★ MY SERMON NOTES
@ FOLMI Lighthouse Family Church,
Venue: Nigeria Bible Translation Trust (NBTT),
Old Airport Road, Jos,
28th June, 2015
☆PRAISE JAM FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE
★ SERMON
* Topic: Think Good Thoughts Only
* Speaker: Pastor Ishaya Paul Demsa
* Text: Philippians 4:4-8
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| Pastor Ishaya Paul Demsa |
* Your whole life is 'made up' of your thought life
* Your life can never be better than your thoughts
* Your life is the manifestation of your thoughts
* You can hide your thoughts from people around you, but you can't hide its manifestation
* Your present life is the product of your thoughts over the past years
* God wants your thoughts to be pure and good because if you think good, you will inevitably live good
* The Word of God is given for the primary purpose of transforming your mind
* God's goal is for you to think and live like a god here on earth: this can only be possible through constantly meditating on His Words
* If you are not living like a god, it means you are wasting the God-given resources allocated to you
* Proverbs 23:7a → "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..."
☆ POINTS TO NOTE:
1. Fill your mind with good thoughts
→ You cannot put anything more in a container that is already filled
→ If your mind is saturated with good thoughts, evil thoughts will not find an accomodation there
→ Thoughts are powerful: All human inventions (no matter how trivial or sophisticated) are the product of thoughts
2. Fix your mind and attention on beautiful things
→ Continuous thoughts soon become a reality
→ Your mind is a tool for transforming your life
→ God gave you your mind so that you can create your life
→ Anything happening in your mind is a preview of what will eventually happen in your life!
* Romans 12:2 →"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
* Until your thoughts change, your life won't change
* The quality of your thought life determines the quality of your actual life
* The 'mother' of your real life is your thoughts
* Your thoughts have the ability to mold you, more than your actual life ever can
* Your thought life is more realistic than your actual life
* The preparation for success in real life begins in your mind.
→ It is virtually impossible for a man who thinks of himself as a failure to ever become a success in real life
* Those who fail in life had already failed in their minds a long time ago
★ TWO WAYS THOUGHTS ARE CREATED:
1. Godly thoughts
→ These are the thoughts that proceed from God Himself
* Jeremiah 29:11 →"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."
*God is a 'thinking being'
*Nothing you do (or fail to do) can ever change God's thoughts about you
☆ Amos 3:3 → "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"
→ The real reason why many people are not living their at their personal best is because they fail to 'agree' with God's thoughts for their life
*All good and positive thoughts come from God
→ Satan does not have the capacity or ability to produce good thoughts that are in conformity with God's Word
2. Devilish thoughts
☆1 Peter 5:8→"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."
☆2 Corinthians 4:4 →"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
* All bad and nagative thoughts are from the devil
*God will never scare you with evil thoughts for any reason!
☆ 2 Corinthians 10:5 →"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."
* You must guard your thoughts against all forms of negativity and evil (See: Proverbs 4:23)
* NOTE: Satan can't stand a man of good thoughts
* Thoughts are ideas that are fighting to become real in your life
* The best way to fight a bad thought is to speak out the Word of God that neutralizes it
→ Is order to do this effectively, you must study and memorize the Scriptures regularly
* Thoughts are the foundation of all things
* Question: What are you thinking?
* The easiest thing to do in this life is to think
→ You do not need anybody's permission to generate a thought in your mind
☆Food for thought: God's mind is full of good thoughts about me!
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| Dareng Cj Nyam |
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| Manji |
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| Wordsmith |
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| Praise and worship by the Lighthouse Family Choir |
