You need your light in your mental closet. You need to be able to see what is before you, so that you can recognize when evil is trying to enter your mind. If you can't control your mind, then your heart will believe lies and your tongue will start to speak evil. It is important to work with the Holy Spirit to take control of what is uniquely yours: your body, mind, and soul.
Self-control is a skill that has to be learned and developed. It starts with lessons on how to act from your parents and teachers. Once you get saved, it is the Holy Spirit that directs you. Once He is involved then it becomes more personal. It becomes internalized giving it more meaning to life.
Satan is sneaky. He wants to get past all your guards to show God that He could. You are only a pawn in Satan's game, but you mean a lot to God. That is why God provided the Bible to help you know how to resist and remove Satan from your mental closet.
It takes time to learn God's voice from all other voices you hear. It take discernment to learn your inner voice from Satan's voice because he mimics yours. You knew Satan's voice before you really learned God's voice. Once you can tell what is your voice, God's voice, and Satan's voice you are able to do what you need to tune into God's voice.
When you do listen to Satan, he will steal your confidence, peace, truth, joy, and so much more. He always takes more than you are willing to give. It is better to resist and pay a small price (momentary happiness) than to give into his schemes and lose yourself in the process. Satan's voice may feel familiar, but is only brings chaos, misery, and trouble into your life.
Satan's voice is loud and chaotic, but it only leaves confusion and distress. Stop listening to lies. Forcibly remove them from your mental closet. Be alert to the voice of the Holy Spirit that brings peace and stillness to your mental closet. Embrace the truth that His is telling you. The truth will empower you to get rid of words like idiot, worthless, ugly, useless, and more toxic words from your mental closet.
Your can't control the thoughts that come to you, but you can control feeding them. You can acknowledge and identify them as lies, then move on. Or you can accept them and put them into your mental closet to mess up your life. Lies will assault your mind pushing you further from the truth until you finally embrace them to the point of sinning. It is dangerous not to learn self-control.
Psalm 119:105-112, John 10:6-10, 14:23-26, Romans 15:14-19, 2 Corinthians 4:5-6, & 1 Peter 5:8-9
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