What will you choose to dwell on today?
We all have a choice, to choose death or life. The mind of the sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. When we live according to the sinful nature and cater to our flesh, we cannot please God, but when we live according to the Spirit and follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit, then life flows to us and through us to others. As believers we allow the sinful man to rule and overtake us. We allow the thoughts of defeat, failure, revenge, bitterness, unforgiven, anger, hatred and so much more to dominate our minds. The carnal mind produces death, that’s why we cannot allow the carnal mind to control our actions. Keeping a positive outlook in the face of all troubles, adversity and disappointment, can be very difficult – our blurred visions see no way out, no possible solution. that’s what dwelling on negative or carnal things will produce.
Romans 8:5-8
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
Deut. 30:19, I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live.
We quote this verse all the time to the unsaved but God was speaking to the people of Israel and He is speaking to us today too. You can choose words and thoughts of death or you can choose words and thoughts of life- producing death or life respectively. The choice is always yours.
Prov23: 7a. For as he thinks within himself, so he is.
On the contrary Philippians 4:8 (AMP) says;
8 For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them].
Will you choose life and walk according to the leading of God’s Holy Spirit? Absolutely, fix your mind on something today- the word of God. Let that word flow out of your Spirit and your mouth, confessing and declaring what God said about you, not what man or any situation seems to suggest.
You can shape your future and your destiny with your words! Dwell on truth not facts.
Advancing the Kingdom of God in the earth!