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How do we make efforts to protect our inner man? The inner man is the real you. What steps can we take to battle the many forces of life? We will cover some of the positive things we can do to protect our inner man. There are seen and unseen things or forces at work most of the time. Weather we believe it or not makes no difference. It is what it is.

One of first things needed to protect our inner selves is realizing it needs protecting. Sadly, many people are unaware of the many secret agendas working in our land today. We must realize that everybody here is not here to do good works. Once, we obtain this mind set we can move forward a little better. We must constantly realize this key point.

Daily reading of the scriptures can give us a source of inner strength. This strength will help us to protect the inner man. We should try to read a few pages of the scriptures every morning. This practice will often begin to set the mind on a solid footing for the day. It will help us to face the challenges of day. Also, the mind will begin to focus on positive thoughts. By just this one step we can put a strong hedge around ourselves.

We can also protect our inner man by staying away from negative people. We all know that sometime it is not possible to stay away from negative people. Because, the reality is that a negative person could be a spouse, boss, preacher or a love one. If you can not limit your time around some negative people, try to also have a positive thought for every negative thought they throw out. For example, they say I know you can't do it, we say to ourselves something positive, maybe a scripture or make positive statement to ourselves, for example, Phil: 4:13 I can do all things through the Messiah which strengthened me.

Perhaps one of the greatest areas of needed protection is against music. Some music can seem innocent, but it is far from it. If we are not careful some of these lyrics will enter our inner man and wreak havoc. Music can be so subtle that the listener is caught off guard. This allows the words and thoughts to penetrate our mind unhindered. What do we do? What is the solution? We should build an inner wall to protect ourselves. Look at some music for what is it, deadly poison to our inner man. We should always try to stay on our guard around all music until we have determined it purpose.

Finally, we have to learn to think or meditate on positive thoughts. We have to let our mind and heart grow in the love for our fellow man. When we protect our inner man, we are also helping to protect our fellow man. We become part of the solution and not part of the problem. It is our duty to continue to think well, love well and live well.

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