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MEDITATE ON THESE THINGS!

Text: Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

One of the most difficult things to do is growing in your ability to choose your thoughts and to quench strange and negative thoughts that comes to mind.

Thoughts could either come from within (your heart) or from without.
Matthew 15:19 says, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts..."
Evil thoughts proceed from the heart because *"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9).* Man is unable to produce good thoughts from his corrupt heart. *The best of thoughts any man could generate without Christ is still death.* Hence, in Genesis 6:5 "...God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." This is the result of the fall of man.

You can see that the same human that produces medicine to cure several diseases is still the same human that produces weapons to kill one another. That shows how thoughts in man can do good sometimes and still do evil some other times.

The scripture made it very clear that thoughts are what we think or reason from within our hearts. (Matthew 9:4, Luke 5:22). Thoughts are the substances that shape our lives. While our words are powerful, our thoughts are much more powerful than our words. This is because *our words are the by- product of our thoughts.* 

 *It is your thought that frame your life- "as a man thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7).*  That's the reason meditation in the word of God is very essential for every believer. The word of God can be likened to water that washes and cleanses your heart from evil thoughts.

*BIBLE READING* : 

 Psalms 1:1-6

 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

Father, purge my heart that the meditation of my heart may be acceptable in your sight.

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