Thank you so much for joining me on this challenge. I believe that what God has done for me during this challenge, He will do for you. I have a clarity of mind that I have never experienced. He’s truly a good Father who has our best interests at heart.
I had no idea just how complex the mind is till we started this challenge. Apparently, the mind is so complex that not even psychologists can fully comprehend it. The only one who can is God, because He created it. However, Satan knows that our minds are powerful and that by attacking our minds, he is able to destroying us. So he works very hard to ensure that this is the case.
However, God wants to redeem us and His word that He tells us that he can and will (but we must be willing ) transform us through the renewal of our minds (Romans 12:2).
Today, we finish up on part 2 of this challenge that runs from day 15-28.
Day 15: Unbelief
- Do you believe that:
Jesus Christ is the son of God? He died and rose again for our sins to be forgiven? Our Father sent us the Holy Spirit to be our help? He’s a good and Faithful God? That He’s the Alpha and Omega? He will never leave us nor forsake us? He will fulfill ALL the promises that He has made to you?
- Today, let’s critically evaluate our spiritual growth and check our level of believe in Him. Maybe you once believed but things happens and you left the faith, or you just do not believe in Him at all. Ask the Holy Spirit to stir a fire in you once more for Him, a fire that cannot be quenched.
- We will learn to completely surrender to Him and stop limiting Him
- Repent for doubting God.
I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. – Psalms 27:13
Day 16: Committing our Thoughts to Him
- We commit our plans, thoughts, minds, everything about us to Him.
- Repentance for wicked thoughts & plan that we have harboured.
- Ask Him to purify our thoughts as He deals with and removes the wicked thoughts.
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. – Psalms 37:5
Day 17: Cultivating an attitude of thanksgiving
- Give thanks to the Lord for all that He has done.
- Everyday, find something to be grateful for. This helps us to develop an attitude of gratitude.
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.-1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 New King James Version (NKJV)
Day 18: Mental Disorders and Illnesses – Drug & Substance Abuse
- Repentance for abuse of any drug abuse whether knowingly or unknowingly including prescription drug abuse, inhalants, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, dissociatives and opioids.
- Name the drug/alcohol consumed one by one
- If struggling with any addiction, pray for the release from this.
- Ask the Lord to show you the legal ground that Satan has through this addiction and deliver you from the strongman behind the addiction.
- Pray that you overcome the cravings and withdrawal symptoms as a result of stopping usage.
- Invite the Holy Spirit to help you overcome it.
But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. – Luke 21:34
Day 19: Mental Disorders and Illnesses – Anxiety Disorders
- Ask the Lord to deliver us from fear and anxiety.
- Rebuke the spirit of fear that is usually behind anxiety.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. – Philippians 4:6
Day 20: Mental Disorders and Illnesses – Depression and Mood Disorders
- Put on the garment of praise according to Isaiah 61:3
- As you praise Him, call on Him to to free your mind
- And release you from the spirit of depression and any other mood disorder (the spirit of heaviness)
- Trust that he is a healer as Jehovah Rapha and you will no longer continue to take medication because of depression and moods as you ask Him to heal you.
To console those who mourn in Zion,To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.- Isaiah 61:3
Day 21: Mental Disorders and Illnesses – Trauma & Stressor Related Disorder
- Trauma is due to various reasons such as bereavement, acute stress, PTSD, childhood trauma.
- Acknowledge that you are struggling with trauma and release it to Him.
- Pour your heart out to Him and accept the Holy Spirit’s comfort.
- Allow Him to heal you.
Day 22: Mental Disorders and Illnesses – Sleep Disorders
- Some examples of sleep disorders are insomnia, daytime sleepiness, constantly being fatigued and all you want to do is sleep.
- Today, we rebuke the enemy who has been stealing our sleep in the name of Jesus.
- We declare that as we get a good night’s rest we will encounter God in our dreams (Job 33:15)
- Rebuke the spirit of drowsiness and fatigue as we pray for the release from them.
- We declare from today henceforth, we will wake up with minds that are well rested as a result of a good night’s rest and that we will be alert throughout the day.
It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows;For so He gives His beloved sleep. – Psalms 127:2
Day 23: Mental Disorders and Illnesses – Personality Disorders
- Repentance for trying to change our personality in order for us to fit in or because we felt that we would be more accepted if we were “different” .
- Ask Him to help us accept ourselves the way that He made us.
- Ask Him to help us overcome self-condemnation for there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. – Romans 8:1
Day 24: Sexual Addiction
- Repentance for consuming pornographic material and environments that have caused us to struggle with lustful thoughts and sexual addiction.
- Repentance for any unnatural sexual act committed e.g. lust, fornication and adultery, homosexuality, bestiality etc. Name the addiction that you are struggling with.
- Ask the Lord to show you the legal ground that Satan has through this addiction and deliver you from the strongman behind the addiction.
- Invite the Holy Spirit to help you overcome it.
Day 25: Ushering in a new season
- As we come to the last week of this challenge, believe and declare that you are now in a new season of your life.
- Declare that the old has gone and the new is now here.
- Thank God for the new season you have entered into with a transformed mind. Thank Him for the new heights that He is taking you into.
Day 26: Check yourself, what are you feeding?
- What are you feeding your mind? Evaluate yourself and check if Jesus is the one who is always in your mind or you are occupied with other things.
- Be intentional on the kind of entertainment that you consume. Throw out those movies and music that is filling your mind with wickedness.
- Repent for focusing on everything else except God.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. – Matthew 6:21
Day 27: What is my purpose?
- We are asking God to reveal His purpose to us, especially for those who are yet to find out their divine purpose.
- For those that do know their purpose but its not very clear, ask Him to give you clarity.
- Repentance whereby we may have fallen in the course of pursuing our purpose.
- Ask Him to order our steps as we pursue our purpose.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations. – Jeremiah 1:5
Day 28: Thanksgiving
- Give thanks to the Lord for what He has done in this last 28 days and for sustaining us despite the challenges encountered.
- Thank Him for healing and restoring your mind and breaking the hold that the enemy has had.
- Thank Him for the new beginning and the transformation that He has done.
- Thank Him that in His kindness and mercy that has revealed to us things that we didn’t know that had affected us.
The LORD lives! Praise to my Rock! May God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted! – 2 Samuel 22:47
God bless you Rhoda.
Thank you dear for the support.