I am going to give you a recipe on how to keep your mind clear for the rest of your days. It works for me all the time. And because God doesn't love me any more than He loves you, I have to obey God's Word for it to work. This will work for you also, if you too obey His Word.

1. Rebuke and resist the devil. "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you" (James 4:7).

You have to stand on God's Word and find the Scripture that supports what you are standing against. You need to talk to the mountains that the devil has brought against you, whether it's disease, financial problems, or family problems. You have to talk to them, call them by their name and tell them to get out.

2. Don't wonder, believe. The devil likes to keep you in a wondering state. You wonder why God doesn't heal you. You wonder if He will ever heal you. You wonder if you will die.

You need to align your mind with the Bible, and begin to say, "I am healed because the Word says I am! ...By whose stripes ye were healed (1 Peter 2:24b).

The following verse of Scripture need to become a reality in your life: "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son" (John 14:13).

"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth" (Mark 9:23). Hoping is not enough. You can't say, "I am going to get healed," or "I hope I get healed." God doesn't approve of that kind of believing.

God demands that your faith be without wavering. Don't be like the waves of the sea that are tossed and turned by the winds. Stand on what you know to be true. God's Word is true.

3. Do what God says. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you (Phil. 4:9).

If we are not doing God's will, His peace will not be in us. We need to take inventory of the things that take place in our lives. We need to determine if we are doing what God has commanded us to do.

There are many things I don't know. If God wants me to know something, He will show me. I ask Him for His guidance when I pray. I say, "God, if You want me to go, show me by the manifestation of the Spirit of God or I am not going."

Source: Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled by Norvel Hayes
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers