Have you ever handled a remote control toy? I bought a remote controlled helicopter for my twin boys. The remote control flies the helicopter anywhere you want it to go. It is so cool. But just like the remote controlled helicopter, humanity is controlled by spirit beings using the remote control of suggestions to our minds which many people believe are their own original thought? The only difference is that the physical remote control is obvious because it is a slow motion version of the spiritual remote control.
Jeremiah 10:23 tells us “O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps” (NKJV). Our lives does not even belong to us. The only reason why we will give an account of our lives at the end of it is because it is God’s life which He gives us by breathing into our mortal body the breathe of life. Think about, if you have money that belongs to you would you have to give an account of it to your boss? No. But if your boss gives you money, you must of necessity account for it.
Thoughts are the remote control of the spiritual realm. God guides us using thoughts and we see that in Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end” (NKJV).
I worked in Silicon Valley for 4 years and I know that websites are held up by code. The whole of creation is God’s website. Ask any techie in the Silicon Valley and they will tell you that every good website is a magnet for hackers. They want to hack it so they can gain control of the site.
God wants to guide us with the codes that He used to create creation which is why He gave us The Bible. In Matthew 16:19 Jesus said “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven”. How did Jesus give Peter the keys to the Kingdom? The Keys to the Kingdom are the principles that Jesus taught. They are the codes, the programme that God used in creating creation. That is why Jesus said in Luke 17:21 that “the kingdom of God is within you”. But let me tell you, if you are not reading the Word of God on a regular basis, then how is The Kingdom of God within you?
In Deuteronomy 11:18 God gave us the secrets to the keys of the Kingdom when speaking through Moses He said “fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads”.
In 2 Timothy 3:16-17 God revealed His intention for given us the Word: so that we will be perfect, lacking nothing.
Have you ever had this experience of going to a computer and typing in a command or perhaps pulling up the browser and typing in a website and the computer shows you an hourglass or something spinning which indicates that it is thinking and after a few seconds or micro seconds the website that you wanted manifests or the command you have it is obeyed?
You see, that is what God gave you a mind for. If you fill up your mind with the Words of God, anytime you have a challenge or an issue, what will just happen is that your mind will begin to scan the Word of God that you have committed to it and from that bank of stored Word a solution to your issue will manifest.
The worst advise that you can ever give to anybody is to say, just follow your heart. Follow your principles not your heart. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”-Jeremiah 17:9.
In Luke 6:45 says “a good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of”.
From this verse, we see that it is what you store up in your heart that you will bring out. If you have not stored up your principles in your heart, then what your heart will bring out will be toxic to you.
I talked about hackers previously. Hackers are very creative. The Operating System that man was made to operate with is The Word of God. We see this clearly in Deuteronomy 8:3 “man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD”.
In 1 John 5:19 we read “we know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one”.
Many people, either because of our background or because of deliberate disinformation by the enemy, believe that the way the devil controls the world is by some magical spiritual power. No! Those are lower level demonic activity. Low hanging fruits in the kingdom of darkness.
The devil operates under the principle of as the mind goes so goes the man. And so, he is very practical.
In Revelations 11:15 the seventh angel said “the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever”. From this verse we understand that in the future, the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of God and Jesus. If that is the case, whose are they now?
Of course we know that the devil offered up the powers of this world to Jesus in Matthew 4:8-9. That means, for the time being, the powers of this world are his to control.
Let’s do a little exercise here. The bible tells us that the devil offered the powers of this world to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus. Now, every year, Forbes has a list of the worlds richest people and another list of the world’s most powerful person.
One man who regular features in the top 50 most powerful people is Rupert Murdock.
Rupert Murdock does not hold any political office, he does not command any army, yet why is he probably the most regularly featured man on the Forbes list of the world’s most powerful people?
It is because he control more of the world’s media than any other single human being. He is the CEO of Newscorp.
If you watch news, he influences you through his company Sky Broadcasting. If you read newspapers, he influences you through his chains of newspapers all over the world such as The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and the Sun. If you read books, he influences you through his company, Harpercollins. If you watch movies, he influences you through his company, Twentieth Century Fox.
