2 Timothy 1: 7 (KJV)
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Fear is a spirit, when you function in fear, you function by a different spirit.
God has given us a sound mind, and if God has given us a sound mind, a sound has to have a proper diet; what is the proper diet for a sound mind, The Word. The Word of God is the food for your spirit and also the food for the mind.
God has given us a sound mind, but we need to feed the sound mind with the right diet. The devil will offer us the wrong diet, but we have to decline the wrong diet the devil offers. Anything that threatens the soundness of mind is the wrong diet.
You must get rid of negative thoughts, troubling thoughts, wrong thoughts, worried thoughts, harassing thoughts, troubling thoughts and thoughts of fear.
Any thought that negates the reality of the Word of God must be pulled down. Don’t wait till it becomes a big mountain; don’t nurse it, don’t trivialise it. Pull it down.
Let’s see what The Amplified calls “The Sound Mind”
2 Timothy 1:7 (AMPC)
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.
That is how a sound mind functions. That’s the flow of a sound mind – It is calm, it is well balanced, it is disciplined. It is self-controlled.
Bring every thought to the obedience of Christ by talking to your thoughts. Everything listens. Everything has ears.
Talk to your mind until all the noises die. Don’t give any place to the devil. If you give him a mile, he will take 100 miles. Pick your Bible and read the Word of God. Read it out loud. Force yourself to read, and as you read, a time of refreshing from the Lord’s presence will dawn on your soul.
Say this with me; I have a sound mind, my mind is calm, well balanced and self controlled. Hallelujah!