Thinking Your Brain Needs a Helmet

Thinking

Your Brain Needs a Helmet

All it takes is a thought to change our mood

One thought true or false can alter your life

It can all happen as quickly as a bullet on the battlefield

Just like a soldier wears a helmet to protect his head and brain

We need to wear a helmet to protect our mind

How do you guard your heart (thoughts)?

With God’s Word and Prayer

How often?

With every thought, all the time

If we guard our minds or thinking with God’s Word and Prayer all the time 

The rest of the body will benefit

Your life, who you are and your future will never be defeated

Your Brain Needs a Helmet

The human body is amazing.

When every part is healthy

we can do amazing things.

But when one of our body members

suffers the whole body feels the effect.

Out of all the parts of the body there is one

part that is more important than the rest.

That part is the brain.

Although the heart and lungs can

continue without the brain the

mechanical operation will not last long.

The brain is more than mechanical

like the CPU of a computer.

It does more than store data or knowledge.

It does more then sends signals to

parts of the body, creating movement.

 The brain is where we think and feel.

The brain sends messages that are

subconscience and conscience.

The brain is very vulnerable and that is why God

designed it to sit inside the hard shell of the skull.

It also has been designed with

fluids to work as shock absorbers.

God has not only made the

Brain, but made protection for it.

Because without the brain we are dead even

though the heart can beat, hair and fingernails

can grow, but life comes from the brain.

Proverbs 4:23 tells us…

  

Above all else, guard your heart,

for it is the wellspring of life. NIV

Guard your heart…

 This is not talking about the

thing beating in your chest.

And it is not talking about the brain as

an organ, but the function of the brain.

Thinking, look at the same verse in

the TEV version of the Bible…

Be careful how you think;

your life is shaped by your thoughts. TEV

Guard your heart / Be careful how you think

Why are we to do this above all else?

Because…

It is the wellspring of life NIV

Your life is shaped by your thoughts. TEV

You are what you think.

Our thoughts are developed

from knowledge we receive.

You and I face battles in the mind.

All it takes is a thought to change our mood.

One thought true or false can alter your life.

It can all happen as quickly

as a bullet on the battlefield.

Just like a soldier wears a helmet

to protect his head and brain…

We need to wear a helmet to protect our mind.

Just like physical trauma to the brain can alter

your ability to think, so can words and actions.

Your life is shaped by your thoughts.

So…

Above all else, guard your heart, your thoughts.

Ephesians 6:17 says…

 

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword

of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

Take the helmet…

What is this helmet?

The helmet of “Salvation”.

The Greek word for “Salvation”

means defender or defense.

Both words Helmet and Salvation

are both saying the same thing.

The helmet describes the encirclement

of the head with a protective device and

salvation is a defender or a defense.

The picture so far gives us a vision

of the protection of the head.

But what is the protection?

I think we have to read the rest of the verse…

 And the Sword of the Spirit,

 which is the Word of God.

What protects us is the “Word of God”.

Which is linked or described

as the “Sword of the Spirit”.

It is the Sword of the Spirit, the Word

of God, that gives us the understanding

of the Helmet of Salvation.

The helmet and the sword are protective

devices and it is the Word of

God that empowers them both.

The point is this…

The protection of our thoughts,

 our minds, is the Word of God.

Look at Hebrews 4:12…

For the word of God is living and active.

Sharper than any double-edged sword,

it penetrates even to dividing soul and

spirit, joints and marrow; it judges

 the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

The Word of God is living and active…

penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,…

it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

It is so hard to define the difference

between the soul and the spirit.

It is so hard to define the difference between

the thoughts and attitudes in our brain.

But the Word of God has the

ability to judge and separate.

So…

Be careful how you think; your

 life is shaped by your thoughts.

We need the Word of God as a helmet keeping

outside sources away from our thoughts.

We need God’s Word in our thoughts

dividing the differences in our minds.

Verse 18 of Hebrews 6 cannot

be separated from verse 17…

 

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions

with all kinds of prayers and requests.

With this in mind, be alert and always

keep on praying for all the saints.

“Pray”

How do we pray?

“In the Spirit”

“On all occasions”

“With all kinds of prayers and request”

Our prayer life should be full of variety.

Anyway you know how to talk to God, do it…

On your knees, with your hands lifted.

When all you have is requests and needs.

When you are happy and when you are sad.

Maybe the best way to say it is…

 Let every thought be a prayer to God.

Let every Word of God you read

or hear be a thought of prayer.

Another scripture says it this way…

 “Pray without ceasing”

Every thought of ours should be a prayer.

Sometimes you will speak those thoughts out

loud and other times silently in your spirit.

How do you guard your heart (thoughts)?

With God’s Word and Prayer.

How often?

With every thought, all the time.

If we guard our minds or thinking with

 God’s Word and Prayer all the time…

 

The rest of the body will benefit.

Your life, who you are and your

future will never be defeated.

Be careful how you think; your

 life is shaped by your thoughts

Proverbs 4:23 NEV

Scripture Reading

Proverbs 4:23 NIV

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

Proverbs 4:23 TEV

23 Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

Ephesians 6:17-18 NIV

17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.