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What
does it mean is your glass half full or half empty? Some people look at life positive and some look at life
negative. Where does negative and
positive come from? Our thoughts. I heard of a study some did about a year ago
on how people looked at a situation if it was a blessing or bad luck.
For
example a guy went skiing and broke his leg and they told him that was really
bad luck. He said no it was a blessing
I could have broke both legs or been killed.
They traveled America doing this study and wrote a book on how people
thought about situations if it was good of bad. A lot of people would say whoa is me I broke my leg instead this
guy was thankful that more didn't happen.
Its all how we think! Are you
positive or negative? It is so important what we think that it determines our
life, church, spirit life, family, friends and etc.
James
4:1-8
From
whence come wars and fighting’s among you? Come they not hence, even of your
lusts that war in your members?
Ye
lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot: ye fight and war;
yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
(4:1-3
James emphasizes the strife so common among his readers, stemming from their
unsatisfied, selfish desires. Instead of wrestling with God in prayer, these
believers are striving with one another." And where does a lot of this
warring start?
In
our minds.")
Ye
ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your
lusts.
Ye adulterers
and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Do
ye think that the scripture saith in vain, the spirit that dwelleth in us
lusteth to envy?
But
he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resesteth the proud, but giveth
grace unto the Humble.(" I heard someone on the radio today say humbleness
and meekness was not a weakness." It is a strength because you have to be
close to God and you have to choose to be humble and meek and fight against the
flesh. Being humble and meek is not
being a push over, it is knowing when to hold your tongue, and how to act
Christ like. We just said you had to choose to be humble and meek, how do you
choose? With your mind.)
Submit
yourselves therefore to God. Resist the
devil, and he will flee from you.
Draw
nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and
purify your hearts, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
(How
do you draw nigh to God? PRAYER, THE WORD, STUDING, FASTING. To purifying your
hearts you first have to start with the mind. REMEMBER THE HEART, MIND, EARS,
AND TONGUE ALL GO TOGETHER. One corrupts the other or one will cleanse the
others. You can't have a clean heart with a dirty mind or vice versa. One will
corrupt the other. And that is where double minded comes into. You can't be
positive and negative. You will be one
or the other.)
In
my study Bible it says 4:7-10 RESIST THE DEVIL: Do not submit to, fear, or flee
from Satan, but stand against him (1 Pet.5:8-10). Satan cannot lead into sin
against one's will. DRAW NIGH: God will
not be unmoved; His welcoming response is always near (Deut. 4:7, Lam.3:
57;Luke 15:20). HANDS and HEARTS: The cleansing of one's life must involve both
outward deeds and inner thoughts.
Psalms
24:3-4
Who
shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Or who shall stand in his holy place?
He
that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath no lifted up his soul unto
vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Psalms
15
Lord,
who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
He
that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the TRUTH IN
HIS HEART.
He
that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh
up a reproach against his neighbor.
In
whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the Lord.
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
He
that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the
innocent. He that doeth these things
shall never be moved.
Zech.
8:16,17
These
are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor;
execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;
And
let none of you imagine (think) evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and
love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.
Our
thoughts determine our walk with the Lord, how we worship, and how our church
service will be. Do we come to Church with a negative mind or a positive
mind? God can't move with a negative
mind.
Acts
2:1
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord (mind) in one place.
Tonight are we all one mind or are we double minded.
James
1:8 a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Please write and let me know if this information was
helpful in your studies, or if you have any questions please contact me:
Robin Farley