PASSIVE
MIND - THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP
LIST
OF SCRIPTURES
Deut.: Amp. Ver. (You will find out how to
use your mind in this book.)
II Kings 4:8-35 (Shunammite Woman)
Prov. 2:2-7 (Find the knowledge of God.)
Prov. 3:5-10 (Trust in the Lord with all your
heart.)
Prov. 3:13-14, 24 (Unrelaxed Mind)
Prov. 6:4-11 ("0" Sluggard)
Prov. 6:17-18 (Abomination to God)
Prov. 10:19-20 (Talk too much.)
Isa. 26:3 (God will guard.)
Isa. 30:15-17 (Rest and trust in God.)
Isa. 55:8-9 (God's thoughts not ours.)
Jer. 12:5 (If in a safe land, you fall down.)
Dan. 6:14-23 (King's mind compared to Daniel)
Malachi (This book shows the difference between
God's mind and man's mind on issues which are very
important to God.)
Matt. 3:2 (Repent - How sincere has our
repentance been?)
Luke 1:27-38 (Mary accepts God's will.)
Luke 9:25-26 (Being ashamed of God before man
is weakness of mind.)
Rom. 1:28 (Passive mind is reprobate, considers
God worthless.)
Rom. 6:16-19 (Active mind and body as servants
of God)
Rom. 8:6-7 (Holy Spirit mind and fleshly mind)
Rom. 10:12 (Take heed lest he fall.)
Rom. 12:1-3 (Make correct judgement of self.)
II Cor. 4:4 (Passive mind blind)
II Cor. 4:16 (Inactive mind)
II Cor. 10:3-5 (Bring thoughts into obedience
to Christ.)
II Cor. 5:23 (Fruit of the spirit is
self-control.)
Gal. 5:24 (Crucify the flesh - actively.)
Gal. 6:3-7 (Make correct judgement of self -
God is not mocked.)
Eph. 4:7 (Grace is given to each of us.)
Eph. 4:17-20 (Cults and spiritism)
Eph. 4:21-24, 32 (You are an active
participant.)
Phil. 2:3-9 (God worketh in you.)
Phil. 3:13 (Lashing backwards)
Phil. 4:6-8 (Think on these things.)
Col. 1:21-23 (If you continue)
Col. 3:2 (A commandment - set your mind on
things above.)
II Tim. 1:7 (No fear)
II Tim. 2:21-26 (Refuse - shut your mind to
youthful lusts, controversies.)
James 1:7 (Double minded man will not receive
from God.)
I Pet. 1:13 (Gird up your mind.)
I Pet. 4:7 (Keep sound-minded)
I Pet. 5:7-8 (Worry drains the mind and body.)
II Pet. 3:1 (Sincere mind)
DEFINITIONS OF THE PASSIVE MIND
Earline's definition is a mind not directed
by its owner but open to allow any thought to pass
through. It often accepts lies as truth, and fears as
facts.
Webster's definition is receiving impression
from external agents - not acting -being the objective
of the action rather than the subject.
Passive Mind
The passive mind does not accept completely
the Word of God as Truth therefore it is always
questioning and wondering. This questioning and
wondering weakens the will, causing the person to be
slow to obey God. This is the cause of most of the
instability we see in Christians today. It causes us
to be unsettled in our minds. God's purpose within is
to establish and settle us (I Peter 5:6-11). If we
refuse to stand against the Devil, God cannot
strengthen us.
Active Mind
The active mind studies and tests God's word, sees it
work. believes it, accepts it, trusts it, and relies
on it. It is continually learning more of God's will
and obeying his precepts. How do you know a Christian?
By watching him do what God has said in the Bible for
him to do.
Mental passivity includes in its descriptive
words: unreasoning, inactive, unenthusiastic,
unresponsive, unqualified obedience to the commands of
another, lawful or unlawful. (Mark 4:24 - futile mind;
Eph. 4:17-19 - seducing pastors or teachers who
patronize you to get you on their side, many times
opposing God's Word; Rom. 6:16 - You will become the
slave of whomever you yield your mind to obey.) A
person who does not successfully complete earthly
duties shows mental passivity.
