You Are in Charge of You
Renew your mind. You are wired with Love, Power and a Sound Mind.
Trauma impedes our ability to live the abundant life that God wants us to have by wiring in damaged areas of our brain, but we can change it. We can be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
I am living proof. Most people who meet me, have trouble believing that I have come through having felt worth less than others, apologizing for taking up space, sexually abused from infancy, neglected, trafficked from my 14th birthday, after years of abuses, abduction, drugs and alcohol, gang rape, attempted suicide and despondency, coerced to abort with threat of death, but saving my baby saved my life. I have been married 25 years now. I have five awesome adult children and two grandchildren. We have a small business, ministry and abundance of love and peace despite any circumstances. You can too.
1. Acknowledge God as creator. Even if you don’t currently believe the Bible, you can choose to ask the ’empty space’ if there is a God, for Him to reveal Himself to you.
2. Begin to imagine good outcomes. Beginning with forgiveness, imagine your heart receiving peace from letting go of offenses. If you are in a bad situation, imagine yourself in better circumstances and consider how that would happen. Imagine a scenario as being gift wrapped. By focusing on that good outcome, wisdom will be activated to help you unwrap that gift.
3. Use the Word of God. Use the Scripture that specifically addresses your situation. If you need healing read, study and continually mutter a few passages that will unwrap healing in your mind. Put them on small cards or record them into your smart phone to listen and to carry them with you. Take them with you as you go everywhere. Read them to yourself through out the day. Try to plan to take moments out of what you’re doing to step away in the same way as you would take medication.
4. Take control of your life. That begins in your mind. You can change your mind, completely renew your mind by this process. You can do this with forgiveness, self-defeating behavior, bad relationships, poor job performance, poverty, disease, and all kinds of trauma. It is a step by step journey.
5. Be patient and consistent. You didn’t get into your situation quickly. It will take time and effort to get out. Consider a house wired with knob and tube wiring from the early 1900’s. To rewire the whole house with updated coper wiring, you cannot just change the outlets. It is a fire hazard to try to use modern appliances on that old wiring. Your new life needs deep foundational changes. Superficial change doesn’t work.
6. Pay attention to all input. We live in a media-saturated society. There is input all around us, almost to the point that it is difficult to avoid it. Even without technology, though, there are bad influences inside of us and all around us. Plan to spend time building yourself up. Building others up is a great way to boost your own good influences.
7. Be the change. You can be the change for your own life and the lives of others. Our thoughts actually take up space in our brains. We can choose to change our thoughts, just as we can choose to rearrange furniture in our homes. If negative thoughts are tripping you up, you can change their effect by replacing those negative thoughts with positive ones.
If there were a chair in front of your front door, you’d move it to go out. Thoughts are just as physical as that chair. To move through to your better circumstances, you will have to take charge. Your strength and ability comes from the powerful Word of God.
What thoughts do you need to change? What Scriptures will you use to do that?