, to remain undelt with.
I can almost hear some of you saying, “That is fine but how do you do it?
Recognize the thoughts for what they are; evil! Very evil!
Decide if you want to resist them or entertain them and be miserable, angry and hateful.
If you decide you don’t want them, then take the thoughts captive and bring them and the hate and anger that go with them, right to Jesus.
Ask Jesus to take them and to give you peace, joy and love in place of them.
If you begin to recognize these thoughts for what they are, and begin to resist them, and ask Jesus for help, you can come into a new place of peace and rest in your soul.
The voices will be silenced! You may not have the victory immediately! If you continue to resist you will have the victory.