Christ is the Mystery no 191
As a man thinks in his heart - review
Brian Kocourek, pastor
This evening we will review Christ is the Mystery No 82, 83, 84 As a Man thinks in his heart no 1, 2, 3
Luke 8:4-15 4 ¶ And when much people were gathered
together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake
by a parable: 5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and
as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls
of the air devoured it. 6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was
sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among
thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on
good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an
hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? 10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the
Now notice
that the seed that was sown is the Word of God, and yet we see that unless this
Word or Seed is sown in the proper place it will not produce Life.
1 Peter
Notice again the Word is called a seed,
and yet we see here that there are two types of seed,
or Word which are sown. A corruptible word and an
incorruptible word. The evidence we have
received an incorruptible Word, is that we shall live and abide forever. Now
let’s take this thought one step further. If Peter tells us there are 2
different types of seeds, one which is corruptible and another which is not
corruptible, and if one is called the Word of God, then the other must be words
of one who is not God. Therefore, if a seed must manifest, then one life will
manifest attributes which are eternal while the other will manifest attributes
which will perish.
In the message Blasphemous Names 62, 22-1 brother Branham said, "The biggest part of our faith is mental faith. By
hearing the Word it brings us to a mental recognition of God. But if this coming from above, oh, brother, if it ever strikes
this, there is a godly, spiritual faith. Then what does that faith do?
That faith recognizes only the Word. No matter what anything else says,
it only recognizes the Word, because "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. (And the Word's still God.) And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." And when the word Itself is pouring into our faith, our mental faith becomes a
spiritual revelation. "And upon this foundation I'll build My Church," (See?), not upon a mental conception
of church joining, a mental conception of that, but upon the revelation.
When them streams of grace has poured into that mental faith that you've got,
then upon this, a spiritual revelation, "I'll build My Church and the gates of hell
can't prevail against it." See?"
The life within the seed must come forth
in a manifestation and bring forth an expression of the Life that lays within it, and it can not express anything outside of
what life is within it. Therefore, every seed must bring forth after it’s kind. And that is what this series Christ is the Mystery of God is all about. Brother Branham is
speaking mostly of the second fold purpose of God which is that as God manifested Himself in the body of His
Son, He is now manifesting Himself in the Body
of Christ.
E-39 God
Revealing Himself to His People 50-0813E. The Word is a Seed (Is that right?) that a Sower sowed in
the ground. And every Seed will bring forth of its kind. If you need
salvation, the Seed's here. If you need healing, here's the Seed
in the Word. The Word of God is a Seed. Put it in your heart.
Don't dig it up every morning to see if it's sprouted, put it in there and
leave it there. It's God's business to bring forth the harvest. You
just leave it there; water it by faith and praise every day thanking God for
it. All right.
E-50 At Thy Word 53-1204 I don't know how I'm going to do it, but "at Thy Word, Lord." That's it. Take God at His Word,
and God's spoken Word must, will materialize and produce just exactly
what It says It will. Listen. The right mental
attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. I
don't care what it is. If you want corn, you plant corn, water corn, leave corn alone. It'll produce corn. Is that right? Wheat
will produce wheat. The promise of salvation will produce a Christian. The
promise of the Holy Ghost will bring It to you. The
promise of Divine healing will make you well. Any
Divine promise of God... And the Bible said that the Word of God is a Seed. Is that right?
E-8 What Think Ye
of Christ 53-1213M And if the right mental attitude, you
just take the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise, watch it
materialize. See? No matter how it looks, if it looks impossible, if
God said so He makes it possible.
175 Word Became Flesh
Now in looking at these thoughts we see that first of all...
Every seed is a carrier of Life, That’s 2 Peter 1:3-4 According as his divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge
of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby
are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: (and what is a
promise? it's giving your word.
And Who gives
us His Word? God does, and what did the Sower sow? The Word, the
Word seed.) That by these
(Word Seed promises) ye
might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is
in the world through lust.
The same Life that was sown in the
Original Seed,
which is the very Life that was in Christ Jesus, must return
in this hour, and enter into people it's ordained to enter. That’s Colossians 3:4 "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory."
And, so we see that the Word is a Seed
carrier of Eternal Life. Now, this evening I would like to look at the Word
being a Seed. And what we are looking at is this thought that your mind is like a Garden and is full of word seed
thoughts "the garden of your mind."
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Now, we have a promise that this is the
hour we are to be conformed to the Image of the first born son. That's Romans 8:29-30. That is a Word Seed of God that was planted in His
mind before the foundations of the world. And there must be a time and season for
this seed to bring forth as He thought and then spoke it.
