Good morning faithful ones!
I want to exhort you today to KEEP YOUR MIND ON JESUS because the main signals that your cells respond to are your thoughts. I encourage you to see things from the perspective of God’s Word.
If you think about God’s Word day and night, you will have success. This is what Joshua 1:8 (NLT) says,
• Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.
It’s possible to lead an emotionally happy and physically healthy lifestyle by simply learning to control your thought life. You can begin by renewing your mind by the Word of God and switch all your thoughts to thoughts of victory!
By being obedient to God’s instructions, you are empowered to have strength. This way, you can direct your memory, your words, and your mind towards His thoughts.
All the instructions you receive from God’s Word have a large, positive effect on your brain. Every time you choose God’s way, you make the right decisions and your brain sends the correct signals throughout your body, so that God’s life is built in you.
Your mind is designed by God to hear and obey Him. When you do, you will operate in God’s supernatural power to make good decisions so that you can rejoice despite the circumstances.
When you choose God’s ways, you will receive His mercy and you will find grace to help you when you need it most (see Hebrews 4:16).
Choosing God brings health, life, longevity, healing, and change.
I exhort you to use your God-given mind in the way it was intended by thinking the thoughts of God to the point that your spirit, soul, and body are working as one supernatural unit, just like God’s.
Remember, we’ve been given a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind (see 2 Timothy 1:7). If your mind is fear-driven and fear-controlled, it’s not a sound mind.
Faith comes with by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and that’s a process (see Romans 10:17). When you hear something, it goes into your short-term memory for 24-48 hours. It you continue to think about it for at least three days, you have the beginning of a memory.
Every day that you think about something, you strengthen that thought until after 21 days, you have built a long-term memory.
If you continue to think about it for 42 more days, it becomes a habit.
I encourage you to KEEP YOUR MIND ON JESUS by spending time in God’s Word, in prayer, in fellowship, and in worship. Hebrews 12:1-2 tells us this:
• Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by KEEPING OUR EYES ON JESUS, the champion Who initiates and perfects our faith.
Keeping my mind on Jesus,
Lisa Gordon
Assistant Pastor
Jesus City Church