Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Matthew 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?   Do you think that the Lord can do that which the Word of God says He can?  Really! Sometimes I am too much like the father of the child in Mark 9:24 who had to confess: … Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief .  How about you? May the Lord Bless

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Matthew 22:17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?   So many times, we think that we know, but we don’t. As a teenager I worked at a scout camp. The camp had an F dock on the lake. An F dock is one that goes out into the water then has two arms that extend perpendicular to the main dock therefore making an F shape. Between the tw

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Matthew 17:25   He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?   “What do you think?”  He just sat there and shrugged his shoulders. “What do you think?”  She said, “I dunno, what do you think?”  They just sit there and look

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Job 35:2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?   It was 1974: I was backpacking through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Northern New Mexico. The land for Philmont Scout Ranch was given to the Boy Scouts by one of the Phillips Petroleum brothers. My crew had eight people in it, seven teenagers and one adult. We were warned. “There

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life I Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?   The princes of the Ammonites were asking their king a question. Paraphrased it could read, “King, do you think that David se

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life II Samuel 10:3   And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather  sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?   All I wanted to do was to know about them! I was a new pastor and the church supported many mi

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life II Peter 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:   Once upon a time I was an adjunct professor at a Bible college in our area. As such I was given the task to teach certain subjects as the administration deemed necessary. My least favorite part of teaching those classe

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Hebrews 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country  from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned .   The good old days were not always so good. Sometimes however, God’s people begin to think about their life without Christ. How easy it was then, no church obligation, no pushing yourself to read your Bible or pray, no preacher encouragi

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Hebrews 2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?   God is said to be mindful of man, and that He would visit him. This is the essence of religion. James 1:27 states: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, an

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life 2 Timothy 1:4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;   Paul is mindful of Timothy’s tears. He does not elaborate concerning the reason for the tears, they are just mentioned in passing. But to Timothy this is not just a passing statement; he would certainly recall that which Paul is referencing. Paul and Timothy were co-laborers, m

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Isaiah 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips :   Of all the controversies that the Lord God has with His people there can be none more heartbreaking than that they forget Him and are not being mindful of Him. No mother wants t

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Psalm 115:12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us ; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron .   Someone once said “The entire Bible was not written to you, but it was written for you.”  Such is the case with today’s verse. This verse proves that the Lord is mindful of the house of Israel and the house of Aaron. Someone may say “This verse

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Psalm 111:5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.   Here is a great lesson on relationships.   It would seem that many people think that relationships are built purely on physical attributes. There are many reasons for establishing relationships which include, humor “I think they are funny,” attractiveness, popularity, even proximity.

Minding Your Thoughts   A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life Psalm 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?   Perhaps you have heard the old saying, “The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible.”  This is very true. One good illustration of this truth can be found in reference to today’s devotion: What is man, that thou art mindful of him?  To expand this further, to highlight it, and to b