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The Power of a Praying Woman
tries to convince you that your future is as hopeless as his, or that you are a failure with no purpose, value, gifts, or abilities, God says exactly the opposite. Believe God and don’t listen to anything else.
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My Prayer to God
Lord, help me to never exchange Your truth
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for a lie. Where I have accepted a lie as truth, reveal that to me. Help me to clearly discern when it is the enemy who is speaking. I don’t want to think futile and foolish thoughts or give place to thoughts that are not glorifying to You (Romans 1:21). I don’t want to walk according to my own thinking (Isaiah 65:2). I want to bring every thought captive and control my mind. Your Word is “a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). As I read Your Word, may it reveal any wrong thinking in me. May Your Word be so etched in my mind that I will be able to identify a lie of the enemy the minute I hear it. Spirit of Truth, keep me undeceived. I know You have given me authority “over all the power of the enemy” (Luke 10:19), and so I command the enemy to get away from my mind. I refuse to listen to lies. Thank You, Lord, that I “have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). I want Your thoughts to be my thoughts. Show me where I have ?lled my mind with anything that is ungodly. Help me to resist doing that and instead ?ll my mind with thoughts, words, music, and images that are glorifying to You. Help me to think upon what is true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8). I lay claim to the “sound mind” that You have given me (2 Timothy 1:7).
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