Choose Your Thoughts and You Will Change Your Life
This is the core of this blog; I strongly believe this. There are many posts about this subject. My prayer is that you will read my posts and determine to apply these principles to your life. The moment you decide to become a disciple of Jesus, you make a decision to accept His Words. Otherwise you cannot follow Him. You cannot follow Jesus and have negative thoughts all the time. That’s impossible!
You might not understand it right away; but the moment you choose to follow Him in your own personal life you will get a much clearer picture of what it means to think like God thinks. To trust Him and start living by the teachings of His Word. When you accept the plan that God has for you and your life; you have to renew your mind, because your mind probably is not able to understand the whole picture.
Everything around probably will tell you that it can’t be. When you know and realize the thought comes from God, you have to line up with God’s thoughts. You need a mental map; you need to determine your thoughts. You see, daydreams are idle thoughts. They can give a you some fun or even a form of escape. But mental maps are the kind of thoughts that have purpose and direction.
They are the thoughts with intent, thoughts that are actually taking you somewhere that you want to go. That’s why you can call them determined thoughts. Let me explain what this means. You see when a thought comes through your mind to do a certain thing, let’s say you are talking to your friend and you start talking about going on a vacation. You see a picture in your mind of being there. But unless you determine your thoughts and act on them you will never see that picture in your mind come to pass.
You have to make a choice; if you keep imagining the thought, then it’s just an idle thought, a passing thought. A determined thought is different. It has intent and passion behind it. A determined thought isn’t content to remain idle, it gives you an idea and you have to act on it. So, an idle though keeps you imagining the vacation, but a determined thought gets you inspired to act on it and start doing.
So, here is what will happen. A mental map begins with determined thoughts. Those determined thoughts produce ideas. Those ideas produce actions. And those actions, combined with faith in God, trust in His Word and the tenacity to never give up is what will draw your dream into reality.
Many people wander through life with big dreams, but they don’t have determined thoughts; thoughts that make them believe what it takes, say what it takes and even change what it takes to start doing what it takes and moving that dream to reality. Instead, they live in the world of idle thoughts which may be very entertaining.
Imagining is very important to dream and imagine things is very good. But you also have to act on it and start doing, acting on your dreams; it moves your life forward and brings great fulfillment. It all starts with thoughts, because with your thoughts you determine where your life will go to reach your destiny. One thing I still want to add here: the journey is as important as the destiny. But you have to start somewhere to bring change in your life. I pray that this post will help you to make that choice.
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