{"id":2148,"date":"2019-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:34:21","slug":"take-control-of-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/twft\/take-control-of-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Control Of Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper.  Don\u2019t ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile.\u2019 Philippians 4:8 CEV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p><p>The old saying goes: \u2018An idle mind is the devil\u2019s workshop.\u2019 The Bible says, <i>\u2018Then Satan entered Judas\u2026 So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.\u2019<\/i> (Luke 22:3\u20134 NKJV) It seems Judas was constantly preoccupied with money, and Satan exploited it to his destruction. During the three years that Judas followed Jesus, he heard Him repeatedly warn about the danger of loving money, but he failed to get the message. <\/p>\n<p>Your mind never stops working and if you don\u2019t take control of it, it will take control of you. Paul writes: <i>\u2018Keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper.\u2019<\/i> What you become is a direct result of what your mind dwells on. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, \u2018Life consists of what a man [or woman] is thinking about all day.\u2019 John Locke said, \u2018The actions of men [or women] are the greatest interpreters of their thoughts.\u2019 James Allen said, \u2018You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>This is why the apostle Peter warns us to <i>\u2018prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control.\u2019<\/i> (1 Peter 1:13 NLT) It\u2019s why the psalmist wrote: <i>\u2018Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me\u2026 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm 19:13\u201314 NKJV) <\/p>\n<p>Note the words <i> meditation of my heart\u2019.<\/i>  The word for you today is: <i>take control of your mind.<\/i>  <\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/soulfood\/todays-readings-27Apr2019\/\">SoulFood<\/a>: Num 11\u201313, Mark 2:18\u201328, Ps 2, Pro 10:30\u201332<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\">The Word for Today<\/em><span style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\"> is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright \u00a9<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don\u2019t ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile.\u2019 Philippians 4:8 CEV The old saying goes: \u2018An idle mind is the devil\u2019s workshop.\u2019 The Bible says, \u2018Then Satan entered Judas\u2026 So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}