Our thought life actually takes manifested form. It will make physical changes to our bodies. It will show up in circumstances, determining outcomes and so on. Brain scientists, who don't know God (yet), even know that this is true. Carolyn Leaf, (a brain scientist who does know God), explains in detail what is happening and how this truth lines up with scripture.
Well how do we know this is true ourselves? Blood pressure literally rises and falls depending on what's going on in our thought life. People sometimes develop ulcers due to thought life. If you take a couple of moments and think about this, you might realize other things that can happen to your body, instantly or over time, due to your thoughts. Positive thinking draws good things and negative thinking, the opposite.
God knows that we are complex because He designed us that way. In that complexity is the very ability to become the head and not the tail, above and not beneath. He give us tools throughout the Bible that show us how to be "transformed by the renewing of our mind". (Romans 12:2)
Check this out: "If you want to know what God wants you to do, ask him, and he will gladly tell you,
for he is always ready to give a bountiful supply of wisdom to all who ask him;
he will not resent it. But when you ask him, be sure that you really expect him to tell you,
for a doubtful mind will be as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind;
and every decision you then make will be uncertain, as you turn first this way and then that.
If you don’t ask with faith, don’t expect the Lord to give you any solid answer."
- James 1:5 - 8 - Wow, right? This passage is talking about faith, for sure, but faith linked to our thought life...a doubtful mind verses a believing mind. There are two different outcomes here, depending on what path we allow our thinking to go down.
TODAY we can, all of us, shift the way we think and start getting different results. Many of us have a lot of "traffic" going on in that mind of ours. It's years of habit, teaching by society and so on. BUT, we can change this. We can start by declaring the truthful Word over our minds; "I have the mind of Christ!" (1 Corinthians 2:16) When we realize that "Christ" is the anointed One AND His anointing, (God on flesh, doing what flesh can't do), this will begin to penetrate our thinking and start a good work. We can spend more time praying in the spirit, (1 Corinthians 14:15), which bypasses the defects of our human thinking and allows our flesh self to pray what the spirit is praying. And when our thinking strays away on us, we can actually take those thoughts captive and put them under God's own thinking patterns! (2 Corinthians 10:5).
Truly our Father is kind and offers us much training and solutions about our thinking. Now we need to practice those solutions, (meditate on His truth) with zeal for a better thought life and watch things get better right before our very eyes...and even everyone else's! Heeeeeeeeeeey!
Love, Todd | 
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