Consider and read these scriptures: Jer. 12:5
(This scripture is to the prophet, Jeremiah. It is
also to pastors and Christians today. If you are
afraid to live for and obey God in time of peace, what
will you do in time of trial and persecution?); Rom.
12:1-2 (whole body including mind is sacrifice); Eph.
4:17-32 (strip self of all old mental and spiritual
attitudes and put on new.); Phil. 2:13 (God's power
works in us and we will to do His Word.)
CAUSES OF THE PASSIVE MIND
Manipulation by Jezebelic mother or father,
and Ahab mother or father.Ignorance of spiritual
commandments given in Old and New Testaments.
Looking back and using the same method of
drawing conclusions.
Draining mental energy by constant
recriminations and unproductive activity of worrying,
plotting and planning.
QUIET MIND VS. PASSIVE MIND
If we give thanks to God and truly trust Him we have
inner peace. Our minds and bodies both work and
produce better.
A quiet mind is at peace and resting in the
Lord with full confidence in God even in times of
trial. A passive mind is always active "spinning
wheels" with thoughts running rampart through it
jumping from one thing to another, almost never at
rest or at peace.
Consider and read these scriptures. II Kings
4:8-36 (Shunammite woman not intimidated by death);
Isa. 30:15-16 (God called His people to quietness and
trusting Him in order to have confidence and
strength); Dan. 6:14-23 (King let his mind be played
upon by people; in pride and ignorance he would have
shed innocent blood had not God come to Daniel's
help); Luke 1:27-38 (Mary not passive in accepting
God's plans for her - it was not unusual in that day
for unmarried pregnant women to be stoned on their way
to the well, etc.); I Pet. 3:3-4 (God's woman has
peace of mind.)
ACTIVE PARTICIPANT
You must be an active participant in your
change from old to new life (passive to active). (Jer.
12:5 - You cannot run with the men on horseback unless
your mind is settled by a life of practice in obeying
God's Word; Heb. 2:3 - How shall we escape
(appropriate retribution) if we neglect so great
salvation; II Tim. 3:2-5 - A chilling account of the
mind in last days (seems like what we see today; Eph.
4:17-32 We cannot live as the unsaved!)
To a passive person, Phil. 2:3 means that God
will work everything out for me. God does the willing
and doing.
To an active person, Phil. 2:3 means that God
will work in me as I obey His commandments and line
myself up with His Will. Then His good pleasure is
done in and through me.
Consider and read these scriptures which teach
about the active/passive mind:
Prov. 3:5-10.
Vs. 5. Lean on, trust in and be confident in
the Lord with all your heart and mind, and do not rely
on your own insight or understanding.
Vs. 6. In all your ways know, and recognize and
acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight
and plain your paths.
Vs. 7. Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently
fear and worship the Lord, and turn (entirely) away
from evil.
Vs. 8. It will be health to your nerves and
sinews, and marrow and moistening to your bones.
This seems like a prescription for good mental,
spiritual and physical health. The rest of these
scriptures give more insight about how to work out
Pro. 3:5-10. Pro.3:13-14; 6:17-18; Isa. 26:3; 55:8-9;
Rom. 6:16; 8:6-7; 10:12; 12:1-3; II Cor. 10:3-5; Eph.
4:21-32; Gal. 6:3; Phil. 2:4-9; 4:8; Col. 1:21; II
Tim. 1:7; James 1:7; I Pet. 1:13; II Pet. 3:1.
We must repent, change our mind and change our
conduct. The battle for our minds began in the Garden
of Eden with Adam and Eve. In Matt. 3 in we see the
contrast between the minds of those obeying God and
those in disobedience;
II Cor. 4:4, following the god of this world
brings a blinded mind. Gen. 3:1-6, doubt, unbelief,
questioning God, adding to what God has said brings
instability. Rom. 6:16, results of yielding to wrong
person or attitudes, etc.
PASSIVE MIND (EXCERPTS)
The passive mind is blind to the Word of God. In a
Christian, the passive mind will hear and accept the
Devil's opinions about life and its situations. It
looks at them in the Devil's light rather than the
Light of God. It uses great swelling words to argue
with God - "BUT GOD".
The passive mind is a reprobate mind. After
much agreeing with the Devil, soon God is not in all
of our thoughts, and we become vain or empty of the
truth (Rom. 1:28). All sin in played with in the mind
before it is committed.
