Proverbs 4:23 ‘Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.’

• •          DAILY READING –      Luke 19:28-48; Genesis 34; Psalm 26

At the start of World War I in 1914, Germany was a powerful nation, poised to win the war. However, it eventually lost partly due to the attack on the minds of German soldiers. One of the most powerful aspects of warfare is that of psychological manipulation. Psychological warfare is the planned tactical use of propaganda and other non-combat techniques during wars to demoralize or negatively influence the thinking or behavior of an enemy. It has been said that psychological warfare is actually capable of defeating the enemy without even engaging them.

One of the famous methods of psychological operations is Airborne leaflet propaganda. This is a form of psychological warfare in which leaflets  or flyers with negative messages are dropped from the air into enemy terrritoy. Aerial leaflets were first used on a large scale during World War I. The British dropped packets of leaflets over German trenches containing negative news about the German government.  In these leaflets the British accuse the German government of being inhumane and using their soldiers as mere fodders for war. By the  end of the war, the British had distributed almost 26 million leaflets. Though the German military leaders strictly warned their soldiers not to read these papers being dropped by the British, many still secretly read it. As a result many of these German soldiers became demoralized and disillusioned. Realizing the spreading negative effect on their soldiers, the Germans began shooting the leaflet-dropping pilots, prompting the British to develop unmanned leaflet balloons that still carried the leaflets into the enemy territory. These leaflets became so effective in demoralizing German soldiers that despite the fact that Germany was a powerful country at the start of the war, it eventually lost the war.

Proverbs 4:23 says ‘Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.’

In spiritual battles, the enemy greatly employs the use of Psychological warfare. With negative words, he often attacks the minds of men to make them believe that situations are hopeless. Especially on the mainstream media, negative news are often prevalent. And indeed negative words can be demoralizing. If you constantly listen to negative news, you may get so demoralized to easily want to give up. The battle of the mind is real. Therefore we should not take lightly the propaganda the enemy often sends to our minds. And filling our hearts with The Word of God is the way to overcome, the war against our mind.

Ephesians 6:16 says ‘Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.’ The shield of faith is what quenches all the fiery darts of the wicked. Faith comes by hearing and hearing The Word. So the more we hear The Word the more we are lifting up the shield of faith over our hearts against the enemy’s darts. Isaiah 59 says when the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of God will lift up a standard against him. The standard The Spirit lifts is The Word of God. If you have taken the time to constantly fill your mind with The Word of God, during times of challenges, The Holy Spirit will keep quickening Scriptures to your heart. And as you hope in God’s Word and hold on to it, your heart will be strengthened to overcome.

It is the entrance of the Word that gives light and as that light shines, the darkness cannot comprehend it. It is unto each man according to his faith. What you believe is what you receive, let us therefore build up our faith through keeping our hearts filled constantly with The Word. Indeed when the light of God’s Word dominates our heart there will be no room for darkness.

PRAYER: Lord, please help me to keep my heart constantly filled with Your Word, so that there will be no room for any negative word to grip my heart. I thank You Lord for a renewed appetite for Your Word, and renewed fire on my prayer altar in Jesus Name.

QUOTE :

Illuminate your world for you are a star destined to shine. WORDBITE 222..