Controlling Our Minds

"If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one." — Carter G Woodson.

Carter G Woodson published this in 1933, concerning the ongoing oppression and slave mentality of many African Americans at that time. Even though Slavery had been abolished and African Americans were free, many did not behave so because for so long, their thinking had been [and was still being] controlled, so they still felt inferior on many levels.

In some ways, we can apply this idea to Satan's ongoing oppression of many Christians. We believe in Jesus and accept Him into our hearts, yet we still let Satan attack us, scare us, confuse us, control us. The TRUTH is that he has NO authority over us. We were bought, paid for with the BLOOD of Christ. We belong to Him! The only way Satan can have his way with us is if we let him! But, if we truly embrace what Christ did for us, we will understand that we have POWER...the power of the Holy Spirit, against which Satan is nothing!

Let us know who we are in Christ! It is He who should be controlling our minds.

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. - James 5:7-8