Power of the mind /thoughts
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sure the power of your thoughts. You must observe that. We have been talking a lot about thoughts. That's because there can't be any meaningful discourse on the mind without constant reference to the material with which it functions thoughts. In the 2nd chapter I defined thought as the creation, recalling reviewing processing of images for meaning, reason, languages and expression. Now as we have developed further into the subject, you'll see that thoughts are pictures of the mind with constructive and destructive possibilities functioning within or within the human emotion. In other words, they have the ability to influence your emotions. Sometimes they are imagination. But there are more than that. Thoughts are conscious mental constructions of your of your mind. Yeah. Based on emotion and imagination, information or stimuli, thoughts therefore our streams of images that create meaning. You can't think without meaning if you do, it just means that you're not thinking. Real thinking is creating or setting one's mind on a stream of images that create or have a meaning and that's give a message among these thoughts, if wrongly employed, can keep him in bondage clogged the wheels of his success and progress. On the other hand, he can experience glorious liberty as a result of his own thoughts. That's why The Bible in Philippians 4 8 counsels us to choose and think the right thoughts. Only many times, we underestimate the power of possibilities of our thoughts. Until you change your thinking. You can't change your life. You can't change your state. Therefore you can't change your exit. Your life will always go in the direction of your thoughts. Your life will never be different from the character of their thoughts. You are a reflection of your thoughts. Your life is your outward manifestation of your inner workings of your mind. That's why understanding the importance of your thoughts and how you use them rightly is very vital. So the writer asked, where do our thoughts come from? Okay by now, I trust that you must have understood the landed power of your mind and the importance of cultivating your thinking process and creating the right pictures about everything that concerns you. I'm certain that you know also now how to effectively channel your thoughts in the way that God wants you to. However, you mustn't be ignorant of the fact there is an adversary, the devil out there who live constantly devising tricks to rob you and of God's blessings. The bible describes him as mimicking roaring lion that prowls around the seeking whom he may devour First Peter five days. And one of the ways he'll try to swear you is by planting all kinds of the wrong thoughts and pictures in your mind. He will try to mislead you into believing damaging thoughts that can be put you in depth in bondage. That's why before you accept dwell or any information that comes to you you must first design its source so that you don't allow any wrong false stuff to get into your schools. Yeah. You need to know how to distinguish the thoughts that come to you because if you're not mindful of where the thoughts of your process emanate from and examine them with God's word they will lead you astray. Mm Understanding the different sources of your thoughts fast your own reasoning. These are thoughts that emanate from your best of information that you have acquired such information a lot of times is conditioned by the happenings in your environment. What you have studied in school, reading the newspaper, listen on the radio, seen on tv browsed on the internet or even heard from someone else. Another sources of thoughts come from God. Thoughts can also come to you from God. God sometimes communicate his thoughts to you through your mind which is doorway to a spirit Todd sources of your thought is from certain evil negative information, opinions and suggestions. If allowed can be thrown to your mind by the devil and all thoughts. He brings our pollutes to your mind, blind you from God's truth and rob you of happiness and the glorious life. You ought to be enjoying this. Mostly done through imaginations, pictures, audible voices. You may wonder how then can I distinguish between thoughts that come to me? How can I distinguish the thoughts that I should or shouldn't accept? It is simple if you are born again, the bible says you have the mind of christ who had known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him. But we have the mind of christ though we had, we had a certain way of thinking before now you are God's child. Your mind has been enabled empowered to think like him. Mhm. Before the creation, before the new creation came God said for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither your ways are my ways, says the Lord, but now you're born again, you have, you have his life now you are now a particle of divine nature, Glory to God. There's only one way of thinking you are that way now in christ jesus say I'm the way the truth and alive. So every thought that is good for good is good for the people is from heaven. God's heaven is operational in your heart. Every thought that you make resent despite someone else or make you work against the purpose of God is from the devil, not from you. When you find yourself thinking thinking thoughts that are frustrating, contradicting. Mhm. Contradicting God's plan for you or for the charge which is in body. Understand that they are not from you or God. But the devil, when such thoughts come to you immediately designed reject them. Your thoughts are basically from God's words. He declared you good and so evil. Unhealthy or negative thoughts can be animated from you. Yeah, okay. You are responsible for your own thoughts, Scriptures record in Genesis 65 that God look at a month life the way he lived, how he related with his fellow man and God saw that the wickedness of the man was great in the earth and every imagination of his thought of his heart was only evil continually, imagination is the one that I want you to notice here from fashion, render it as an inclination in the words of in the words of every inclination of thoughts of the Mine hat was evil continually. This means mine was constantly inclined to thinking and imagining evil wickedness was in his heart continually. So Lord said, I will destroy mine, whom I have created from the face of the earth. Both men and the best creeping thing on the falls of the air. For each repentance me, I have made them. God held man responsible for his thoughts. Otherwise he wouldn't have pronounced this judgment upon him. Some folks says, well, you know this, imagine it these negative thoughts just come into your mind. I don't know how they came. Well, God holds you responsible for possessing fact thoughts. Remember we define thought as the creation, recalling, reviewing and processing of images for meaning, creating, recalling, reviewing and processing are all up to you. It is all up to you to process or not to process the images that you get. If you don't process them to have a meaning, they can't give you any meaning by themselves. You've got to give them meaning. Just as those disciples in luke gave ghost a meaning. They'd never seen anyone attacked or destroyed by a ghost. They never had stories and they fear of ghosts. They become registered in their mind. Yes. So when they saw Jesus the healer of the brokenhearted, the kindness of God, the expression of the love of God, they were afraid of him because they thought he was a ghost. Just imagine jesus hadn't said anything to them. Allay their fears. Think that they would have happened if he had founded them, maybe they would have passed out even died from the fear then the news would have gone around that all ghost killed them when in reality they died of fear. So with our mind we give meaning. Mhm interpretation and reason to the images we receive and process