Negativity
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him…Titus 3:10, ESV
I totally enjoyed watching Dr. Juanita Bynum’s @3With Me Bible studies. She would sit on the floor of her home at 3:00 p.m. every day and teach the word of God through Facebook live. Her messages were always so powerful, I would listen to them over and over again and take all kinds of notes. In truth, although she no longer does those FB lives I still go back and listen to those teachings.
A few days ago, the Holy Spirit told me to go back and look at the journal that I used for her teachings. I came across some notes on the spirit of negativity and I knew that I was supposed to give you some of the points I wrote down. Negativity is apart of our behavior because it is learned and it slips into our subconscious mind. The first response that comes out of our mind to our subconscious is negative because that is what has been put there.
When negativity is in our subconscious, that will be our first response until we chose to reject that first response in training our brain. The answer to changing our brain is setting goals and establishing who we are in Christ. A consistent prayer life defuses the negativity and stress because we receive the comfort of the Lord; even if things in our situation have not changed.
What happens to our brain when we operate in negativity? The moment a person express the slightest degree of negativity it increases negativity in both the speaker and the listener. We cannot listen to negativity and it not change us. When we sit and listen to someone who is constantly negative they are embezzling our life. They are stealing our life. Once the negativity starts messing with your brain it messes with our memory and cognitive thinking accurately. It hinders you from making right decisions. You can’t focus and you become scattered. It messes with your memory and causes you to forget who you are in Christ Jesus. It has been proven that the switch to turn off negativity is very difficult because the brain has been wired to absorb massive amounts of negativity.
What we hear and what we watch frames our thoughts and establishes who we are and what we do. Ten people full of negativity affected millions of people. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” Numbers 13:33 The whole community that came out of Egypt was affected by those ten people. The consequences of listening to that negativity stopped anyone over 20 years old from entering the promise land! They chose to listen to the negative report! Joshua and Caleb were the only ones who joined the youth to enter the promised land because they did not listen, or believe the negative report.
Christ calls us to be sober minded; which means to be sound in mind. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8, ESV We can change our information right now. Scripture says physician heal thyself, we can do this through prayer and fasting. For twenty-one days fast no negativity. Do not read anything negative, or listen to any negative reports. If anyone comes to you and starts to speak negative cut them off and tell them you are on a negative fast. The spirit of negativity is from Satan and if he can keep you in that space, you will never experience all that God has for you.
Key points:
Listening to negativity embezzles your life!
Negativity is a spirit from Satan.
Negativity steals the soundness of mind.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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