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Learn to Think Like God
Thinks What you are today is largely a result
of your past thinking, and what you will be in the future
will largely be a result of your present thinking. This is
easy to understand if you just consider what your life now
would be like if you continued thinking like you did before
you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, thinking
like you did when you were a sinner. Your life would be
exactly as it was then. You would be saved, of course, but
the way you spoke and acted and the resulting things that
happened in your life would be the same as they were then.
Nothing would be much different, except instead of being a
miserable sinner you would be a miserable saint.
That's why the Scripture tells every new Christian, "do
not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good
and acceptable and perfect will of God." In other words,
stop thinking like the world thinks
and start thinking like God thinks. The devil is
no longer your father, God is. For years you thought like
your father the devil and reaped the curses. Now start
thinking like God your Father and reap the blessings.
You Get What You Think
About
Proverb 23:7 says, "as he thinks in his heart, so is he"
To personalize that we should say, "As I think in my heart,
so I will be." That goes along closely with what Jesus said,
"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies" (Matthew 15:19).
Plainly said, what you think about in your heart, in your
mind, you will eventually do, and eventually become.
Anything you repeatedly see
yourself doing in your mind, that you repeatedly form mental
images of doing, you will do. If you consider it,
your thoughts having that kind of power over your life can
be pretty destructive stuff, or pretty miraculous
stuff—which they are, is up to you.
How to Think Like God
Thinks
God has made it easy for us to know what He thinks and
what His will is, which are the same. He's had His thoughts
and will written down in a book we call the Bible, the Word
of God. A lot of it is written in commands and statements,
and a lot of it is in the things that His Son, Jesus of
Nazareth, did. The Bible is our Guidebook, our Manual of
Instructions, if you will.
Problem is, most of us never read the Manual of
Instructions about anything, and so we not only get a lot of
things wrong, we rarely get our money's worth out of the
things we buy. And as for Guidebooks,
forgetta 'bout it! We
can guide ourselves without any trouble, thank you!—even if
we don't know where we're going or how to get there.
Would you say it's the same with our Bible—and what God
wants us to be in this life, where He wants us to go, and
how to get there? You know it is! And we miss out on
so much when we don't understand the reasons God gave us the
Bible:
- to help us to stop thinking like the world thinks,
- to teach us how to think like He thinks,
- to learn what He wants us to be as His children,
- to show us where we're going,
- to tell us how to safety and surely get there.
God's done His part, child of God, and now you have to do
yours. Get into His Word
and learn how He thinks and start thinking like Him.
When you do, you'll also begin to see things as He sees
them, and you will be amazed at the abundance that He has
made available for you, and how easily you can bring it into
your life.
Let's continue
with this exploration of abundance thinking next week. |
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Creative thinking is your most prized possession, it has the
capacity to change you, your family, your business, and the
world.Eden Philpotts
God's universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper.
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Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look
so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do
not see the doors that open for us.
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Arnold Toynbee
My own view of history is that human beings do have genuine
freedom to make choices. Our destiny is not predetermined
for us; we determine it for ourselves. |
