Thoughts For Sale

In the world of marketing advertisement campaigns are created to target a certain audience and a particular group of people. Marketing firms are paid millions of dollars to study age groups, ethnicities, regions, and habits to determine what is most effective. The marketing firm conducts a lot of research and eventually a product is produced that attracts particular consumers to products. Television, internet, and music are great tools to push products all in hopes of enticing you to consume. The reason advertisements are successful for one reason they are targeted to appeal to a desire that is already inside of you. Strategically marketing firms have figured out what you like and their job is to entice you with your own desires and get you to react. This is such a deceitful tactic but millions of people consume each day with smiles on their face.
Temptation works much like an advertisement and the CEO of this marketing firm is none other than satan himself. The bible teaches us that satan studies his opponents (Job 1) and he lies in wait for them like a roaring lion waiting for an opportunity to desire his prey (1 Peter 5:8). The devil has had thousands of years of practice and he is coming full steam ahead throwing darts of temptation at you. Temptation is not a sin but it is a result of our own desires and lust being enticed and once that enticement is successful then it is no longer temptation but sin.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.-James 1:14-15
Thoughts enter are brain much like commercials one minute we are focused on a task and the minute we take a break mentally evil begins its advertisement campaign. There is hope because as believers in Christ we have been given the mind of Christ Jesus as our defense (Philippians 2:5). The believer in Christ Jesus possesses a freedom from his or her own desires and thought process that can quickly put to rest the temptations of wickedness. The mind of a person without Jesus has now power of these temptations but the mind of a believer has been set free (John 8:36). The blessing is when these temptations arrive in your mind simply acknowledge that those thought don’t belong to you and have not come from your heavenly father because he would never tempt you but they come from satan who hates you. God has instructed us to cast down those imaginations and bring every thought to Jesus Christ and allow Jesus to deal with them (2 Corinthians 10:4-6). To put it simple when temptation enters your mind pray and find the verse in the Bible that deals with your particular issue because the marketing firm from hell knows every weakness in your body. Have no fear because you possess the power of the word of God and every situation is in the hands of God. When you find yourself thinking thoughts of evil understand that the devil is advertising please don’t make a purchase.-Amen
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things -Philippians 4:8

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