physics, spiritually speaking

Hello everyone.
I am amazed at how time seems to fly. May already!
I have heard it said that joy is a force. In Nehemiah the Lord says ‘sorrow not, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.’ That sounds like it might be a force, doesn’t it?
Back in physics class, we learned that all the forces acting on an object determine how it moves. If the forces cancel each other, the object’s motion won’t change. In the same way, spiritual forces (good and bad) can change circumstances in the physical. Forces like faith, patience and unity work for us, and forces like worry, despair and strife work against us. We can move forward if we keep the enemy’s forces from acting on us. How? By not ‘giving him place’ by thinking his thoughts. If you don’t think his thoughts, he has no foothold or hook for his forces to pull you down.
How can we hook to God’s good forces? In Isaiah 55 the Lord says to forsake our thoughts and ways, and return to Him. Philippians 4 tells us what to think on. Whatever things are true, honest, noble, pure, lovely, virtuous and praiseworthy.
Friends, we have the power to choose who pulls on us. It’s not easy! When symptoms of illness or poverty scream out every second, the ‘natural’ thing would be to think about them. But we are born again, new creations in Christ Jesus. We are not natural anymore. We are supernatural. The forces we use are supernatural. Words activate the forces in our lives. Words of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control will pull us up and forward. Words of worry, envy, arguing, complaining will pull us down and back. Also, I have heard that we can’t fight thoughts with other thoughts; it takes words to cancel thoughts. When thoughts of sickness or death attack me, I have to speak ‘by His stripes I am healed’, ‘I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord.’ And ‘with long life He will satisfy me’, and many other scripture verses. Your words don’t have to be really loud, but if the voices in your head are loud you may need to speak up some. The bible says to endure hardship as good soldier. The battle may look like it’s out there, but it’s in our heads first. We can use the forces God gave us to change the motion of our lives. It may take a while to see results because we have momentum to overcome, but that’s ok. No better time than the present, right?
I love you all!

healed by His stripes,
Nancy