{"id":239,"date":"2019-08-05T08:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warapungamonday.wordpress.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2019-08-05T08:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:42:40","slug":"the-drama-going-on-in-our-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"The drama going on in our minds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday Morning to this week 32 of 2019<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 3:5<br \/>\nTrust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:1rem;\"><br \/>\nThere is a compelling drama going on in our minds, sometimes like a plot of various players or characters;\u00a0 impulsive, thoughtful, automatic, systematic, spiritual, deliberate or even calculated. Sometimes they playoff against each other and determine judgments, decisions and leading to actions we take.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are also responses coming from &#8220;within us&#8221; like things we do to survive, but then there are many responses out of deliberate focus, attention, trained self-control and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1.- more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Let&#8217;s do the math!<\/p>\n<p>For many, the first intuitive answer is $0.10. The correct answer is $0.05!<\/p>\n<p>One way of thinking was quicker, tricked the other with the faster answer and in this case leading to an incorrect answer for some.<\/p>\n<p>Colossians 3:2<br \/>\nSet your minds on things above, not on earthly things.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 11:3-4<br \/>\nHe will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with righteousness, he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 22:37<br \/>\nJesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.<\/p>\n<p>James 3:13<br \/>\nWho is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>What comes to your mind when you see the word &#8220;So_p&#8221;<br \/>\nNow those who were thinking of eating or saw the word eat in advance will probably think the word should be &#8220;Soup&#8221;. While those who were thinking or reading of washing or cleaning probably thought the word should be &#8220;Soap&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Our individual thoughts are primed so easily, how much more to prime them with truths of love, of depth and coming from the creator of all wisdom!<\/p>\n<p>Traumas, illness, culture, training, health, family and much more, of course, influence our thinking in a far greater context, yet that is a topic in need of much more detail.<\/p>\n<p>Everytime the people of God thought less of themselves, something went wrong in the story. K. Adams (preaching the sermon: What The Enemy Wishes You Didn&#8217;t Know)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, there is a version on youtube. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sS_XzBYGir8<\/p>\n<p>Ending the sermon she summarises with words of empowerment, the thinking and thoughts from above that influence and drives our thinking through our new &#8220;life&#8221; we have,\u00a0 with a reformed mind for thinking our of the thoughts that God has for and over us.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 23:6<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:1rem;\">Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"small-caps\" style=\"font-size:1rem;\">Lord<\/span><span style=\"font-size:1rem;\"> forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wishing you transformed thoughts this week.<\/p>\n<p>Philemon<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-12\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday Morning to this week 32 of 2019 Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. There is a compelling drama going on in our minds, sometimes like a plot of various players or characters;\u00a0 impulsive, thoughtful, automatic, systematic, spiritual, deliberate or even calculated. 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