Hearts and Minds Set Free

There was a time that I lived in my head in the future and/or the past. I was never in the present. It is impossible to be present to myself, others or to God if I am living in the future or the past. I didn't realize that if I was living in my head looking at the past or trying to figure out the future and how I was going to make it through something, then I was the one in control. I didn't realize that I lived in my head until the day when my head was so neurotic that I decided I couldn't listen to anything going on up there at all anymore or I was going to really be insane. My thinking about God, others, myself, the world and pretty much anything was all negative and distorted and I had to quit listening to any of it. Somewhere deep inside of me I knew that there was a God and a kingdom that lived within me. I decided I was not going to listen to anything my head was saying to me about God, others, myself and the world but I was going to just live in this moment focuse...

My biggest wish in this life is that people would quit listening to and having conversations with the lies that run through their heads. That people would just say to their own heads, "No" I will not talk to you anymore because you are not nice to me! I am so serious right now! People spend so much time being mad at the enemy when all along the enemy is themselves. He doesn't have to do a thing because we do it to ourselves. We listen to the lies about ourselves and then we have these conversations with ourselves. I did it for so long so I know this is true. I see people wasting their lives in torment because they are spending their time reasoning with lies and distorted beliefs in their heads. Instead we need to say "No" to those conversations in our head and turn our attention directly to Jesus. Imagine Him standing there with you. Say, "No" to the conversation and visualize Jesus instead! Turn our attention to Him, really see Him! We have to stop t...

I have been struggling and praying about some issues in my life for the last few months and I believe that I finally have some breakthrough on it.  It all started when I found myself not liking someone. I mean really not liking them. I did not feel right about this at all. I figured there must be something about me that needed to change. This person was probably mirroring something in me that I did not like about myself. I came up with all kinds of things that it could be that I needed to heal from. After a few months of doing this and praying for healing and to be able to love this person, it seemed to be getting worse instead of better. I was really looking to God to understand what the heck was going on. What I realized is that, it is okay for me not to like someone. Sometimes there are people we just don't like. The problems that came during this time was with my thinking, because for some reason I was having thoughts that everyone else around me shouldn't like this...