What Do You Think?
What Do You Think? by David Jeremiah • Sermon • Submitted
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· 1 viewOriginally Preached at his local congregation (Shadow Mountain Community Church) but replayed for our purposes as a Sunday School series
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We do not have the power to think things into existence, no matter what anyone says. This view of thinking in ungodly humanism. But to understand that our thoughts are powerful is not humanistic at all, it is very, very biblical. The Bible teaches that our thoughts are important and that we cannot change our lives unless we change our thoughts.
What we do with our thinking determines what we become. We are not what we think we are but what we think, we are.
It’s All in your Mind.
“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.”- James America
A Look at Elijah
The high-point of his life was his victory at Mount Carmel over the prophets of Baal. There, he mocked the gods of the ungodly prophets and later had the ungodly influencers slain. In an Old Testament sense, this was a success (aka a “mountain-top” experience). Such as in the case of Elijah, our mountain-top experience are often followed by the opposite - seasons in the valley. Elijah soon hit the valley as he fears for his life at the hands of wicked Queen Jezebel who is infuriated by what he has done to the prophets of Baal. Elijah ends up depressed and hiding out in a cave. The symbolism is striking and his words reveal the source of his depression - the way that he is currently thinking.
David Jeremiah points out the following phrases that indicate Elijah’s thoughts during depression: