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Watch Your Thinking

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , on March 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Psalm 119:11

I want to talk to you today about one part of your soul – the mind. The mind is a vast area before God. Our perception is that we have this little thing that we call the mind, but the mind is not a small thing. In the Spirit, it is a very vast area and this area has deserts in it, barren areas, places where wild beasts dwell. But God wants you to clean up your mind. Do you know why? It is because this is where Jesus Christ is going to be reigning. He wants you to have the mind of Christ.

If you continue to think about your natural business, and do everything natural, you will find that it will prevent you from receiving the fullness of Christ. Christ is preparing us now for His coming. Jesus Christ is coming into the soul first before He comes in the world. How can we be prepared? We have to get guards by the doors of our soul, preventing the old time things from coming in, but allowing the light of God to be coming in, and pushing out the darkness that was in there.

DO NOT CONDONE DARKNESS! If you know that you are a thief, then when you go down to pray, say, “God, I am a thief, and I hate being a thief! I do not want to be a thief, Lord God. Deliver me from stealing.” Do you know what might happen to you the next day? The police may come for you. You ask God to deliver you and He is going to deal with you exactly as you need to be dealt with. Or, maybe the police will not come for you, but He is going to deal with you exactly with the fire that is going to burn the thing out of you. God is going to deal with you with that fire. Do you understand me, brethren?

So, the mind is the most important part of your soul. What you think is what you are. Oh, yes! Whatever you think, that is what you are. We are going to have to begin to understand that God wants this part of our soul to be cleansed before He can come in.

Watch your thinking. Have you ever done it? Take a note of the things that you think about from morning to night, and check up on what causes you to think that way. Now, if the devil can cause you to think certain things contrary to God, then the devil controls you in that area. 

The thing I am saying to you is that the mind is the most important part of your soul. The way you think, the things you allow to be bombarding your thoughts—those are the things that are controlling your whole life. You have to begin to think the Word of God. The psalmist says, “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” (Psalm 119:11).

I am saying to you, “Get yourself a Walkman tape player and put on the Word of God.” Put it around your ears while you are working in the house. Let the Word of God be in your ears. You might miss the telephone call, but let the Word of God be in your ears. It will keep you from missing God.

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, December 1995, pg. 4-5, 16-17)

Thought for today: If you continue to think about your natural business, and do everything natural, you will find that it will prevent you from receiving the fullness of Christ.

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People Who Mean Business with God

Posted in Overcoming, tagged , , on October 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Ezekiel 8:11-12

Let us look a little closer at the problem that we, the people of God, are faced with at this time:

Ezekiel 8:11-12 shows that because your mind is your own, because I do not see what you are thinking, because I do not see what you are feeling, you feel that you are safe. We feel that we are safe because nobody else knows that we lusted over here, or we desired over there. It is all in your mind!

I remember one of the great testings I received as a young man. I had told God to take my life unless I was going to live holy. If He saw that I was not going to live holy, He must “Kill me now!” I said, “God, I am going to give you a chance to kill me! I will neither eat nor drink water for forty days. Kill me!” I am talking about people who mean business with God, whose life does not mean anything to them compared to gaining that thing which God has ordained for them.

Well, God did not kill me, as you might notice. He brought me alive again after this terrible ordeal, but it gave a deathblow. Shortly after this happened, I went to bed one night and got up struggling in my sleep because something was choking me. When I woke up, I was still being choked and I was still struggling. I found out that there was a girl on top of me. She had crept into the room naked, got on top of me, and held me. She felt that she could overcome me in that way.

The first thing that happened, as I came to consciousness, was anger. Why should she believe that I would cast away God for her! She did not respect the power of my salvation! I overcame that night, but I still lost the church and my name. Do you know why? Because a woman refused is a savage creature. She went out and told everybody how she slept with me; and my dignity would not allow me to defend myself against the tongues of my accusers.

I want you to understand that if you are in a condition where a naked woman can come in and take you, you are in a bad shape. And I know many of us are in that shape. You have to get to the point where it would not faze you, it would not affect you. You have to get to that point!

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, July 2000, pg. 35-36)

Thought for today: You can only get to the point where sensuality does not faze you if you allow Christ Jesus to come into your mind and to control your body, so that your body will not obey any other master but your mind; and your mind, your spirit; and your spirit, the Holy Spirit!

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