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S.E.E.D. For Today____Thought Life

Scripture "And now dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think about these things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4:8 NLT

The mind is made up of a mass per se of matter. It is the heart and soul of human beings. It's the central station that operates the body, it's like a head quarters that sends messages to it's constituents on what they should be doing. Its the part of us that thinks, reasons, remembers, our understanding and feelings. The aspects of how we perform are synchronized into this one element of the body in the compartment called the brain. What occupies your mind, many of us daily release our thought life on social media. We wake up turn on the phone and facebook asks you what's on your mind. Paul was listing things in this letter to the Philippians of the things that should occupy their minds. The mind matters, it can count for God when saturated with His standard, His Word shows is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, and of a good report. We are to fill the thought life with whatever is of value and praise to God. Mark Twain wrote that a person's real life is in the head and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of a person's brain is grinding, and the thoughts are a person's history. What is your thought life, it matters to God and it should matter to you. Fix your thought on what is true, dismiss everything else that challenges the report God has published for your life.

Example Thought is the process of mental activity, ideas or notions, opinions, that what is formed in our mind, the process of thinking.

Exercise Read Philippians 4:4-8 Journal and Talk to God

Devotion Lord I pray for my thought life. What is on my mind? Your Word says that if I keep my mind on You that You will give my mind the peace and rest that my natural thoughts can't provide. I pray that I will fix my thoughts on what is true and right, pure and lovely, positive that have value and meaning, casting down every thought that comes to exalt itself above Your truth. I bring my mind under the submission of the Word of God that I may please and honor You in Jesus Name Amen.

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