Guard your mind… Because once you catch a thought of offence, it very quickly has the potential to affect your attitude because it attacks your emotions and then you end up living by how you “feel”… instead of what you “know to be true” making you a victim of your own circumstance.

But being a victim of your own judgment call, can make you your own worst enemy! That’s right! A victim mentality can trickle down and outward within your life, causing havoc within your relationships, workplace, finances, almost every aspect as it flows out to others. Your life becomes defined by your self-centered victimization that it essentially blind you from the good in life, from the joy in life that you could be living daily.

Becoming our own worst enemy, it’s not something any of us intentionally strive to do, it just kind of happens in life.

Life is full of disappointments. Very early on, we may find that life can be a cruel place with others placing judgment upon us, offering us ridicule, and even sometimes mistreating us… perhaps because they are hurting deep down inside and to fill their void they hurt others.

We may be just caught off guard, finding ourselves and very challenging and uncomfortable situations, relationships, and low points in life. But we don’t have to stay there! We don’t have to be the victim!

Catching a thought, can be very contagious as it could be widespread amongst groups of people, collective, like a common belief, mindset, or practice of behavior. We may be misinformed and end up, believing the unbelievable, Personally taking the hat thinking we need to stay there.

It would be wise to be very careful, meaning being alert of the company you and I keep so we don’t catch a negative thought! A negative thought can be contagious. A negative thought can be cancerous as it spreads, devouring our peace, leaving us bewildered and bitter.

We must be aware of even what we look at, whether it be in person or online sites, and especially social media. We need to guard our eyes and ears, as well as our mouth, because we should not want to voice Negativity because words have power ; words have some power within your life and you can control what you see, listen to, speak, as well as do.

Whatever you hear, you can choose whether you’re going to listen to it or not. Whatever you’re exposed to, if it is not beneficial or good, you have the power to choose to just stand there or walk.

When you have faith in a higher power to help you, a Divine power they can guide you as well as comfort you you realize you’re not alone in this. By believing God has you, is with you, guiding you, comforting you, and has a plan for you in your life start listening to what God says who you are instead of what people may think of you. By standing firm in your faith, whenever you catch a negative thought, it’s much easier to let it just pass on by, in one ear and right out the other so to speak, instead of believing lies, that the enemy of all time lays traps for people to fall in.

Because a negative thought can become so powerful, it will surely press down upon you and infiltrate your entire life, in attempts to steal your joy, momentarily, and sometimes infinitely changing who you are, and who you were made to be.

In addition, whenever we judge others, we set ourselves up by universal law that will cause us to be judged as well, because down deep it is what we judge within our own inner talk.

If your moral code, by what you both consciously and unconsciously bring upon and judge yourself on, for instance, something that you may feel shame about, you then tend to hold others by the same code. This is our own law within our head; perhaps trickled down to us from others at a very impressing and formable age… growing up, taking in what other people do, how they act, what they say, and how they respond to difficult challenges.

In a sense, we grow up learning the wrong way to be… though we were born to be free from all that, serving others with our own unique specific gifts and talents, which brings not only help, hope & joy to others, but real joy within our own hearts, that we can live daily by.

We surely don’t want to be judged by others, with the same thing as we judge ourselves by, but we inadvertently bring it upon ourselves, once we place that judgment upon someone else.

Just like the Bible says in Matthew 7:5, when we place judgment upon somebody else, we need to first remove the log out of our own eyes before trying to take the spec out of somebody else’s. In other words, we need to see clearly first, because our judgment of someone else will fall back on us, sometimes; so we had better be sure to not have unrighteous judgment because it will come back on us, whether we are aware of it or not.

It’s like when you sense a wave of negativity flow from one person to the next. It’s like when you see the way anger becomes contagious and when someone’s anger flows onto the next person and then the next. It’s also the same as when you see the flow of something good such as a smile, causing a person to smile.

If you come upon a situation where there is anger and wrath just know that a soft word is more likely to turn it away rather than a reactive trigger caused by an offense, further causing a reactive negative response…and we know that two negatives do not make a positive especially when it comes to building relationships.

So guard your mind and take charge of your emotions, bringing everything into subjection, and bring everything to Christ Jesus. He knows and He understands. He will give us a way out as we trust in Him.

Try not to be so easily offended, easily triggered, though offense could be great, and try to see the situation from a different vantage point.

Try to see the person in your battleground before you, through your heart, seeing where they’re coming from, a place of hurt and great pain.

It will change your outlook as well as your outcome.

In other words, just as you would catch a virus, you could also catch a thought that will change your behavior unbecomingly and that will change your whole feeling and mood within you as you may swell up with all kinds of negative symptoms via negative thoughts.

Such emotions as insecurity, jealousy, unrighteous judgment, anger, hurt feelings, covetousness, bitterness, resentment, and even comparing yourself to others, as well as many more, just set you up for a fall.

Negative emotions are capable of manipulating your mind, to the point of even having past hurts, regrets, unforgiveness, resentments, and more rule you, as you become their slave.

Even those negative emotions and hurts that you thought were forgiven, forgotten and moved past from, somehow resurface to the forefront of your mind, at times, with familiar triggers. Something you thought was long forgotten suddenly shows up again, unwarranted and unwanted, but like a full-fledged attack! These are weakness for you, but know that within your weakness, God strength will shine through and hold you up, if you let Him.

