Bible Texts: Col.3:1-14, Rom.12:1-3, Pro.23, Rom.10:10, Jn.5:39, Philp.2:5, Pro.23:7, Ps.1:1-3, 2Tim.2:15, Eph.6:12, 2Cor.10:4-5
Where does the battle to win over obstacles in your journey to becoming the good and godly husbandman begin? Where does change begin from? Does it start in you or outside of you? Let me quote Dr. John Maxwell, one of my greatest teachers and mentors. He says, “Permanent change and improvement always happen from the inside out”.
The battle begins in the mind. Your desire to become the good and godly man, husband and father begins in your mind. Your desire to serve God with all your spirit, soul and might begins in your mind. You win or lose the battle of life in your mind before it manifests on the outside.
Two important Bible passages will help you.
As a man thinks in his heart so is he (Pro.23:7).
If your inner man thinks he can be the good and godly husbandman, he lives it out for all to see. If he does not think so, he also lives it out for people to see.
Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life (Pro.4:23)
The issues of life that defines your leadership success as the good and godly husbandman begin in your mind, hence you must guard your mind with all diligence.
But how do I then win the battle in my mind as I lead myself, wife and children as the husbandman?
You must remember who you are Christ. Your identity in Jesus Christ gives you the capacity to always distinguish what is right or wrong and empowers you to win over what is ungodly by the power of the word of God (Col.3:1). You must also renew your thought life by the word of God (Rom.12:1-3). You must focus on what God says and raise new internal standards, daily. You must understand that your old life is dead and Christ has given you a new life. (Col.3:3-7). You cannot win the battle to becoming the good and godly husbandman if you maintain old patterns of thoughts, relationships and perspectives. Finally, you must make a switch by getting rid of your old habits and substituting it new habits derived from the word of God (Col.3:12-14).
The perfect will of God for you is your victory as you journey to becoming the good and godly husbandman. God wants you to succeed as the man, husband and father. God doesn’t want anything less than the best for you. God wants you to be like Him through His Son, Jesus Christ to your wife, children and in the market place. But you have to take up the challenge and responsibility to become like Jesus Christ by renewing your mind by the Word of God because that is where the pathway of victory begins.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me by Your word to renew my mind, daily.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, let the power in Your word strengthen my inner man for victorious living.
- Father, in the name of Jesus, empower me to walk in the newness of life in Jesus Christ.
FAITH CONFESSION
I use the weapon of the word of God to win the battle of life in my mind because that is where the victory to becoming the good and godly husbandman begins, in Jesus name. Amen.
Culled from IN TUNE WITH GOD devotional of Wednesday March 15, 2023
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