Now, here is the
promise. Romans
Now, if we are to be conformed to the image of the first born son in this
hour, we must have his same mind in order to think his same thoughts, in order
to say what he says, in order to do what he does. Otherwise we are not
conformed to His image, but we are doing and saying and acting according to our
own mind, and our own thoughts.
And
God said in Isaiah
55: 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
So men back then could not be conformed to
the image of the first born son, because it takes being filled with the same
spirit that was in the first born son in order to think like him and talk like
him and act like him. That's 1 Corinthians 2.
1
Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him. So if it is not in his heart, then it is not in his
mind. Then how could he see it, or hear of it, because man by himself has not
the right makeup to see and hear and understand. But then Paul
tells us how we can see and we can hear. He says in verse 10 But God hath
revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things
of God.
Notice here that God's
Spirit knows, but man doesn't know. So God had to make a way for man to receive
His Spirit. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save
the spirit of man which is in him? even so
the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God knows.
Now, again Paul let's us
know that God's Spirit knows the things of God, but man's spirit doesn't have a
clue. 12 Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of
God; that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God.
Notice that God gives us His Spirit in order for us to
understand. That's the whole purpose of our receiving His Spirit, because He
wants us to know and understand Him, His thoughts, His Word, His Life.
13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which
the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind
of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Now to further
understand how our mind is like a garden, turn to Proverbs 23:7. "For as a man thinketh in his heart so is
he." And so we see that a man is what he thinks in his
heart. And we have already shown that our thoughts are likened to the
life that is in a seed. Therefore, we can conclude that a man is literally what
he thinks, and therefore "his character is the sum of all of his thoughts."
As every plant springs forth from a seed
that was hidden in the earth, and could not have began without a seed, so too every
action that we do, springs forth from a seed that was planted in our
minds as a thought.
Therefore our actions can only manifest
what thoughts are planted in our heart.
Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that
which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his
mouth speaketh.
Now, notice, Jesus tells us that the
words we speak come forth from the abundance of our heart. And the word heart
as we know, means the understanding which is the
compilation of all of our thoughts. Therefore our actions and speech are only
the fruitage which comes forth to manifest the seed-life that is within our
hearts.
In Genesis 1:11 we read "every seed will bring forth after it's kind", This is the law of Life or law
of reproduction, and we see that every seed must bring forth after it’s own
kind or nature. If the nature is in the seed it will manifest that same nature
in its fruits.
Therefore, the life that is in the seed
must become manifest. And therefore, whatsoever life is in the seed will come
forth in an outward manifestation in due season. And that is what Romans
In Psalm 1
we read that "a
righteous man will bring forth His fruit in His season", then he would have to know what fruit
must come in what season, right? So what fruit is supposed to be produced in
the Elect or righteous in this season?
What season are we living in and what
are the promises given for this season? That's what we want to know.
And we know that this is
the hour of Romans
And this is the hour for Romans
And this is the hour for Ephesians
1:5, the hour of our
being adopted and
positionally placed in
the family of God.
That is why Psalm 1:3 tells us that a righteous man will brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf
shall not wither; and whatsoever he does will prosper.
Therefore as I said, if we are
righteous, Rightly-wise then we will bring forth the right fruit for the hour
in which we live. We can see then that our thoughts are just seeds that produce
our actions. Therefore a man that's righteous, does
what is righteous. His thoughts are righteous before
his actions are righteous.1
John 3: 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that
doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He (God) is righteous.
So the righteous thought produces
righteous actions.
You can not do what is righteous unless
your thoughts are righteous first. That is why Solomon said in, Proverbs 12:5 "The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of
the wicked are deceit."
Therefore, what distinguishes a
righteous man from a wicked man? His thoughts first and
then his actions that follow. Psalms 10:4 The
wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is
not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are
always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
Brother Branham taught us
the principle that before you can actually do the act of sin in your flesh, you
must first think it in your mind. Therefore the Greatest battle ever fought is
in the mind.
Since we know that God created man in
his own image, then we must consider that as God brings forth into
manifestation His thoughts and desires of His heart, so does man do the same.
Jeremiah
Therefore, your mind is likened to a
garden which will grow fruit, whether good or bad and it just depends on what
we do with it. In a natural garden we plant the seeds that we want to bring to
harvest. We cultivate our garden so that no weeds will grow in it. It takes
work, but if we sow we shall also reap. The problem is that there is another
who also wishes to sow in our minds as well. Jesus tells the parable of the two
Sowers who went forth sowing seeds. The First was the Son of Man and the other
was the devil. The Son of Man sowed forth good seed which was the Word of God
and it brought forth fruit, wheat. But the devil sowed his
own word seed which brought forth tares or weeds.
