9 Bible Verses on the Power of the Mind

It’s raining outside.

I’m in here drinking my coffee.  It’s 5 a.m.

I’m thinking about a patient of mine.  He’s fighting cancer.  He fought the battle before and lived to tell the tale.  But now it’s rallied the troops and is putting up one hell of an assault.

Somehow he manages to hold his head up and smile,  endure the pain, and go back for another treatment.  Another day alive is another day to fight.

He doesn’t complain or feel sorry for himself.  I’ve never heard him ask…..”why me?”  He made up his mind a long time ago not to let negative thoughts cloud his judgement.  He stays focused on what’s important.  What’s in front of him and not what’s behind.

And I wonder if that’s what’s kept him going all these years.

Our lives are just like the the things I write…..written one line at a time.

We don’t get a lot of say in what happens to us.  But we do get to decide how to respond.  We choose our emotions, actions, and thoughts.

But that’s not to say there’s no unconscious ramblings.  (Because the mind is serious business.)  It’s just that the subconscious plays out in real life.  And you have to decide what to do about it.

Use your mind at your own peril.  And what you focus on is the direction you go.

Life is full of painful memories, regret, heartbreak, anxiety, sickness, and death.  But it’s also full of laughter, kittens, coffee, unexpected kindness, and friendship.

Most of the time it’s easier to see the difficulties, the pain, the suffering.  I get that.  It fills our minds and we suffocate from the burden.

But there’s a strange beauty from overcoming difficult times.  Almost as if without the difficulty, then the pleasantness wouldn’t be so good.

Do we miss this if our minds are over-run?

I guess what I’m saying here…..is just stating the obvious….. stay focused on what’s really important in life and try to let the other things slide.

Because God is with us.  Even in our darkest times.

Focus your mind on the things above.  And as above, so below.

Don’t believe me?

Here’s 9 Bible Verses on the Power of the Mind

Put your mind on your life with God. The way to life—to God!—is vigorous and requires your total attention

—Luke 13:24

At that time, this song will be sung in the country of Judah: We have a strong city, Salvation City, built and fortified with salvation. Throw wide the gates so good and true people can enter. People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don’t quit. Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. Those who lived high and mighty he knocked off their high horse. He used the city built on the hill as fill for the marshes. All the exploited and outcast peoples build their lives on the reclaimed land.

–Isaiah 26:1-6

You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.

—Matthew 5:8

The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity.

—2 Corinthians 10:5-6

 

The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.”

—Jeremiah 17:9-10

Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?” He answered, “What’s written in God’s Law? How do you interpret it? He said, “That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself.”   “Good answer!” said Jesus. “Do it and you’ll live.”

—Luke 10:25-28

A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones.

—Proverbs 14:30

You have minds like a snake pit! How do you suppose what you say is worth anything when you are so foul-minded? It’s your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words. A good person produces good deeds and words season after season. An evil person is a blight on the orchard. Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously. Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation.

—Matthew 12:34-37

 

Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.

—Philippians 4:8-9

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