God has something better. Listen to what it says [music] in second Timothy. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind. God’s will is that you have a sound mind. If you’re a born again, your thought life should be new, different from what it was before, and it should keep on getting new.
There is a scene in the movie Young Frankenstein. I’m not recommending or not recommending, but when the servant Igor goes to find a brain for the monster, they have to find a brain. So, he goes to a laboratory there, finds jars of different brains. He ends up choosing the wrong brain, one that isn’t sound. Well, this has to do with believers.
You might have chosen the wrong brain. Let me tell you tonight, you’ll understand what I mean. We’re going to see that that picture actually has relevance to your life and walk in God. Tonight will be the second part of a message, a teaching I shared on a Sunday morning in recent times. It’s a critical area.
I’ve not shared it on Friday night, but one in which we have ideas, but the Bible reveals it goes against what we think and against what the world thinks and maybe even what you’ve been going on. And this is going to present keys that if you apply it can change your walk and your life. keys from the word of God that can transform your thought life, your mind to find true emotional health, mental well-being, ultimately changing the course of your life.
This is called secrets of the mind part two. First, I’m going to touch on just one thing from part one to lay a foundation that is crucial. The ideas we have about the mind. First, we have the idea that I’m stuck. This is my mind. My mind determines everything else. It’s just the way I think. I That’s the way I think. That’s the way I see things.
It’s my nature to worry or to be angry or to be positive or to be negative or to fear or to be discouraged. That’s the my thoughts. That’s how it is. Or my thought life is a problem. I don’t want to think about this and then I think about it. I’m not in control of my thoughts. It’s my mind. I don’t want to think it but it comes up.
It’s like out of control. But the Bible says something ultimately very different. And that is, yeah, thoughts may pop up, but you do have control. And if you don’t take responsibility, you can never be healed. You have control of what you will dwell on. Again, it’s not that there aren’t things. We know that. There’s habits.
