The Daily Guide
Heavenly zones of thought
Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
Philippians 4:8 - New Living Translation
That verse is precious counsel because what's on your mind is a determining factor in how you are and how you're responding! Don't let the world's news fill up your thinking. Neither allow someone's ill-considered words do that. Neither allow the way circumstances are developing do that. There are eight zones of thought given to you in the verse above to fix your mind in. By holding your mind in those zones you can live free from the fretful, agitated or despondent thinking of people outside of Christ.
In my own life as a Christian I have often been challenged over my thinking and my words. For example, in the early 1990s inspired preaching gave my family and I a vision for living in health in Christ. By faith we took hold of that teaching. The Holy Spirit then began challenging us about our thinking and our words. His exhortation caused us to start putting our thinking and talking right, conforming it to the exhortation given in the verse above. I believe doing this is a major reason why we live so much of the time as a family in divine health today! Mat.12:35-37.
Win back the landscape of your mind for God! Give your mind a thought-landscape that God's Word and His Spirit presents you with. Enter into the Holy Spirit's zones of thought that nurture and nourish life, hope and faith. Safeguard the peace and blessing you have in Christ by staying out of the negative, destructive or fearful thinking and talking of those around you in the world.
Fix your mind on all that builds up!
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