Lesson 24: Taking Thoughts Captive
Questions 1 and 2
Welcome back to the A United Front course!
In lesson 23, we began a study dealing with the matter of trust and the proper way to approach this issue in a gospel-centered marriage. Today, we will continue our study with a focus on how to deal with troublesome thoughts that get lodged in our minds.
After I discovered my husband’s impurity, I was distressed by all manner of fearful, angry, confused, and sad thoughts. I wondered about where my husband was and what he was doing when he wasn’t with me. I feared that he was going to leave our family and me. I felt betrayed and unloved.
Question 1. Please share any recurrent troubling thoughts that you have had/are having.
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Dear friend, our mind is a battleground. The evil one does all he can to attack us in our minds because how we think affects how we act (Proverbs 23:7). If we can be distracted from Christ and encouraged to focus on our pain and our fears, then the devil can make progress toward the destruction of our marriage. But there is a way to fight back!
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NIV) guides us:
“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
All believers are at war, but we do not fight as the world does. We fight with divine powered weapons!
Question 2. According to 2 Corinthians 10:4 NIV, what do these divine weapons demolish?