Today’s New Covenant nugget is from Philippians 4:8 (AMP)
Believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart]
Maintaining an anointed mindset is paramount to living the abundant life successfully from victory to victory. Your ‘mind’ is part of your ‘soul’ (mind, will and emotions) and the prosperity of your soul is a catalyst for all other prosperity.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (The Voice) says, “The weapons of the war we’re fighting are not of this world but are powered by God and effective at tearing down the strongholds erected against His truth. We are demolishing arguments and ideas, every high-and-mighty philosophy that pits itself against the knowledge of the one true God. We are taking prisoners of every thought, every emotion, and subduing them into obedience to the Anointed One.”
We have to take every thought and every emotion captive to the anointing… in other words, maintain an anointed mindset. When your mindset (your thoughts and your emotions) are saturated in the anointing, you are continually releasing the anointing over your thought life and your emotions. That anointing eithers fuels life into a victory mindset, or destroys deceptive thinking, toxic thoughts and toxic emotions.
Dr. Caroline Leaf is a born-again, Spirit filled woman of God. She is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input. I highly recommend all of her books.
According to Dr Caroline Leaf, 75% to 95% of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we think about affects us physically and emotionally. It's an epidemic of toxic thoughts and emotions. Toxic thoughts and emotions create the conditions for illness; we make ourselves sick! Research shows that fear, all on its own, triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses and activates more than 30 different hormones. Change in your thinking is essential to detox the brain.
This means that if toxic thoughts and emotions can cause such havoc, then how much more will anointed thoughts and emotions cause health, success, prosperity and abundant living?
How do I maintain an anointed mindset?
Firstly, maintaining an anointed mindset begins with ensuring that you are full of the Word… a mind that is not full of the Word cannot maintain the anointing in thought, in attitude or emotionally. Taking the time to study, to meditate, to make scriptural declarations and to listen to the anointed preaching and teaching of the Word each and every day is key.
Secondly, with a mind that is full of the Word, just say a simple prayer at the beginning of each day while doing communion, “Holy Spirit, anoint my mind today, pour out your anointing on all of my thoughts, all of my emotions, and on every attitude, in Jesus Name! I bring every thought, every emotion, and every attitude captive to the obedience of Christ, His Word and His anointing all day long, in Jesus Name!” After praying, stand in faith that by grace through faith, you will maintain an anointed, victory mindset all day, in Jesus Name!
In His amazing love, Nick
