Good day my friend! I’m happy to join you again here on THE PATH. Today we’ve got a lot of ground to (un)cover. What I mean is, I’ll be showing you another very important, very effective way of clearing out weeds in your garden, and how to manage those stubborn ones that want to keep coming back.

Okay, now, I want you to think of this in terms of your home. Outside of your home, there is ... The rest of the world. That would be like outside the actual building in the courtyard of the Temple, where all God’s people were allowed and all people of the world are allowed to wander into your world.

Then, (Looking back at the diagram) the Holy Place is where the priests ministered. That would be like inside your home where only those you invite in are allowed. You don’t let strangers wander in, but family and friends are welcome there.

Then there is the Most Holy Place, which is called the Holy of Holies, where the presence of God was, and generally speaking, nobody was allowed in there except for God's chosen people. That would be like your diary or hope chest. It’s private and sacred to you . . . It’s where you have all your secrets stored. It’s a sanctuary to you. It’s a sacred place where you invite the presence of God, and commune with Him.

Let’s take this principle one step further focusing on the TRUTH ...
 YOU are the Temple of God.

Your Body (Flesh) is what everyone sees. Your Mind (Soul) is only shared with those that you CHOOSE to share it with by sharing thoughts. Things from the outside world are allowed into your Mind (Soul) through sight, sound, smell, touch, taste and thought but YOU get to determine WHAT you allow within or believe.

Then the Holy of Holies is your emotions which spring forth from your heart (spirit). This is the place that you want kept sacred. This is the secret place. You MUST beware letting outside influences to ever affect your Spirit. You must control what thoughts you allow within your secret place. Failure to do so can have someone using you like a puppet. You know the old cliché ... "Don't push my buttons"

THIS is the reason you feel as you do when there is a problem. You have allowed something or someone to place thoughts in your mind (Soul) which you (At the time) accepted as TRUTH or at least the way things were and your emotions (spirit) reacted. You have allowed this thought to grieve your spirit and what you are experiencing is the result.

In order to control your thoughts as we are taught to do, by renewing our minds daily.

You must only let TRUTH to abide within your Spiritual place. When something enters in that is not TRUTH, you must eject it by telling the TRUTH to yourself, and the lie must leave. If you accept something as TRUTH, it is planted in your subconscious mind, and it remains there awaiting your spirit to act on said thought, even when you are not consciously thinking on it.

Lemme give you an example ... Have you ever been having a SON-sational day and all of the sudden you feel terrible and know something is wrong, but cannot THINK of what it is? Then, you kinda ponder on it and WHAM the bad thought comes to mind.

Another example is you are leaving your home and you sense this feeling like you are forgetting something but have no idea what it is until you sit there and ponder then WHAM, you remember what it was and the feeling goes away.

These are "suppressed thoughts" ... You allowed something in your mind and it lied dormant but your spirit reacts to it whether you are conscious of the actual thought or not. In the second case YOU told YOURSELF to remember something and tho YOU forgot, your subconscious mind ... DID NOT. Your SPIRIT reacted to that thought.

In like manner ... The weeds in your garden are things that you’ve accepted within whether it be from you or another source and since you have not dealt with it, but it IS in there, it keeps sending a warning of sorts that it needs to be dealt with.

Now most like to just sweep their probs under the rug (so to speak) and try and just push the thoughts back within when they pop up that warning sign by coming to your conscious mind. You must CHOOSE to identify the lies and bad thoughts that you’ve accepted and HARBOR, and pull them out by replacing them with the TRUTH.

Think of your mind as a computer. You have files that have been in there since the day you were born. They’re called memories. Many of them, you don’t even know are in there. You’re not conscious of them. They’re like a closed folder until your memory chooses to open them up. Let me give you an example ...

You’re driving down the street past the park, and you see a little kid swinging on a swing. Suddenly you remember your cousin’s birthday party that you went to at a park, when you were five. Wow, you haven’t thought about that in years! And with all the things that you have to remember in your busy life, all the years that have passed, all you’ve learned, all you’ve done, and everywhere you’ve been, you still have that memory stored in your subconscious mind. That memory can trigger other memories. If you think a little more, you remember the cherry chip cake with the confetti icing at the party, and the Neapolitan ice cream, and the Playdoh factory that you gave your cousin for a present and even that one trick candle that kept relighting.

Well, I hate to burst a birthday balloon, but I must bring you back to the present now, because there’s a fact that I have to share with you. Inside your mind are millions, if not billions of memories, facts, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, thoughts, feelings, fears, doubts, desires, TRUTHs, and many other things including, I’m sorry to say … LIES … That are waiting in folders in the recesses of your mind, called your subconscious, that will open up if and when they’re triggered by one of your 6 senses.

THE PROB IS ... THE ENEMY OF YOUR SOUL PUSHES THOSE BUTTONS AS TO AFFECT YOU CUZ HE IS THE ONE WHO PLANTED THOSE THOUGHTS FROM THE GET GO, DESPITE THE MEANS BY WHICH HE USED TO DO SO, AND HE KNOWS YOU HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO DEAL WITH IT SO HE JUST THROWS OUT SOMETHING THAT HITS YOUR SENSES AND WHAM ... YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS OPENS THE FILE ... AND YOUR SPIRIT REACTS.

