Whose Thoughts Are Those?, Part 2

Jesus told us that out of the abundance of our heart our mouth speaks (Matt. 12:34). Our heart is the center of our being, where our spirit is located. If we think on something long enough, it gets in the center of our being and comes out of our mouth. When it comes out of the center of our being, it will create what we say.

There are two sources of thoughts: God and satan. We choose every minute of every day whose thoughts become our focus and then we speak out what we are thinking.

Let’s use a practical example of thoughts and words in our present day. If we listen to the news all the time, we are hearing words of doom and gloom. “We are going under. The world is in a mess financially. People are out of work. People’s homes are being foreclosed.” Etc. Etc. Etc. However, if we look at and speak what God’s Word says about our financial situations, we see in His Word that He takes care of us. Are we not of more value than the birds of the air or the lilies of the field? He says that He sent His word and healed us. He says that Jesus bore our sicknesses and diseases. One set of thoughts comes from satan. The other set comes from God.

There is a tug of war for your thought life. There is a constant barrage of thoughts bombarding your mind 24-7. Negative thoughts must be offset by God’s Word. It is almost like we are having to become walking Bibles, with the word coming out at every squeeze of pressure. The water of the word comes out of our life sponges rather than the mildew of the world’s ideas.

Whose thoughts are those? You are the determining factor of whose thoughts you ponder.