Dealing with destructive thoughts / Taking thoughts captive

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

 

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Dealing with fears:

 

Fears are usually thoughts that come directly to our minds.  The devil sends fears to our mind to steal peace from us, to cause us to live in turmoil and dread.

 

Ask yourself this:  Is there any thing I fear right now?  and begin making a list of those fears.  

 

Pray over each fear immediately.

 

Philippians 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

 

* Next dental appointment:  Prayers: Please cause this to go quickly.  Please have dentist deal fully with pain so there will not be any pain.  Please don't let dentist frighten me with words concerning what might happen. Please settle dentist and guide hands of dentist and give dentist wisdom on best procedure for difficult areas.  Please don't let dentist do more than is absolutely necessary.

 

* Pam Padgett, who deals with publishing our blog, was notified that Google is changing the way pictures are handled on the blog.  This change is scheduled to be effective starting on Thursday, July 20, 2023.  They will try to automatically move all of our existing pictures, but have warned that there may be problems.  This was a concern to Pam and she asked God if there was anything she could do to prepare for this upcoming change.  After she prayed, the idea came to remove all of the old "Free E-book today" postings which have pictures of books, which she is doing.

 

* Then little, fleeting thoughts came to Pam, such as "You won't have time to remove all those postings and pictures of books." (devils) At first she didn't recognize these thoughts as coming from devils since they quickly darted in and out of her mind. (Often devils operate this way, sending thoughts so quickly into our minds that we hardly realize they are coming.) 

 

When she realized what was happening, she turned to God and was reminded of the following:  Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established. (Proverbs 16:3)  So she committed this to God, trusting that HE will establish her thoughts in getting this taken care of.

 

*  September 2022, Pam was diagnosed with a high grade bladder cancer.  Doctor told Pam she would die within a year or two unless she underwent treatment and prescribed chemotherapy followed by surgical removal of her bladder. Needing to deal for the rest of her life with some way for her body to function without the natural bladder was a really disturbing forecast!  Pam prayed asking God if there was any way she could be spared this bladder removal surgery.  A few days later, the chemo pharmacist gave Pam about 20 pages of writing to prepare Pam for dealing with chemotherapy.  On one sheet from the American Society of Clinical Oncology the following words were printed: "An approach using chemotherapy with radiation therapy may provide the same benefits as bladder removal."  Pam felt this was an answer to her prayer, a way to be spared bladder removal.

 

But she didn't know any radiation doctors.  Thoughts came that she had no way to get the treatment plan changed. (devils)  Other thoughts came that the doctor would get upset that she wanted to pursue a treatment plan other than that prescribed by her and try to block her from making this change. (devils)  So she asked God how to go about changing the treatment plan and was led to talk with the doctor's physician assistant ... who gave reasons this wasn't the best treatment option for Pam.  But then, surprisingly, she offered to make a referral for Pam to talk with a highly regarded and trained radiation oncologist.

 

Fearful thoughts (from devils) came that the chemo and radiation doctors wouldn't agree to chemo with radiation treatment.  Pam prayed about this and was given a dream in which a man was sitting next to her, supporting her, as she talked with the radiation oncologist.  And Pam was reminded of scriptures such as Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of MY righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10)

 

Although the radiation doctor said Pam was not an ideal candidate for chemo with radiation, she agreed to setup this treatment if Pam decided to go this way.  The chemo doctor also agreed to the change after warning of problems that could happen with the changed chemo.  The chemo with radiation treatments were completed in January, 2023, with no problems other some fatigue.

 

Two tests were scheduled for April 2023 to check for evidence of cancer.  Fears came "What if they find cancer?" (devils)

 

Pam was given a dream in which there were 2 bags with waste in them.  Doctors or scientists were looking through the bags for signs of disease, but no diseases were found.  When Pam woke from the dream and prayed about what it meant, she was impressed that it was showing that neither of the tests would find cancer.  This is exactly what happened.

 

The cancer was gone from Pam's body!

 

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Where do fears come from?

 

The apostle Paul tells us this about fears:

 

2 Timothy 1:7  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

 

Fears come from devils that bring thought to our minds or fears are from our own fleshly imaginations or from hearing that which other people say.

 

2 Corinthians 10

 

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

 

4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

 

5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (the Word and what God has said to us).

 

(Scriptures concerning dealing with destructive thoughts and more examples of typical destructive thoughts will be presented on this Podcast.)

 

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