A Landlord Mentality

We can often go through seasons and trials overwhelmed. The capacity to thrive in the circumstance seems impossible and a destination you do not have the ticket for. What if you could thrive through the pain? What if you were able to be your ‘best in the mess?’.  
You absolutely can, and absolutely will once you adopt a landlord mentality over whatever it is you are going through. A landlord has legal power so we must cast away the tenant mindset and take control of the property; which is our minds! A tenant lacks control and authority but a landlord possesses these things and operates in that authority. 
You can decide who and what lives in your mind, but before we can claim to have or be something we have to walk in the correct authority. We have to be sure of our posture and stance. What is your posture? What is your stance?  
Do trials and circumstances approach you and intrude like a squatter or do they recognise the legal authority you operate in? Before the glass has the opportunity to shatter, do you notice the cracks and intervene? Think about your default response to trials. The response matters. Your response matters! 
Do difficult situations arise and you find yourself envisaging how this very thing is going to overcome? Do you find yourself instantly become the tenant and victim of circumstance?  This is where you have yielded all power and control. The circumstance inadvertently dictates your posture; controlling your perspective and eventually ruling your mind.  
Proverbs 4:23 tells us that above all we must guard our hearts because it determines the course of our lives.  You have to protect your heart or the issues of it will infiltrate your mind. And your mindset has the power to influence the effects situations have over you.  It is a daily battle but God has given us the weaponry to win.  
Many of us have entered 2023 adamant that the anxieties of 22 are behind us but without strategy and an authoritative mindset, how are we so sure? As we know, Faith without works is dead so it is imperative that we put measures in place. 
Here at five strategies to help you master your mind:
1) PLAN what you are going to think about.
Choose a focus for the week in line with God's will for your life. Most of us have several areas that God is speaking to us about And one of the cunning schemes of the enemy is to cause us to obsess about what God has spoken over our lives. This is what leads us into anxiety because the more we obsess, the more pressure we feel to act, which often leads us into  operating outside of his will. However, Focus will do the opposite, it will direct you! Focusing causes us to plan, strategise and act (on time).Think about what you are thinking about in advance. It really does work! Decide what is going to take precedence in your mind. Even if the mind may wander, because you have planned what you are going to think about, the FOCUS will bring you straight back into "planned thinking". 
2) Have a prayer strategy. Write down the thoughts that are trying to sabotage your peace, and covert them into prayer points. Simple, but effectively POWERFUL!
3) Identify your trigger(s). If you can identify your triggers you can actively avoid falling into the "trigger trap".