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Eden Philpotts
"God's universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper [and our faith to grow
stronger]."
Jesus Christ
“If you can believe, all things are possible to him who
believes” (Mark 9:23).
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Unknown
"The world is in a great dream, and only a few people are
awake in it—and those who are live in constant awe at what
Christ has done for them."
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James Gilmore of Mongolia
"Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh?
Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the
eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole
earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put
their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more
practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah?
He is waiting for Elijah to call on him!"
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Samuel Chadwick
"The sign of Christianity is not a cross but a tongue of
fire." |
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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, or only slightly better. 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" (Romans 12:2). 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 about the things that Jesus Christ, His Son, did. The Bible is our
guidebook, our manual of
Instructions, if you will.
Problem is, most of us never read a 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 a Guidebook, forget about
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 teach us the wonders faith will perform in this
life,
- to show us where we're going,
- to tell us how to safety and surely get there.
God has 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 thinking like God thinks next week.
See you at the house!
Harold J. Chadwick |