So, you can see that whoever controls the media controls the power of this world and whoever controls the man that controls the media controls the power he wields.
You see, the devil is very practical when it comes to hacking the minds of humans and he is successful because humans are looking for him to be magical about it.
Now, good websites are built with enough capacity to withstand hackers. And hacking literally works when the intruders codes overwrites the owners codes.
The only reason why your inner man will be hacked by the enemy’s code is if you do not have enough of your Maker’s code in you so that with very little effort the enemy can over write your code.
It is impossible to function in this world without reading or hearing or watching the media. So, that means that you are always at threat from hackers. Thus, the only way you can safeguard your mind is by regularly replenishing it with the Word of God.
Let us learn from The Scriptures the strategy the devil uses to wear us down and break our defenses so that we succumb to him. In Luke 18:5 Jesus gave a parable which ended with the heartless judge saying “because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!'” Jesus is telling us here that almost anyone can be cracked with persistence. The devil is very persistent and the only way to defeat him in the battle for our minds is to wear him out.
In James 4:7 we are told to “submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you”. Modern day Christians like the latter part of this verse because it is the lazy part. You often hear people say resist the devil and he will flee. But the only way you can resist the devil is by submitting to God.
But how do you submit to God? In Ecclesiastes 12:13 King Solomon tells us how, saying “fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind” . The only way you can submit to God is to keep His commandments and the only way you can keep His commandments is if you know them and the only way you can know them is by constantly reading them.
Dag Hammarskjöld, a Lutheran Christian and former United Nations Secretary General once said “You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds.”
You see brethren, if you are not constantly renewing your mind with the Word of God on a daily basis, you are reserving a plot in your mind for weeds.
“He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful”-Matthew 13:22.
The cares of this world is the manufactured reality that the media serves us. Some may say that is not true, Jesus here is talking about material riches and wealth. But consider that if the media is not flashing adverts of the latest fashion, the latest cars, the latest gadget, how will the manufacturers of those products fill us up with desire to buy the things we don’t need such that our lives now revolves around looking for money to buy things that will cease to be fashionable the minutes we buy it? Using the same principle, if we are not constantly flashing the Word of God in our mind how can we “buy the truth, and sell it not”-Proverbs 12:23?
Are you aware that before the media advertises this years fashion, cars, movies and gadgets, the manufacturers of those products are already working on next year’s version?
The whole process is the choking of the Word that is referred to by Matthew 13:22.
Ask yourself this question, who is more important to this world between a genuine man of God and a footballer, an actor or a singer? Now ask yourself why is it that if a footballer, an actor or a singer buys a new jet it is not the subject of outrage by the media. In fact the media will celebrate it, but if a man of God gets one legitimately and for the purpose of spreading the Gospel, it becomes a subject of outrage in the media?
Let me tell you the main purpose of the media. You see, the devil knows that human beings have two minds. We have a conscious mind, and we have our unconscious mind.
Have you ever been driving somewhere and you get lost in thought and then you arrive at your destination and suddenly you become more conscious of yourself and realize that you drove there not thinking about what you where doing because of the issue that was occupying your mind?
At that moment, you were utilizing your unconscious mind.
Some experts have estimated that the average human being uses his conscious mind only 5% of the time. In 95% of the time, the unconscious mind is in control!
But what fuels the unconscious mind? Everything that you see, hear, touch, feel and taste. Subliminally, you are being controlled by the totality of your experiences on earth which your mind has filed away.
Let me explain it like this. Though many of us have computers we are to a large extent unaware that every document we write on our computer remains in the memory of that computer? When we delete the document, it never really deletes. It is compressed and sent to a recycle bin where it stays hidden from view to us, but it is still there. A computer technician can access every document that we think we have deleted.
In the same way, every experience we have had from childhood, including the ones that we have forgotten, are stored in our unconscious mind. When we forget it, it has the same effect as a man deleting a document from a computer. All that happens is that it goes from our conscious memory to our unconscious memory.
