“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” (Isaiah 26:3 
NKJV)
Sometimes it is difficult to keep our minds “stayed” on the Lord. When we look at our circumstances and the difficulties around us, it is easy to pick up those difficulties and really fall apart with them. have sometimes found that I have had to discipline my mind severely. When my soul wanted to worry and worry and worry, my mind would react with fear.
To combat this, I began to memorize certain chapters of the Bible. One time I memorized the book of James. Another time I memorized the book of Matthew. Even another time I memorized the book of Proverbs. Those are some of the sweetest, richest times in my life because I had my mind so filled with the Word. I would go over the scriptures early in the morning, again at noon, and one more time before I went to sleep. My mind became so saturated with the Word that I maintained tremendous peace. Of course, having the Word of God in your heart gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to bring it to your mind at other times when you need peace.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Help us to take the scriptures so seriously that we don’t PLAY with them; we USE them, literally, in our daily walk.
In Jesus’s Name,
Amen.
