Power of What's On Your Mind

From Graham Cooke

Key Scripture:  “Be transformed!”   Romans 12:1

Power Point:

What if you said what God says? What if you agreed with Him and didn’t allow any thoughts in your head or words in your mouth that didn’t agree with His? Hmm. It could change a lot of your conversations couldn’t it? Actually it could get really quiet! As I am getting older, I am, of course, with people who are also getting older. The thing is, for all you young people out there, just because we may look older on the outside, we still feel very young on the inside. (At least you can if you want to.) Yet I hear people all the time responding to the question “How are you?” with “Not bad for an old person.” or “Well, I’m hangin’ in there!” I’ve heard people with bad symptoms of a cold elaborate and concentrate on every one of those symptoms until they “take” that cold. In 3 John 2 the Spirit writes, “Beloved, I wish above all things that you might be in health and prosper.”  Above ALL things? Really?  That says to me that He wants us to be in health and prosper don't you think? The word for prosper here means “to be successful in every area of your life”. Oh.  So let me ask you this? Are you in agreement with God over that or are you “hanging in there”?  Are you seeing the end from the beginning and understanding that God is working out every detail of your life for your good? Everything? Yes. Are you “taking” the cold that’s being offered to you or are you taking God at His word?

Beloved if we believe God, and take Him at His word then we are expecting good. Period. We are “looking forward to what lies ahead.”  We don’t sit around rehashing the problems and the symptoms, we stand in line for the blessing being poured out on our life for that day. And then we move to the front of the line for the next day and so on and so on. God has offered us everything. He has offered us every spiritual blessing. He has offered us His own power in every circumstance to lead us in the parade of His victory over the enemy. If you’re worried about this and that, then you’re not expecting good are you? If you’re not saying what God says and thinks, then you’re probably not thinking brilliantly!  Hmm. Proverbs says that the life and death lie in the power of your tongue.  You’ve heard it a million times haven’t you?

What if when you were weak, you said you were strong? What if when you were sick you thanked Him for His healing? What if when you had a need you declared it was met?

Why not ask Holy Spirit to show you where you might need a little instruction in the use of your tongue. Those words on the tip of your tongue begin with the thoughts in your precious little head. Could that be why God keeps emphasizing a renewed mind as the catalyst for the will of God to be done?

I think so.

Beloved, God rewards our faith, not our doubt, or our fears. He does not pat us on the back when we believe horrible things about Him and say, “Oh, sweetheart, I understand how hard this is for you. You poor baby! It’s okay if you doubt!” NO! If we don’t expect good from God, then we're missing a key element of faith. If we don’t believe we’ve been set free then we won’t be. If we don’t make His goodness the foundation of our faith then all the life He has given us, all the spiritual blessings, all the healing, wholeness and prosperity will have the Life choked out of it.

It’s very important what you say. It’s even more important what you think. So what’s on your mind?

Power Thought:

You get to be living proof that God’s will is good, acceptable and perfect. Will you? It always begins with thinking outside the box.