Cults, spiritism and mind control need minds
empty of God to fully operate in (Eph. 4:17-20).
An active mind should get stronger as it
matures. An inactive mind desires to do these things
but does very little (II Cor. 4:16).
Inactive minds babble away by talking too much,
often about things they know little about, using
incorrect facts and assumptions. The unrelaxed mind
causes sleepless nights (Prov. 3:24; 10:19).
Deuteronomy contains the formula for the
correct use of mind and heart.
Deut. 4:9, set your mind to remember what God
has done.
4:29, seek God with your whole heart.
4:39, recognize that the Lord is God in heaven
and on earth; there is no other.
5:29, fear God and keep His commandants.
6:5, love God with your entire being.
6:6, God's words shall be first in your mind
and heart.
6:7, impress them diligently on the minds and
hearts of your children.
7:17, don't fear larger nations.
8:2, know if you will keep His commandants.
8:5, know also in your mind and heart that, as
a man disciplines and instructs his son, so the Lord
your God disciplines and instructs you. We should be
diligent in our discipline and instruction of our
children so that God will quickly and correctly
discipline and instruct us.
8:14, when God has blessed you don't forget
Him.
8:17, don't forget God blessed you and get
proud and say you did it yourself.
9:4. don't say in your heart that God's
blessings fall on you because you are righteousness.
9:5, God is keeping His promise to Abraham.
10:12, see 6:5. 11:13-14, diligently serve God
and He will send early and latter rain for crops and
grass for cattle.
11:16, don't be deceived and worship other
gods.
11:18, lay God's
words as forehead bands before your eyes.
15:7, shall not harden heart against nor refuse
to help poor brethren.
15:9, have no greed for brother's goods.
17:20, don't be lifted up in your heart over
your brothers.
18:22, do not be afraid of false prophets.
20:3, trust God fear no enemy.
20: 8, let fainthearted return home.
Read chapter 27-28 to see how you will be
blessed or cursed.
28:47, destruction for not serving the Lord
with gratitude of heart and mind.
28:67 disobedience will bring extreme anxiety.
o God with whole being.
30:10, if you sincerely repent you will be
forgiven.
30:14, Word of God is in our mouth.
30:17-20, punishment for turning to demons and
Satan.
31:46, set mind and heart on the words of God
delivered to you this day.
II Cor. 10:3-5, we
are totally helpless against Satan if we use natural
weapons or our thoughts but, if in all confrontations
we use God's Word as the leveler, we win.
Eph. 4:22-32, you are the one who will have to
strip yourself of your old nature (you will do this
through Bible study, and putting the Biblical
information into practice daily and by using God's
provision of deliverance from demon bondage).
Col. 1:21, you must remain well grounded in the
Gospel.
II Cor. 10:5, you will learn to control the use
of your thoughts.
WAR ON THE
SAINTS
The best book we have found to help you understand how
the mind works is the unabridged edition of WAR ON THE
SAINTS by Jessie Penn-Lewis with Evan Roberts, The
Ninth Edition, Thomas E. Lowe, Ltd., New York, NY.
This book is like a textbook and is not easy to read.
However, we strongly recommend you purchase and read
this book! At the end of this lesson is found copies
of the tables in the book. They will help you to
understand how you have allowed your mind to become
invaded by demons. Study these tables carefully.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PASSIVE MIND
Passive Will - indecisive, torture of mind,
embarrassment.
Passive Mind - inactive mind, hesitation,
rashness, lack of concentration, lack of judgement,
bad memory (can't remember names, numbers, dates,
important facts).
Passive Imagination - gazing, evil gazes,
dulled vision, bound mind, can't think (mind held by
iron band, mental pressure, mental weights, fetters on
mind, mental chains, mental yokes and fetters.)
Passive Judgement - can't make a clear
judgement on issues, misuses the verse on judge not.
Many do not realize they are to judge every prophecy,
fruit in our lives and in the lives of others, etc. I
once heard a pastor tell his people they should not
criticize him even when he is wrong, neither should
they talk about him. I have seen a strange thing in
that church - an unusually large number of divorces,
illegitimate children, crimes of theft and forced
entry, and idolatry, etc. People should be taught to
properly make scriptural judgement.
