Proverbs 23:7 // As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
All of us have been guilty at one time or another of having wrong thoughts. They could be wrong thoughts about something, or wrong thoughts about someone. Either way, our way of thinking is often based on how we were raised and what we were taught early on as children. However, as children of God, we have an opportunity to embrace the benefits of a whole new way of thinking.
When you and I align ourselves with the Word of God, we are able to toss aside our old traditions and mindsets and take on those that only reflect the goodness and righteousness of God. We are able to do this because devoting ourselves to the Word of God does not change our mind.
It changes our hearts.
The author of this passage of Proverbs is describing a person who is struggling through life being one way on the outside, and another on the inside. On the outside, he appears to be someone who is generous, but on the inside he is actually a miser, someone who doesn’t want to share with anyone. And as we see, he is not putting on this act because of something he thinks in his head.He does so because of the condition of his heart.
Some of us are struggling today in the same way. We often go through life divided between our heart and our mind. When we are not in alignment with what we believe and what we think, it means we aren’t living a life that is whole, but one that is fragmented. And when we aren’t in the right alignment, everything we try to do will fail.
Friends, God has no interest in us failing. He has called us to prosper! The word prosper means to continuously go forward and upward. If we want to move forward and upward, whether it be in our homes as parents or at our jobs, then we have to begin to exchange our old hearts for His.
When we take the time to truly embrace God’s way of thinking, we will never live a divided life, stuck in the old traditions of the past.
Whenever we feel stuck in something, it may be an indication that we are believing something that God has not said.
Take confidence today that God’s word will never leave you and I stuck. It’s sole purpose is to provide us with the right path and the right heart to live a life that is abundant. When we focus our hearts on what He says, will we enter every day with a renewed expectation to prosper!
Day 12 of 21 Days of Prayer
*This devotional is from A God First Life, written by Pastors Michael and Charla Turner
