Popular Christian speaker and author Joyce Meyer says there are times when it's easy for her to hear God speak and listen to Him without any difficulty. However, there are times when worry and anxiety plague her and she finds it difficult to focus on God.
Meyer knows the latter is wrong, because Christians should not let themselves be consumed with worry. "The Bible says we are to walk by faith and not by sight," Meyer writes on her website. "When we worry, we are not walking in faith and trusting God."
For a long period in Meyer's life, she had a critical, suspicious, and judgmental mind. It might seem like a normal way for non-believers to think, but Meyer says it's wrong for Christians to think that way.
"For years, I had no awareness that my wrong thinking was causing any problems. Because no one had taught me, I didn't know I could do anything to change my thought life. It simply had not occurred to me. No one had taught me about the proper condition for the believer's mind. God offers us a new way to think and a new way to live," she says.
It was only when Meyer read 1 Corinthians 2:16 that the truth slowly dawned on her. The verse reads, "For who can know the Lord's thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him? But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ."
Meyer explains that the verse does not call on Christians to be sinless or perfect just like Christ. What it does mean is that Christians have the ability to think loving and caring thoughts because they have Christ's mind.
"If we have His mind, we think on those things that are good and honourable and loving," she says. And try as Satan might to sow hate and confusion on the minds of God's children, his attacks will always be defeated, she adds.
