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The Inner Life. Spirit Life. God Life. Christ Life.

Understanding your mind.
You ARE a spirit, you have a mind (soul), and you live in a flesh and bone body.
For so many years we thought we were our bodies. How we looked, walked, talked was of utmost importance due to our wrong thinking. Don't get me wrong, those things are important. But, not the most important.
The most important is living our lives from inside, not from the outside. Inside where you are is where you should live. Living to the outside is the wrong way of life. Jesus said the "Kingdom of God is within you". Seek that place.
Jesus said in Matthew 23:25, 26 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup (ourselves) and of the platter (clothes), but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also." This lets us know that we aren't clean on the outside, until we are clean on the inside.
If you think that you HAVE a spirit, you don't know yourself. Search to find yourself inside of that flesh body. You are NOT your thoughts, feelings, actions nor anything physical. Thoughts belong to you, feelings belong to you, actions are yours, but, they are NOT you. Seperate yourself from the physical, to spirit.

Have you ever stopped to "listen" to what you think about?

You are NOT your mind, your mind is yours. It should think what you want it to.
  Thinking on things rightly, re-train your thinking:
  1. Don't think of yourself more highly than you ought. If you look at anyone with disdain/disgust, you do.
  2. Don't be proud of what you think. If you defend what you THINK, then you are proud. Give it up!
  3. Don't trust what you think. Know that you DON'T know.
  4. Pay attention to what/how "YOU" are doing/thinking/acting,.. not judging someone else.
  5. Don't think others are any better, higher etc, than you should. We are all the same! A higher position, be it job/office/, does not place another person above us spiritually.
  6. Think on things that are, truth, honest, just, pure, lovely, a GOOD report, look for virtue, give praise.
  7. Break out of WRONG thinking and you will break out of every problem you have.
 
Your mind is a tool, a storehouse, but is is not YOU!
  Tools are to be used BY the worker, not be in control OF the worker. Storehouses are to store thngs until needed. Not a place to live, constantly looking over what is there, what was there, what might be there someday.
We learn with this tool. We do things we've learned from this storehouse. But, WE are not this tool, nor the storehouse
Learn again how to use this tool and storehouse. Make them subject to you, not the other way around.
   
"Be still and KNOW that I am God." Psalms 46:10
  Where are we the most busy at all times? In our minds! How can you be still there? It is possible, don't think it isn't.Sit still in your chair, or where ever you can be alone and quiet, listen to the area of your heart. Don't THINK about listening, don't THINK about what you hear. Just listen. Notice anything about your mind? It is STILL! Such peace, quietness!
   
"Now is the day of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:2
  Think about Now. Pay attention to Now. What is happening? What are you doing? Then see how long it takes you to think about it again and you'll see that this is true:
NOW is all we have! The past is dead and the future isn't here yet. We are so used to living from our minds in the past or future we forget that NOW is what we HAVE.
Practice being aware of everything you do/think/feel and take control of YOU. Act as though you were watching/listening to/seeing others feelings, instead of being a part of that process inside of your mind/body You'll be living in the NOW!.
   
In conclusion:
  Things to place in your storehouse (remember):
  • You are not your mind.
  • Your mind is yours to use, not the other way around.
  • Remember NOW at all times.
  • Give God glory in/through all things.
  • Forgive, yourself first, that is the WAY into peace within yourself.
  • Pray, first of all for all those in authority all over the world, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and honesty. Pray always.

You may not want to hear this now, but it will change your life someday...remember it for me.
And for those of you who KNOW this, but have lost your way, or have steped out of HIS light for some other god, remember...He's still on the throne and still GOD! He still loves you the same, and will always "stand on a hill", looking for you to come home! He never condems you or judges you, only Loves you, and welcomes you home with open arms!
May God, through Christ, richly bless you in wisdom and knowledge, in all Truth.

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