I am newly married this year. My husband has been struggling with dark thoughts after failing the bar exam again. Please pray for him.
Your mind:
When you got saved you received a new spirit. That spirit is perfect and wants to please God.
However your mind is not new, you have the same mind you had when you were a sinner. And so God says your mind has to be transformed by reading the Word of God.
Rom.12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
(with the Word of God).
Satan knows that your mind is still the same so he try's to attack your mind.
The battle ground here on earth is for the control of your mind. The only weapon satan has is to attack you thru your thoughts. He tries to discourage you by telling you about all of your failures, sins, wrong choices and bad relationships you have had.
He wants to take control of you by controlling your mind. He has no power so he uses deception and lies to try to deceive you.
God tells you how to fight Satan.
God says you should bind all evil spirits out of your mind and put on God's Armor. Then pray a hedge of protection around yourself.
God will do the rest.
Once you are saved you are God's child and wants you to know who you are in Christ.
God says you are His child and you are more than a conqueror. He says you are an ambassador for Christ and
you are to fight the evil around you.
He also says
you can do all things thru Christ and that all things are possible if you believe. So trust God and use His might to strengthen yourself.
Here are some scriptures that God says you should do to protect your mind.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds
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;
Watch what you are thinking:
Prov.23:7 For as a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be
1Cor.2:16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.
Phil.4:8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Eph.5:15-16 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
You will be in a spiritual war for the rest of your life.
God has already won that war for you but you
must learn to make the right choices in life. So put on God's armor, bind all evil spirits, pray a hedge around yourself and your family, then pray. You can't lose - God is on your side.
Col.3:2 Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all of your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.