Sometimes we have that one constant negative thought that pounds away at our attempts to success.

 

If we want to think, “I can do it!” there is bound to be some type of negative-thought about to plant itself in your mind trying to take root so that you will never do what it is that you want to do.

But sometimes it is an avalanche of negatives that fall from what seems like nowhere to pound away any positive thoughts of success.

For example you are convinced that you need to apologise to someone for something bad that you did, and it hurt that person a lot. You made a mistake, you were of the wrong mind at that time, and the information that has been fed to you was all wrong. But it still is going to hurt you a whole lot to apologise. And it is going to hurt you to see the tears of the other person when you apologise. All this is natural and how it should be.

 

Guess what! An apology is supposed to hurt a whole lot, so that the dreadful feeling will stay in your mind and you will be far more careful in the future so that you won’t have to go through apologizing again.

So, you have finally motivated yourself to taking responsibility for your own actions and you prepare to leave home to make that apology. Then out of nowhere you are attacked by many thoughts and doubts that will pound at your confidence and your will to do what you thought was right.

 

 

Then after a while doubt creeps in and thoughts of failure, of being abused, or yelled at, or rejected (even if you know that this person won’t do anything bad, you come to doubt what you know).

Modern science mostly only believes in materialism, so only uses materialistic ways to make choices and to investigate and experiment, and this leaves society at the advantage of evil. How can you fight a force that you refuse to believe exists.

God wants you to apologise, that is obvious. Evil wants you to fail, that is also obvious. Evil wants you to feel defeated and to hate yourself because you don’t have the courage to apologise. Both God and evil have access to your mind to some degree. But if your mind is good and only thinks of good thoughts then you can easily cast away negatives and discouraging thoughts etc.

 

Once a person knows what is the right thing to do then that person can do it. Bad thoughts can attack but they won’t succeed against a mind that refuses to entertain such thoughts of defeat and misery.

The wise thing to know is that you are in the middle of a spiritual warfare, and that modern science only knows half of the problem.

What happens is that for every one positive responsible thought that you have, you will be bombarded by an attack of negative thoughts designed (yes purposely designed) to destroy your doing what is right. These negative thoughts come from forces that know where to hit the tender spots of your conscience, your fears, your desires, your past greatest worries, the worst fears that you have had etc. That is why they are so effective to defeat the person who has no idea what is really happening.

It doesn’t help when worldly people help feed the doubts and fears in your own mind as well.
William Booth complained of people in the church being his greatest enemies, and other people have constantly told me that their own mother, father, brothers and sisters are their worst enemies because they push us to doubting what God is trying to tell us to do.

 

It is clear that if we do what we should do, and if we are honest and responsible then we will have a better life. So if you go an apologise for what you have done wrong then it will be a great load off your chest, it works out better for all parties involved. And at least you have tried your best to take responsibility for your own mistakes etc.

 

Each one of us thinks differently, we all have a different character, different pasts, different mistake sand lessons etc. If we face the facts that the negative destroying thoughts are not our own and are really an attack then we can prepare to stand up against them. Society says that they are mental illness and that those thoughts are our own. If you don’t believe in the enemy (evil) and you don’t believe in the method of attack (spiritual warfare in your own mind – negative thoughts of self-defeating doubts etc) then you will be a sitting duck awaiting slaughter.

 

We need to find what it is in us that can compete against this onslaught of negative thoughts and ideas.

 

For example if one positive thought is attacked by dozens of negative defeating thoughts, so the first thing that we need to do is to cut-off the attack at its beginning. Second we need to not want to entertain bad thoughts, ideas etc so that these negative thoughts don’t get a chance to take root in our mind again. We must see the folly in entertaining bad thoughts because they drive us away from personal success and good relationships.

If we drive ourself to taking responsibility for our past actions as we know that we should do, then that thought can override the thoughts to run away. Like the movies says, “A man’s got to do what a mans got to do!”

An man and woman are responsible for what they have done in the past, so a person has got to do what a person “has got to do!”

 

 

Even if the Wright Brothers had doubts they didn’t act on them, instead they allowed their minds to fill with thoughts of achieving the impossible. They wanted to build a successful flying machine when there were none. Imagine the doubts of the people around them. Richard Pearce of New Zealand is said t have hid his work on his own planes because people around that time thought people that wanted to fly were crazy. But he didn’t let their false opinions stop him from trying.

A passion is what they had, a passion to succeed, and to do what they imagined that they could do. All was said to be impossible, dangerous and would fail according to all the experts – so they went out and did it anyway, and succeeded.

Honest to goodness folks, if all those that succeeded in the past had all listened to the crowd and the experts then nothing ever would have changed, and we would still be in the dark ages. Follow your own heart and let your passion and desires rise for the thing that you want the most. Fill your heart and soul and get to it.

 

Imagine all the wonderful happy marriages that would never have happened if the lovers had listened to the judgments and condemnation of elders, family and friends and parents. Find out for yourself. Do what is right by your own heart, and take God along with you. Do it right, be decent good and worthy, but be sure to follow your own thinking, that is where your destiny lies.

We must at least try!

 

All the best from

James M Sandbrook.

First Published – 15th of September, 2014.