Obviously, there are things stored in your subconscious, that you don’t want in there. We’ve been calling them weeds. But you can’t reformat your mind, because there’s a lot in there that you want to keep. Those are the TRUTHs. What you CAN do, is get rid of the stuff that you don’t want anymore ONE AT A TIME and when they reveal themselves. It’s not only affecting the performance of your computer, but it’s also taking up valuable space that you’re going to be using for new TRUTHs that you will learn.

Below is a diagram of the mind and how it operates. You can see that thoughts are able to enter into your Conscience mind where the blue arrows are. If you believe or accept whatever entered as TRUTH, it goes to a storage area to be recalled later. If you don’t believe it, you eject it, represented by the red arrows.

You’ll notice that WORDS and ACTIONS
are the way to eject what you don’t want to be planted.

Why ... Because you have to make it perfectly clear, and understood to the adversary, who wants those lies planted in your mind, that they are rejected. If you do nothing, that’s an action in itself. Doing nothing is a choice, and your mind many times accepts it as truth when it may be a lie but since you chose to do nothing ... It is within you. Anything unwanted may just loiter around in there if you don’t eliminate it. Rejection is one thing that the enemy of your soul doesn’t like, so use it as one of your gardening tools to get rid of weeds.

That’s a lighthearted example, now here’s one that’s slightly more serious. Let’s say you had a horrible thought that you know isn’t true. Write down (action) the thought. Then eject the lie and reinforce the TRUTH as quickly as possible. Then IMAGINE the LIE being destroyed within as you trash the paper you wrote the thought on. I have personally lit that bad boy up and watched the lie burn to show my Lord that I ain't the one. Please be careful if you are gonna try this one at home boys and girls.

Notice the word EJECT. That doesn’t mean to keep any feelings of shame, fear, anger, doubt, or anything else inside, to “get in touch” with later. Always focus on the TRUTH. Lies and evil hate to be brought into the light. The light IS TRUTH. It is the enemy that wants you to harbor such thoughts so he can pull your puppet strings at will.

If you’re alone, don’t be afraid to talk out loud. By speaking out, you are exposing the lie to the light. Another example: If the devil tells you that you shouldn’t forgive another, you would say something like this: Let’s tell the TRUTH now. My Lord says, Forgive all or I won’t be forgiven (Matthew 6:14-15).

In most cases, it was just the devil that planted the seed of deception in the mind of the soul that hurt you and UNLIKE you, they were not taught how to remove the evil seed and it became habit. This means this soul that hurt you was only being used by the enemy of your soul as a puppet, to do his bidding and that is to plant horrible seeds within us which cause us to be unforgiving as to hinder us from accepting GRACE.

Cuz, my friend ...  The enemy of your soul knows the rules of the Spiritual Warfare game very well and KNOWS that we must FORGIVE to be FORGIVEN so he creates circumstances that hurt us so we will not forgive.

Chances are that there are many untruths lurking around in your mind that contribute to your problem. Remember when you identified your problem(s) in STEPPING STONE #5? I helped you out with the one about selfishness, and now I’m going to help you with another one. It’s called doubt.

There’s something down deep in your subconscious, that may be telling you that this program may not work for you. I mean after all, how can anything that’s free and without obligation of any kind, work on something as serious as your problem which you have carried for so very long? It’s GOOD to admit it. In TRUTH, it won’t work unless you do admit it, and obliterate that doubt. You can’t kill a weed unless you admit it’s there. Now, doubt is more like a fungus than a weed … Kinda like mildew.

You’ve got little seedlings in your garden that are young and fragile, and a little doubt, a little fungus, a little mildew, can ruin them. Doubt likes to grow in the dark, it doesn’t want anybody to know it’s there … Especially you, because you might just identify it and attack it with some kind of mold spray called the light of TRUTH and then where would it be?

It would HISTORY.

Well that is NOT the enemy's plan. His plan is to keep you under subjection by use of fear and doubt. The last thing he needs is for you to BELIEVE and establish HOPE..

 So call forth that doubt and let’s give it a large dose of the TRUTH called FAITH, so it’ll wither up and die!

It always helps to have a visual picture of things to put them into perspective. You’ve seen little animations of the little ANGEL standing on your shoulder whispering into your mind. That’s your conscience, telling you TRUTH and righteousness.

Do you remember when we first became friends, the very first TRUTH I shared with you is that you must possess Faith. Now I’m going to answer the question, How can something FREE possibly work? Because Jesus promised that it would. He gave His life for FREE. He gave us Salvation for FREE.

Have FAITH in Him and He will set you FREE of your problem.

If you scroll back up to the mind chart, you’ll see that the categories inside the left hand column are the things that you want to keep. In this STEPPING STONE, your task is to weed out anything that falls into the categories inside the right hand column.

To do this, go back to the problem(s) that you identified. Ask yourself which sense it used to get into your mind in the first place. Find it's source. You can do this procedure with ALL bad thoughts within or lies from this day forth, that reveal their ugly head.