22-1114P_THE BATTLE OF THE MIND

1Pe 5:7  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 

1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 

1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 

1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 

1Pe 5:11  To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

Isa 14:12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 

Isa 14:13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 

Isa 14:14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 

Isa 14:15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 

Isa 14:16  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 

Isa 14:17  That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 

Isa 14:18  All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 

Isa 14:19  But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 

Isa 14:20  Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. 

THE BATTLE OF THE MIND

36 A devil is almost harmless unless he can have something to work in. He’s got…You remember those devils that were cast out of Legion? They had…they want to do more mischievousness, so they wanted to go in the hogs. So, devils must have something to work in, somebody to work through.

37 And that’s the way God does, too. He has to have us. He’s depending on us, to work through us.
    

    62-0311 - The Greatest Battle Ever Fought Rev. William Marrion Branham

68 When this great battle started on earth, there had to be a mutual meeting place. There had to be a place selected for the battle to begin, and for the battle to rage. And that battlegrounds begin in the human mind. There is where the battle starts. The human mind was chosen for the place of the battle, where it was begin, and that is because that decisions are made from the mind, the head. Now, they never started it from some organization. They never started it from some mechanical affair. The grounds never started there. Therefore, that organization can never, never do the work of God, because the battlegrounds, where you’ve got to meet your enemy, is in the mind. You’ve got to make your choice. It meets you.

70 Decisions are made in the mind, the head. There is where Satan meets you, and the decisions are, because that God made a man that way.
    

   62-0311 - The Greatest Battle Ever Fought  Rev. William Marrion BranhaM

53 And Satan can only…His power, he’s got, is the perverted power of God. It isn’t no real power. It’s a perversion of God’s power, everything that Satan has. Death is only a perverted life. A lie is only the truth mistold. See? Adultery is a—a act misused, a righteous act misused. See? Everything that Satan has got is something that was perverted, but it’s a power.

54 And we are, today, setting here, and one or the other power is going to control us. So let’s cast out the evil one. Let’s take our position like the stars of the heavens.

55 As the Bible speaks, “Wandering stars,” over in the Book of Jude, “foaming out their own shame.” And we don’t want to be wandering stars; wonder if this is right, wonder if that is right, wonder if it will happen, wonder if…how it could be. Don’t wander. Stay like those stars of the heaven, as a real soldier at his post of duty. Stand there, believing! Life and death.

    62-0311 - The Greatest Battle Ever Fought Rev. William Marrion Branham

56 Now, an army, when really an army, a nation makes ready to go against another nation, it should first set down and figure what’s right and wrong, and whether they’re able to go against the next nation or not. Jesus taught that. And if people would do that, if the nations would—would sit down, and stop and think those things, both sides, we would have no more war.

57 Now, we find out, if a man doesn’t do that, if the military heads of the nation doesn’t sit down, first, and figure and see that they are right, and their motives and objectives right, and if they have enough strength and power to overcome the next army, then they’re sure to lose.

    62-0311 - The Greatest Battle Ever Fought Rev. William Marrion Branham

60 And so an army, first, in getting ready for a battle, first there’s got to be a select, some soldiers. They’ve got to be dressed for fighting. They’ve got to be trained for fighting.

61 And I believe that the greatest battle that was ever fought, is now ready to go in action. I believe that God has been selecting His soldiers. I believe He’s been dressing them, training them. And the battle front is now set, getting ready to start.
    62-0311 - The Greatest Battle Ever Fought Rev. William Marrion Branham

62 This great, first battle that was ever fought, begin in Heaven, when Michael and His Angels fought against Lucifer and his angels. It first started, the first battle was in Heaven. So, sin did not originate on earth, it originated in Heaven.

63 And then it was thrown down from Heaven, cast out of Heaven, to the earth, and fell on human beings. Then the battle, from angels, become human battles. And Satan come to destroy God’s creation, what God had created to be for Hisself. He had, Satan, come to destroy this. That’s what his purpose was, was to destroy it. Then the battle begin here on earth, and begin in us, and has been raging ever since.

64 Now, before any battle can be put in array, they first have to choose a meeting ground, or a place where the battle is to be fought, a selected place.
    

    62-0311 - The Greatest Battle Ever Fought Rev. William Marrion Branham

71 Now, I have (if you was looking on my note here) a little map drawed out. I had it here not long ago, on…used on the board. The human being is made up just like a grain of wheat. It’s a seed. And the human being is a seed. Physically, you’re the seed of your father and mother; and the life come from the father, the pulp come from the mother. So, the two, together, the egg and the—the blood, comes together. And in the blood cell is life. And in there it begins, develop, making the—the child. Now, any seed has a shell on the outside; the inside is pulp; and inside of the pulp is the germ of life. Well, that’s the way we’re made. We are body, soul, and spirit. The outside, the body, the shell; the inside of that, the conscience and so forth, is the soul; and the inside the soul, is a spirit. And the spirit governs all the other.

72 Now, if you’ll sit down when you get home, and draw three little rings. You’ll find out that the outside body has five senses it’s contacted by, and that is see, taste, feel, smell, hear. That’s the five senses that control the human body.

73 Inside of the body is a soul, and that soul is controlled by imaginations, conscience, memory, reasons, and affections. That’s the thing that controls the soul.

74 But, the spirit, it only has one sense. The spirit…Oh, let’s get it. The spirit has one sense, and that sense is, either dominates it, is faith or doubt. That’s exactly. And there’s only one avenue to it, that’s free moral agency. You can accept doubt or you can accept faith, either one you want to work on. Therefore, Satan begin at the principal part, to cause the spirit of man to doubt God’s Word. God begin at the principal part, to lay His Word in that spirit. There you are. That’s what does it.

75 If this church, right now could be put together, and knitted together with such that every person would be in one accord, with not one shadow of doubt anywhere, there would not be a feeble person in our midst, in another five minutes. There would not be nobody here desiring the Holy Ghost but what would receive It, if you could just get that certain thing fixed. Now, there is where the battle begins, right in your mind, whether you will.