Get rid of Stinking Thinking (Part 1 of 2)

Good morning friends. Many said let us get rid of stink thinking. I believe in that. Sometimes when we think of horrible things even if it’s not happening yet, we feel different. And it affects ourselves. Life is hard but I believe we have to think all positive thoughts so our doings will all be resulted to positive too. Let me tell you something that I had been read in the weekly Beacon of our church. It’s a good one. Here it says …

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Philippians 2:5).

“You can think your way to failure and unhappiness, but you can also think your way to success and happiness. The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.” Norman Vincent Peale.

Marcus Aurelius said, “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”

It has been said that the wisest man who ever lived in America was Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Sage of Concord. Emerson declared, “A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

If you think you can have revival, you can.

You get what you pray for. If you are praying for revival and believe with all of your heart that revival will come, it will come. It will come with god’s timing, and He is bound by His word. And His word says that He hears us when we pray. If we are seeking for His will and are sincerely seeking revival for our church and community, it will come. We have to believe!

“But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putted in the sickle, because the harvest is come.” (mark 4:29)

If you think your church will grow, it will.

If you are praying for your church to grow, it will. If you plant the seed of faith, and water it with prayers and fasting, the church is destined to grow. It is the will of God for the church to grow. This is His church and He wants it to succeed. We have to get our thinking right, get our attitudes straightened up and get on board with what God has in store for us.

See you on the second part of my article ….

The Up Side

Good morning friends. Here are some good words to some people. I want to share it with you. It’s a nice thing.

“A friend of mine, Olga, has developed her own personal definition of success. She says that ‘Success is when you are happy to go to work in the morning and happy to come back in the evening, and you are very welcome and liked in both places.’” –Scott W. Ventrella, from his book Me, Inc: How to Master the Business of Being You

“It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.” – Lee L. Jampolsky, Ph.D., author of Smile for No Good Reason

“If you always tell the truth, you do not need a good memory.” – Submitted by Guideposts reader Gwendolyn Wilson, of Laurel, Mississippi

“Happiness: something to do, somebody to love, something to look forward to.” – Adair Lara, in her new book, The Bigger the Sign, the Worse the Garage Sale

“Wake up every morning expecting blessings from God and you will not be able to count them by the end of the day.” – submitted by Guideposts reader Cynthia Scott, of Medon Tennessee

Source: Guideposts

The Golden Key

There is one method for getting out of difficulties that we’ve seen work over that over again. Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is , and think about God instead.

As an experiment, bring the “Golden Key” into your Spiritual Workshop and try it out with one specific problem you face. Be creative as you focus your thoughts on God. Review everything you know about Him. Stretch your thinking.

One mother, alienated from her teen-age son because of his disobedience and rebellion, tried that principle. After the first attempt, her thoughts left God and were back on her son within a few minutes. She decided that she needed to work harder on the idea. Some part of every hour she’s awake, her thoughts will go to Jesus Christ.

Throughout the day she directed her mind to Him. She began picturing Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee, talking to people, ministering to the sick. Next she brought Christ to the present and saw Him walking up and down the streets of her own community. Soon He was at the high school talking to young people, including her own son. She began to see her son through the eyes of Jesus,

After a week, there was a decided change for the better. She was more relaxed with her son and he was less argumentative, she admitted.

What is the explanation for such a change? As the mother became less fearful and nit-picking with her son, she became a more congenial person—and he responded with a greater sense of responsibility. But here is the important point. Not until her mind was filled with thoughts of God were her fears about her son eliminated.

The “Golden Key” calls for quiet persistence. It’s the surest way to know toward harmony and happiness.

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