| How do we make efforts to protect our inner man? | | | | can not limit your time around some negative people, |
| The inner man is the real you. What steps can we | | | | try to also have a positive thought for every |
| take to battle the many forces of life? We will cover | | | | negative thought they throw out. For example, they |
| some of the positive things we can do to protect | | | | say "I know you can't do it," we say to ourselves |
| our inner man. There are seen and unseen things or | | | | something positive, maybe a scripture or make |
| forces at work most of the time. Weather we | | | | positive statement to ourselves, for example, Phil: |
| believe it or not makes no difference. It is what it is. | | | | 4:13 "I can do all things through the Messiah which |
| One of first things needed to protect our inner | | | | strengthened me." |
| selves is realizing it needs protecting. Sadly, many | | | | Perhaps one of the greatest areas of needed |
| people are unaware of the many secret agendas | | | | protection is against music. Some music can seem |
| working in our land today. We must realize that | | | | innocent, but it is far from it. If we are not careful |
| everybody here is not here to do good works. Once, | | | | some of these lyrics will enter our inner man and |
| we obtain this mind set we can move forward a little | | | | wreak havoc. Music can be so subtle that the listener |
| better. We must constantly realize this key point. | | | | is caught off guard. This allows the words and |
| Daily reading of the scriptures can give us a source | | | | thoughts to penetrate our mind unhindered. What do |
| of inner strength. This strength will help us to protect | | | | we do? What is the solution? We should build an |
| the inner man. We should try to read a few pages of | | | | inner wall to protect ourselves. Look at some music |
| the scriptures every morning. This practice will often | | | | for what is it, deadly poison to our inner man. We |
| begin to set the mind on a solid footing for the day. | | | | should always try to stay on our guard around all |
| It will help us to face the challenges of day. Also, the | | | | music until we have determined it purpose. |
| mind will begin to focus on positive thoughts. By just | | | | Finally, we have to learn to think or meditate on |
| this one step we can put a strong hedge around | | | | positive thoughts. We have to let our mind and heart |
| ourselves. | | | | grow in the love for our fellow man. When we |
| We can also protect our inner man by staying away | | | | protect our inner man, we are also helping to protect |
| from negative people. We all know that sometime it | | | | our fellow man. We become part of the solution and |
| is not possible to stay away from negative people. | | | | not part of the problem. It is our duty to continue to |
| Because, the reality is that a negative person could | | | | think well, love well and live well. |
| be a spouse, boss, preacher or a love one. If you | | | | |