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Hello to all steemchurch members . This will be the first part of my message on the "Power of Thinking and Why you should start thinking".
Start Thinking
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he....
Proverbs 23 vs 7
Our lives are determined by our thoughts. The Bible shows that great thinkers effect great exploits. God commands thinking
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 1 vs 18-20
Thinking us therefore a law in the kingdom. If only you will observe this law. Thinking in line with God is what I am talking about-thinking through the word of God.
The woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5 vs 25-34 thought her way through. She said in her heart, "if I may but touch the Hem of the garment of Him that is healing the sick and setting free captives, I shall be made whole"(paraprashed). Her thought prepared the way for her action, and her action resulted in a manifestation for her.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.
Roman's 1 vs 28
Everytime God's knowledge is rejected, thrind becomes reprobate, uproductive and unclean!. Everyone who is not saved carries a reprobate mind. But everyone who is born again has a regenerated mind.
Friends, you have gifts if God in your inside. It is the gift of a sound mind (2Tim 1vs 6-7). You will begin to obtain sound results as you engage your mind in reasoning. There is good in the land , but it for those who reason and think.
God said , come let us reason together . "everything blocking your access to the good of the land, I will expose to you. As I expose it to you and you deal with it, you will begin to eat the good of the land. But we have the mind if Christ says 1Corinthians 2 vs 16. So, you cannot be stranded in any situation. You have the mind of Christ, who is also called "The way". So , you have the way out ! What a joy to know that you cannot be hedged in by the wicked!. Thinking us as strong as praying.
In Ephesians 3 vs 20, the Bibles says;
Now into him that is able to do exceeding abdundantly above all that we as or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
So, God answers our thoughts as He does our prayers. According to Roman's 12 vs 2, transformation of life is for thinkers. In history , great thinkers have been know to be pacesetters. You can't get more from.life than what your thoughts pattern presents.
The Prodigal Son
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Thinking is a responsibility for anyone that desires transformation. The devil coudnt stop the Prodigal son from coming to himself. The Bible said, he came to himself . That is he spoke to himself, he made an alter call for himself , he responded to the call by himself and led himself home to his father.
Then He said: “A certain man had two sons.
12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.
13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.
14 But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
And immediately, his shame was exchanged for dignity. Deep thoughts will produce great results.
The great character problem we have in the body of Christ today is as a result of the non-thinking multitudes of Christians, complacent Christians, who just think that things will change on their own.
Nothing changes its own. Every change is concioauly effected.And no change takes place without thoughts. A thought gives birth to a decision and a decision that is acted upon beckems manifestation.
Stop and think!
Come let us reason together...."that is, thinking through the ways of God, the plans of God, and the purpose of God for your destiny. In the book of Job we read;
I said, days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom
But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Great mean are not always wise neither do the aged understand judgement.
Job 32 vs 7-9
It is meditation that provokes inspiration. And inspiration Sparks off manifestation. When Jesus came to this Earth, the Bible says the spirit of the Lord gave him quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. (Isaiah 11 vs 3)
When you are born again, it is that same spirit that is fired into your mind,, to burn off the impurities there. This is what makes your mind superior to a natural mind. It is a mind that has a spirit in it. (Ephesians 4 vs 23)
So there is a spirit in your kind that charges it to produce excellence. It is called "an excellent spirit" (Dan 6 vs 3). It resides in your mind, to produce excellence and dignity. Scientists have it that all brains are of the same human make up. So why doesn't your work the way it should. Why should a redeemed would wake up in the morning confused. When the scriptures have mad with clear that you have a sound mind.
Friends it time to convince ourselves that we have the mind of Christ. How then can you be stranded?. The reason is simply because you don't bother to stir up your mind. Its time to stir it up. (2Tim 1 vs 6)
"WHEN YOU STOP THINKING , YOU START SINKING
Get ready ! Start thinking . So you can turn Everything around you around, until you become the envy of your community z your nation and the whole world.
This is the first part of the series. Thank you for staying tuned.
"I am A Dogged Son Of God
We cannot have the mind of Christ and be stranded mate
Thanks for another great post
Resteemed
OSThe power of postive thinking has lot to do with us as christian.
The problem with this geneation christians is that they know the power in the word of God yet they can't use it due to their inability to THINK through the power in the word of God. Inside the thoughts of a regenerated believer are massive power to yield the craving manifestations of the world.
Nice one bro and a lovely illustration using the prodigal son.
Kudos to you.
Keep steeming
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That was a very thoughtful response! Blessings! UPvoted and following!
May God bless everyone i agre with the words when you stop thinking you start sinking 😍
Nice post,I agree if people think more positively the world will be a better place. Thinking brings imagination, Our minds are worlds on their own.
I loved that--WHEN YOU STOP THINKING, YOU START SINKING! UPvoted and following! Blessings!
Yea,it's so true that we give our self to thinking and meditating on the word,we have to spend time to think things through in life,spend time to meditate on God's word and let the word start changing you from the inside,it's good someone spend time to think and allow the holy Spirit to direct you.
And as believers we have the mind of Christ,Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.