One of my favorite movie series in the “Jason Bourne” series. It is both dramatic and suspenseful. It is about mind control where the government trains predisposed individuals into brand new identities to become trained assassins to take out “targets” determined to be enemies of the state. Another movie which handled the same subject matter was “Manchurian Candidate” starring Denzel Washington. Most of the public considered all these just good fiction until reports started surfacing that there were actual programs training MK-Ultras to do the biddings of the government. Of course, the CIA was the three-letter agency which coined the phrase “conspiracy theory”.
However, we learned from Gina Phillips how the government used companies such as Disney to use “umbrellas” to trigger MK-Ultras back in the 1960’s. I find it interesting that there was a man holding an open umbrella in Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963. He was standing a mere 50’ from JFK when the then president received the fatal head shot. Why the open umbrella when it was a bright and sunny day? Walt Disney provided a possible clue.
It was in 2016 that we started hearing about the “deep state” or “shadow government”. We have learned from Eric Colton and his organization “Untrafficked” how movies and video games are used by the sexual predators to “groom” our children and grandchildren in mind-control to become possible targets. The recent movie “Sound of Freedom” did nothing but validate this. ”BEWARE PARENTS!
The greatest lie that Lucifer has duped the world and the church with is that the world is not as evil to the extent that it is even though the scriptures say this about the heart in Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
Jesus said this about the heart in Mark 7:21-22 (ESV)
“For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.”
All Lucifer is doing is counterfeiting a scriptural principle for evil. He understands that the human mind is a major battle ground. If he can captivate and defile the human mind, he can control it and keep the individual captive until Jesus can set the person free. I’ve been told that the movie “Nefarious” shows the methods of Satan quite clearly. Who ever thought the day would come that a person could learn more spiritual truth from the movie house instead of the church house? The Lord will get the truth out!! Our mind is an incredible creation. Francis Frangipane has written a must read for every believer called “The Three Battlegrounds”. In it he describes the battle for the human mind.
The word of God says much about the Human mind. Jesus wants to bring us to a place that our mind and thinking is under His control. Once a person receives Christ, the process of mind renewal begins, Romans 12:1-2 (ESV)
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Becoming a living sacrifice is followed by a process of transforming our minds from the ways of the world to the ways of God. This involves putting a filter in place and allowing our minds to only dwell on the things that please the Lord, Philippians 4:8 (ESV)
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
This takes absolute discipline to focus in the above. However, the goal is possessing the mind of Christ. The Apostle Paul was able to follow the above discipline to the point where He was able to confidently say this in 1Corinthians 2:14-16 (ESV)
“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
The mind of Christ comes through constant communication with and living in the Holy Spirit. As we learn to walk in the Spirit, He will begin to train our mind in the ways of the Lord and give us peace, Isaiah 26:3 (ESV)
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.”
The Hebrew word for mind is the word יֵצֶר or yester. One of the interpretations of this word is the word “imagination”. The word for “stayed” is the word סָמַךְ or samak. These are the different meanings of the word used in scripture, braced (1), holds (1), laid (6), laid siege (1), lay (17), lean (1), leans (3), relied (1), rested (1), steadfast (1), support (1), sustain (3), sustained (2), sustainer (1), sustains (3), upheld (4), uphold (1).
When our imaginations rests or leans on Him, we have perfect peace in any situation. Perhaps this is what King Solomon was thinking about when he penned these words in Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV).
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
As humans, we have a walnut sized gland right in the middle of our brain called the “pineal gland”. It is the gland that connects us with our God consciousness. It is the gland of “imagination”. From the moment we can understand, Lucifer tries to defile this gland’s function by what we see or hear. Viewing porn absolutely destroys the function of this gland. But God can cleanse and renew the focus of this gland with His precious blood as we confess our sin and begin to protect what goes in both the eye and ear gate. The Psalmist said this in Psalm 101:3 (ESV)
“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.”
What a man feeds on, he becomes. Proverbs 23:7 (ESV)
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.”
I believe in the days ahead, there will be a whole new breed of believer who lives in signs and wonders because they have learned to engage Him with the imagination, and He shows them His secrets and strategies. God will use us to unlock nations by His Spirit. In this age, we are being trained to live and walk by the Spirit and live in complete obedience to what He has called us to do. My encouragement would be to cast down vain imaginations and to begin to think and meditate on Him. My prayer for all of us is what the Apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesian church in Ephesians 1:17-19 (ESV)
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power”
Imagine the possibilities.