The Mind, Faith and Life

The mind is the faculty of man’s reasoning and thoughts. It holds the power of imagination, recognition, and appreciation. It's responsible for processing feelings and emotions, which result in attitude. The element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.

“A lot of thoughts ran through my mind" brain, intelligence, intellect, intellectual capabilities, mental capacity, brains, brainpower, wits, wit, powers of reasoning, powers of comprehension, powers of thought, understanding, reasoning, judgment, sense, mentality, perception, head, Imagination, subconscious, psyche, ego, grey matter, brainbox, brain cells, loaf, smarts, kop, ratiocination, sanity, mental balance, mental faculties, senses, reason. rationality, marbles, a person's mental processes, a person's ability to think and reason, the intellect.

Thought

/θɔːt/

an idea or opinion produced by thinking or occurring suddenly in the mind. "Maggie had a sudden thought"

Idea, notion, line of thinking, belief, concept, conception, conviction, opinion, view, impression, image, perception, mental picture, assumption, presumption, hypothesis, theory, supposition, postulation, abstraction, apprehension, understanding, conceptualization, feeling, funny feeling, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, hunch, one's mind or attention.

Plural noun: one's thoughts

"he's very much in our thoughts and prayers”, an act of considering or remembering someone or something." She hadn't given a thought to Max for some time”, an intention, hope, or idea of doing or receiving something., anticipation, expectation, prospect, contemplation, likelihood, possibility, fear, hope aspiration, ambition, dream, intention, idea, plan, design, purpose, aim.

to a small extent; somewhat. adverb: thought; noun: a thought

"Those of us who work at home may find our hands a thought freer"

the action or process of thinking.

Thought is the creation of recalling, reviewing and processing of images for meaning, language, reasoning, and expression.

Thoughts and reasons are being used interchangeably as well as the mind and heart. But the mind and heart are two different things.

Man has a two-faced nature. There is the outward and there is the inward man. The inward man is the first that was created while the outward man was formed. The inward man is the human spirit and his soul. While the outward man is the human body and its senses.

When you look at the physical things you can begin to understand spiritual things.

The soul functions for the human spirit. The soul is used for the whole human spirit. Sometimes the heart is used to describe the inward man. There is the soul that belongs to the human spirit and that soul is the seat of the mind, the will and the emotions.

What the nervous system is to the body, the soul is to the spirit. In the central nervous system, what the brain is to the body, the mind is to the spirit and the mind is in the soul. But the mind is far more complex than the brain because it has got more power and influence than the brain. The spirit is the real you.

THE BRAIN:

The brain is the primary center for regulation and control for bodily activities receiving and interpreting sensory impulses.

Interpretation: language and expression. They are not in the power of the brain.

The brain is neither the mind nor the soul. It's a physical organ of the body while the mind and soul are intangible.

The body's central nervous system works in conjunction with the mind for optimal consciousness, conception, memory and expression. These two are ultimately responsible for the character of the mind.

Matthew 15:1-20;

Evil thoughts come from a man's heart. They have been processed and categorized.

Luke 24:36-39;

People fear what they don't understand, they fear something that is beyond their control. Don't dwell on information that ministers fear to your spirit. Fear doesn't exist on its own, it comes as a result of information. There's also a personality called the spirit of fear.

Genesis 6:5-8;

Man, therefore, is responsible for his thoughts. God holds man responsible for his thoughts

Jeremiah 17:9, Isaiah 55:7

Change your way of thinking, God holds you responsible for your thoughts. The mind processes feelings and emotions, which refer to different degrees of affections or disaffections.

Deuteronomy 6:5;

Love is an expression of emotions.

Matthew 22:35-37;

Focus is the channeling of your mind to a particular thing.

1st chronicles 22:19; 28:9

Set your affection on God

Romans 8:5-8;

This means your mind is under your control

One of the most important things you would ever hear in life is that your mind is under your control, and you've got to accept and acknowledge it! Communication is the expression of your personality.

What do you want to glorify, the failure that happens occasionally? Give credit to goodness, righteousness, and success. Your communication reveals your inner processes. The images, the thoughts that you process within you.

Stop! And say you've got control over your mind, over your future, and over your thought processes.

ATTITUDE

Firstly, it’s important to know that we are responsible for our attitude.

Attitude is the disposition to act in ways determined by the mental processes of our feelings, emotions, beliefs or reasoning. The processes of our feelings in our mind. They determine our attitude. What we process in our minds determines our attitudes. The mind is the information processing center of the human person. It collects and processes all the information received through the nervous system of the outward man and through the spiritual senses of the inward man.

You may not be responsible for how the information came to you, but what you do with the information is your responsibility. The interpretation and eventual dissemination are from the mind. What you do with your mind is what matters.

The exciting remedy of the mind is that its contents and processes can be managed i.e. recognized and reprogrammed.

When you are born again, you are born after God. You are born with the life and nature of God. That means your spirit has received the very nature of its creator and that means you have an excellent spirit cos your spirit is joined to God’s Spirit. But that doesn't mean you are walking in that excellence, but you can. The best things of our spirits are expressed through the mind.

Nehemiah 8:10;

Don't make, carve out, fabricate, or process pains, grief, displeasure, or worry because the joy of The Lord is your strength.

If you fabricate pain, it will destroy you. If Satan wants you to displease God he will take away your joy. Because that's where you get your strength from. Don't let pain, displeasure, grief, or worry have dominion over you or take a hold of you.

The joy of the lord is expressed in praising God, in laughter, and in loving harmony with others by speaking encouraging words. Refuse to dwell on pain or worry. Be strong and not weak, be prosperous and not...

Proverbs 4:23-25;

Mount guard over your mind!

HOW WE USE OUR MINDS

The first and most important thing you do in glorifying God in your life is the Renewal of the mind

Romans 12:2

The mind must be renewed in content and processes, this is a taxing but worthy exercise. The only quotient instrument to effectively achieving this is through the word of God.

Colossians 3:9-10;

You have a new knowledge of God through the Holy Spirit. You must have renewal in content and processes. New Processes

Ephesians 4:21-23;

Be renewed in the spirit, character, and attitude of your mind. Process thoughts, and feelings differently and you will see new attitudes. As you renew your mind, you begin to process your emotions and attitude differently through the Holy Spirit.

Any man can be changed or transformed by the spirit of God, but that change can be sustained by doing the word of God. It's our responsibility to do the word.

1st Samuel 10:5-6,9-11, 1st Samuel 15:10-11;

How is your life, grieving or pleasing God?

You can only sustain the miracle of God in your life by staying in His word. The transformation can only be sustained by doing the word of God.

1st Chronicles 10:13-14;

THE MIND AND FAITH

Romans 4:17-25;

My future is history with God! Strong faith doesn't ponder in the circumstances, rather it processes the information of the word of God. Faith is something with which you live for God and produce the righteousness of God in earth. You use your faith to establish the word of God.

Don't deviate from the vision, don't deviate from what God has said, but stay on the right course!

Reject the thoughts of the devil that are coming to you, cos you're responsible for your thoughts. Don't ponder on the circumstances, ponder on the word of God.

Use your mind.

Satan will attack your mind but say no to those thoughts. Set your mind on things above and not on things in this world and pray in that direction. There's a picture given to you, hold on to God’s picture, process God's picture.

What image are you seeing, the one that glorifies God or the other that doesn’t?