Your mind is the real you; the mind resides within your spirit and soul.

When it comes to the process of human thought, there is still much humans don’t understand; however, it’s been proven there is a fundamental difference between the brain and the mind. The brain is the grey matter inside your head; it is the physical organ giving direction to the other parts of your body through an intricate system of nerves. Doctors can point to different areas of the brain that control various functions of our body. When you die your brain will return to dust, but not your mind.
Your mind while somehow connected to your brain is not physical. Your mind is the real you; the mind resides within your spirit and soul. Your mind is eternal because when you die your spirit and soul separates from your body. For the believer Scripture says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. However we won’t be mindless spirits; the mind will live on with the spirit and soul.


ILLUSTRATION: Your ability to think and reason is similar to the way a computer functions. The computer hardware with all of its wires and circuitry is like your brain; it is the physical part. However, the computer is useless without the software. Programs must be installed to the memory of the computer in order for it to function. The software, like the mind is not physical; you can add or remove software from your computer and yet you won’t make the computer heavier or lighter. The physical part of the computer remains unchanged by the software it contains. But the hardware is useless without the software.


Society assumes that if something is not working right between your ears, then it is a HARDWARE PROBLEM. If you struggle with suicidal thoughts, if you are depressed, if you are paranoid, anxious, and fearful, it must be caused by some chemical imbalance or some other physical problem with your brain. Therefore if you take the right pill, if you eat certain foods, if you do this or that, then you can cure your brain and the problem will go away. The reason doctors and psychiatrists think it is a hardware problem in your brain is because the world does not accept in the spiritual realm.


Whatever may be going on between your ears is not a hardware problem; it is a SOFTWARE PROBLEM. In other words, your problem is not physical but spiritual. You need to change the programming within your thinking, to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. You have developed certain patterns of thought that have given Satan a stronghold in your life; if Satan can control the way you think he can control your life. You don’t need a pill; you need to stop waging war as the world and use weapons with divine power to demolish strongholds by taking every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ.