What are you feeding your mind?

What are you feeding your mind?

Last week I taught on “controlled your thinking”, if you can control you thinking, you can control your life.  As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. You are who you are because of what you think. You are where you’re at in life because of your thinking. All your actions or re-actions come from the thoughts you have formed in your mind. A lot of people don’t like to hear this because for the most part we have learned to blame others for our misery, we have blamed others for the negative actions we chose to take. A person who loses their temper blames you for making them mad. For the most part, you will be blamed, or you will blame others for what you yourself do. 

My question this week is what are you feeding your mind? All battles we face start in the mind. If you’re feeding your mind negative thoughts, one after another, TV, newspapers and magazines, then you are feeding and filling your mind with negatives. People believe what they read and see. We have murderers around every corner; look at the wars around the world, our gas supplies, money, medical insurance, the list is too long to write. People are consumed with grief and choked with the problems of the world. People hate Republicans, democrats, they hate each other. Doctors are swindling Medicaid millions of dollars. Everyone is losing their jobs and homes. FEAR is rampant! Fear is carried away in the minds of people everywhere! Your body is what you feed it; feed it junk, you got a junky body. There are a million diets on TV to choose. Choose Jenny Craig and it says you can change your life. We are fed with lies. Try having a positive conversation with someone who studies the news. Almost impossible. You become what you feed your mind. Fear controls people because they choose to feed their minds junk food. You decide what to read and what to believe. You are known by your actions and your actions are based on what you believe. God wrote the book, I didn’t! As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. Period. To change your thinking you must change your mental diet. Eat Words that have life. God’s Word is life to those who find them; his Word is health to those who believe them. He sent his Word and healed them. His Word is food, its food without poisons, it is life, and it is more than an abundant life. I don’t get it sometimes, people get so consumed with natural organic food, yet they read and believe crap from the world, they don’t change their heart; they just want to change the body. Well you can spend the rest of your life eating organic food and be sick because you’re living in fear and worry. You don’t change the outside, all change comes from within. The heart, the thinking, the innermost part of you.

Another thing I want to point out that is very important to understand, you cannot stop negative situations from coming at you, and you cannot control painful words that others sling at you. You do not have control over the world and the people in it. The powerful control you do have is “control of your mind”. It hurts when you have been yelled at, accused, stolen from, deceived, fear of losing your job etc. God knows and understands our tender hearts and that’s why he sent his son Jesus Christ, he bore those burdens, we have received absolute forgiveness, no condemnation and guilt trips, strength when we are weak, and comfort when we are sad, peaceful heart in the midst of turmoil and so much more. God stresses throughout his Word the importance of re-newing our minds. If it’s important to God then you should make it important. We are born again from God’s seed, heaven bound and all hell can’t stop us, but our minds are unaffected, our minds must be renewed. We are told to forget our past and press forward, to put on the new man, which are new thoughts a new way of life to live. This new way of life can only be lived by you, only you can change your ways, your thoughts. There is no blaming in God’s Word, there is no making someone else responsible for our actions, God says You must be the one to do it. So, let’s learn Gods Word, let’s learn how to live life and gain control of yourself. A life that is rich, healthy, powerful and has meaning.

God looks at the heart he sees the innermost part of you. All of believing stems from your heart. God uses different words throughout the bible describing the innermost part of a man or woman.  Sometimes heart is used, or the eyes of your understanding, footsteps, treasures etc.  I am going to start in Ephesians, Ephesians is written specially to you, and you could put your name in every verse. This book is the greatest of all revelations given from God to us. This book tells you what you have being born again, your privileges your rights, your blessings. If you want to know the riches in life you have received, it’s all written in Ephesians. Chapter 1 v.3 it tells us we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings. If we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings, then we don’t need to pray for them, we need to know what they are and accept them, and live them.

Ephesians 1; ¹¹In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:  You were predestinated from God, he knew about being in his family, and he gave us an inheritance. A millionaire acts like a millionaire because he believes his bank account statements. We have an inheritance from God and we need to believe what is written. It’s surer and more stable than any bank account in this world, for it is backed by God Almighty himself.