Passive Reason - closed mind, evil
positiveness, infallibility.
Passive Conscience - moral degradation, moral
stagnation, retrogression in life and service, false
voice of God, false reasoning.
Passive Spirit - wrong thoughts, wrong spirit,
inactive spirit, faint spirit, bound spirit, filthy
spirit, mixed condition, impure spirit, absolutely
powerless spirit, bound use of Tongues, no liberty,
wrong mental conclusions, mixed feelings about God,
soulish spirit, quenching spirit, ignoring spiritual
truths, (exhaustion of spirit, body and mind),
(strained spirit, mind, body).
Passive Body - cessation of consciousness,
passive sight, passive hearing, passive smell, passive
taste, passive feeling, dulled consciousness, dead
consciousness, unconscious habits, repulsive habits,
peculiar habits (hyper-personality conscious),
lethargy, heaviness, (stooping of back, shoulders,
spine), dullness on eyes, passive eyes.
Passive Whole Man - dormant affections (dormant
faculties of mind and body) dormant bodily needs,
severity to body, indulgence of flesh, stoical
feelings, sensuous domination, physical domination
(physical spiritual experiences); senses feed on
thrills, glow, fire) sense realm, walk after flesh,
aroused sense life, (acute sensation of body
consciousness), dulled sense of God, loss of God's
presence, crutches, veiled in ignorance of God,
natural idiosyncrasies, infirmities, over stressed,
nervous mind, timid mind, no gift of speech, no power
to think, (incapable for God's service), apathy,
(passive state of rest, peace, love, joy, fruit of
spirit), passive holiness, misconception of
self-effacement, counterfeit suffering, weak willed;
spasmodic spirit, mind and body.
Different Reactions of Passive and
Active Mind
On it's sins: Active mind will call sin sin.
It will not blame it's sin on others. It will
recognize and apply Jesus's work on the cross. It will
begin a corrective program. Passive mind will blame
some one else, say it was forced into sin, or ignore
it. It will seldom make the necessary corrections and
obey God.
On self-examination in the Light of God's Word:
Active mind will examine itself by the Bible, will not
despair or become crushed, but will rapidly exercise
true repentance and faith in God's promise of
forgiveness which brings joy. Passive mind will let
evil spirits lead it into self-accusations,
recriminations and despair, becoming crushed,
despondent and depressed. God does not crush us but
reveals the remedy.
On conviction: Active mind knows God convicts
of sin. God's conviction is not confusing but clear.
When it goes to God in true repentance, the blood of
Jesus cleanses completely. Passive mind deals with
conviction without true repentance and allows demons
to nag and attack over and over never knowing if the
sin is cleansed.
On repentance: Active mind sincerely repents by
a deliberate act of it's will in obedience to God.
Accepts that the sin is cleansed by Christ's blood.
Passive mind makes compulsive confession over
and over for same sin without truly considering The
meaning of Christ's forgiveness. Will accuse others to
cover own guilt feelings.
As you can see the passive mind never finds
rest.
