You may've picked it up in some of our other daily devotions, but transforming your thought life is a real passion of our church. So much of what you are seeing and experiencing today is a reflection of what you thought about yesterday. That's why the Bible talks about your patterns of thinking so much (2 Cor 10:5; Rom 12:2; Isa 26:3; Prov 4:23). Your thinking is the gateway to your heart ("As a man thinks in His heart so is he" Prov 23:7) which overflows into the tongue ("Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks…" Luke 6:45) and the tongue has creative power ("Life and death is in the power of the tongue" Prov 18:21). To put it simply; transform your thinking = transform your life! That's why Phil 4:8 says "fix your thoughts…". God has gifted each one of us the creative freedom of choice (we are creators, created in His image) so the choice remains with us to control what we create. If we let our thinking go any-which-way it feels the influence of sin-nature will lead it down and down. However if we "fix" our thinking, which means a constant and conscious effort to direct what we think on, we'll constantly look up and be directed up. I know which way I want to go…how about you? Today we challenge you to discipline your thinking. It may be a real struggle for some but ask God for the help…He will give it to you! I will leave you with this truth. Give over your thinking. Let go an Let God.
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