I don’t think we realize how truly powerful our minds are. I know I didn’t. I mean I had an idea, but it wasn’t until 2 days ago, while sitting in a seminar at school, that it dawned on me. It was a Professional Development Seminar that was geared towards motivating and encouraging us as individuals and to help steer us where our confidence in our chosen career path was concerned.

The speaker had us do an exercise where she told us to close our eyes and imagine an event that happened some time ago that had made us feel extremely proud of ourselves. She told us to picture what we were wearing, where we were at the time, who was around and how we felt. After we opened our eyes she asked different ones how they felt now. Various persons said they felt proud or happy or hopeful etc. just by remembering and focusing on that one moment. She used this exercise to set the stage for the point she wanted to bring across. The point was that we don’t realize how powerful the human mind is. We don’t realize that we have the ability to change the way we think or feel at any given time and how by just thinking a positive thought could change our whole mood and outlook on a situation.

I was amazed.

More amazed because as she spoke, I remembered the scripture that said “as a man thinketh in His heart; so is he” – Proverbs 23:7. I was like, God you said that first! A scientist didn’t come up with this; this was something you already told us!

I got so excited! And as I talked with the Lord, more scriptures came to me about the mind and how we should think. A few of which are:

Philippians 4:8 (KJV)

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

And the list goes on! It really got me thinking though. Why would God put so much emphasis on our minds and mindsets? Could there really be something to it? Could it be that, by me just choosing to change the way I think that I could actually feel differently?

The answer was yes.

If we can be honest saints, some of the biggest battles we face are in our minds! We hold on to hurt and different bad memories and play them over and over in our minds. Some of us, our minds are like an incubator for iniquity! We hold them dear and nurse them there, and then we wonder why we are always getting frustrated and can’t seem to move in God! We focus so much on the negative that we can’t even see the goodness of God and what He is doing in our lives!

The moment I saw this, my spirit lit up! I felt a weight fall off because I was going through a period where my thoughts were a constant plague for me. But now God is saying that all I need to do is change the way I think! Focus on those things that are good. Serve Him from my MIND and I will be amazed at how I will just walk in the spirit. Hallelujah!

Apostle Kareem shared his testimony about how he had been depressed for a long while and the Lord spoke to him and said that if he didn’t think about himself, he wouldn’t feel anything. He tried it and it worked!

I pray that this is coming off as powerfully as it did to me. I want us to see the reality and simplicity of God! Saints, we have the mind of Christ! All we have to do is choose to agree with that mind and we will start seeing things from the eyes of God. There would be nothing that could come and faze us because we are walking in the spirit. Even suffering would become something we greatly anticipate, because our mindsets have changed and we now have the mind to suffer (which is simply the mind of Christ).

"There is a power within us that we don’t even fully comprehend."

Let us embrace this truth and submit to the mind of Christ in us! I pray you were blessed and encouraged.

I love you

Mo.