 ¹²That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.  We should be to the praise of his glory, that’s what God thinks of you, you must think that.

 ¹³In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,  This means when we were born again from believing that Jesus was the son of God and God raised him from the dead, (Romans 10; 9&10) you are saved! And are sealed, Holy Spirit is sealed in you, it’s God’s seed, all hell can’t stop you from going to heaven. Religions teach you can go to hell for sinning; it’s a lie straight from the pit of hell. Believe God’s Word not mans.

 ¹⁴Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.  Going to heaven is part of our inheritance, it’s guaranteed until Christ returns.

 ¹⁵Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith (believing) in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, this is written to those who love God and love others. If you do not love others, then you do not love God. Anyone can mouth scriptures, but do their actions follow their words? And yes, we are called saints, you don’t become a saint years after your death, you’re a saint now according to God. Doesn’t matter if you feel like one, the Word says you are.

 ¹⁶Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

 ¹⁷That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:  It’s Gods will for you to know! To have revelations, to have knowledge in him, that’s power, that’s having a knowing. He doesn’t want us stupid.

 ¹⁸The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, Look closely at this scripture, the eyes of your understanding, your heart, your innermost being where all your thoughts are formed, who you are as a person. He wants you to know that you know that you know! We live in the midst of a dark and perverted world, where criticism and wars abound. He wants us to know and understand our inheritance. We have power, love, hope, we can believe for the impossible to come to pass, all our needs met, what God gave Jesus Christ, he gave to us. We are his sons and daughters, we have his seed planted in us and are sealed. Our minds play tricks on us and we allow others to talk us out of who we are and what we have received from God.

 ¹⁹And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,   We have exceeding greatness of Gods power, we have it, you don’t need to pray for it, you got it. What is your mind telling you? If you think for one minute you are powerless then you are confessing and believing a lie. We have to change our thinking, we must confess what God says, not what we feel, not what we think, but what does God say. You have exceeding great power from God, you can do all things, and you have a life like no other.

Ephesians is such a power packed Word of God. I encourage you to read and re-read it, over and over again. It is who you are in this world, it is what you have in this world, and it is what you can do in this world.

The rest of this teaching, we are going to spend time in Proverbs. Proverbs is a power house full of wisdom and understanding. God’s will is his Word. If you know the Word then you know what is will is for you. Study Ephesians.

Proverbs 1 ²To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

 ³To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

 ⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

 ⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Fear is a very bad translation; God does not want us to have fear because fear has torment. The correct translation of fear of lord is obedient devotion. Loving God, having him be your God, being devoted to his Word is the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Yes they do, a person who does not love God does not want to hear any wisdom or knowledge from you. In fact they despise it.

 ²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.  Simple ones mean those who lack wisdom, how long will you simple ones love simplicity? They don’t want wisdom, and scorners delight in their scorning. Means people love drama, they bitch and complain about you and everyone else. They love it. Those people who love to backbite, stir up trouble, say false things about you, they hate knowledge. If they had knowledge then they would learn about themselves and a scorner doesn’t want to see how ugly they are on the inside, they don’t want to make changes. They want to blame, cause drama and they enjoy it. So don’t get shook up when they come at you with nasty words, you can’t change them, change your thinking. For they are nothing and they are nothing to God.

 ³³But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Look how beautiful our God is, keep your heart focused on him, we shall, and shall means “absolutely without a shadow of a doubt” we shall live safely, and we will be quiet from fear of evil. Your homes, your family, we can live a life without fear and no evil shall over take us. We will always have a job, food, a roof over our heads, money when we need it; we have it all with God. If you want to know why other countries are starving and fighting, here is your answer;

II Chronicles ¹⁴If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. God has no control over people’s wickedness and negative behavior, even though they blame him. He will forgive anyone who comes to him, who seeks his face, he will hear you, and he will forgive sins and heal your land. It’s up to people to believe God and prosper, grow lush gardens, live a wonderful life, and to love and be loved. But fools don’t want to hear that.   Back to Proverbs.

