{"id":1316,"date":"2012-11-12T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2012-11-20T08:15:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:15:45","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-11-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/12\/pearls-of-wisdom-11-12-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 11-12-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE THOSE, PART 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jesus told us that out of the abundance of our heart our mouth speaks (Matt. 12:24).\u00a0 Our heart is the center of our being, where our spirit is located.\u00a0 If we think on something long enough, it gets in the center of our being and comes out of our mouth.\u00a0 When it comes out of the center of our being, it will create what we say.<\/p>\n<p>There are two sources of thoughts:\u00a0 God and satan.\u00a0 We choose every minute of every day whose thoughts become our focus and then we speak out what we are thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s use a practical example of thoughts and words in our present day.\u00a0 If we listen to the news all the time, we are hearing words of doom and gloom \u201cWe are going under.\u00a0 The world is in a mess financially.\u00a0 People are out of work.\u00a0 People\u2019s homes are being foreclosed.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThe Nile virus is spreading.\u00a0 Cancer and heart disease are becoming widespread.\u00a0 Get your flu shots now to avoid drastic consequences.\u201d\u00a0 Etc. Etc. Etc.\u00a0 However, if we look at and speak what God\u2019s Word says about our financial situations, we see in His Word that He takes care of us.\u00a0 Are we not of more value than the birds of the air or the lilies of the field?\u00a0 He says that He sent His word and healed us.\u00a0 He says that Jesus bore our sicknesses and diseases.\u00a0 One set of thoughts comes from satan.\u00a0 The other set comes from God.<\/p>\n<p>There is a tug of war for your thought life.\u00a0 There is a constant barrage of thoughts bombarding your mind 24\/7.\u00a0 Negative thoughts must be offset by God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 It is almost like we are having to become walking Bibles, with the word coming out at every squeeze of pressure.\u00a0 The water of the word comes out of our life sponges rather than the mildew of the world\u2019s ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Whose thoughts are those?\u00a0 You are the determining factor of whose thoughts you ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE THOSE, PART 2 Jesus told us that out of the abundance of our heart our mouth speaks (Matt. 12:24).\u00a0 Our heart is the center of our being, where our spirit is located.\u00a0 If we think on something long enough, it gets in the center of our being and comes out of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}