God wants you to guard your heart
because what goes in eventually comes out. Its like the computer jargon (GIGO)
garbage in garbage out. Let God's word dwell richly in your heart, meditate on
it until you are fired up by it. When you speak based on revelation your
manifestation is the result.
In order for you to change your
world, you need to change your thoughts. Your thoughts run your life. Who you
are really is made up of what you are thinking inside. If we pay close
attention changing the thoughts we think we will spend less time and efforts trying
to change the words we speak.
As long as we say things that we
don't really believe, no matter the frequency it will not produce power. That
is why the scripture says in Romans 10:9a “If you believe in your heart and say
with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you will be saved.” Our salvation received
is an end result of the words we speak and the words we believe in our heart.
There is a heart and mouth connection for the miraculous to be experienced.
This is why a lot of Christians
have given up on their faith. They have confessed because they were told to
speak positively. But they did not take the time to attend to God's Word and
meditate on it. They just speak forth not because they believe but because they
are just trying to see if it will work. That is just unbelief and doubt wearing
masks. Trying to see if the “faith –thing “ works is unbelief dressed in sheep
designer's clothing.
Your circumstances will give way
based on the weight of the confidence in your heart - not just the words that
you actually speak. It is a combination of both to get it to work. What you
belief and think need to align with what you say. Your confession should be the
fruit of your meditation. True faith is a response to God’s accomplished work.
In Matthew 12:35 it says “the
good man from his inner good treasures flings forth good things and the evil
man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things.” (AMP).
If you give yourself to the word
and think deeply on it, you will fill your heart with treasures, you will see
this treasures manifest in your life. Things change in your life when they
change in your heart.
The day you see yourself as a
prosperous man that can't be broke again because of the finished work of Jesus and begin to release forth that fruit
through your words, prosperity will manifest and things will
change. At this point, our confession is
going to come out of the overflow of our heart- out of the overflow of what we
really believe and what we really think. That is when things will change on the
outside. Success is who you are. As a man thinks in his within, so is he.
Joel Osteen, Pastor of Lakewood
Church contributed a foreword to a book titled Your Words Hold a Miracle and stated
this:
"A powerful step
toward living at your full potential is to discover the power
of your thoughts and
words. As was true of my father's “certain Christian,”
many people live far
below their full potential because their thinking
patterns are defective.
You cannot think negative thoughts and expect to live a
positive life. You
can't think thoughts of failure and expect to succeed. You
have to quit dwelling
on the negative. Don't magnify your problems. Magnify
your God. The bigger
we make God, the smaller our problems become.
Quit dwelling on
what's wrong in your life, and start dwelling on what's
right in your life.
Learn to focus on your possibilities, on what you can
do, on your
potential. Then go out each day
expecting good things."
Satan wants to get access into
your life through your thoughts. Your mind is the battlefield. The scripture
tells us to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Work on your
thinking because it produces your speaking. Guard it from any information that
runs contrary to the promises of God.
Paul speaking to the church at
Corinthians said
“For the weapons of
our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God
to the pulling down
of strong holds: casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every
thought to the
obedience of Christ”. - II Corin. 10:4,5
The truth is that many are
defeated in life because of wrong mindset and ways of thinking that has limited
God’s work in their life. Paul described these destructive ways of thinking as
strongholds. The devil’s strategy to stop believers from excelling in life is
to influence their minds with thoughts, imaginations and concepts that stand
against God’s truth.
Battling these strongholds is
beyond praying, warring tongues or engaging in dramatic warfare prayers. We
have to bring every thought and subject it to God’s word. Every idea and
concept in your life must pass the litmus test of the word of God.
Gregory Dickow once said “God’s
purpose, plan and will for your life doesn’t start with a great dream or great
effort on your part. It simply starts with right thinking, mindsets that line
up with God’s way of thinking.”
Lots of people live with thoughts
of hopelessness, impossibilities, frustrations, fear of the
future, worries,
security and many other negative emotions. Such ways of thinking keep one
living a defeated life. But you change things by changing
your thinking. Replace these thoughts with God’s thoughts. The promises of God
in his words in the antidote to such poisonous thinking. you can win the battle
of the mind when you use the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.
Your victory is in the word of
God that you meditate upon. The devil will not be defeated because he has already
been whipped and defeated two thousand years ago. You need to keep the devil
where he supposed to be. The losers corner “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 of
these things.” Phil. 4:8
Don't even let people's opinions
and the popular trend to colour the dream that God has placed in your heart.
Take every limiting thought captive. You don't need anyone's permission to
fulfill your dream. Keep your mind and heart in God's unchanging opinion of you. Remember He is more committed to seing you succeed, love life and see good days that you can ever be yourself.
