Your Thoughts

Proverbs 23:6-8 says, "Do not eat the bread of him that has an evil eye neither desire his dainty meats. For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Eat and drink he says to you but his heart is not with you."

The enemy understands this verse, he knows he cannot do anything to you unless your mind and your flesh cooperate with him.

Notice the context in which God is saying, "As a man thinks, so is he." He is saying a person can pay you compliments. A person can invite you to dinner. A person can say, "Eat and drink, you are welcome here." But just because they say that, it does not reveal who they really are. Who they really are is what they are thinking on the inside.

We have been told that we are what we say, but we need to understand something---what we think is who we really are. What we are thinking on the inside is who we really are. Someone may ask you, "How are you doing?" And you are thinking, "Man, I am lousy. I feel bad. I do not feel good." And you say, "Everything is fine."

You may be saying "everything is fine" thinking you are making a faith statement, but what I am telling you is: who you really are is made up of what you are thinking inside.

As you think within, that is who you really are, and that is why we have to pay more attention to changing the thoughts that we think even more than changing the words we speak.

Real Change comes from the inside out---not the outside in!

Blessings

Paul