AS A WOMAN THINKS

Subject: as a woman thinks, so is she

I got a great revelation the other day about THE LORDS PRAYER. Proverbs 6 talks about what's on God's number one list of things that He hates..... PRIDE. Not murder, lust, lying, drunkenness, smoking, drugs, but PRIDE! In Matthew 5 where Jesus teaches us to pray He said, "forgive us our sins AS we forgive those who sin against us..... lead us not into temptation (maybe unforgivness is the biggest temptation any of us will ever face!) Then He went on to say "deliver us from evil" (the evil of PRIDE). We have been talking much about Luke 18, and "the bottom line about Pride." 9And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' "But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' "I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

AS A WOMAN THINKS............ SO IS SHE!
On that day when God, by Jesus Christ will judge men and women in regard to the things which they conceal (their hidden thoughts). Romans 2:16

Are you unchaste in your thoughts? Vs. The word chaste means to be celibate, clean, immaculate, question we should be asking ourselves is "Am I ordering my thoughts aright?? The women who do SHALL see the salvation of God. Do we really believe the Lord knows our works and our thoughts? (Ps.94:11 139:2) Isa.66:18 I Cor.3:20 Ps.139:3 "You Oh Lord understand my thought afar off." "But Jesus knowing (seeing) their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil and harbor malice in your hearts?" "Curse not the King, not even in your thoughts." (Ecc.10:20) "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, (secret thoughts) whether it be good or evil."

"Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord." "My thoughts are not your thoughts ... my thoughts are higher than your thoughts" (Is.55:7-9) Are we sinning against God, or against our brother in our thoughts? "0 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved! How long shall your iniquitous and grossly offensive thoughts lodge within you?" Jer-4:141

"Deliver those who are led away to death, and spare not to redeem those who are held to be slain. If you say behold I did not know it, then know it is God who searches the thought of the heart, and He who keeps your soul knows it, and shall render to every man according to his works?" (Pvb.24:11-12 Pesh.) What we do about what we think will be how God is going to reward us one day. And there is no respect of persons with God.

"For the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit. For out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things, but I tell you on the day of judgment, men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, non-working) word they speak. For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced. (Matt.12:36). Whatever thoughts I allow in my mind, go, into the treasure chest of my heart, and it is from this treasure chest that I speak!

Ps.7:9 (Amp.) For you, who try the hearts and emotions, and thinking powers, are a righteous God. Rev.2:23 Amp ... I am He who searches minds, (the thoughts, feelings, and purposes, and the inmost hearts, and I will give to each of you the reward for what you have done, as your work deserves! Jer-17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it (perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind)? I the Lord search the mind, I try the heart, even to give to every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings??

I have to ask my- self sincerely, "Am I really living to lay down my life for my brother? Do I guard and protect myself through not Loving my brother with all my heart, all my mind, and, all my strength, because of how it might affect me? The truth is my failure to do it with my brother or sister, is a direct reflection of my failure to do it with God. I have had to see my hypocrisy in where I am really at with God, always comes out with His children. When I talk to Him about my problems with His children, He never accuses them, only gives me revelation in what to do with them. Am I really allowing God to speak to me about my private thoughts towards my brother so because I want to do what is right on his behalf? (This is real Christianity.)

Jesus said ... if we love him, we will keep His commandments. "I give you a new commandment that you should love one another! Whoever says he is in the light and yet lightly esteems his brother, is in darkness until now. Whoever loves his brother-abides and lives in the light, there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for err or sin. We know we have passed from death unto life, because- we-love our brother! 1Jn.

Philp.2:2-5 "Complete my joy by being in one accord and one love and one soul and one mind. Do nothing through strife or vainglory, but in humility let every one regard his neighbor better than himself! Let no one be mindful only of his own things, but let everyone be mindful of the things of his neighbor also! Let this same attitude and purpose and humble mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: (let him be your example in humility)!"