LIST OF DEMONS OR DEMONIC CHARACTERISTICS TO
CAST OUT IN THE NAME OF JESUS
REBELLION, |
MORAL STAGNATION, |
MENTAL STAGNATION, |
PASSIVE MIND, |
STOICISM, |
INCOHERENCE, |
FLESHLY MIND, |
FILTHY MINDED, |
HESITATION, |
IMMORALITY, |
CONDITIONAL LOVE, |
TORTURED MIND, |
IMPURITY, |
DOUBLE MINDED, |
BACKSLIDING, |
INDECENCY, |
GLUTTON, |
UNSETTLED MIND/ EMOTIONS,
|
SORCERY, |
WEAK WILLED, |
IDIOSYNCRASIES, |
MIND CONTROL DRUGS, |
UNLAWFUL, |
FUTILE MIND, |
ENMITY, |
LACK OF CONCENTRATION, |
EVIL PLOTTING/PLANNING, |
STRIFE, |
RETROGRESSION, |
INTIMIDATION, |
JEALOUSY, |
LISTLESSNESS, |
DOUBT, |
ANGER, |
LETHARGY, |
UNBELIEF, |
ILL TEMPER, |
SKEPTICISM, |
INDECISION, |
PARTY SPIRIT, |
INDECISION, |
WORRY, |
PECULIAR OPINIONS, |
DRUGS, |
FORGETFULNESS, |
HERESIES, |
DREAD, |
PROCRASTINATION, |
ENVY, |
COMPROMISE, |
INSOMNIA, |
DRUNKENNESS, |
HOPELESSNESS, |
ROVING, |
CAROUSING, |
SELF-SEDUCTION, |
MORBIDITY, |
DEPRESSION, |
HEAVINESS, |
MANIAC, |
DESPONDENCY, |
FEAR OF FAILURE, |
APPREHENSION, |
DEFEATISM, |
NERVOUSNESS, |
SELF-DECEPTION, |
DOUBT, |
UNBELIEF, |
UNFOUNDED FEARS, |
DEJECTION, , |
TENSION, |
SELF-DELUSION |
DESPAIR, |
MENTAL ILLNESS, |
PRIDE, |
DISCOURAGEMENT, |
MADNESS, |
FEAR OF MEN, |
GLOOM, |
SENILITY, |
OCCULT SPIRITS, |
BURDEN, |
SCHIZOPHRENIA, |
SPIRITISM SPIRITS, |
DISGUST, |
PARANOIA, |
MIND IDOLATRY, |
WITHDRAWAL, |
CARELESSNESS, |
INTELLECTUALISM, |
DAYDREAMING, |
SUSPICION, |
RATIONALIZATION, |
POUTING, |
FALSE LOVE, |
UNHOLY LAUGHTER, |
FANTASY, |
FEAR OF WOMEN, |
EGO, |
PRETENSION, |
DISTRUST, |
VANITY, |
UNENTHUSIASTIC, |
AUTOMATIC FAILURE, |
HATE OF MEN/WOMEN, |
UNREALITY, |
CONFUSION, |
HYSTERIA, |
ESCAPE, |
FRUSTRATION, |
MOCKERY, |
DECEIT, |
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, |
HAUGHTINESS, |
IMPORTANCE, |
ARROGANCE, |
UNRESISTING (TO EVIL), |
BELIEVING LIES, |
LYING, |
UNRESPONSIVE (TO GOD), |
DEMONIC MANIPULATION, |
RECRIMINATIONS, |
UNPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR, |
RESTLESS, |
UNREPENTANT, |
REPROBATE MIND, |
DARKENED MIND, |
BLINDED MIND, |
CULT SPIRITS, |
SPIRITISM SPIRITS, |
MIND CONTROL, |
HYSTERICAL BABBLING, |
EXCESSIVE TALKING, |
EXCUSES, |
UNPRODUCTIVE, |
PUSHING TO EXTREMES, |
DISSENSION, |
EXCESSIVE WEEPING, |
UNCONTROLLED WILL, |
NOT MAKING DECISIONS, |
INCORRECT JUDGEMENT, |
ATTITUDE OF
INFALLIBILITY, |
PRIDE, |
SHAME / EMBARRASSMENT, |
INABILITY TO REASON, |
INABILITY TO LISTEN, |
MENTAL LETHARGY, |
LAZY, |
NERVE IRRITATION, |
IMPATIENT RESTLESSNESS, |
UNTEACHABLENESS, |
EVIL POSITIVENESS, |
NO POWER OF CHOICE, |
SPIRIT OF DIVISION, |
PREJUDICE, |
MARRED JUDGEMENT, |
LACK OF MORAL VISION OR
JUDICIAL BALANCE, |
IGNORANCE OF GOD'S WORD,
|
OPPRESSION OF SELF AND
OTHERS, |
RAGE, |
BELIEVING TEACHINGS OF
DEMONS, |
VAIN IMAGINATIONS, |
EXAGGERATED VIEW OF SELF
(GOOD OR BAD), |
UNQUALIFIED OBEDIENCE TO
DEMONS, |
COUNTERFEITING GOD,
PRESENCE OF GOD, DIVINE, HUMAN, ANGELIC AND
SATANIC THINGS, SUPERNATURAL VISIONS AND
VOICES (NOT OF GOD). |
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