WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE THOSE, PART 1
Thoughts dwelt on produce words. Words spoken produce actions. Actions determine the course of our lives.
God knows very well how He set up this earth and mankind to dwell on it. Our enemy satan also knows the set-up. It is very simple. It was established in Genesis. God spoke and God saw. Man, whom God has created, speaks and he sees. We are created in the image or likeness of God. He speaks and things are created.
We as mankind, whether born again or not, speak and create, whether good or bad. There is a statement that is very true: What we say is what we get. It doesn’t happen the first time or the second time or even the third time, but there does come a time when we have dwelt on something so long and spoken it so often, that it produces in our lives exactly what we have spoken.
Thoughts and words are extremely important to God since that is how His Kingdom operates.
Consider these verses:
As a man THINKS in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
You will give an account of every IDLE WORD that you have spoken. By YOUR WORDS you will be justified and by YOUR WORDS you will be condemned (Matthew 12:36,37).
Man lives by every WORD that proceeds out of the MOUTH OF THE LORD (Deuteronomy 8:3).
A gentle TONGUE with its healing power is a tree of life (Proverbs 15:4).
The MOUTH of the righteous man is a well of life…. (Proverbs 10:11).
The TONGUE of the just is as choice silver….(Proverbs 10:20).
The LIPS of the righteous feed many…. (Proverbs 10:21).
PLEASANT WORDS are as a honeycomb, sweet to the mind and healing to the body, health to the bones (Proverbs 16:24).
Death and life are in the power of the TONGUE and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof (Proverbs 18:21).
Whoso keeps his MOUTH and his TONGUE keeps himself from troubles and he keeps his life (Proverbs 21:23).
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH…. (Proverbs 12:14).
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his MOUTH….He that keeps his MOUTH keeps his life…. (Proverbs 13:2,3).
Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report….THINK on these things. (Philippians. 4:8).