Until a person becomes born-again he or she is under the thought process of demonic spirits. Because until you get genuinely saved you basically operate from a demon's way of thinking. And how you think is what governs your life and how you ultimately live.
"We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one." 1 John 5:19
"If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing. Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God." 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
No matter how nice or graceful we imagine ourselves to be: we even parent from a demonic perspective. The scriptures declare:
"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one..." Romans 3:10
Jesus Himself even stated: "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!" Matthew 7:11
Jesus basically called even the best parent an evil parent: because until one comes into a dynamic born-again REAL encounter with the living resurrected Jesus: that person still carries the wicked, evil and demented mindset of demons.
See, you have to understand that from the day you were born you've been mentored by an evilness that controls the mindset and way of thinking of everyone in the world. And it remains this way for you until you fully surrender your life - including your mind - to Jesus Christ. Especially your mind! Because your mind is the controlling factor for how you think, act, treat others, treat yourself, and for how you live.
Even when we are born-again we still must go through the lifelong process of renewing our minds. We do this by literally being brainwashed; not in a bad negative way. But in a good way. The right way. After all:
if your brain has been steeped in filth and darkness its entire existence, washing it is exactly what's needed. And you wash your mind by listening to the Word of God - the Bible - and allowing it to teach you how to live, act and be.
By allowing your mind to go through the metamorphosis of total transformation under the brilliant cleansing light of God's Word, you prepare yourself to be a Kingdom citizen of the Most High, and a person God can trust with His true riches.
Get into His word! Become studious - addicted even - to reading and devouring the scriptures. You know you are undergoing the type of transformational positive brainwashing I'm speaking of here when you find yourself crazy-addicted to studying the Bible. You can't get enough of it, no matter how many times or how often you've read it.
That's the kind of addiction God wants you to have; an addiction to hearing what God has to say.
"O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water." Psalm 63:1
That's the place we all need to strive to get to: where God becomes our fix and our addiction! God wants to do a clean, complete work in your life. And He wants to start today. Will you let Him?