We are likened to the husbandmen who are
responsible for our own garden. We are supposed to act as good stewards of the
good seed which is the Word of God. But if we are not really interested in what
kind of harvest we shall reap, then we do not cultivate the good seed. We just
let whatever grows, grow. And this will result in the weeds overtaking the
seeds every time.
Weeds will always outgrow the True
planting of the Lord because after all they are wild. And we know that "many more are the children of the harlot
than she which has a husband."
And so we see that every deed is first
committed in the heart, or mind.
Matthew
Matthew
Mark 7:21 Beware of false prophets, which
come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even
so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A
good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree
bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree
that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven.
Therefore the Bible tells
us, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." That means we are
the product
of our own thoughts just as any fruit is a product of the seed
that was planted in the ground. That is why we
are told to cast down any thought that would exalt itself against the Word of
God.
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Notice that we are told to bring every
thought into obedience to the Word of God.
Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit
good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is
known by his fruit.
Luke 3:8-9 Bring forth therefore fruits
worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have
Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to
raise up children unto Abraham. 9 And now
also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
If we are righteous it is because we
think righteous thought. And if you have your source from God then you will not
be able to help but to think God’s thoughts. Remember the parable of the two Sowers.
They both sowed seeds, but the Seed from the Son of Man was called the good
seed. And we see that a good plant will only produce a good fruit.
Explaining healing and Jairus 54-0216 37 What you are here is a reflection of what you
are somewhere else.
"Those who He called,
He justifies."
Is that right? "Those
who He justified, He has glorified." Already in the Presence of the Father, we have a
glorified body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right.
We'll find out whether it's right or not. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we
have one already waiting." Is that right? That's right. So right now, and what we are
here, is a reflection of what we are somewhere else. So if your deeds are evil,
you know where it comes from. You know where your other body's a waiting.
And listen, it all starts in the mind
which is in the heart.
Therefore, I believe that everything
you are, even your Character comes from the garden of thought that's in your
heart, making you what you really are. Brother Branham told us that
when we are born again, we receive everything that we will ever have need of to bring forth the image of God in us. In Fact we hear John tell us this in 1 John 3:2 where we find that Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And
every man that hath this hope in him purifieth
himself, even as he is pure.
Therefore this thought we are looking at
this evening should show you how the garden of your mind affects every thing
about you, not only does it affect your character, and the molding of your
character, but it will even affect the circumstances that you enter into
daily, which circumstances are used by God in the shaping of your
character into it’s final state that God has predestined for you. Therefore, every
trial you endure, every test that God puts you through, comes about as a result
of the Seed thoughts that lay within your heart.
That is what Peter tells us in 1 Peter
Here we see that it should not surprise
us when we face our trials, because these trials are made for the purpose of
testing us.
In fact we see in 1 Peter 1:7 that not only are we ordained to these
tests, but we are also ordained to pass them. Wuest Translation "in which last season you are to be
constantly rejoicing with a joy that expresses itself in a triumphant
exuberance, although for a little while at the present time if perchance
there is a need for it, you have been made sorrowful in the midst of many
different kinds of testing in order that the approval of your faith, which
faith was examined by testing for the purpose of being approved, that your
approval being much more precious than the approval of gold which perishes,
even though that gold be approved by fire-testing, may be discovered after
scrutiny to result in Praise, Honor and Glory at the time of the Revelation of
Jesus Christ;
Therefore, we can say that every
trial that you go through and ever time you are put to a test by
God and you can not see beyond the circumstance which surround your
life, just remember one thing: that all those tests are all the result of
the seeds of your own thinking and they have spawned forth from
the garden of your own mind.
Remember,
what Paul told us in the book of Romans 8:28-31 28 And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be
the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover
whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What
shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Therefore, if everything about us is
already predestined from God, then the very thoughts we think, He knew
before the foundations of the World, and He knows not only
what you have thought, but what thoughts you will think too. And
don't forget, He also knows how to get you to think His thoughts as well. Then we
can see the relationship of these thoughts that we have and how they influence
our growth into the image of His Son.
Now, if we are ordained to pass them then you might say, what is the purpose of giving us
tests that we are ordained to pass. Well, the purpose of the test is to bring
about a result. That is the purpose of any test. To see where you are compared
to where you should be.
