What pops into your head?
Who pops into your head?
Have you ever thought that maybe thoughts pop into your head for a reason?
I remember I used to have an old friend whose mother would tells us amazing God stories before we went to bed when we had sleepovers.
She would tuck us in and tell us this one of many stories.
I remember when I was in my twenties and I had a friend who was living over in Germany. But one night, in the middle of the night, she kept on popping up in my head. No matter how hard I tried to fall back asleep, she kept on showing up in my mind. I felt God tell me to pray for her. So I did. I got up and prayed for her fervently. I even wrote down the time in my journal. Then I was finally able to fall asleep.
Months later, I got a call from that friend telling me that she was almost arrested for smuggling Bibles over a foreign border. She was working as a missionary and had wrapped the Bibles up in Christmas wrapping paper in case the police looked through her luggage. And if they had found one, she would have been imprisoned and tortured, most likely.
The police found her luggage and opened it, picking up the wrapped Bibles. But all of a sudden, they just put them down and walked away.
I asked her when this had happened and with the time difference, it was at the exact time that I woke up and prayed for her. I believe God brought her to mind so that I would specifically pray for her in that instance.
From then on, any time someone popped into my head, I prayed for them or about them. I believe God was trying to teach me how to hear His voice over my own thoughts.
I learned such a valuable lesson in my young teenage life from her, never to allow a thought to go unchecked.
Thoughts that pop into our head may be something you need to pray about, someone to pray for, or something that God is trying to speak to you.
Obviously we all have fleeting silly thoughts, but God wants us to learn how to hear His voice over our thoughts.
2 Corinthians 10:5 we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
If we are taking every single thought captive and making it obedient to Christ, this would help us tremendously when discerning whether a thought is God speaking to us or just our own mind getting in the way.
By reading the Word, we find out who Jesus is and how he thinks. He’s constantly telling us to love others, forgive others, pray for others, and to tell our circumstances who our big God is.
So who and what pops up in your head?
I have had moments where someone pops in my head and I pray for them that second, or I’ll even call or shoot them a text.
I have had moments where God shows me things about other people, and I am obedient and share it with them.
I have had moments where the thoughts of fear and failure pop up in my mind, and I pray against it.
I have had moments where an idea pops in my head and I pray for somebody in the middle of Walmart or pay for someone’s food at a restaurant or encourage someone I just met.
Start taking inventory of your thoughts. If you find yourself thinking a lot of negative things, then you need to pray and deal with those things. If you keep having random people pop up in your mind, pray for them right then. Even if it’s nothing, it never hurts to pray for anybody or anything.
God wants to use you. And this is just small way to do that and start to learn to hear His voice and act in obedience.
How exciting is that!?
Who or what pops up in your head?
Response Questions
1. Do you have moments where people or things pop up in your head?
2. Take the next week and be super conscious of every thought that comes into your head. Start writing down the people who pop up and pray for them. Start dealing with taking your thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ and dealing with the negative thoughts that corrupt your mind.
Pray with me!
Father God, help me to discern between my own mind and your voice. I want to be used by you. Help me to be aware of my thoughts and take them captive to the obedience of Christ. I want my mind to be a healthy place. I want you to speak to me and I want to act in obedience. Help me to be aware and pray for people and encourage others when they pop into my mind. I love you and I want to know you more and more.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
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