Taking Every Thought Captive: To the Obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5

By Ibiloye Abiodun Christian

Thinking, Imagination and Thoughts are part of life and gifts from God.
What do you feed your mind with?
“what we believe is a result of our thinking. If we think wrong, we will believe wrong.” ~Kenneth E. Hagin.
The battle for the minds and hearts of men is getting fiercer, subtle and systematic everyday.
A spiritual strategem resulting to physical and mind battle to control ALL. Even, 'Spiritual xenophobia' against the Church.

This book ,{I pray} will empower you to stand and to destroy every argument, standard and limitation raised against the knowledge of God in you.
Taking every thought and spirit behind it captive to obey Christ. #2Corinthians_10vs5 [ESV]
And by faith and obedient life condemning every weapon and refuting every accusation against you in [any] court. "For our righteousness is of God." ~Isaiah 54:17.
You are a winner and not a loser!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329065123

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Taking Every Thought Captive: To the Obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5

Taking Every Thought Captive

To the Obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5

By Ibiloye Abiodun Christian

Copyright

Copyright 2015 Ibiloye Abiodun Christian

ISBN: 978-1-329-06512-3

Published at Lulu Press, Inc.

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Dedication

To the Almighty God for life, loved ones, Grace and Wisdom.

Thank you Jesus!

Acknowledgment

Images/Photos including that of the Wisdom preacher, Dr. Mike Murdock on the front page are from the web. I designed the cover myself! Praise God!

The Bible quotations in this book (all rights reserved) are from the King James Version easy reading ©2001, Holman Christian Standard Bible ©2003, English Standard Version (ESV) and onlineBible expecially, www.kingjamesbibleonline.org

Table of Contents

Taking Every Thought Captive

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgment

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

What Are Thoughts?

Thought Fellowship and Pools

Thought Connection and Transmission

Spiritual Intelligence

Taking Control of the Thought World

Get the Picture

Every Thought Captured in God’s Word Standard

Demolishing Strong holds

The Obedience of Christ

The Full Armor of God

Thoughts from the Physical inteligence

The Problem of Mortality .i.e. Death

The Flesh, Sin and the Devil

How Do We Respond to Problems in Our Society of Today?

Developing Emotional Inteligence

Develop Your Spiritual Inteligence

Eternal Life, the Goal of Ultimate Salvation

Confess and Ask as Follow to Receive Salvation

Take On the Strength of the Spirit

The Power of the Mind; use it positively

The Heart

Desire A Peaceful Mind?

Take on the Mind of Christ

Life Positions and Okness Transactions Chart

Walking in God

Walk in Love and Faith

Beware of Dogs

Empty the Garbage

Walk as Children of Light

About The Author

Preface

Our ability to think; abstract, reason, discern, meditate, visualise/envision, understand, innovate, imagine, simulate and communicate with our mind are gifts and priviledges from God.

We simulate, create, judge, love, desire and appreciate with our minds. We are able to project our dreams and visions into actions. We are also able to educate, inspire or even pre-set our mind-monitoring ability to manage our drives and transactions that would lead towards achieving our dreams, responsibilities, visions, goals and ultimately our satisfaction. All the glory be to God!

The battle for the minds and hearts of men is getting fiercer, subtle and systematic every day. Not the competitions for customers’ mind, patronage and choice embarked upon by the various marketing practitionals but the spiritual battles and attacks on the mind, the body, the Christians and the Church.

Stratagems of ideas, general thought control, technology and sense programming. A spiritual manipulation and agenda that is resulting into physical, emotional, social and spiritual battles.

The devil’s wiles, deciets, products and darkness regalia or authorities are deployed against the ignorant and trusting people, against the Church, relationship and help/support systems. (i.e the Family, the Marriage, Educational institutions and the Government)

The objective of this book is to make you stand and to equip you to destroy arguments, standards, deceptions and every lofty opinion or wisdom raised against the knowledge of God in you. (including that which is against your faith, mind, decisions, judgment, self-realization and peace). Also, overcome the weapons or agents for the manipulations of your word and visual registers.

