Directing Our Thoughts
HE SPEAKS THROUGH DIRECTING OUR THOUGHTS
Prov 21:1 NLT
The king’s heart is like a stream of water directed by the LORD; he turns it wherever he pleases.
Prov 16:3 NKJV
Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established.
The way the Lord speaks THROUGH our thoughts is to DIRECT them. Directing our thoughts is subjective and we have an active participation. We are a part of the process while He gently steers us in the right direction.
Thoughts that go through one’s mind, are subjective experiences. The more garbage the mind is fed by way of spoken words, written words, and visual sights, the more impure one’s thoughts will be. The word fed should be emphasized. It’s not necessarily what one is exposed to that creates impurity, it’s what one FEEDS ON. One knows the difference without explanation. The change of one’s carnal mind into the mind of Christ is a step by step process. The more we feed our thoughts on HIM, the sooner we will be transformed.
Rom 12:1-2 AMP
I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
1 Cor 2:16 AMP
For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart. [Isa 40:13.]
An example of this would be, “I wonder how so and so is doing. I think I’ll call her.” You call and crying she says, “I am so thankful you called!” The Lord often guides our thoughts in exact accordance to His will and we do not recognize it’s Him because we have an active participation in it.
During Christmas vacation, my son had to work on a large project from school. He had previously gathered the materials prior to the school break but did not have the necessary printout of the guidelines. The very same day he began his project, I looked at my desk, and thought I’d better file my “to be filed” pile. As I was sorting through my papers, my sons’ needed printout of the guidelines popped forth! We have no idea how it got into my pile. And what was even more amazing was the fact that he had picked up the guidelines at a conference out of town, even prior to knowing he would be given the project at school. The Lord knew all of this and directed his thoughts to pick up the piece of paper at the conference and my thoughts to organize my desk at the moment of his need.
ASSIGNMENT: Commit your thoughts to God, and ask Him to direct them. Ask Him to bring a person to mind and direct your thoughts to what that person needs prayer over. Look up a scripture that is about the subject . Pray for the person, then pray the scripture over the person. Next contact that person and tell them what you did.
