November 15, 2022
Your Thoughts Control the Direction of Your Life
Be careful what you think because your thoughts run your life. (Proverbs 4:23 NCV)
Beloved one, your body is a servant of your mind. It obeys the operations of the mind. When you think negative or unlawful thoughts, your body will sink rapidly into disease (dis -ease) and decay.
When you think about good or beautiful thoughts such as God’s Word, your body becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. (Proverbs 23:7) Health and disease, just like circumstances, are rooted in your thoughts. Sickly thoughts reproduce themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have continually been known to kill a man as quickly as a bullet. People who fear a disease will most likely get it because as a man thinks.
Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body and lays it open to disease entrance, while impure thoughts, even if you are not actively indulging in them, will soon shatter the nervous system. Strong, pure, happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace. The body is a delicate instrument that responds readily to your impressed thoughts, and habits of thought will produce their effects, whether good or bad, upon it. Clean thoughts produce clean habits. Clean thoughts produce a clean life and a clean body. He that hath an ear to hear what the spirit is trying to reveal let him hear! (Matthew 11;15, Revelations 2:29) Your thoughts are powerful. Your thoughts soon become your words! How do I know that? Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. (Luke 6:45, Matthew 12:34, Proverbs 10:11, 24:12, Psalms 14:1) Can you say, ‘Father, create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me!’ (Psalms 51:10)
Your thoughts are powerful; that’s why we are instructed in (Romans 12:2) to renew our minds daily and wash our minds with the water of the Word. (Ephesians 5:26) Putting on the whole armor of God daily. (Ephesians 6:11-18) Stop meditating on your thoughts. (Joshua 1:8-9) says you are to meditate on the Word of God day and night and do all you are commanded to do, then you will make your way prosperous and have success. It does not say, to meditate your thoughts day and night. Those negative thoughts you are having are fiery darts from the devil shooting at your mind. Your mind is the devil’s playground. (Ephesians 6:16) Those negative thoughts are a demonically induced pattern of thinking. Take authority over your negative thoughts before they become a stronghold. Strongholds are hard to break! You have got to load yourself up with ammunition (scripture) you have hidden in your heart and declare those scriptures when the attacks come. Fight fire with fire!
