Don't let the Devil take your thoughts!

I am going to do this post because I think a lot of women let the devil take their thoughts and just run with them.  I know that I can do this.  And in all honesty, I let him do that to me last night.  I didn't get very much sleep.  I was restless and woke many times, I did pray, but couldn't get these thoughts to go away.  I was paranoid and anxious all night.

This rarely happens to me.  I am an easy going, easy to please person.  I like to please others and I enjoy people.  But if I get even the slightest hint that I may have done something wrong, or hurt someone, I just let the devil take over my thoughts.  I worry about it. I think this person is super mad at me just because maybe we haven't talked as much in the past few days.  I beat myself up, wrack my brain to find out what I could have done. 

Then the devil takes it a step farther and makes me think that other people feel the same way and that I am just not a good friend, person, wife, mother... The list can go on for ever.  I give the devil free roam of my thoughts.  It takes my focus off God and other people.

I can come up with a reasonable excuse for why a person may not be talking to me.  People are busy, they have things that need to be done or maybe they just need a break from people.  Sometimes I need a break.  I just want to be able to do my list of things and not be bothered.

But then I feel that little tug of doubt and suspicion come back.  Then I think, Wow!  I can be such a needy person some times.

Sometimes we can feel attacked, scared, hurt, misused just because of the way we think about something.  We can either give power to the thoughts that come into our heads or we can listen to God and let those thoughts disappear into the night. 

Here are a few Bible verses that we should cling to when we let the devil take our thoughts: 

  2Co 10:5  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;
 
  Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.