It goes there and every time we don’t consciously make a decision based on our new set of Christian principles that we are aware of, we unconsciously take a decision from our forgotten principles that have been consigned to your unconscious mind.
Now, most of those experiences in our unconscious mind are experiences that were influenced by the media. That horror film you watched when you were 5 years old has an effect on why some things scare you as an adult. That neighbour who watched his parents having intimate relations and came to practice with you as a six year old has an effect on why today you are attracted to a particular kind of person or having certain tendencies.
All these experiences are in one way or the other linked to the media. And you see, the origin of the media goes back to Genesis 3:1-6;
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it”.
All that the media has been doing from that time till today is to put suggestions into your mind that run contrary to God’s commandment.
This is the true meaning of 1 John 5:19 “the whole world is under the control of the evil one”.
Satan knows that if he tells you to wear some sexually provocative clothes you won’t wear them. So he goes to the media and they select the most beautiful and handsome celebrity and pay them money to wear clothes that even they would not have worn in ordinary circumstances but because of the money they wear it. Then they put these pictures in magazines, on movies, in the news and newspapers and the next month your best friend if wearing it. The month after that you cousin is wearing it. The week after it is your sister. Finally, you yourself wear it.
You see, by patiently using the media to orchestrate his plans, satan has gotten you to do what he would not have been able to get you to do by direct control. In other words where direct control fails, remote controlling works.
At this point, let us read Jeremiah 10:23 again “O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps”.
You only think you are in control of your life, but if you have not handed your life over to Jesus, then as surely as you are reading this the devil is in control of your life. It may not be direct control, as is the case with occultist and people who sell their souls to him, but he will surely get the unsaved by remote control.
This is the principle used in advertising. This is the principle used in music. Most of the time when you are humming a sung out loud it was not your conscious mind that recalled that song. It was your unconscious mind that that summoned that song and your conscious mind accepted the command and you started humming. That is why at times you will say, how did that song just pop into my mind or my head?
This is what God means in Romans 12:2 when He says we should renew our minds. He is not so much as talking about our conscious minds as He is talking about our unconscious minds.
Have you ever asked yourself why The Bible is sometimes referred to as the good news? Because it runs contrary to the world and the artificial reality created by the media. The Bible, is the Good News. Consider that in the world’s news their first priority is that if it is bad news put it in the front pages of the newspaper. The media deliberately suppress good news and amplify bad news. If you doubt me, go home and put on CNN and take an inventory of the type news that they broadcast, take good news to a top newspaper or TV station and they will tell you that it is not newsworthy because it is not bad news.
In 2005 Andy Roddick and Fernando Verdasco played at the Rome Masters in Rome, Italy in 2005. Roddick was on the verge of winning the game but he started complaining and the match officials went to meet him to ask him what the issue was. He said that the ball that his opponent played and which the lines man claimed was out was not really out and that the linesman and the umpire had cheated his opponent. The opponent did not complain, but Andy Roddick complained for him. They went back and checked the play and found that Roddick was right and so they asked Fernando Verdasco to retake the play which he did and came back from defeat to win that game.
Do you know the headline that carried the next day? CNN carried this headline ‘Honesty Backfires as Roddick Loses’. Do you see how the world reasons? The world thinks of the now, but Christians have to think of eternity. Roddick lost in that present time because “the whole world is under the control of the evil one”. But Roddick gained in eternity.
When a broadcasting station is planning a particular programme, they will remind their audience that this programme will air on such and such a date. Sometimes we often ask each other, when will that programme air? Or, has it aired?
Every time we hear or use that word, we are using it in a biblical sense only that we are not conscious of it.
In Ephesians 2:2 we read “in which in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience” (NKJV). Ponder on that statement. Chew it over in your minds. What is the power of the air that the devil has which makes Scripture call him “the prince of the power of the air”?
And it is not just secular things that the media is putting into our sub conscious. The media is even manipulating the church.
There are many things that we do in the church that have no origins in The Bible but we practice them and the media is used to burn them into our sub conscions until we accept that these things are in The Bible but they are not.
