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Psalm 139:1-5 - "O Lord You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are aquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold O Lord, You know it altogether." 


Psalm 139:17-18 - "How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You."

 

We may not be able to figure God out, but we are able to know Him. The answer to all of our problems is supernatural. The power to overcome is within us. The Holy Spirit guides us according to His attributes. He is the Spirit of Truth, Prayer, Peace, and Comfort. He is our Counselor, Teacher, Helper, and Restainer. He is the Standard of Love by which we are to be directed.

 

We need to be freed from reasoning to be in tune with the Holy Spirit. Reasoning comes when we are vulnerable and confused about things that are happening to us or around us. Reasoning concludes that God is not good setting us up to align with toxic emotions. This is the primary tool of deception the enemy uses against us. We must turn the battlefield of reasoning in our minds over to the Lord.

 

The enemy is searching for an entry in our lives through our emotions. Toxic emotions such as guilt, shame, regret, grief, self-pity, and condemnation are based in unbelief and are entryways the enemy uses to obtain access into our minds. Toxic emotions are survivors, returning again and again to hold us captive and to move us out of faith. They remind us of past mistakes or failures continually drawing us into the judgment assigned to the enemy. God judges and marks wrong things for removal from our lives. He has not given us the spirit of guilt or fear, but He gives us power, love, and a sound mind. 

 

We must align with the truth about our situation. God is greater than our mistakes and failures. He takes our failures and defeats and turns them around for our good. He makes us new and brings us into peace. 

 

The key is to turn away from any thought or feeling that does not produce peace. Toxic emotions produce anxiety and depression. God’s plans for us are of peace and welfare, of hope and a good outcome even in our times of failure. He is ready to rescue us any time and every time we ask. 

 

God is willing and able to face-off every enemy to make sure we are free. Our enemy is not more powerful than Holy Spirit within us. 


Beth Bailey

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