Proverbs 2 ²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; this should be your thinking process, apply your heart to anything else and its misery.

 ⁶For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

 ⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. (Buckler is a shield; you are protected physically and mentally.

 ⁸He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

 ¹⁰When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; (heart is where you store all your thoughts)

 ¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:  You won’t be tossed about in life with negative influences, up one minute and down the next. Fear won’t be your guide.

I wish I could write down all of chapter 2, read it for yourselves when you get a chance. It tells how God’s wisdom benefits and protects us. God wants us to know that we know, our knowledge of his Word is life, its protection and its health. Feed that to your mind, not TV and magazines. Believe God for once in your life; focus your thoughts on his thoughts.

Proverbs 3 ¹My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: (keep your thoughts on God’s Word)

 ²For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.  It isn’t organic food that is going to give you a long life, or vitamins, it’s God’s Word, not only a long life, but peace.

 ³Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: In other Words, know them! Study them and don’t forget them.

 ⁴So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.  

 ⁵Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Don’t lean on your five senses and on the things you see, don’t believe what you read or see unless it’s Gods Word. Trust him; he will never fail you, ever! Trust him with all thine heart, your thoughts you’re believing!

 ⁶In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. God will lead you in life; we don’t know what is going to happen around the corner or what’s going to happen in the next five minutes. Put your heart and soul into trusting God, not fifty percent or once in a while, but all of it, he will direct your paths, your walk, and your steps. We are safe with God, outside of God is danger.

¹³Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

 ¹⁴For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. If all you have in life is money, you are in a very poor state of life and to be pitied. You basically have nothing, not even happiness.

Proverbs 4 ⁵Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. God says anyone who asks wisdom he will give it to them. Ask, and God will. He wants us smart, to know, this world is confusing, yet we don’t have to be.

²⁶Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.  This means to take care of your thoughts.

Proverbs 6  ²²When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.  God’s Word will lead us in life, we can have sweet sleeps without medication and when we wake he talks with us, we can start our day out with positive constructive thinking. God is so sweet and amazing.   This next verse I am going to share with you, if you practice it and live it, you will be one of the happiest, prosperous loving person in this world. You get it in your mind, you think it, you live it and you will get the results because God backs up his Word.

Proverbs 9; 6-8 tells us reprove not a scorner for he will hate you, reprove a believer and they will love you. Cracks me up. I told a person, who I know is a very bitter person, complains all the time and never looks at themselves for their mistakes, anyway I spoke the truth to this person and to this day they hate me. They won’t remember all the good things I did for them, they will remember this one incident, the reason they hate you for speaking the truth is because it is a reflection of who they are and they don’t want to see it or admit it. Pride enslaves and causes blindness. You tell someone who loves God the truth and they love you, they are happy for reproof because it helps their minds to start thinking correctly. Truth sets us free, especially if we are fearing something or anxious in the mind over a situation, truth gets us out of that nasty snare. Truth is freedom, an unbeliever thinks you stink, but we are a fragrance to those who love God.;po0

Proverbs 11 ¹⁷The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. If you treat people with tenderness, are nice to them, do good things for them, you are making your life rich. God says you give and you will receive a hundred times back, guaranteed. You practice giving you are making your own life totally amazing. Flip the coin over and you are making yourself sick, poor, unloved and unwanted, you give cruelty and you will receive a hundred fold back. This is a law God set into practice, that as you give you receive, you reap what you sow People that are cruel love being cruel, they are making themselves sick and miserable, they bring it upon themselves and blame everyone for it.

Feed your mind Gods Word, look how much you have, look at how much you stand to gain, you have an inheritance and this is it. His Word will heal, protect, provide, and bring peace, prosperity, self control a sweet sleep, safety, healthy ground, money, and a heart that is like no other.  I wanted to share so many more scriptures with you from Proverbs but I understand when teachings are too many pages the mind starts to wonder. I encourage all of you to read Ephesians and study Proverbs. God says its medicine to our bodies; it literally heals us in so many ways. Enjoy your inheritance and benefits for you have been blessed with all spiritual blessings.