The helmet of salvation protects your head… if the devil can get into your head, he can get you to self-destruct and to defeat yourself – Putting on the mind of Christ, or the helmet of salvation and keeping it on is key to victorious living.
Keeping your mind renewed and in alignment with the Word of God requires maintaining a strong relationship with the Lord… it requires studying the Word, meditating on the Word, confessing the Word and sitting under the anointed teaching of the Word. The Word washes out deception wrong thinking, wrong believing, lies and other mind snares of the devil that sneak in while we are unaware.
We have to keep a watch over our minds… I have never seen so many people with such strange ideas about things as I have in the last while – many believers today spend way too little time in the Word… they watch too many sci-fi movies, they play too many video games and read too many fantasy novels… they watch way too much TV and engage in way too many speculative conversations that open the door to unscriptural thinking. This can give the devil place in their heads and cause major destruction.
Put on the helmet of salvation and keep it on! Yield to the Word and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Keep a Philippians 4:8 mindset… ‘Whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s Word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things, center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart.’
Keeping your mind renewed and continually maintaining the mind of Christ releases a covering anointing that protects our heads – this ‘sozo’ anointing of salvation imparts continual thoughts that lead to prosperity, peace, joy, safety, innovation and wisdom. The ‘sozo’ anointing becomes a helmet that destroys depression, hopelessness and deception… it destroys bad attitudes and strange, unscriptural ideas and it keeps our minds pure and full of the glory of God.
Blessings on you, Nick
