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For as he thinks in his heart, so is he [in behavior—one who manipulates]. He says to you, “Eat and drink,” Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost]. Proverbs 23:7 (ABV)
To think is to Ponder, to go over in one’s head, To Conceive, To Imagine, To Consider, To Plan and To Meditate. Mind and Heart are sometimes interchangeably used in the bible. The Mind is like a village square where matters are deliberated upon, decisions and action taken.
In this discourse, we shall consider the topic on the following subheading as permitted by time.
• Thought and Character
• Effects of thought on Circumstance
• Effects of thought on Health and Body
• Thought and Purpose
• Thought factor in Achievement
• Visions and Ideas
• WHAT IS CHARACTER?
It is the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. In order words Your Personality, Your Makeup, The Stamp which you show people, your temperament, your mentality, and your identity.
Proverbs 23: 7 shows what you are inside is what people see outside. You are a reflection of your thought. Note: As a man thinketh, that means you have power to make or unmake yourself. Means in the memory of your thought you can forge the weapons to shape your Character.
• EFFECTS OF THOUGHT ON CIRCUMSTANCE.
Thought and Character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance.
The mind is like a garden and whatever you sow in the garden of your mind can only produce its kind, Jesus said in Luke 6:45 Read. Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind and to take root there produce, its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruits.
• EFFECTS OF THOUGHT ON HEALTH AND BODY.
Proverbs 17:22 and Luke 6:45, says the body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operation of the mind whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unhealthy thoughts, the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts the body becomes clothed with strength and beauty. Clean thoughts beget clean habits. If you must put your body under control, Check on your mind and every other thing will fall in shape. There is no physician like a cheerful thought.
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• THOUGHT AND PURPOSE.
Until our thought is linked with purpose there will be no accomplishment. A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and pursues it. When he makes this purpose the centralizing point in his thought. Let see what happens in Gen 11:4-6.
Strength can only be developed by effort and practice. John 5:8, if our thought has to be productive, it must have a co-operating action. Faith and Works, it is said he who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
• THOUGHT FACTOR IN ACHIEVEMENT.
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thought.
Job 1:8-9, the word of God is the broom that can sweep the heart of man and make it productive.