Therefore, we can say that every trial
that you go through and every time you are put to a test by God just remember
one thing: all those tests are only the result of the seeds of your own
thinking and have spawned from the garden of your own mind.
Therefore we can see how God uses the
circumstances in our lives to bring forth His Character and Grace in us. In
other words, without those tests, trials or circumstances, we would not know
where we are in our path to adulthood, or adoption.
Therefore we must understand that since
our character development is dependent upon receiving outside stimuli so we
will produce in our thinking the very thoughts of God, then we ought to be able
to see how needful those trials and tests are in order to bring us to
fulfillment toward the ultimate goal of receiving the very mind of God.
We have been instructed By God's prophet
that although you are a son, yet unless you are conformed to the first born son, you will not
receive any inheritance.
He told us that according to the law of adoption, the son had to be the right kind of son, or he would not receive any
inheritance. And the only way we can know where we are compared to where we
should be is by the feedback we get from The Father.
And our feedback of where we are
in our character development comes from our Father via the tests we go through.
For every son that cometh
to God must first be tried and child tested.
Therefore, the reactions we show toward
our own circumstances is a good indication as to where
we stand in our development toward the end-product of our being. How we handle
each circumstance will depend on what stage we are in, in our progression
towards our ultimate character. Then what appears to be a test at one stage in
our progression, will not appear to be so at a further
stage in our character development.
Therefore every circumstance that we
face in life is a result of where we are at that time in our growth or state within
our own mind or thoughts. In other words, all our Circumstances grow out of all
our thoughts. They are there because we are there in our current mind set.
A person who learns how to handle his
finances does not have financial trials. And you can
learn anything on any subject from God's Word.
Proverbs 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Therefore, we are only buffeted by
circumstances so long as we perceive them to be an outside influence upon
our lives. When we think our circumstances are the fault of someone
else, it is then that we become buffeted and troubled by them. But when we realize our circumstances are
working together for our good, then nothing
can separate us from the Love of God, and nothing can hinder us from becoming conformed to the image
of the first born son.
That is why
Paul went on to say, Romans
When we come to the place where we
realize that circumstances in our lives are a direct result of the state of our
own heart's condition, we will begin to appreciate their use and purpose in our
growth toward the finished product that God has destined for each of us.
When a man
purposely makes an effort to remedy his own personal character defects he will
pass swiftly through a succession of unpredictable changes.
Therefore, the soul attracts that
what it secretly desires, and also that which it fears the most. Did not Job himself say, "That which I fear the most has come upon me? "
Your circumstances are the reflectors in
your life showing you where you are at. Therefore, every thought seed
sown in your mind, or allowed to fall into the fertile soil of your
minds, will produce it’s own fruit, it's own effects,
and it's own circumstances, "after it’s own likeness or nature."
Eventually every (seed) we've sown in
our hearts will have to blossom and manifest into an action, word or deed. And
each action or deed will bear it’s own fruit in
terms of opportunity or circumstances.
As the Scripture tells us, good thoughts will bear good fruit and bad
thoughts will bear bad fruit. That is why we must come to the place
where we must begin to monitor and control what we think and believe.
Because every seed you sow into your mind and every seed in your mind
that you water, you will have to deal with the circumstances in your life
when that seed takes on manifestation. And who is to blame? You
alone are to blame for your own trials. No one else, but you
and you alone.
Therefore you can't blame others
for your own circumstances in your own life. Because where you are in
your mind and where God wants your mind to be are two different stages. And
until you come to the place where Jesus said, "My meat is to do the will of my Father," Then you are not yet where God
wants for you to be.
So guess what. He sends trials to you
which are circumstances, and these trials are just a reflection to let you know
where your present state is at.
That is why Peter said,
don't be surprised if you
are going through trials. Because either you caused them, or your
current state called for them to come in order to get you to move forward.
1 Peter 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for
us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath
suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 2 That he no longer should
live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of
God.
In other words, God lets you suffer for
your mistakes, but hopefully once you made your mistake, you won't keep on
making the same ones over and over again. Because Einstein said, "Insanity is defined as doing the same thing
over and over again expecting a different result."
Now, let's skip ahead to 1 Peter
In other words, make up your mind how
you want to suffer. Because you're going to suffer in this life, whether you
suffer because of your stand for the Gospel or whether you suffer because of
your own stupidity, only time will tell. You will receive a reward for both, and
that is your character will make changes to itself so that you will not have to
suffer too often for making the same mistakes.
