Control Your Thoughts

   Think of a big house.....What do you see in your mind?...nice living room?...nice bedrooms?...nice yard?...beautiful carpet?....furnitures?....cars?....Very nice....

Now, think of a sick man....what do you see?...dying in bed?...in the hospital?...very thin?....pale?....coughing?....

The greatest evidence of man's freedom lies in his power to focus his attention on what he chooses.

Thoughts are the material by which we live and work. Before anything else is accomplished of good or evil it is thought in the mind. Thoughts are important. For as (a man) thinketh in his heart, so is he...Pro.23:7

An evil person thinks of evil things. A carnal person has all carnality in his mind. But a saved person thinks of good things. He has holy thoughts.

Pro 4:23-Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Our thoughts are determined by the condition of our heart. Physically, our health condition depends on the condition of our heart. It is the main organ of our body. It pumps blood in and out of the body. That is the same thing spiritually if our heart, the inner self is unhealthy then everything in us including our thinking will be all...unhealthy..filthy.

Keep always in mind that we can choose. We can fill our minds with the drab and the lowly or the rich and noble, the impure and coarse or the pure and refined. We control our thoughts by what we read and we look at. The "soul is dyed by the color of our thoughts."

1 Cor 3.16--Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? We, all know the story of Moses when he talked with God. Why was the place where Moses stood one day holy ground? Why did God told Moses to take off his shoes because he was on holy ground? What made the ground holy? The answer is whatever God touches becomes holy. The ground is holy because God was there. We are holy. God reminded Moses. Like God to Moses, the spirit say remove that from your life, for you are the temple of God. The Holy Spirit lives within us and anything which is unholy cannot knowingly allowed.

God calls us to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ-- 2 Cor 10:5

Paul points out how we can control our thinking.

Philippians 4:8--Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, THINK ON THESE THINGS. Paul's thought is that we need to cultivate holy thoughts.