I want to show you how to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5. i.e. arrested in the authority given through Jesus Christ, with faith spoken word of command, judgment, condemnation and declarations. And, we fill the space on our spirit minds with God’s promises as we exercise our authority in Christ...conforming and renewing every thought to the Word of God.

God expects us to condemn every weapon and refute every accusation against us in [any] court. For our righteousness is of God according to Isaiah 54:17. Sure, our Sun of righteousness shall rise and all group or gang-up of wickedness will stumble. Malachi 4:1-2.

In 2 Corinthians 10:3, Paul made us to know that "for though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war in the fleshly way", vs 4. since the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but are powerful through God for demolition of strongholds.

Therefore, I want you to develop the meta-cognition on your spirit mind to the extent that you no longer accept unhelpful thoughts; of hopelessness, failures and accussations or mind suggestions that would not agree with the Spirit and Word of God as the true!

Discipline, knowledge and faith will develop your Spiritual Inteligence day by day,as you rein-in every thought to God’s Word standard, content and principle.

The strength of our spirit is the life of God (Zoe) in us, and the full armor of God including the Word and the Spirit of God in us! Our comfort and soul supports are other children of God we carefully choose, the Church and of course our spiritual partner’s ministrations (i.e. the Holy Spirit.)

No more condemnation! Christ’s obedience to the Father and his ressurection from the dead made Christ perfect and author of eternal salvation to all who obey him. i.e obey his teachings according to Hebrew 5:9. And, we (who come to him) are loosed from our sins and accusation by his shed blood. Revelation 1:5

{we are not the same person that have done those mistakes, we are changed! And, have recieved the righteousness of God with a new heart, conscience, hope and joy}

This book is hoped and prayed would enpower you to choose to fill your heart and hence your minds with better contents and images hence take advantages of the mind power (imagination, strengths in concentration, influence in wisdom, joy and visions in hope) to move forward and successfully in life , maintaining balancee. How do you feed your minds and with what?

Every truth without the balance of the truth and the principles of hope, faith, love and life of God’s Word is a lie!

The book explains what is the thought World, triggers of thoughts, mind connections, the six color of thinking, strongholds, obedience of Christ, pulling down strongholds, the Church mind and culture and how to arrest every thought to the obedience of Christ.

How do we respond to the problems and the prevailing sins in the World today? Suggested are: do not be yoked with the World or works of darkness, pray for the World and those in authority (and acknowledge, not the devil, but the authorities over you -Romans 13:1-5), evangelism and mission. We must empower those that fears God and with disciplined integrity for a change in polity.

Also, knowing the triggers and being filled with the understood word of God, we develop Emotional and Spiritual Inteligence. I hope you will be encourage to be alive in your spirit.

Perhabs, the strongest and most feared problem in life is the mortality of man. Every man dies one day, afterward the mystery in eternity. The fear of death and the thought about what happens to us after: our destination, wealth and love ones left behind is quite a worry and cause of nightmares of many. The reason why the author discussed this issue under the thoughts from the Physical life. Common questions were asked and answered.

While alive the author encouraged that we write stories with our lives and souls which can be of eternal appreciation or recall of praise and gratitude after. (Psalm 90:9). You can choose to write a better story from today.

Discussed also is the Eternal Life; the gift of believing, salvation and a reward of the Christian Way of Life are eternal life. ( John 3:16). The thoughts of God and our eternity checkmates our lives, making it respond in circumspection, love and gratitude for life. This goes a long way in helping us to have a godly decision and a balanced thought.

The author is asking you. Do you mind the way you live as a Christian? How do we live and walk? You are encourage to walk in love, light, faith, knowledge, unity with others from the Church and you be free of holds of unforgiveness and anger. We should know that our thoughts and what influence them hence our ideas, visions and the use of our mind’s gifts, influence our World and tomorrow/future!

Healthy thoughts makes an healthy and balanced person. Healthy, balanced people and availability of chances for useful living make a healthy society!

It is my prayers that you be enriched in every way for all success and victory which produces thanksgiving and your life trusting more in God through this Ministry (and book). God Bless you Rich and Good.

Introduction

"For although we are walking in the flesh, we do not wage war in a fleshly way, since the weapons of our warefare are not fleshly but are