Thank you for this post. "...you’ll be surprised at how often you’re barraged with random and unwelcome thoughts throughout the day just by paying attention." Your attentive, prayerful practice would seem an almost insurmountable challenge for a generation hooked on digital devices. I wrote a piece on 'Reclaiming your stolen focus', addressing the grave need, especially for parents to separate from their devices. Pilgrims in the Machine noted in his recent 'Pilgrims Creed': 'I believe in cognitive liberty, which is the freedom to concentrate, reason, remember, feel, imagine, perceive, and use language, without manipulation or control by others or technology.' This seems an absolute necessity to form a basis for unceasing prayer.
Strahan, thank you so much for this post. This is a game changer, a chain breaker. I have a very very very busy mind, and ironically enough I ended up here through getting distracted, but this is the one exception where it was okay because of coming across this. I think 200 miles an hour and I get distracted so much, with wants, and day dreams, but also with shame and anxieties. I just want the Father. I try so hard to focus on God and it just seems that I always get distracted. That's not just me, it IS spiritual warfare! And I will not let things go on like this. I'm tired of wasting my time, and my mind, on what isn't His. I just want to meditate on Him all day long! When I'm driving, when I'm getting ready for work, at work when I'm walking to different places at my work, when I'm cleaning at home, all of it! And I know doing an audit of these thoughts and really realizing what is me and what isn't, what is fruitful and what's not, what is focused and what is folly, will be a life changer for me. I see how to finally live that verse, take captive every thought and make it obey Christ, I see the steps. Thank you for this Strahan. I love your work and the fruit you produce, I pray for you, thank you for sharing the wisdom that God has given to you.
Thank you for sharing this. I used to think, how can the enemy be allowed to enter our mind if we are believers. I’m still not sure how this all works. But recently have encountered some neurological medical issues and at times can’t tell what is what, body, mind, spirit, even though they are all connected. It’s been a battle of the mind for sure. I’m curious if any one has some helpful resources they’d be inclined to share that has helped them; books, verses, etc. Thanks!
Thank you for this, it is so helpful. Can you recommend any authors or books that speak on spiritual warfare? From the church fathers and mothers, mystics or others? I am a trauma therapist and so deal with spiritual warfare on a daily basis, I desperately need training.
Thank you for this post. "...you’ll be surprised at how often you’re barraged with random and unwelcome thoughts throughout the day just by paying attention." Your attentive, prayerful practice would seem an almost insurmountable challenge for a generation hooked on digital devices. I wrote a piece on 'Reclaiming your stolen focus', addressing the grave need, especially for parents to separate from their devices. Pilgrims in the Machine noted in his recent 'Pilgrims Creed': 'I believe in cognitive liberty, which is the freedom to concentrate, reason, remember, feel, imagine, perceive, and use language, without manipulation or control by others or technology.' This seems an absolute necessity to form a basis for unceasing prayer.
Strahan, thank you so much for this post. This is a game changer, a chain breaker. I have a very very very busy mind, and ironically enough I ended up here through getting distracted, but this is the one exception where it was okay because of coming across this. I think 200 miles an hour and I get distracted so much, with wants, and day dreams, but also with shame and anxieties. I just want the Father. I try so hard to focus on God and it just seems that I always get distracted. That's not just me, it IS spiritual warfare! And I will not let things go on like this. I'm tired of wasting my time, and my mind, on what isn't His. I just want to meditate on Him all day long! When I'm driving, when I'm getting ready for work, at work when I'm walking to different places at my work, when I'm cleaning at home, all of it! And I know doing an audit of these thoughts and really realizing what is me and what isn't, what is fruitful and what's not, what is focused and what is folly, will be a life changer for me. I see how to finally live that verse, take captive every thought and make it obey Christ, I see the steps. Thank you for this Strahan. I love your work and the fruit you produce, I pray for you, thank you for sharing the wisdom that God has given to you.
Sincerely,
-Ethan James
Thank you for sharing this. I used to think, how can the enemy be allowed to enter our mind if we are believers. I’m still not sure how this all works. But recently have encountered some neurological medical issues and at times can’t tell what is what, body, mind, spirit, even though they are all connected. It’s been a battle of the mind for sure. I’m curious if any one has some helpful resources they’d be inclined to share that has helped them; books, verses, etc. Thanks!
Be well,
Emily
Thank you for this, it is so helpful. Can you recommend any authors or books that speak on spiritual warfare? From the church fathers and mothers, mystics or others? I am a trauma therapist and so deal with spiritual warfare on a daily basis, I desperately need training.