the scripture tells us in Proverbs that as a man thinks in his heart so he is as
you think in your heart so you are the Proverbs tells us see that tells me that
my life is gonna go in the direction of my most prominent thoughts those
thoughts that I allow to linger in my mind and then drop down and take root in
my heart you see if we're going to be everything that God intended us to be
we've got to take captive the things that are going on in our mind the
thoughts that are ruling our life you see we have to take captive of these
thoughts because we don't want these thoughts pushing us around we want to
push our thoughts around we want our life to go in the direction of our
thoughts so what does that mean that means we have to be on guard about what
we're thinking about listen do you want your life to go in a certain direction
start thinking that direction start pushing your life that way but the
thoughts you're thinking if you need victory today you need to start thinking
overcoming thoughts if there's some areas in your life where you feel
defeated you feel down start thinking overcoming thoughts start saying it if
God before me who dare be against me he overcame so that I can overcome in fact
he's called me more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus you see we've got to learn
to recognize those thoughts that are trying to defeat us God wants us to know
that there are strategies and schemes that want to come against us so that we
can't fulfill our destiny maybe you have low self-esteem some buddies have
planted us a seed of thought in your life and it's built itself up and it's
grown you can change that you can change your life by changing your thoughts but
it's up to you and I see no one can change our thoughts for us they can tell
us all day that we can do it they can tell us that you know we have the talent
that God is for us but until we take responsibility
for what's going on in our thought life we'll never get to the places that we
want to be fear anxiety worry those feelings that frustrate us and cause us
to just react in the wrong way they try to control our lives you see that is
only because that's what we're thinking about we can't have conversations with
fear anxiety we can't talk to worry we've got to push it out don't pull up a
chair and have a conversation with all these thoughts that are trying to drag
you down you have the final say see the thoughts that are most commonplace in
our mind you know what happens we dwell on them we think about them and they
sink down into our hearts they become part of who we are see we can be doing
something but thinking about something else
see sometimes our mind is just on autopilot
it just goes it goes it goes it goes and we allow all these thoughts to swirl in
our head without thinking about what we're thinking about we have to guard
our thoughts we have to guard it so that we can protect our heart the Bible says
above all else guard your heart guard your heart because out of it comes the
issues of life it says it like this in one version because everything you do
flows from your heart you see if you allow the wrong thoughts to linger they
will drop down to your heart and they'll create an attitude and a perspective
that you don't want it's hard enough life is difficult enough there's too
many things coming at us to approach it with a negative attitude with the wrong
perspective see God didn't say that this life was going to be easy
you didn't say I'm gonna roll out the red carpet and you can walk on it and
fly Corie beds of ease he says no in this
life you're gonna have some trouble but be a good cheer be a good thoughts be of
good thought for I have overcome the world you can think about that cheer is
your thoughts what makes you happy what you're thinking about you say be a good
cheer be a good thought I've overcome the world
God is saying don't allow your thoughts to run rampant think about what you're
thinking about because that's the direction your life is gonna take
don't let thoughts push you around you begin to push your thoughts around this
is an example of how we can develop attitudes okay so your husband does
something that you don't like you begin to think about it you really frustrate
you you're washing the dishes and you're thinking about it you're folding the
clothes and you're thinking about it you're putting his socks away thinking
he should be putting his own socks away a little while later a couple days later
he does it again you roll your eyes you say this is never gonna change he's
always gonna be like this he makes me crazy
then you start building this critical attitude become a crazy woman you start
building this critical attitude towards him so that's an attitude it's been here
so long it's not down in our hearts now we're formulating an attitude and we
carry that attitude with us so every time they do something we measure their
performance by this attitude and it permeates our entire relationship you
know that psychologists say that we project what's on the inside of us onto
others it's called projection you think someone
doesn't like you you begin to project that you begin to to to flow from that
space in that place that you've allowed to take root in your heart you know some
of you may have some thoughts that have haunted you all your life
maybe it wasn't your fault maybe someone planted the wrong seed in your heart can
I tell you you can uproot that you can change your heart because you don't live
under a curse you live under the blessing of God you can change the
direction of your life by changing the direction of your thoughts you see when
you're thinking about how much your husband irritates you he does it again
you know you have to say okay where's this thought coming from how can
I measure my thought when you feel frustration when you feel anxiety
confusion listen those aren't God's thoughts God says
where there is anxiety frustration confusion that there is every form of
evil what that means is the enemy is coming in trying to confuse you get you
off track take you down the wrong road you see it may start small but it can in
big and that's his plan you think about this just a minute
here you've destroyed some relationships in your life and it started with one
thought one thought created an attitude that brought confusion and evil into
your life above all else that's not serious to me that sounds like a
priority that sounds like something that we better be attentive to we better
watch out if we're gonna live the life God created us to live now how do we
measure our thoughts I mean you know I think all kinds of thoughts how do i how
do i reel them in you see thoughts will come all day long all kinds of thoughts
the thing is we get to choose the thoughts we want to keep we get to
choose the thoughts we want to draw close to us that we want to build our
attitude on to have our perspective to see our life through to filter we get to
choose those thoughts but God's given us guidelines to measure those thoughts he
doesn't even we don't even have to guess how to do it he's already told us in
Philippians 4:8 he says to think on these
whatever is right whatever is right in the eyes of God pleasing to him Noble
pure lovely admirable excellent praiseworthy these are the things that
we're supposed to think on see we're not going to naturally think on these things
it's like programming your computer when you go and you put all your information
in your computer you know then your computer is useful to you you can pull
up what you need when you begin to put God thoughts or power thoughts in your
mind it's like your your programming your mind so when you need those
thoughts there's something to pull up when you put the good in the good will
come out that's the key God has said measure your thoughts don't put your
mind on autopilot hey if it's not pleasing if it's not good if it's not
excellent does it mean that the people in your life are doing all the right
things but you can change the atmosphere in your mind when you're thinking the
right thoughts see God has given you the power to think his thoughts and to
create your life around those thoughts you can't control anyone else but you
can certainly control what you think you can control your attitudes you can
control the filters that you use and that's the key if your life is not going
in the direction that you want today I encourage you push your thoughts in
the direction that you want God says he wants to renew and transform your life
and it can start today the renewing and the transformation can take place
soon as you choose the thoughts you want to think so I encourage you today know
that God is for you he's given you an outline for what you need to do create
possibilities in your mind don't go out with this negative filter don't allow in
this coming year to let your thoughts push you around anymore but you begin to
push your thoughts around amen amen
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