What Are You Guarding Today?
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May 15, 2009Many of you are distracted and worried about many things. You are guarding your finances, your job, your marriage, your kids, your property and much more. It all sounds good, but Scripture tells us to guard our hearts. Every issue in life is affected by that. Our hearts are moved by what we think about. Our thoughts are activated largely by what we see and what we hear. So to guard our hearts, we must control what we watch and what we listen to. I for one, have recently decided to shut the flow of news coming to me down to an occasional drip, from what was a steady flow. It's amazing how much clutter that removed from my mind and how I was able to receive so much from the Lord during the day because I wasn't distracted with the state of the economy, etc. And what I received is actually helping me succeed despite being in a bad economy. But there's more. We have two sets of eyes and two sets of ears but most of us only consider the natural, physical ones. We have eyes of understanding and an inner hearing that we must also control. What do we imagine and visualize when we daydream? What inner conversation are you having in silence that is raising your blood pressure? The inner vision and inner listening are just as potentially destructive and perhaps more so, because we tend to not acknowledge that realm, but Paul tells us to bring every thought, every imagination into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Since I've been aware of this, the pollution is leaving my mind and my heart is filling up with very good things. May it be so for you today as well. Note: Yesterday, we did a webinar to give details for our upcoming trip to the Panamanian rainforest June 26 - 30. Many of you could not make the live event and have requested a replay option so you could hear it this weekend. Here it is. If you are interested in joining us there, I would like to speak with you first. Be sure to email me at admin@rainforeststrategy.com so we can set up a time to discuss this.
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Love the way it reads in the Message Bible; \". . . fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ.\" 2 Corinthians 10:5
Thank you again Mr. Pink for your continued encouragement and heart challenges!
Harolene at 11:33am EDT - May 15, 2009
Great advice Michael! I know I need to be more careful.... I have this verse tacked to my wall at work, I've just become complacent about reading it! No more!
Lorisa at 2:36pm EDT - May 15, 2009
Michael you are right on again. We must not focus on what is going on around us but we must focus on what the LORD is doing. Many want to see miracles, but few want to be put into the circumstances where they will have to have one. The beginning of the battle is rarely against the external enemy, but instead it is the one we have to fight within just to move toward the battle. GOD required Israel to step into the water before HE performed the miracle. It is not weapons or strategies that we need as much as faith in GOD.
Kenny Gilpin at 8:19am EDT - May 16, 2009
Thank you Mr. Pink. Your insight is great and even when I already know some thing you share your verbage is such an inspiring reminder.
Faith Robinson at 7:37am EDT - May 22, 2009