Excuse Me, You’re in my Headspace

By Sarah Beth Lindberg

Twice this last week I found myself letting someone occupy too much of my head space. Their negative words affected my day. I spent the day evaluating what I did wrong and how I need to do something different. I hashed over the same thoughts over and over again.

I knew better. But somehow my thoughts kept playing on an endless loop. Slowly enslaving me as I sank into the despair of each word. The more I reran the same thoughts the more my feet sank in the muck and mire of powerlessness.

Isn't that exactly what the enemy wants? He finds ways to occupy my mental space so that my capacity for life, my ability to respond lovingly, my patience, my joy, and my grace are suffocated and left breathless in the crowded space of the enemy's demise.

He's sneaky too. He uses people like pawns on a chessboard cornering you until you start to squeal. But they are just pawns. I still have the freedom to move but I have to choose to move. I have to fight through the darkness that wants to permeate the very atmosphere around me. I have to choose not to be suffocated. I have to choose to be free.

Remember this if the Holy Spirit isn't convicting you don't let a human being condemn you. The enemy uses shame, condemnation and guilt to paralyze you. God moves in conviction, redemption and repentance. Seek him alone.

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." ~Romans 8:1

The battle for your mental space will be an ongoing fight every day. The enemy wants to occupy your mind with feelings of inadequacy and bulldoze over the real you. He uses every lie he can to keep you blinded from Gods truth. He's constantly bombarding your mind with ways you have to be good enough, strong enough, smart enough, beautiful enough, etc. whatever lie works for you is the one he uses to ensnare you.

But you can be free from the ongoing mental battle. You can walk free. You can even be empowered to live free. It's your choice. No one can choose for you because no one has access to your mind except you. You get to choose an empowered life or enslaved life with every thought you choose to dwell on.

"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." ~2 Corinthians 10:3-5

We are called to actively take our thoughts captive and make them obedient to Christ. Choosing to honor him and deny access to any thought that would lead us away from him. Philippians 4:8 is the best test for your thoughts. Every thought you think needs to pass the 4:8 test to stay. And not just one aspect, all 8. If it doesn't pass, it's got to go.

Is it true? Is it noble? Is it right? Is it lovely? Is it admirable? Is it excellent? Is it praiseworthy?

If your thought doesn't align with these eight characteristics, you must take it captive and make it obedient to Christ. At first, it will be hard, maybe even grueling, but as you make it a discipline, you will watch yourself be set free, and your mental space will increase with the capacity to adhere to the Truth and live the life God has called you to live.

Choose today to take back your mental space. We have developed a new booklet that will help you do just that. Five women have shared how the enemy tried to enslave them with thoughts of not being enough. Today each one lives empowered because they chose to break free from the endless cycle of negative thinking. They chose to take back their mind and be empowered for Gods glory.

You may find yourself in the pages of this booklet as you read stories of women who are just like you. Fighting to be free in a world that wants to enslave them. Taking a stand against the true enemy and declaring as a daughter of God you have no right to occupy my mental space Satan. Your tricks are done working with me. I'm free. I choose to live free. I choose the empowered life in Jesus Christ alone!

I will embrace my journey of freedom and take back every square centimeter your ugly nasty thoughts found space to occupy. I'm evicting you today. Here's your notice. You have no right to live here anymore. Pack your bags and go back to hell. You messed with the wrong woman. I've got my butt kicking boots on and I'm kicking you out. The next time you come to play I'll be ready. I'll stand firm in who I am and who I'm called to be. You don't get to define me. My Savior defines me. He says I'm worthy. I'm loved. I have purpose. I am precious. I am called. I'm chosen, accepted, and redeemed! I am FREE!

"The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)." ~John 10:10 (AMPC)

Where you thought you had me and were about destroy me, you were wrong. Jesus came to give me life and to give it to me in abundance. It's never been about me being good enough. It's always been Him. He was enough for me. His power truly is made perfect in my weakness.

I am Sarah. Daughter of the King. Warrior in Gods army. I'm battle ready. Let's go!!!!

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