These are the times we need to get back under the mighty hand of God. We need to get back under his Heavenly kingdom of light. We need to go to God in prayer immediately whether it be our war room, bathroom, or car.

Wherever we are, we can see God’s helping hand in our life’s circumstances if we really seek Him…because don’t forget the enemy prowls around, seeking whom to devour.

Don’t be devoured by a negative thought that could potentially and very destructively disrupt, and even ruin your whole life.

In addition, don’t compare yourself with others because everybody has their own struggle, whether they’re letting you know it or not. And what we see online is not always real. Everybody puts their best out there, including filtered and edited pictures, which obscures their glass houses.

Whenever we compare our own life with somebody else’s, we really don’t know their journey, nor do we know all the struggles they are experiencing no matter how good the grass looks on their side. We don’t see the hot coals that are stepped on daily, because we are blinded by our own.

And we cannot, we must not, compare our successes, or the lack there of, even if they’re close to us because it could just cause inner turmoil and strife.

God has everything perfectly matched out for each of us, for you. Just listen to His soft voice and follow what God says, despite catching a thought of something else.

Just remember in Romans 8:28 of the Bible it says that, God causes all things to work together for good for those who love God, for those who are the called according to His purpose.

Whenever you just start to catch a negative thought, get it out of your mind as quick as you can! Kick it out immediately and don’t give it a second thought!

Instead, grab ahold of a better thought, a positive thought! For instance, instead of catching a negative thought of being competitive with somebody and perhaps a little jealous of them…right away, kick the negative thought out of your mind and think of a pleasant thought instead.

Hold fast to a grateful thought, a blessed thought, and thank God giving glory to God for Him blessing you so much! Thank God for all that you do have, and are blessed with.

Though your “feelings” maybe telling you differently, lying to you even, causing real physical symptoms, try saying out-loud “thank you” to God, because none of us are deserving of His most precious gift.

He gave to us, Jesus…God incarnate, freeing us from all these negative thoughts, freeing us, and forgiving us for all our sins, all our wrongs and blessing us with both mercy and grace…mercy that He did not give us what we truly deserve and grace that He gave us life eternal, blessings upon blessings as well as true gifts, and pleasures within this lifetime.

Say Thank You to the Lord for the blessings of what just happened, because God will use it for good as there is nothing ever wasted!

Even in the tough times, we need to try to find joy in the moment, because “I am sure of this, He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion. – Philippians 1:6

Thank the Lord and be grateful for what just happened and happy for the other person involved because God will work in them as well, as we grow from the experience.

Be grateful of what is shared with you, and that you can share in their joy if joyful and in their sorrow if sorrowful, in Jesus’ name Amen.

We can even be grateful for the frustrations, the aggravations and very trying times that have the potential to incite us, because we can go to God and trust in Him to get us through, to help us with the struggle, birthing some good out of it all; something that we have yet to see.

We can choose to praise God for the test and temptation of the enemy, and let it become a testimony!

Praise God for your mess and your stress and realize just how actually blessed you truly are!

Praise God, for turning your trial into a triumph. You got this because of God and you triumphed over this trial… because God wins, and has already won!

The Bible says, “God causes all things to work together for good for those who love God for those who are the called according to His purpose” – Romans 8:28 and “God restores the years the locusts have eaten!”- Joel 2:25 Don’t let them feed on you any longer!

Remember, though we are hard pressed on every side yet we (you) are not crushed! 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

Thanks be to God!

Just be authentic! Just be the real you who you were made to be.

Share your experiences, your tests, your temptations, your messes, your trials, your never ending challenges! It very well may help others going through the same or similar thing.

Share how we can build each other up instead of tearing each other down.

Share your experiences!

Share how you broke down and you went to God & saw Him work in your life!

Be real, be honest, again be the real you who God made you to be.

Be you, perfectly, and most wonderfully made by the hand of God, filled with a treasure inside for something that is just for you in your life; something that is bigger than you.

It is a gift from God, because you were made for such a Time as this, in Jesus’s name I do declare and receive in Jesus name, Amen!

Praise God as I write this, it is revealed to me the different times that I’ve added to this as with all my writings they’re all very pertinent, because God is orchestrating everything and working everything together like the trials and tribulations, everything!

All the little bits and pieces of a lifetime thus far are all part of the puzzle, the puzzle of my life. Likewise, all the bits and pieces that happened in your life are all part of the puzzle of your life.

Can you see God‘s hand move? Can you see somewhere in your life looking back that things turned out even though you had no idea how?

Praise God and enjoy living in His blessing, while finding joy in the journey.

How do you find joy in the moment that you are in the middle of, you may wonder? By trusting God, every step of the way, no matter how tough, no matter how vulnerable you may feel.

We just need to trust and know that God is Almighty. He is sovereign and in control. God is Holy!

There is an eternity that awaits for each of us so as we are being conformed to His image by being Christlike and behaving as Jesus would, we get to understand love more deeply. We get to experience and also share agape love, an unconditional love that is selfless, rather than selfish, and we can truly love others as we would ourselves.

We can love God, because He first loved us. You can love Him with all your heart, soul, mind & strength, and begin to truly live… and therefore, live a life truly fulfilled!

That is true success in life.

God is always working in you, sanctifying you, and renewing a right spirit within you.

Share your light that God has given you with the world and let them see Light through their darkness, as it pierces through.

But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and lifter up of mine head. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. Psalm 3:3-4