I want to give you one final tool in this series that I have found helpful for men to utilize to help them maintain a clean brain. Up to this point, we have been talking about the physical brain. Now I want to switch to a way to help you take your thoughts captive (II Corinthians 10:5).
I have come up with a technique that has helped men stop these thoughts from ever getting started in their brain. This can even be helpful to not only resist looking while talking to a woman who is inappropriately dressed, but not have to deal with the sexual slime that can linger after such an encounter. I call this a brain covenant. This is like a prayer you make every day as early as possible.
I have found it is very important that you buy into the premise before I give you the prayer statements. I firmly believe it is the duty and calling of every man to protect all women, at all times, in every circumstance. Do you agree?
If you do agree, then taking it one step further is easy. Now let’s combine what I said earlier about 1) hating lusting with 2) the brain covenant. If you will early in the day pray out loud with conviction a prayer that states the commitment to love women, protect them, and hate all lust of them, this can be a powerful anchoring of your commitment for your brain to follow and be aware of all day long. This prayer could go something like this:
“Lord Jesus, I am 100% committed to love all women today as your daughters and my sisters. I covenant with you to protect all women at all times, in every circumstance today, even in my mind. I hate lust of all women of any kind, and in my mind I covenant to protect them all this day.”
You see what you are doing is anchoring your commitment to have a clean mind and a clean life. You can do this daily until protecting women from your lust becomes a lifestyle. You’ll know this is true as you are successful to maintain the value of a woman regardless of how she values herself.
You deserve a clean brain and life. I hope that you will take and apply these tools to your life and have the clean life Christ has paid for you to have.