What to Do When

You Feel Like

Giving Up

by Jonas Clark

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from the King James Version.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE GIVING UP

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What to Do When You

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Feel Like Giving Up

Spiritual warfare against the mind releases fear,

confusion, despair and offense.

ave you felt like you just wanted to give

Hup and quit? Monday morning has come

and you just want to ignore the alarm clock

and pull the covers over your head. One of the

surest signs of spiritual attack against the mind

is the feeling that you want to throw up your

hands and surrender.

Spiritual battles are not fought with

fleshly ordnance. Scripture declares,

For though we walk in the flesh, we

do not war after the flesh. (2 Corinthians

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10:3)

Spiritual warfare isn’t mysterious or

mystical. It’s using the Word of God and your

delegated authority to oppose demonic

opposition against you. The Holy Spirit is still

giving us understanding of the ghostly powers

that battle against us in the unseen realm.

Scripture says,

We wrestle not against flesh and

blood. (Ephesians 6)

An imagination is an image, a

picture formed in the spirit of your

mind of something unseen.

Something that exists only in the

imagination is not real unless you

give life to it.

The Apostle Paul makes it clear that we

are in a spiritual war and declares that,

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The weapons of our warfare are not

carnal but mighty through God to the

pulling down of strongholds.

Before we attack principalities and powers

let’s learn how to pull down the warring

thoughts and imaginations that rise within us.

Paul exhorted us,

“Casting down

imaginations.” An imagination is an image, a

picture formed in the spirit of your mind of

something unseen.

Something that exists only in the

imagination is not real unless you give life to

it. Have you experienced an imagination

today? What did you do with it? Did you cast

it down and move ahead or have tea and

biscuits on white clothed tables?

Spiritual warfare against the mind releases

fear, confusion, despair and offense. Scripture

says such things do not come from God,

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For God hath not given us the spirit of

fear, but of power, and of love and of a

sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)

THE GREY HAZE

Let’s start with confusion. Corrupted

imaginations can affect sound judgment and

inject confusion into your life. Left

unrestrained they will release uncertainty and

cause difficulty with solving problems, staying

attentive and remaining focused.

Confusion is like a grey haze that dares

you to enter. Mental murk is the symptom of a

weapon that clouds truth. That’s why its

source needs to be justly observed. Sometimes

lack of rest, health or disinformation affects

your ability to solve problems or clear your

thoughts. At other times it’s the result of

spiritual attacks, warfare within your mind

that produces mixed-up thinking.

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When the haze assaults remember this:

“God is not the author of confusion but of

peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33). Often confusion

is a spiritual attack against your mind that has

little or nothing to do with the general

circumstances surrounding you. When

attacked by confusion, plead the blood of Jesus

over your mind and watch the cloudiness

disappear like the morning fog at sunrise.

LONELY WINTERS

Sad news can release despair. Yet dismay

from spiritual warfare usually has nothing to

do with a winter’s tale. Have you felt like you

just wanted to give up and quit? Monday

morning has come and you just want to turn

off the alarm and pull the covers over your

head.

One of the surest signs of spiritual attack

against the mind is the feeling that you want

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to throw up your hands and surrender.

Despair feels like a lonely winter. It is the

capricious notion that everything is wrong

and nothing will turn out well. It is an attack

against hope. Scripture says,

Now faith is the substance of things

hoped for the evidence of things not seen.

(Hebrews 11:1)

Notice that faith activates hope that

resides in the unseen realm within. You have

probably heard much about the importance of

faith, but faith activates hope. Hope is the stuff

that dreams are made of. That’s why the spirit

of this world attacks it so. If the enemy can

destroy your hope he can disarm your faith.

Those times when you feel like quitting and

the whole world is against you are sure signs

that victory is right at the door. Pick up your

double-edged sword and slay that feeling.

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PICTURED WITCHERY

Confusion can also be the result of

witchcraft that whispers in your ear.

Witchcraft is a spiritual force that battles

against the spirit of your mind. Ungodly

imaginations, for example, can have you

entertaining works of the flesh and take you

right out of the Spirit.

Some people are like the lone Joshua trees

found in Southern California’s Mojave Desert.

