If you want the power of God in your life, you must quit sinning and start doing what is right. Tryers never will make it; doers will. You don't "try" to sin or "try" not to sin. You either sin or you don't sin! When temptation comes, make the devil take it right back. Refuse to receive it.
A wandering mind causes more mental sins than anything else. Matthew 5 gives us the scriptural basis for this. Jesus said,
"Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."
—Matthew 5:27,28
Jesus was saying, "If you looked with lust on the women, you sinned." It was like committing the act of adultery itself.
The mind must be tamed. The mind must be brought under control. If your mind wanders, thinks what it wants to think, and imagines what it wants to imagine, it will sin.
We should think only on those things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
—Philippians 4:8
We shouldn't allow ourselves to think on anything else. If you say, "But I can't do that," you're not disciplined yet. You're still weak. If you can't tell your mind what to think and keep it under control, you'd better take some time off and put all your energies-all your power—into disciplining your mind to think what you want it to and nothing else. Subdue it.
"That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
"And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
"And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."
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