If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow
and do not shed innocent blood in this place,
and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,
then I will let you live in this place,
in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever"
Jeremiah 7:5-7 (NIV)
Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
Author: Warren Wiersbe
THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
Change can happen if we want to change and God knows we can change because he is the Father who cares about us and able to far that we can imagine . The Devil will tell us we cant change but with God all things are possible . The fact is we can all do better if we let God be God in our lives .Our Savior Jesus Christ made a way for us if we just let him .
I love that quotation. I've seen it attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr., but I think when he said it, he was quoting someone else. It doesn't really matter who said it. We all live off the achievements and great thoughts that have gone before us.
The three sentences in the quotation are a prayer for change. It speaks to us on every level of business, of society, and of self-improvement.
"We ain't what we ought to be." - This simple statement signifies that we know what we are with our strengths and weaknesses. It's the first step in training. Before we begin setting goals for improvement, we must first assess who and what we are. It also lets us and others know that we expect to do better and it holds us up in comparison to a goal for that achievement. Maybe not an exact goal, but one that tells us we always need to be doing something that would make our jesus proud.
Change Your Thinking...Change Your Life
by Joyce Meyer
The longer I live the more I realize how strong a connection exists between our thoughts and our words. I honestly believe that this connection is one of the most important things we can learn in our lives.
So many people’s problems are rooted in their way of thinking, which can actually produce a lot of the problems they experience.
How does that happen?
Well, a negative mind produces negative words and, consequently, a negative life. Our words can actually become traps that cause us to continue our cycle of negative thoughts and actions.
Yes, we’re all tempted to speak negatively, but we don’t have to give in to that temptation.
To turn our words around, we need to start thinking about what we’re thinking about, and then make some real changes.
Let me show you how.
The Trap of Negative Thinking
Because I allowed many years of negative thinking and speaking in my life, I became an extremely negative, sour person. My philosophy became “if you don’t expect anything good to happen, then you won’t be disappointed when it doesn’t.”
Have you ever felt that way?
Because I had encountered so many disappointments, I was afraid to believe that anything good could happen to me. I had developed a terribly negative outlook on everything.
If I had continued to believe those lies about never getting over my past, I never would’ve gotten over my past.
New Thoughts, New Possibilities
With God’s help I am continually reminded that my past doesn’t have to control my future. I don’t need God’s help in my life to give up; I need His help to keep going!
I now know how important it is for me to understand the fact that my life would not have gotten straightened out until my mouth did…
And since the two are linked, my mouth wasn’t going to get straightened out until my mind did.
Changing your words and thoughts is definitely not an easy thing to do, but with God’s help all things are possible.
Be Patient with Yourself
We have to choose to think and speak positively. It doesn’t come naturally—and it doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, it takes a lot of practice.
There will be days when you have setbacks, but just get back up, dust yourself off, and start again.
When a baby is learning to walk, he falls many, many times before he gains the confidence to walk. Failing from time to time—which you will do—doesn’t mean you’re a failure. It simply means that you don’t do everything right all the time.
Well, neither does anyone else.
If you’ve been consumed with negative thinking and speaking, the pathway to your freedom begins when you face the problem without making excuses for it.
Be patient with yourself. As you change your thinking, your words will change and so will your life!
PRAYER
Father help us to change and mold us in the way you want us to be, I pray that you Transform our minds our thoughts and our life and give us to strength to want to change in Jesus name Amen