For what man knows the mind (thoughts) of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the mind (thoughts) of God, except the spirit of God. I Cor. 2- 11 vs-14 ... but the natural, non-spiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts, teachings and revelations of the spirit of God, for they are meaningless nonsense to him: he is incapable of knowing them, because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated! But the spiritual man tries, examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things. For who has known or understood the mind, the counsels and purposes of the Lord, so as to guide and instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ and do hold the thoughts, feelings and purposes of his heart! Jesus lived a life of constantly laying down his life for his brother, the greater purpose, and for the benefit of God and His Kingdom .... as the perfect example ... that we would be in the world as He was in the world! Do not worry over things, but always by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and kinds in Christ Jesus! Whatever is true, whatever is honest, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of the things (fix your minds on them)! Philp.4:6-8 amp.

Heb.5:11-14 " Since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing and sluggish even slothful in achieving spiritual insight! For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and un- skilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action), for he is a mere infant (not able to talk-yet)l but solid food.Full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between good and evil (the law of the Spirit) of God and love ... or the mind of the flesh, which leads to death! God does not want us to be wimps in the spirit of our ,minds we need to exercise our senses, develop our mental faculties, practice and train them to resist the devil. Submit to god .... not the father of lies.

We need to be as professionally trained athletes, being renewed in the spirit of our mind! Eph. .4:23 Be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind (having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude). Put on the new nature, created in God's image, in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore, rejecting all falsity, let everyone express the truth with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one body-and members one of another! We are the ones who must choose which cup we will drink from, which table we will partake of! Will we sit at the table of lies and accusations, or truth and love. Are we in our mind accusing others and excusing ourselves, or do we pray, getting revelation and instruction for how we may love and help one another?? Are our thoughts patterned after defending ourselves, or are we allowing the spirit of God (love) to teach us how to wash one another's feet and serve one another? The mind set on the flesh is death the mind set on the spirit (of benevolent love and truth) is life and peace!

Let us be careful not to faint in our minds! Heb-12:3 "think of him who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting -in your minds. If we suffer with him, so shall we reign with him! For to us it has been granted the privilege, for Christ's sake not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for his sake. You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he commits himself, leans on, and confidently hopes in you!" Is.26-3 For God did not give us (but the devil would like to give us) a spirit of fear (timidity, cowardice, craven, cringing, panic), but He has given us a spirit of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self- Control.

2Tim-1:7....2Cor.10:5 for the weapons of our warfare are not physical, but are mighty before god for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds. Inasmuch as we refute: contradict, disagree, deny, negate, rebuff, reject, veto, renounce, disagree, object, opposes protest, refuse, scorn, shunt arguments and theories and reasoning’s and every proud and lofty thing, that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God; and we lead every thought captive to the obedience of Christ! 2Cor-10:4-5. 11:3 But now I am fearful, lest that even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted and seduced from whole-hearted and sincere and pure devotion to Christ! So brace up your minds: be sober, circumspect, morally alert set your hope wholly and unchangeably on the grace that is coming when Jesus is revealed. Live as children of obedience.

l Pet.1:13 The battlefield is in the mind! You are called to be a soldier, it's fight the good fight of faith or be overcome! Allow the Holy Spirit to direct and influence you, for the mind of the flesh with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God. Don't cater to the appetites and impulses of the carnal nature. Live according to the Spirit, controlled by the desires of the Spirit, set your mind and seek those things which gratify, The Holy Spirit! Rm-8:5-9 Forsake all human reasoning and thought. Let God’s thoughts become your thoughts. Hide His word in your heart that you won't be found sinning against Him!

Is. 58:13 If you turn away from doing your own pleasure on My Holy day, not going your own way or seeking or finding your own pleasure or speaking your own idle words (which we will if we are thinking our own thoughts!) It was said of the children of Israel, that God was not in all their thoughts!
Not everyone who says to Him Lord, Lord, will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do the will of God! As we obey in thought, word, and deed, we can lead others in obedience to God in thought, word and deed! May we not give into obeying lies & lying spirits~ Let us become the children of OBEDIENCE~ that we may bear fruit after our own kind. (Gen. 1:11-12) And thus Glorify Our Father in Heaven! We have to choose the FATHER we will glorify. We have to decide if we are for Him or against Him.