#FoodForThought
Have you ever looked over a cliff or the top of a High Building and felt like you were being drawn to jump off? Its always like there is this force that was pulling you. That’s because whatever you focus on pulls you. It’s true in every single area of life — good or bad. If you focus on Godly things, it’s going to pull you that direction. If you focus on the stuff that’s at the movies and in magazines, its going to pull you that direction. Whatever you focus on gets your attention. Whatever gets your attention is going to get you. The key is to just change your mind. Temptation always follows a predictable pattern: attention, arousal, and action. Your mind gets hooked, your mind kicks in, and then you act on it. So you don’t fight a temptation; you just turn your mind to something else.
2 Corinthians 10:5 (NCV) says…
We capture every thought and make it give
up and obey Christ.
Psalm 119:6 (CEV) says…
Thinking about your commands will keep me from doing some foolish thing
Here’s the secret to overcoming temptation: Don’t fight it. Just refocus. Whatever you resist persists. Did you know that in the Bible, not once are you told to resist temptation? We are told to resist the Devil, and that’s a whole different issue. But the key to overcoming temptation is not to push back. It’s to change your focus. Whatever gets your attention gets you. The battle for sin always starts in the mind. If you’re thinking about God’s truth, you’re not thinking about the dumb stuff you could be doing. You can’t always control your circumstances, and you can’t even always control the way you feel; But you can control what you think about. That’s always your choice. And if you change the way you think, it changes the way you feel, and that will change the way you act. TODAY AS YOU THINK RIGHT…EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT as GOD WILL EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS. Receive Grace In Jesus Name.
Philippians 4:8 (NIV) says…
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable —if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
**From Rick Warren’s CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK
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