Have you ever wondered where your thoughts and feelings come from? Try this exercise and follow the thread of a conversation back. Break its pieces and its convoluted windings back to the original germ. Now concentrate on that original germ. Where did it come from? Was it something that popped into your head, as if injected from within? How does this idea make you feel? Do you have an affection for it?
All thoughts that you hold on to, you have an affection and a desire for. But what are their origins? Your affection for the thought, in effect, is birthed by attracting like-minded spirits to you. Dwelling on a particular idea or thought creates a sphere around you that attracts like-minded spirits, who influence more ideas and thoughts connected to the first one. It is your responsibility to direct the thought that came to you because antogonizing spirits will also vie for your attention wanting to inject impure and misleading ideas into your stream of consciousness, as Christ says in Matthew 5:29-30:
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into Hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better foryou to lose a part of your body than for your whole body to go to Hell.
Also, in Matthew 10:21, 23, 28:
Brother will betray brother to death and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. Do not be afraid of those that kill the body but who cannot kill the soul. Rather be afraid of the One who can destroy both the soul and the body in Hell.
Lastly, Matthew 12:35-37, 43-45:
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him. And an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that people will have to give account fore everything careless word they have spoken on the day of judgment. For by your words, you will be found innocent and by your words you will be found guilty.
When an evil spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest, but doesn’t find it. Then it says to itself, “I will return to the house I left.” When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean, and in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself and they go in and live there and the last condition of that person is worse than the first condition. This is how it will be with this wicked generation.
All of these passages have to do with our thinking and the effect that our thoughts have on us, mentally, spiritually, and physically, even at the cellular level. Considering this, we can hypothesize that what we think affects those around us, creating a rippling effect, stretching across our physical and spiritual galaxies.
For out of the heart, come evil thoughts: murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. These are the things that make a person unclean…~~ Matthew 15:19, 20.
Food for Thought: Be careful, Jesus said to them. Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees. They discussed this among themselves… aware of their discussion, Jesus asked… Why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? Do you still not understand? How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread but be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees? Then they understood that He was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread but against the teachings of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.~~Matthew 16:6-12
~~Rev. Bob
