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January 22, 2007
Check Your Thinking Processes
by Carol Custer
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart (Psalms 37:4).
Recently in a sermon, my husband mentioned that reading GodŐs Word and praying have great impact on our thinking. I began to consider the influences on my own thinking and did some research to discover what the Bible says about the thoughts and desires of our hearts. So I asked myself this question and found these answers.
Where do your thoughts originate?
From the Devil?
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him (Zechariah 3:1).
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost. . . ? (Acts 5:3)
From a sinful heart?
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies (Matthew 15:19).
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
From the Word of God and the Holy Spirit?
For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God, How great is the sum of them! (Psalm 139:17)
O let our thoughts and desires originate in response to the Word of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit. This occurs when we are faithful to study GodŐs Word and to spend time in prayer and fellowship with Him.
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