The Power Of Your Mind A Book Review #9 (Chapter 8) Pastor Chris Oyakhilome

The Power Of Your MindA Book Review #9 (Chapter 8)Pastor Chris Oyakhilome

Dealing With Negative Thoughts And Emotions

Don't Manufacture Worry And Pain (Study: Nehemiah 8:10).

The part of this I want you to observe [in the above Scripture] is where he says, "Neither be ye sorry," in the Hebrew text, the word translated"sorry" is "awtsab" and it means "to carve, fabricate, or fashion worry, pain, anger, displeasure, grief, hurt."

So Nehemiah was telling Israel in essence, "Don't process, fabricate or manufacture these negative feelings and emotions of worry, pain, anger, displeasure, grief or hurt, because the joy of the Lord is your strength.

God wants you to be strong in the strength He's made available to you. Otherwise, He can't use you. This is why if satan wants you to displease God, he'll go after your joy and cause you to blame everybody around you for your bad feelings. If he succeeds, you'll find that you're constantly angry...,then you develop an attitude.

But what's really happening is that you're becoming weaker spiritually, because you've allowed Satan steal the joy of the Lord that should have been your strength.

Refuse to dwell on pain, displeasure, worry, and all such negative feelings and emotions. Don't set your mind on failure or on those who are trying to make trouble with you.

If, instead of responding in love, you find yourself respond with hatred, anger, or bitterness, you say, "Father, in the Name of Jesus, I reject this, it will not have power over me."

If you ever notice anger trying to boil over in you, you say, "No! I'm full of love!" Then you address the anger: "Anger, you have no authority in my heart, for I'm the Lord's habitation, fashioned for His presence!"

You're a child of God, a manifestor of His righteousness, a revealer of His light and a dispenser of his goodness. So think like Him [and] don't give vent to any negative thing; don't let satan's character show itself through you.

Excerpt From the Book:
The Power Of Your Mind
Chris Oyakhilome, D.Sc., D.D. (2016)