16 Yet if
any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify
God on this behalf. 17 For the time is come
that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what
shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if
the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner
appear?19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of
God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a
faithful Creator.
The law of physics says, "For
every action there is a reaction". Therefore, we must be
careful how we do things. If we really believe everything we sow will result in reaping, then when we sow hateful speech, or
criticisms, we should not be surprised when criticism comes back our way.
Therefore we should now be able to see
how "the outer world of circumstances actually shapes themselves to the
inner world of our thoughts". And both pleasant and unpleasant
external conditions are factors work together for our good.
That's why we learn from both suffering
and from blessings. Each of these outward stimuli helps to further our growth toward
the image of Christ that we long for in our souls. Therefore we should our
actions are only an expression of our thoughts. Circumstances do not just
happen, they grow out of the conditions of our heart.
All circumstances and conditions we face
each day are just indicators which help us to know how far along in our
development we've come. Therefore, you may not always receive what you pray
for, but know one thing for sure, "you will always receive what you have sown for".
When we fight circumstances, we are only
revolting against the effect of what we have been sowing. We often wish to improve our
circumstances, but yet we're unwilling to improve ourselves. And that's why our
circumstances remain the same. If we shrink from crucifixion of self, we shall
never achieve our hearts desire.
You are the reason you are what you are. What you have sown is what you are reaping in your life.
Good thoughts and actions can never
produce bad results.
Jesus told us that a Good
tree can not produce bad fruit. Therefore if we think good thoughts, we will have good
actions which will produce good results.
Matthew 7:17-19 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good
fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A
good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth
good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and
cast into the fire.
You reap only what you sow. Therefore if
you delight in the Lord, you will receive the things that you have need of.
Psalms 37:4-6 Delight thyself
also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5 Commit thy way unto the LORD;
trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6 And
he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the
noonday.
You make the commitment; you're the one
who must sow, and then God simply honors the Law or Reproduction that says,
every seed will bring forth after it’s own kind. I
have seen too many people complain about their lack of victory, yet they do not
sow victory, but they sow defeat.
From his sermon, Hour Is Come 51-0415E E-17 brother Branham said, "Your right mental attitude towards
God's Divine promise will bring any promise to pass. Now, maybe you don't
believe that. You say, "Well, my faith is weak." I
wouldn't confess it. See? Don't let the devil know that. Always say, "I
have good faith. I believe God with all my heart." See? Don't testify nothing of the devil. And when you accept Him as your
Healer, don't never act like you're sick or crippled
any more. Believe that you're healed. Take Him at His Word. Then it's
all over on God then and not on you. See? As long as you take God at His
Word, then the Word will produce what It promised to
do.
Therefore, Beautiful thoughts of all
kinds will materialize into habits of Grace and kindness, which will solidify
into friendly and cheerful circumstances:
Pure thoughts will materialize into
habits of holiness and self control, which will further solidify into
circumstances of rest and peace.
You know the Bible says, "To have friends you must show yourself
friendly" If
you keep sowing the same particular train of thoughts, be it good or bad, it
cannot help but to produce its results on the character and circumstances in
which you live.
Isaiah 58:11b " and thou
shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail
not. "
The second half of Jeremiah 31:12b tells us "Their Soul shall be as a watered Garden"
Therefore, everything you are,
even your Character comes forth from the garden of thought that is in your
heart, making you what you really are. And the garden of your thoughts
affects every thing that is already in you, not only affecting your character,
but molding your character, even materializing the circumstances of your daily
life. And the way you handle those circumstances will reflect whether you are
aware of your standing in your growing up into Him in all thing.
And God uses all the circumstances
in your life in shaping your character into it’s final
product that He predestined for you.
Therefore, every trial you endure, every
test God puts you through, comes about as a result of the Seed Thoughts
that lay within your heart. Therefore, every thought seed that is sown, or that
we allow to fall into the fertile soil of our minds, to take root there, will
produce it’s own, after it’s own likeness or nature. Sooner
or later each thought seed we have sown in our hearts must blossom and manifest
in our lives as an action or deed. And each action or deed will bear it’s own fruit in terms of opportunity or circumstances. As
the Scripture tells us, good thoughts will bear good fruit and bad thoughts
will bear bad fruit. Therefore Loving thoughts
create an atmosphere of help, and trust, which crystallize into habits
of Grace, kindness, and charity, which creates
further circumstances of friendliness and cheerful benevolence,
and reciprocity on the behalf of those who are the recipients of your loving
thoughts.