 Mind management is the highest priority for an overcomer. Because the victory does not begin from outside of us. The victory starts from within us. And our mind is the root of our feelings. It's the root to our actions and becomes the root of our destiny. Managing your spiritual life without managing your mind will prove very soon abortive. Your mind is extremely crucial to your life. And you can clean your car. You can get on a budget. You can clean your room. You can even have time to be with this friend. With this friend I am doing all of these things. But if your mind is a cluttered, messy garbage can, your life very soon will line up to the cleanness and the clutterness of your mind. How messy the mind is will result in how messy the room is going to be. How messy the car is going to be. How messy the relationships are going to be. And how messy your spiritual life is going to be. How messy your emotions will be. Every single area of your life will sooner or later line up to the what's going on in your head. And the average person thinks 65,000 thoughts a day. 90% of all your thoughts are repetition of yesterday's thoughts. You only think 10% of new thoughts every single day. The biggest lie that we believed is this. Thoughts is something I can't control. Well, I can control my car. And the moment I stop controlling my car, I am going to go to the dealer and return it. Some of men are convinced they can control their wives. But all parents are convinced we can control our children. And all the parents said, Nah, not really, not all the time. But we love things that we can control. You would never ride a bicycle that you cannot control. But when we come to the area of the mind we are convinced your mind has a mind of its own. Means you wake up and you come to your mind and your mind is this big guru master who sits there and says today I am depressed, be depressed. And most of us are believing the fact that you cannot control your mind. But the Bible says in Philippians that whatever is true, whatever is holy, whatever is of good report, think on these things. Somehow the Bible is telling us your mind is not your master. Your mind is your servant. That means you choose what thoughts you think. You choose what goes through your head. You choose not your circumstances, not your friends, not your life, not your feelings, but you determine what is in your head every single day. And whatever is in your head is going to determine how well your life is going to be. In Psalm 1 it says the blessed is the man who walks not in a council of the ungodly, who doesn't stand in the path of sinners, who doesn't sit in a seat of scornful. But it says that he delights in the law of the Lord and he meditates in it day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. Brings forth fruit in his season, his leaves will not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper. Why is this man blessed? Because his head is not a junkyard. He chooses his thoughts. He's not blessed because everything in his life is good. He's not blessed because all of his dreams have come to pass. He is blessed because he wakes up in the morning and he tells his mind what the mind is going to think. He looks over the phone. People have said this. The statistic has said this. He looks over his life. He sees his finances. He sees this and that. But at the same time he says, I may not control my everything, but this is my control. And I choose what I think about in Jesus' name. Your mind is either a thermometer which reflects the temperature of your life, or it's a thermostat that changes the temperature of your life. You determine the thoughts that you think. If you tell me that you cannot control where the table and the chair and the carpet and the plates and the silverware and the spoons lay in your house, that they somehow control you. You walk around and the spoon tells you what to do. Have you ever tried that trick on your parents when they say clean up your room? You say, Mom, the towel told me, don't mess with me. How foolish is that? But we have the audacity to come to God who tells us, think on these things. We say, God, I can't change. Those thoughts are so powerful. They scared me. You are the captain of your own ship. The lie of the devil is that your mind is your master. God says your mind is your servant. You choose the thoughts that you're going to think. And the most important thing that you must maintain as a Christian if you want to be a conqueror is here. It's your thoughts. Amen.