Madi Prewett Troutt

I give you my mind.

I want to have the mind of Christ.

I want to think thoughts that are holy and true and pure and praiseworthy.

Lord, I give you my ears.

I want to be sensitive to your voice and not susceptible to fall for the

voice and what you're speaking.

Lord, I want my mouth to be pleasing to you with what I say and how I honor others and honor you.

And so just even that prayer daily kind of going through like different parts of my body, as interesting as that sounds, just, it really has helped so much of just, I'm dying to myself.

I'm giving you all of me, Lord, um, is, is so helpful.

I think about, you know, and talking about friends and, um, confessing and having those friends around you and

I watched Lord of the Rings recently.

Not Lord of the Rings, Star Wars.

I watched Star Wars recently.

I think I saw it when I was 10 and I don't remember it.

But here's the crazy thing about it is that, sorry to spoiler alert anybody who wants to watch it and hasn't seen it, but Darth Vader did not become Darth Vader overnight.

Like it started as these little small things that he overlooked and didn't confess and didn't bring people into.

Like he lived his life in isolation

And he allowed those thoughts to fester and it ended up, you know, he became this person that ultimately he probably was like, how in the world did I get here?

And the way we prevent that from happening is bringing other people into that and confessing at the thought level.

I really think that's been so powerful in my daily walk with Jesus of just resisting sin by confessing at the thought level of, gosh, I'm thinking this thought that I know is not godly and it's not true.