How well do you run your emotional and spiritual programs?
You are a spirit that lives in a body and the Holy Spirit lives in there with you. Your spirit (you) and the Holy Spirit are in charge of running a biblically-healthy emotional and spiritual program. That means your spirit is in charge of running your brain. This is how I see it. Your brain is a processor of information. It has lots and lots of memories.
Your life mission is to run your brain consistent with spiritual and emotional truths. Your childhood is not perfect. You picked up some confused identity, shame, guilt, unworthiness, etc. To deal with this emotional bent, you picked up some coping and surviving behaviors. They include; sarcasm, worry, jealousy, negativity, control, pleasing, etc.
We are told the Holy Spirit has the ability to make old things new again. How does change occur? Here’s one step in the change process. You (the spirit inside the body) and the Holy Spirit must have a meeting. In that meeting, you decide if you want to continue to run the coping, surviving program you developed in your childhood. If the answer is yes, you stay the same. If the answer is no, you move to prayer and small steps of transformation. You and the Holy Spirit tell your brain, “We are making a change! We will be practicing less coping, surviving, and bad emotional skills. We are moving to increase our peace, rest, and joy.”
Again, this is just step one in the change process.
Prayer
Father, help me change. I know how to cope, survive, and practice bad emotional skills. I want to grow past coping and surviving. Please help me. I want my spirit and the Holy Spirit to run my brain better than I have ever run it before. I make you Lord of my brain. And, I now say to my brain, “Release my old negative, coping, surviving, and bad emotional skills. Embrace and receive the gifts of the Father that include peace, rest, and joy. Amen.
Bible Insight
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. – Romans 12:2 (NIV)