Hear And Think Right
For as he (a man) thinketh in his heart, so is he…
(Proverbs 23:7).
Change is something we all want, should have,
and continually crave; change from glory to
glory. Change, whether positive or negative, results
from the words you pay attention to, and the thoughts
they stir up in your heart. The Lord Jesus taught His
disciples to hear and think right. In Mark 4:24, He said,
“...Take heed what ye hear….” Then in Luke 8:18, He
said, “Take heed therefore how ye hear….”
How you hear is as important as what you hear,
because how you hear often determines your response
and attitude, as well as the ability to appropriate
the power of the words that come to you. Words
make or mar. Our lives are influenced by words; the
atmosphere in your home depends on the words that
are spoken therein. Your relationships are built on
words. Our lives are so dependent on words that, not
only do they affect our attitudes, they also affect our
health and living conditions.
Whether or not you’re living in faith or in fear is
a function of what you hear. Faith comes by hearing
God’s Word. God’s Word contains positive information
that bolsters faith, while fear comes through negative
information. Many today have become faint-hearted
from listening to media reports on the deplorable
state of the world’s economy. If only they’d turn their
attention to the Lord and His infallible Word!
Job 22:29 says when men are cast down, then
you shall say there’s lifting up. You’re in the world,
but not of the world. Your prosperity and success are
independent of the vagaries of nature, economics,
and economies of this world. Have this consciousness.
Think like a victor. Live as a champion. 1 John 4:4 says,
“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome
them: because greater is he that is in you, than he
that is in the world.”
Believe and accept the integrity of God’s Word.
Think the Word-way. God has given you His Word
as the veritable agent to change and transform your
life from glory to glory: “But we all, with open face
beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are
changed into the same image from glory to glory, even
as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Confession
The Word is growing mightily and prevailing in me; I’m making
progress by the Word, heaping up success upon success. There’s
prosperity, joy and increase in my life, and Christ is exalted
and glorified in me today, in the Name of Jesus! Amen.
Further study
Mark 11:23; romans 12:2; Philippians 4:8
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
1 thessalonians 5:1-28
Isaiah 61-63
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
hebrews 7:1-10
ezekiel 10-11