In Perfect Peace • Daily Devo #321
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. - Isaiah 26:3 KJV
The Message For Today (September 28, 2025):
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There is a war going on every single day. Day and night, there is a battle, and in this battle, the prize is your mind. The prize of this war is your thoughts. Because this battle is waging day and night, it may seem like your thoughts are random or that things just happen all of a sudden, that there was no indication of what someone was thinking, but the truth of the matter is, there is a battle going on and this war has been going on since the fall of Satan from the heavens to now.
This war is the war for your peace and the war for your faith, both rooted in what and how you think. Throughout scripture, we see the indications of the power of thought. The scripture that states, As a man thinketh, so is he (Proverbs 23:7), that is one. Another says, Guard your hearts, for the issues of life come from it (Proverbs 4:23). To write the word of God on your heart that you may not sin against God (Psalm 119:11).
There are so many indications of the power of thought and how we, as believers, can take hold of our thoughts. We can take them captive in the name of Jesus. This is how powerful they are. There is a scripture in 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 that tells us that we can take these thoughts captive to Jesus. We don’t need to let them run amok. We don’t need to let them run around. We can take them captive and change them.
We can decide what to think on, which we saw in Daily Devotional 320. In this scripture, in Isaiah 26:3, there is an indisputable word that says that God will keep us in perfect peace if we keep our minds on Him. Keeping your mind on Jesus, keeping your mind on God, and keeping your mind on the greater things in life, the pure things, the joyful things, keeping your mind on these things come with promises that are in the scripture.
They’re littered throughout the word, intentionally structured for your day-to-day. This is how powerful your thoughts are. They can keep you in perfect peace, or they can cause you to be full of worry and fear. This is the power of the thoughts that you think. And the average person is thinking thousands of times a day. So recent studies have shown that you have about 6,000 thoughts per day.
The old quotes were around 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Your mind is constantly moving. It is constantly flowing. So what you put inside your heart, what you put inside of your ear, and the things that you think about all have power. The music you listen to and the movies you entertain; there is so much that comes forth when you are intentional about thinking on the things of God.
When you decide that your thoughts will become the weapon that creates your life, you begin to get intentional about what you speak over your heart, what you speak over your life, how you approach your day, what you think about, and who you entertain. Everything changes. The gossiper, we don’t entertain them anymore. The person who was always negative, we don’t spend a lot of time with them.
We may pray for them, but we do not willingly sit and engage in negative speak, negative talk. The Bible tells us that when we sit in the counsel of the ungodly, that we are willingly endangering ourselves. So Psalm 1:1 in the King James Version states,
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. - Psalm 1:1 KJV
So yes, we can pray for them, that doesn’t mean we have to be with them, or stand in the counsel of, or listen to any negative talk and negative speech. When we decide to intentionally spend our time with Jesus, to delight ourselves in Christ Jesus, we are opening the door for our hearts and minds to line up with His word. We are now actively engaging in the battlefield of the mind. We are now co-creating with Christ Jesus.
When we read His word over ourselves, our homes, our hearts and minds, when we decide that we will go to war versus allowing our thoughts to be whatever they’re going to be, we become intentional believers who can begin to see things shift. So we see in Psalm 1:2, it states:
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. -Psalm 1:2 KJV
Which goes towards the scripture in Joshua 1:8, which we all know so well. And it states:
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. - Joshua 1:8 KJV
This is the glory of the Lord. This is God giving you the key. If you’d like to know the secret, the secret to success, the secret to seeing things change, the secret to seeing doors open, and the secret to walking in faith, it’s easy.
What are you thinking?
Are you consciously aware of a lot of your thoughts day in and day out?
What are you thinking?
How are you thinking? When something happens, is your first reaction to look at the negative, or is your first reaction to immediately look for the silver lining? Because you’ve trained your mind and your thoughts to look for Jesus, even in the most difficult situations, to look for the light, even when it feels like there is nothing but darkness. How are you thinking and what are you thinking?
The moment you can determine these things, we can determine why you are where you are and why you are in situations you are in, and why some relationships are not successful. You can determine why. There’s a grace and a glory that come forth when you can see yourself fully, assess those thoughts, and apply the word to them.
We can strategically move the needle in our lives when we actively say, Yes, we are going to take part in this battle. We’re going to pick up the weapons of our warfare, which are not carnal, and we’re going to pull down
every stronghold that is keeping us trapped,
every stronghold that is keeping us in cycles,
every stronghold that is causing us to war with our children,
every stronghold that is coming between me and my marriage,
every stronghold that is coming against your financial growth.
These are strongholds that can be torn down with the weapons of our warfare. These weapons are prayer, fasting, singing, and worshiping God. These weapons are you being grateful, you coming to his throne with thanksgiving in your heart and the blessing of the word on your lips. What you speak and what you decree. Even in the most difficult situation, the woman who decides to speak life is going to war, and that war does not require one natural weapon.
There’s not a fist, not a pencil, not a letter you can write to whoever the party may be. When you decide to speak life in your heart and out of your mouth and when you decide to decree life in what looks like dead, difficult, dangerous situations, you are commanding the atmosphere to shift, and you are telling your mind that there is always a way out. You’re telling your heart not to give up.
You’re becoming resilient, and you are utilizing the word as the weapon that God intended it to be; the double-edged word that cleaves soul from spirit. This is the word of the Lord. This is what we need to get into. These are the thoughts that we can begin to shift and change, and release in our lives.
God is more than able, but we must be ready to come into agreement with his word, and we must be ready to have a transformed mind that we may spring forth and see the glory of God, that we may see doors open, and that we may see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you: Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you. Thank you that the mighty woman of God is ready. I thank you, God, for the shifting she’s stepping into this morning. I thank you, God, that ways are being made. Lord, please have your way, king of glory, over the mighty woman of God. Break down every stronghold, God.
Lord, let the catalyst today be prayer and fasting. Lord, I pray that the mighty woman of God would be ready to shift intentionally, strategically into the woman you called her to be. I thank you, God, for the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Please, God, break every stronghold. Tear down every wall.
Lord, I thank you that you’re uprooting every seed of the enemy and that new words, new thoughts, a renewed mind, hallelujah, a renewed spirit is being planted in its place because this is your daughter, oh God. She is ready, oh God, to see something new. This is your child, oh God, and you are a good, good father.
I thank you, Lord God, for being a keeper. I thank you, God, for being Jehovah. I thank you, God, that all that we need you’ve already provided, that you are good, oh God, that you knew we’d be here before we knew, before we got here, God. This does not surprise you, Lord God. So I thank you, God, that the Bible says in Psalm 46:1, that you are a very present help in a time of trouble. That is because you are, oh God, you are a very present help.
So, Lord, I thank you for being the I am the I am. I thank you for being the God who created the universe and everything in it. I thank you, oh God, for being Alpha and Omega, there in the beginning, calling us already from the end. I give you glory, oh God, that the mighty woman of God will answer that call with yes, that she will co-create with you her language, her words, that she understands that her thoughts become things, and that she will start to speak to those thoughts because as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
So I thank you, God, that she’s taken those thoughts under dominion and authority, which you’ve already given her. No one can take away that dominion. No one can undermine that authority, oh God. You’ve given us the ability to create it. You’ve given us the ability to recognize it.
You’ve given us a sound mind, oh God. Oh, holy God, I thank you that you are the I am that I am and that the mighty woman of God will begin to see again. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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Amen amen and amen
Amen & Amen!!! Loved this devotional!!