Studies shows that we talk to ourselves up to thirty thousand times a day. There is always something playing in our minds. The scripture tells us to meditate on God’s promises. The word meditate means to think about over and over.” We need to pay attention to what we’re mediating on.
Meditating is the same principle as worrying. When you worry, you are just meditating on the wrong thing. You are using your faith or confidence in reverse. If you go through the day worried about your finances, worried about your family, and worried about your future, because you are allowing the wrong thoughts to play, it’s going to cause you to be anxious, fearful, negative, and discouraged.
You control the doorway to your mind. When those negative thoughts come knocking, you do not have to answer the door. You can say, “No, thanks. I’m going to choose to meditate on what God says about me.”
Today, there is a lot of doom and gloom. If you watch the news for very long, you can get depressed over the stock market, the economy, the debt crisis. Some people go through their entire day thinking about how bad it is, asking themselves, I wonder if I’m going to make it? What if I lose my job? What if my retirement funds go down?
If you dwell on these fearful thoughts, you are going to be stressed out. I like to watch the news, but I have learned not to mediate on the negative reports. Philippians 4:8 says, “Think on these things that are pure, things that are wholesome, things that are pure, things that are of good report, don’t dwell on it because it is going to poison your spirit.
Instead of replaying the doom and gloom over and over, replay what God says. Yes, the financial situation may be little shaky, but God says He will supply all your needs. He said He will prosper you even in time of famine. He said He will open the windows of heaven and pour out that blessings that you can not contain.
Get your mind going in the right direction. Our trust is not in the the stock market or the economy. I say this respectfully, but our trust is not even in the government. Our trust is in the lord. David said in one of his psalm, “Some trust in chariots. Some trust in horses. But our trust is in the name of the lord our God who created it all.
What you allow to play in your mind will determine what kind of life you live. When you think on victory, you will live in victory!
