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Battlefield of the mind (Joyce Meyer). Summarize. 2 On the other hand, the book talks about some very interesting topics, for example: why you should stop reasoning that much instead of following what you are feeling your spirit/heart/God wants you to do… why is so important to have faith and why doubt is so dangerous and can weakens you! What is the meaning of trust in God and put your heart on Him instead of worldly things. How important is to surveillance thoughts and beware about what kind of thoughts we allow to be in our mind. What is love, and how you can really love yourself and other people. How important is to be thankful about the things you have in your life. How not even your behavior or words toward other people can affect them but even thoughts you have about them. How important is to study and to meditate about religious texts. The third part of the book is interesting. It talks about the “wilderness mentalities”. People from Israel were walking across the wilderness for forty years, this is too much time and even many of them died in the way, and why? Why this journey took them so much time? Because they had a wrong mentality! So, in this part, the author talks about this “wilderness mentality” that you mustn’t hold if you want to achieve your goals and not being stuck in life like Israel’s people that were in the desert for such a long time. By the way, this way of reading the bible trying to interpret the psychology lesson is really valuable. In fact there are many people that do this along all their life with the ancient texts. So, in this third part of the book the author tell us the kind of thoughts, attitudes and ideas that you must not hold. Many of them are obvious and psychologically already good known. But some others of them are not that obvious and are interesting. So, the Israelites were plodding along for the desert, complaining about their situation, blaming Moses, and with no faith in God at all. In short: total disaster. Then the author add the Israelites didn’t want take any responsibility of themselves, they wanted to achieve their goals easily, they wanted to give up, etc. It seems they needed to do that hard journey in order to be prepared to reach the Promised Land, precisely because they weren’t yet ready for that. In this sense, that travel across the wilderness was a way of spiritually developing, and obviously this can mean a metaphor for everybody.

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On the other hand, the book talks about some very interesting topics, for example; why you should stop reasoning so much, instead of following what you are feeling and what God wants you to do… why it is so important to have faith and why doubt is so dangerous and can weaken you!

What is the meaning of trust in God and putting your heart in Him, instead of worldly things. How important it is to cleanse our thoughts and be aware of the kind of thoughts we allow into our minds. What is love, and how you can really love yourself and other people. How important it is to be thankful about the things you have in your life. How not just your behavior or words towards other people can affect them, but even the thoughts you have about them. How important is to study and to meditate over religious texts.

The third part of the book is interesting. It talks about the “wilderness mentalities." The Israelites were walking across the wilderness for forty years, to the point where many of them died on the journey. Why did this journey take them so much time? Because they had the wrong mentality!

So, in this part of the book, the author talks about this “wilderness mentality” that you mustn’t hold back if you want to achieve your goals and not remain stuck in life like the Israelites that were in the desert for such a long time.

This way of reading the bible by trying to interpret the psychological lesson intended is really valuable. In fact, there are many people that do this along all their life with many ancient texts. So, in this third part of the book the author tells us the kind of thoughts, attitudes and ideas that you must not hold. Many of them are obvious and psychologically already well-known. But some others of them are not that obvious and are interesting. So, the Israelites were plodding along in the desert, complaining about their situation, blaming Moses, and with no faith in God at all.

In short: a total disaster.

Then the author adds that the Israelites didn’t want to take any responsibility for themselves, they wanted to achieve their goals easily, they wanted to give up, etc.

It seems they needed to undertake that hard journey in order to be prepared to reach the Promised Land, precisely because they weren’t yet ready for it. In this sense, that journey across the wilderness was means to spiritual development, and obviously this can be used as a metaphor for everybody's personal spiritual journey.

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