I read a book sometime ago and I was intrigued from the start to the end. I remember going online to make more research about the writer because I was totally consumed by the burning knowledge in that book. The name of the writer is Joyce Meyer. The book is titled the BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND. Personally, I’ll advise everyone to read this book but then it will only make more sense if you believe in God and the Bible.
Prior to when I read this book, I wasn’t really a reader but I know I was interested in reading whenever I can. I just finished my exam and I thought that was just the perfect time to finally read the book that has always been lying on the reading table that belongs to my roommate’s sister. The title of the book drew me to it and I was very sure I was going to learn so much from it even before reading through.
I started by reading about the author and that was the first great push to read her book. Joyce was a woman that has gone through a lot of molestation and more as a little girl and she grew up with this certain kind of mindset that limited her in so many ways. It wasn’t her fault, she met life at a wrong place growing up and that formed most of her beliefs, principles and ideas as she grew into a woman. According to her, it wasn’t easy for her at all wading off those mindset that has been made due to what she has experienced in life.
It was just beautiful that someone like her wrote a book like that. According to her, she had a lot of excuses to stay the way she was but she knew accepting her battles and winning them was only going to make her life and that of her family better. Joyce was able to meet the right person that helped her realize that everything she has faced and she’s facing are affecting who she currently is now because she is yet to conquer the battle that has been waged in her mind due to what she has faced as a little girl.
This was because the mind was actually where the battlefield is. She was guided and with time, she was able to start working on her mind and things started improving greatly for her and her marriage also got better.
When it comes to becoming better, most times we put in effort in so many areas of our lives to become the best we can and somehow we ignore the mind. Well, that’s why we still get defeated no matter how much we try. Why? Because the mind is where the battle is waged. That’s where it all goes down. The first way to win any battle, is winning the battle of the mind. We all grew up with different ideas and beliefs which were bore as a result of the things we have experienced and learned from the people and our environment.
These ideas most times are not the best ones for us but then we see them as okay because we’ve had them for as long as we can remember. And our minds act in a really interesting way, it almost doesn’t forget. It keeps those baggage you’ve lied to yourself to have let go off until that day when it reminds you of it. The mind is a part of us that no matter how smart we are, we just can’t lie to and the reason is simple, the mind is a part of us. You can’t lie to yourself (so it’s your mind that is the part of you that you can’t actually lie to). It saves what we really think deep down. It keeps the lies we tell ourselves at the surface to keep us at ease but there will be a day of reckoning.
For us to keep the flame burning, the first step is accepting whatever it is that our minds have somehow saved deep down. Acceptance is the first step to renewal. It’s always going to be hard the more you keep denying who you are when deep down you know that’s who you are. The only way to truly change is to accept you for you and then you can work on building and refining yourself. That’s how the reborn happens and then you can start feeling your flame truly burning even without needing so much support.
Even if you don’t remember anything that I have said since, don’t forget this, “THE MIND IS WHERE THE BATTLE IS WAGED”. You do not need physical weapons to win most, if not all your battles. The true battle is happening in your mind.
I hope your flame is ignited!