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The Book of Thoughts


Isaiah 55 (NKJV)

7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;




Wicked ways begin in the thoughts.  We must take responsibility for our thoughts.  We can think upon whatever we choose to think upon.  




Let him return to the Lord,
And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.




The Bible is a book of the thoughts of God.   What we think is a choice.   We can think upon what God has said.  We, too, have the power of forgetting offenses.  Thoughts of unforgiveness will tempt us, but we are not to take them.  Forgiveness is a choice.  God said...




Hebrews 10:17 (NKJV)

... “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”


1 Peter 5:7 (NKJV)

7 casting all your care upon Him (God), for He cares for you.




My mind is my mind.  I can choose what I think.   I choose to think about what God has said.  




9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.






Keith Moore, Faith Life Church
https://flcmedia.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/productvideo/1212-ExceedingGrowingFaith-07-FaithThinking-HD.mp4


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