Think good thoughts

Have you ever let yourself down and been ashamed to ask for God's mercy?  Have you ever found yourself struggling with a habit or habitual thought that you know is not pleasing before God?  Do you know that you can overcome your struggle through renewing your mind with the Word of God?  I know that sometimes the Word of God may seem theoretical to us when we have not caught a revelation..  I will make this practical.  If we can saturate our minds with positive thoughts, worship songs, testimonies and God's promises, our minds will get used to thinking along those lines, such that when we are in an idle state of mind the first thought that comes to our minds is not kissing, sex or jealousy but a joyous song you learnt at Sunday school.  Impure thoughts will still try to find their place in our minds but when we have fed ourselves with so much Word through music, Christian literature and the Bible, it will be easier for us to cast down these imaginations and subject them to the Word of God.  There is no healthy man or woman that has never had an impure thought, our bodies react to the things we see, hear and feel and even if there was no sex promoting media, there are beautiful men and women around us and we will naturally appreciate and react to such people.  But if we think of sex every time we see a man we consider handsome, then we must deal with our thoughts, using the Word of God and seeking His grace to help us.  We need to become experts at controlling our bodies and our thoughts.  God has made it possible for us, so let us take our victory over sin and march on.