Philippians 4:8 And now dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. (Nlt).
'It takes a thought to heal a thought' is a quote from his book 'The Power of Right Believing' by Joseph Prince.
We all have thoughts running through our minds and sometimes they're not so helpful. We may tend to see the worse case scenario for a situation. We go with the 'what if it all goes wrong' rather than the 'what if it all goes right' thinking. So what do we do with all those negative thoughts?
The way to counteract and overcome them is to replace them with God thoughts and what He tells us in scripture. God's promises are true and if we'll choose to believe them and see them make a picture in our minds they will heal our negative thoughts.
It's a bit like our minds are full of different TV channels and if we watch the wrong ones we'll be depressed and discouraged. When that happens we need to switch channels in our minds and watch what God sees. He sees us fearfully and wonderfully made not 'I'm a mess and don't feel good about myself'. God sees us being fully provided for with more than enough and we need to watch that channel when we're tempted to think 'I don't know how we'll manage with the cost of everything going up'. We need to watch 'The Lord is protecting me wherever I go' channel if we're afraid to go out because of the virus.
What pictures are you running through your mind? I know I have to pull myself up short and run the 'I'm healthy and strong and well able in Jesus' programme. Maybe you need to tune into that channel too! We get to choose what we dwell on and with the help of the Holy Spirit we can choose to think God's thoughts even when circumstances say different.
So as we go about our day or lying in bed at night let's run God's promises through our minds and let Him heal our thoughts with His thoughts, and see them playing out in our minds and I believe we'll begin to make real progress. Amen.😊
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