They are surrounded by desert and void of the

refreshing waters of the Holy Spirit. Those

who live according to their own hearts walk

in spiritual parchedness. Scripture describes

them as those that:

Have forsaken my law which I set

before them and have not obeyed my

voice neither walked therein but have

walked after the imagination of their own

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heart and after Baalim which their fathers

taught them. (Jeremiah 9:13-14)

Baalim was a darkened prophet that

ministered in divination and witchcraft

because of a covetous heart. He sold out God’s

chosen for “the rewards of divination,” power,

prestige and money (Numbers 22:7).

Thoughts that take you out of the Spirit

are evidence of the spiritual war against your

mind. Beware the fate of the foolish Galatians.

Some thoughts are works of witchcraft within

your imagination. Bewitching imaginations

that lead you away from God’s principles and

precepts into the flesh need to be bound and

cast down (Galatians 3:1-3).

Witchcraft works best inside one’s

imagination. Enchanted images are simply

focal points the prince of the power of the air

uses to attempt to steal Christ’s abundant life

within you. Scripture describes witchcraft as a

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work of the flesh.

But if you be led of the Spirit you are

not under the law. Now the works of the

flesh are manifest, which are these:

adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,

variance, emulations, wrath, strife,

seditions and heresies. (Galatians 5:18-20)

Witchcraft is a work of the flesh because

people have the power to cast down orphic

imaginations or to entertain them and walk

them out. Beware the ritual of pictured

witchery. You give life to an imagination by

speaking it. Scripture declares that “life and

death are in the power of the tongue.” You

have to be careful what you speak because the

world of the spirit doesn’t operate on what

you mean, it operates on what you say (Mark

11:23).

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If someone releases fear at you

through one of their imaginations,

again, bind it up. You can declare

God's truth over your life by saying,

“No weapon formed against me can

prosper in Jesus’ name!”

When you speak the imaginations that

attack your mind you prophesy over your life.

So be cautious with your words because

speaking vain imaginations, an activity of your

flesh, is a form of witchcraft according to the

Scripture you just read.

Others may have witchy thoughts about

you and speak them over you. When they do,

they give life to them and pass the assignment

on. Now you have to deal with those spoken

words. Not only was the imagination working

within their imagination leading to wrong

conclusions but now they’ve released the

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assignment of that imagination against your

life; when they do, it releases confusion, a

form of witchcraft. If this happens to you,

don’t receive it. Don’t think about it. Don’t

agree with it. Don’t repeat it. Bind it up and

cast it down. Period.

Avoid other peoples imaginations

and don't try to combat thoughts

with thoughts.

Someone may say, for example, “I was

thinking about you last night and recommend

that you double lock your doors tonight

because I just feel danger in the air.” Or they

may talk about how you’re going to be sick

and so on. Don’t give life to other people’s

fleshly munitions.

When spoken, vain imaginations release

demonic assignments through fear. If someone

releases fear at you through one of their

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imaginations, again, bind it up. You can

declare God’s truth over your life by saying,

“No weapon formed against me can prosper in

Jesus’ name!”

Remember that warring against

imaginations means that you chain every

thought, every word and every imagination to

the Word of God, even the gossiping words

spoken by others. Some Christians are taken

out by imaginations because they don’t know

how to campaign against them. Use God’s

Word in your life and take dominion over

vain imaginations. Avoid other people’s

imaginations and don't try to combat thoughts

with thoughts. Instead use the Word of God

and your spiritual authority to take them

captive.

DIVIDING ASUNDER

As we continue to conquer vain thoughts

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and imaginations we understand that

obedience to the Word of God is a given. We

know that it is the power of the Word of God,

believed, spoken, and acted on, that

demolishes every demonic stronghold that

crusades against our minds. The writer of the

Book of Hebrews explained the Logos of God

like this:

“or the word of God is quick, and

powerful, and sharper than any two-edged

sword, piercing even to the dividing

asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints

and marrow, and is a discerner of the

thoughts and intents of the heart.

(Hebrews 4:12)

This is one of my favorite verses in the

Bible. Its truth unlocks the mystery of holy

writ teaching that the Word of God is a

“discerner of the thoughts and the intents of

the heart,”—your heart. It examines every

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imagination for truth, motive and reality.

Unlike any other book in history it teaches

you what to think, when to think and how to

think.

