by Ann Nurse

Created on: August 06, 2011

What goes on in our head exceeds our ability to express all the thoughts of the night and the thoughts of each day.  We can share our thoughts with others.  We can travel in our mind.  We can build up or we can tear down - we can do all of this with thought.  This makes our thought life a powerful tool for good and for evil.  We don’t have to admit to the things we think about. The definition for thinking says it is the act or practice of one who thinks.  Thought.  Here is what The Word says about it.

Proverbs 23:7

“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he:”

A passive person thinks he has done nothing wrong because he just thought about doing something wrong in his mind but he did not personally act upon his thoughts.  He might have prayed for a curse on his enemies.  We are told to pray for those who despitefully use us.   However, it is not given unto use, to ask for harm to our enemies. Did you know the devil loves for us to think about what we want to do in our thought life; we think that is fine as long as we don’t act upon our evil thoughts?   Did you know the devil is delighted when we spent our thought life going over the faults of other people?  He knows, when we do this we don’t concentrate on our own short comings.  There is not a person that can condemn us because we have a judgmental spirit or critical attitude for people, if we just think about it and don’t give voice to it.  The battle field is in the mind, but the victory over Satan can only be gained through Jesus Christ.  We can’t think about something bad happening to our enemies and be justified because it only happened in our minds.

The Word of God speaks about this kind of thinking.  There is a group of psalms called “imprecatory;” these psalms contain curses or prayers for the punishment of the psalmist’s enemies.  To imprecate means to invoke evil upon, or curse and call for God’s judgment on the enemy.  The imprecatory psalms are 7, 35, 55, 58, 69, 79, 109, 137 and 139.   I would note that the curses found in Psalms 69 and 109 are quoted by Peter in Acts 1:20, as finding their fulfillment in God’s judgment on Judas.

When positive thinking is described it is said to be a mental attitude that admits into the mind thoughts, words and images that are conductive to growth, expansion and success.  It is said to be the visualization of what a person wishes to accomplish.   What we meditate upon in our mind plays a critical role in the actions we take.  It affects our attitude.  That is why the devil is glad when we submit to negative thoughts because that will bring fear.   Here is the thing - God wants our minds filled with thoughts of Him because we belong to Him.  He created us for His glory.  He is a jealous God and He tells us so.  Satan is a distracting act and he brings desolation and death and he wants your focus off The Lord.

God is the most positive force in the universe.  That is why God wants our minds renewed and empowered by The Holy Spirit.  He pleads that we come up from the base and unworthy mind of negative thinking which involves blaming others, unfairness, assumption, generalization of people, manipulations and emotional reasoning that lead to a downward spiral and a tormented thought life.

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