Fervent by Priscilla Shirer
Week 7: Strategy 6 — Your Mind
Read Strategy 6 of Fervent by Priscilla Shirer. Key Scriptures: Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Philippians 4:8.
Priscilla calls the mind the primary battlefield — and argues that most spiritual warfare is actually won or lost in the thoughts we choose to entertain. These questions ask you to inventory your thought life with courageous honesty.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Priscilla describes the mind as the battleground where most of the enemy's strategy is actually executed — through lies, distortions, accusations, and obsessive thought patterns. Does that match your experience? What does the enemy's most persistent mental attack against you look like?
2.2 Corinthians 10:5 calls us to take every thought "captive" to obey Christ. What does that image of taking a thought *captive* suggest about the nature of the battle — and about what we are supposed to do before a thought becomes settled belief?
3.Priscilla identifies common lies the enemy plants in the mind — "I'm not enough," "God doesn't care," "This will never change," "I am what I have done." Which of these (or a variation of them) is most familiar to your own thought life?
a.Where did this thought pattern originate — in what experience, relationship, or season of your life?
b.What specific truth from Scripture directly contradicts it?
Closing Prayer
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