Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me!

Remember that little saying? If you look closely at that you can see it's talking about strongholds in our life. You know, things people say to you that hurts your feelings and leaves a strong hold on you in your mind, (holds your mind captive to it). The devil likes to keep reminding you what they said. Like a tape recorder, over and over again, he tells you until you become what you think.

"For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he"...Basic Bible.

This is where you 'cast' those thoughts down, (throw them out of your mind). But you can't stop there. You have to put something else (another thought) back in to replace it. Those thoughts should be truth. God's Word.

2 Cor. 10:5 "Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing that is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ." Basic Bible

Cleaning house in your mind is like cleaning house in the natural. It doesn't take long before it's cluttered again. You have to be disciplined and not get lazy to keep the house clean. Constantly picking up, throwing things out, basic cleaning to getting your house right.
Same with your mind. Pick yourself up and know who you are in Christ(knowing who you are in Christ means knowing what the Bible says about you). Throw, I said throw those hurtful things out and replace them with lovely, lovable things (Phil. 4:8) and get your mind, your heart right with God!

Your Keyword Might Be the Answer to Your Behavior!

Have you ever googled something,a word? You type a word in or a subject that you're wanting to know more about and google comes up with all info on it. Good or bad. Typing that subject in is a 'seed'. It's your thought. Now if you start looking at all the negative things on this subject, it will give you a negative attitude towards it. If you have your thoughts on the negative, what's going to happen? You will start doing negative, destructive things in reaction to your thoughts(your seed). Sort of like, you think "I'm mad at Susy,cause of what she said to me the other day!" If you think it long enough, you show it towards that person next time you see them. Your thought life is like googling something. A word, a thought, a person, etc. comes to your mind. Kinda like a computer you have to program your mind to think what God would think, His Words, thoughts and plans.

2 Cor.10:5 We refute arguments and theories and reasoning's and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the {true} knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed one).