06/01/2025
KINGDOM FOUNDATION (KFD)
(DAILY DEVOTIONAL)
TOPIC: Learn To Think Right At All Time.
And now, dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true, honourable, and right. Think about things that are pure, lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. (Phil 4:8 NLT)
You might say, “In this wicked world and environments where evil people always do wicked things, where we constantly hear bad stories of killing, stilling, hatred, envy, backbiting and so on, how can I fix my mind on things that are true, pure, right, honourable, how can I avoid hearing those bad things?”
A certain young man always complains and feels sad and ashamed about his struggles with a particular negative habit that has affected his financial life. I try to talk him into how he can replace this habit.
But I started noticing that he constantly associates and converses with those who also exhibit the same habit. Not only that he associates with them, but he also frequently follows them, leaving his small business behind to places where they carry out this habit.
I said in my heart that it would be difficult for this young man to change.
It is no longer news that Satan’s oldest and most effective strategy or method of luring God’s children to think wrong and further sin is through distraction in the form of enticement.
He disguises himself under good and pleasurable things to which we are emotionally attracted; then he presents them to his victims in a manner that seems hard to resist, to capture and destroy their glorious destinies.
And some of the means through which he does this is through our closest contacts: friends, family members, colleagues, through the internet and through the movies we watch.
You must have perhaps experienced when a close friend or brother became a nightmare to you. That is because Satan wants you to “think,” and abhor unforgiveness!
Remember, what we put into our minds determines what comes out in our words and actions.
Therefore, if you find yourself struggling with bad thoughts and habits, do not worry.
The Lord has given us His trusted and unfailing Word as a permanent solution to resist and get rid of that demonic stronghold.
Be willing to read and meditate on the scriptures daily and have your mind transformed into thinking only what is true, honourable, right, pure, lovely, and praiseworthy.
PRAYER/MEDITATION
Thank you, Lord, for your infallible Word.
From today, I must consistently study your Word and meditate on it. My mind must be fixed on it, to think only what is true, pure, honest, lovely, good, honourable, excellent and what is admirable in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Author: Paul B. Doubra