The implications of what we have just learned in the previous articles are colossal! If we are to become our very best or what God wants us to be, we must have the mind of Christ — the ultimate mind. And because we are created in his image, the power of the mind of Christ is potentially available to us. Awesome power resides in a mind like his, as history has demonstrated.
What Can Be Achieved Through the Power of the Mind?
Through the power of his mind, Christ made all things. All things were created by a word. Therefore, Christ’s mind contains a mighty creative power! His mind enabled him to heal, to walk on water, to appear and disappear, to withstand temptation, and to suffer for our sakes. Without his mind, none of this would have been possible
All this points to what a crucial part the mind plays in our lives, our enjoyment, our success, and our relationship with God.
Think Like God – Habitually
If we think like Jesus and keep thinking his way, it will become a habit. As a result, we will become what we think — powerful like he was powerful and filled with his goodness. Goodness is God’s way – the way he created us to function.
How Powerful Can a Thought Be?
Anxious thoughts can cripple us and adversely affect our entire bodies, plunging us into despair and despondency – maybe even depression. Fear can literally immobilize us.
Joy, on the other hand, produces healthy, uplifting endorphins that positively affect our whole bodies and spirits. J upward surge can overcome any negative thought whose gravitational forces struggle to keep us grounded. This is the way we are made!
A Basic Exercise for the Depressed
Mental health is, first and foremost, thinking healthy, uplifting, positive thoughts. Try it the next time you are depressed. It will be hard when you feel depressed, so pray and try. Just because depressed people find it hard to change their mental landscape, it is no reason they should not try. Rather, it is the very reason they should address the thing that needs changing: their thoughts.
Try. But do so with a strong belief that you can succeed! We still do not know the extent of the power of belief in a human mind.
The Power of a Leader’s Mind
The power of healthy positive thoughts is one reason why they required leaders of the early church to be full of faith — mentally healthy, therefore spiritually healthy. You simply can’t be spiritually healthy if you are mentally unhealthy.
How powerful can we become? Well, if God’s mind shows itself through our mind in the form of a solid belief, guess how powerful we can be!
References you may wish to consult: John 1:3; Genesis 1: 3, 6, 9, 14, 20,24,26; Isaiah 55:8-9
RESOURCES TO HELP YOU
Our first and most important task in a world-changing mission is to learn how to think straight (and teach straight thinking) and combat the insurgence of crooked thinking in our culture and in our world today. If we become passive victims of this crooked way of thinking, we promote it. Furthermore, if we remain silent, we also give it credence. In Who Am I?, the reader progresses from how we have become “crooked thinkers” to how to break out of this prison of the mind to become instruments of change for a better world. We do this by recognizing from where we derive our value as humans. “Build a straight and powerful mind.” ~ Ray W. Lincoln
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