When an imagination enters your mind,

for example, you can use the Word of God to

rightly divide and examine it for truth and

use. This makes it easy for you. All you have

to do is simply let the Word of God judge the

thoughts for you, rightly divide them and give

you the truth needed to make right decisions

with your life. If the thoughts are good,

receive them. If not, reject them. It’s that

simple.

Imagination is a powerful tool that

unlocks innovation and creates many

wonderful things. Many years ago I learned

that the freedom to imagine must first be

fortified with chapter and verse Bible truth.

Some imaginations are good. You might

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imagine how to build a more fuel efficient car

and that’s a good thing. But your imagination,

your life and the spirit of your mind needs to

be fortified with truth. When that’s done,

dream on.

We have learned throughout this book

that man’s destiny is controlled by thoughts,

imagination, experience, reasoning, intellect

and God's Word. The choice is always yours to

decide what you draw on to make decisions.

Conquering wayward imaginations is

something that you have to do every day. That

is why it’s so important that you understand

how to deal with them.

Sometimes the question is asked, “How do

we know if an imagination has been taken

captive?” The answer is clear. A captive

imagination has no freedom to express itself. It

is dead. If it keeps coming up over and again,

then you haven't yet won the war against it.

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Be encouraged and don't give up. Some battles

take longer and are more profitable than

others and require more fortitude.

UNYIELDING DETERMINATION

Perseverance is part of the human spirit.

There is not a hero in history that escaped a

measure of failure before success. Charles J.

Fox, supporter of anti-slavery and American

independence wrote,

Show me a young man who has not

succeeded at first and has then gone on

and I will back that man to do better than

those who succeeded at the first trail.

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Through Christ you can make it,

you can succeed. All of us are

products of decisions, faith and

determination. With Christ you are

more than a conqueror.

The Word declares of those that know

their God they will be “strong and do exploits”

(Daniel 11:32). Perseverance is a godly trait.

Dr. Orison Marden, early 20th century

motivational author agreed. He said,

Most men fail, not through lack of

education or agreeable personal qualities,

but from lack of dogged determination,

from lack of dauntless will.

Scripture gives us the remedy for fatigue.

“Let the weak say I am strong” (Joel 3:10).

There is something in verbalizing what Christ

said you can do. Through Christ you can make

it, you can succeed. All of us are products of

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decisions, faith and determination. With

Christ you are more than a conqueror.

ACTION EXERCISE

Confusion, despair and gossiping are

common weapons of the enemy. They can

come when others talk spitefully against you

or during times of discouragement and

rejection. How they come is not as important

as knowing how to battle against them. Christ

is not the author of confusion but the finisher

of your faith. He never taught His disciples to

battle with fleshly weapons but spiritual ones.

Jesus said,

I give unto you power to tread on

serpents and scorpions and over all the

power of the enemy and nothing shall by

any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19)

Use that authority today and attack every

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power of darkness, confusion, despair and

offense that battles your soul.

The mind is not immune to the

consequences of depraved reasoning. In the

next chapter let’s discover the process and find

the escape.

MEDITATION AND REFLECTION

•

Spiritual warfare is using the Word of

God and your delegated authority to

oppose demonic opposition against

you.

•

Before we attack principalities and

powers let’s learn how to pull down

the warring thoughts and imaginations

that rise within us.

•

One of the surest signs of spiritual

attack against the mind is the feeling

that you want to throw up your hands

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and quit.

•

Witchcraft is a spiritual force that

battles against the spirit of your mind.

•

The world of the spirit doesn’t operate

on what you mean, it operates on what

you say.

•

A captive imagination has no freedom

to express itself.

•

If the enemy can destroy your hope he

can disarm your faith.

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Document Outline

- What to Do When You Feel Like Giving Up

- 1 What to Do When You Feel Like Giving Up

- The Grey Haze

- Lonely Winters

- Pictured Witchery

- Dividing Asunder

- Unyielding Determination

- Action Exercise

- Meditation and Reflection

Table of Contents

What to Do When You Feel Like Giving Up

1 What to Do When You Feel Like Giving Up

The Grey Haze

Lonely Winters

Pictured Witchery

Dividing Asunder

Unyielding Determination

Action Exercise

Meditation and Reflection