Let’s read Deuteronomy 6:25. From this verse we understand that God wants us to worship Him in the way He prescribes. You are righteous when you obey God the way He asks you to obey Him.
My mother was having a discussion with me and she mentioned how the three wise men visited the Baby Jesus on Christmas. I told my mother that there is no such thing in The Bible and you know a Nigerian mother: she told me “shut up, who taught you Bible, is it not me”?
I then had her open The Bible and at 78, for the first time in her life, my mother, who reads The Bible everyday, discovered that Jesus was not born at Christmas, that there were no three wise men, but a group of Magi from The East and that Jesus was two years old when they visited Him.
She then told me, that if not that I showed this to her in Scripture, she would have been sure that she had read all these things in Scripture. And I explained to my mother that it was the media that subtly corrupts The Bible by adding and subtracting to it in movies and adverts that are used to promote the satanic agenda.
Twice in Scripture, we are told of the Mind of Christ. Philippians 2:5 says let this Mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians 2:16 says we have the Mind of Christ.
When we realize the depth of scripting that the enemy has performed on us with the media, we will begin to realize that just a perfunctory reading of the Word of God is not enough to renew our minds, especially our conscious minds.
I previously dwelt on how every item that is deleted being retained in our computers .However, you can get a computer technician to wipe them out.
It is this wiping out that God refers to in Romans 12:2 “be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”.
And you cannot wipe out what the media has imprinted into your mind if you spend more time feeding your conscious mind with the media’s diet than with the Word of God.
What is happening then is that the world is entering you at a faster pace than the Word is entering you. Do you know what will happen to you if you are like that? Matthew 13:22 says the world will choke the Word and it will become unfruitful in you. The thorns and the cares of this world are shows like ‘Meet the Kardashians’, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, European Premiership League, fashion, flashy cars, March Madness. In short anything that competes with The Word of God for your time and money are the cares of this world and they are fed to you principally using the media.
You see, when Jesus says in John 7:38 that if anyone believes in Him out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters, He is not talking about a literal belly and He is not referring to literal water. In fact, the New International Version does not use the term belly, living water will flow from within him.
The within that Jesus is referring to is our mind, and specifically, our subconscious mind. He means that we will be full to overflowing with the water, which is a metaphor for the Word of God and we will be so full that the Living Water shall flow from within us. It will so permeate our subconscious that it will form the paradigm through which we see the world.
But can we take up our cross and follow Jesus?
My wife’s brother has diabetes and I watch him do something. He calculates the calories in every food that he eats so that he does not have too much sugar in his blood. If he has too much sugar, he stands the risk of death.
I learnt something from him. If The Holy Spirit has convicted you with this message try to do this. Get a jotter or a journal and every night before you sleep, write down the amount of time you spent in that day on thinking about the things of the world and write how much time you devoted to thinking about the things of God and if your meditation is more on the world than on The Word then you may be at risk for Spiritual Diabtetes.
The cure for spiritual diabetes is to take in the medicine of The Word, more than you take in the message of the world.
Let me tell you what The Word does for you when you take it in regularly.
Love as a Clothing Item
Colossians 3:14, says “Above all, clothe yourselves with love” (NLT) proving that love is a clothing item. If you think in physical terms it might sound ridiculous when The Bible tells us to put on love as a garment. But have you asked yourself what God wears as clothes? Psalm 104:2 says “The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment”. 1 John 2:10 says “Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble”. We can see then that to love is to put on light as a garment. In Genesis 1:26 we read “Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness”. So, if we truly believe what God said, then we must “look up to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” of whom John 1:4 says “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind”. Jesus put on light as a garment to the extent that He oozed virtue from His clothes as we read in Mark 5:30 “And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?”.
So, let’s ask ourselves, are we putting on love/light every morning or are we putting on darkness. If you wake up and you don’t read the Word of God every morning but you follow the news either on the radio, on TV, the Internet or read a newspaper, you are not putting on spiritual clothes of love and light and you are not fulfilling the instruction of God in Romans 12:2.
Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and author of Shunpiking no shortcuts to God – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shunpiking-reno-omokri/1113766022?ean=9781937756895
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