August 24, 2024 • 15 mins
Hi everyone, we'll be hearing some scripture and commentery about our thoughts and words. If our thoughtlife is not good, our external life will not be good, either. It all starts with a thought. As Jesus, who is the only One who can renew our hearts, our thoughts, speech, and behavior will then follow. He does not look at the outter appearance rather He looks at the heart, and works in our hearts to remove and heal what shouldn't be there, to grow what should. We have be careful about what we let live in our hearts and minds, then causing whatever may come forth from our mouths. I pray this blesses you brothers and sisters.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, family, this is jess Ones in the mess. So
on this episode, I'll be talking about our thought lives
and our speech. Someone said to me one day, they said,
(00:22):
think about your thoughts that you have daily. What do
you think about? Is it good things or is it
bad things? And then I have it written down on
my paper here it says practice thinking first before you speak.
(00:44):
And I've gotten a lot of practice with that, probably
in the last decade. And I wanted to add that
I'm very grateful to know his word and to know
these things, because before I knew these things, I could
(01:06):
see myself. I was just very ignorant and immature, and
I would really say the first thought that fell into
my head and say it. And I did have some control,
you know, like I did, and now even more so
(01:29):
because of Jesus helping me to have more self control.
One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is self
control or self discipline. So and that has since grown
in me. And I'm really grateful because whenever you're just
(01:49):
saying a bunch of cusswords or being rude, or you know,
just talking on something that you don't really know much
about but you don't don't want to look foolish. I
guess I'm just I'm glad I'm not in that place
of deceit anymore, because it's a deceiving mindset. It's and
(02:15):
I believe, yeah, it's it's got to come from pride.
You know. If you're I don't know, just acting very
like self righteous in your speech, or ignorant, inconsiderate of others,
just sounding very self centered, then that has to start
(02:40):
with pride. There's got to be some pride in that
person's heart. And I remember being that way, you know.
But that's why I wanted to read some scripture that
I thought was very important for all of us to know. Yes,
so let's start. That's a good one. Let's start at
(03:04):
Ephesians four. Ephesians, chapter four, twenty nine, Verse twenty nine.
So it says, do not let any unwholesome talk come
out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for
building others up according to their needs that it may
benefit those who listen. Well, that's a lot to unpack,
(03:32):
because it's really easy for us to you know, not
control our tongues basically, and when we feel upset or
offended to automatically just go with it and start having
(03:53):
unwholesome talk. But the thing is, whenever whenever you see something,
you're not just saying something, you are actually speaking that
thing into existence or manifesting it for yourself. And that
leads me back to Proverbs eighteen twenty one. Death and
(04:17):
life are in the power of the tongue, and those
who love it will eat it's fruit. And what it
means by that is whatever comes out of your mouth,
whether it be good or bad, you're planting seeds, and
those seeds are going to grow. And once those fruits are,
(04:39):
you know, ripe and ready, you will have to eat
of that fruit. Whatever was that thing that you said.
And I want to speak life over myself and over
my own life, my kids, my everyday circumstances. You know,
I might have a messy house, but I'm going to
(05:00):
clean it. I can do this. I have energy. Please
give me energy, God for real. But we have to
speak positive positivity over our situations and in the moment
whenever you're angry, irritable, frustrated, you know it all kind
(05:25):
of it all does originate from pride in your heart.
So we kind of have to go all the way
back to the beginning. Just keep coming back to God
and like the verse says, therefore humble ourselves under the
mighty hand of God. And I do believe that just
(05:48):
requires a certain form of stopping. Whether you still have
to keep going physically and maybe you can take a
mental break while you're moving no, or if you are
able to get alone and just get in His presence
and bring whatever you need to bring to him. You know,
(06:10):
I have to do that consistently every day. I have
to keep coming back to Him because if I don't,
then it really hurts me, and I feel like something
in between me and God, like I'm far from him.
And I don't like feeling that way, like there's a wall,
(06:33):
or I don't want to cause that the distance. I
want to be close. I want to be close to Jesus,
not running away or ignoring him. But yeah, it all
(06:54):
starts with pride, you know, for us to and then
it starts with a thought. It begins with how someone
made us feel or how we just feel period, and
then a thought comes. It all begins with a thought.
But we have to be careful about what we think
(07:17):
about because even though a thought may seem just like
a thought, if you're meditating on such thoughts, then you're
building up, You're planting seeds or strongholds in your mind.
I've heard it be said like that, and I believe it,
(07:37):
you know, because I've experienced it myself, strongholds in my
own mind that I've had to work with God to
break and not think on anymore, or get out of
the habit of thinking on. You know what I'm saying. So,
and here's a very significant verse that can help me
(08:02):
clarify what I'm saying right now. And it's Second Corinthians,
chapter ten, verse five. Okay. So it says we demolish
arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the
(08:23):
knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to
make it obedient to Christ. And that might feel, you know,
pressuring to hear or scary, because I think it's the
word obedient is what makes people stand offish about. I
(08:46):
don't know, but I know that's how it made me
feel at first whenever I first read it. And this
isn't just words to boss us around or put us
under you know the law again, it's not. It's it
is so such critical information. And whenever we have these thoughts,
(09:14):
this verse is saying that we must take those uncomfortable
anxiety causing fearful, doubtful, insecure, worrisome, jealous, envious, slanderous, judge,
(09:34):
just bad intentioned thoughts. We must take those thoughts and
turn them around, make them obedient to who Jesus is.
And Jesus is our savior and our Lord, and he
is the God of love. He's a loving God. And
(09:57):
whenever we turn our hearts back to God, that is
what it is, just taking it back to God, over
and over again, every day, as many times as you
need to, humbling ourselves under God, because we know that
He is in heaven and we are on earth. And
(10:22):
it says in a verse that I wish I could
think of right now. It says, be careful not to
utter just any word to God, for he is in
heaven and you are on earth. And whenever I read that,
it just it gave me some reverential fear that I needed.
(10:45):
You know, God is loving, God is merciful. God is
present with us every day. He is our ever present help.
But we also must not lose that reverential fear of him.
He is sovereign, he is outside of nature, He is God,
(11:07):
but he is our loving, heavenly Father, and everything that
he does concerning us is for our good, our betterment,
and he chastises those who he loves. So if you're
going through some things right now, if you're working through
some bad moods, if you're feeling yourself being corrected by God,
(11:30):
that means he loves you, and he loves you so
much that he is not going to leave you alone
in the mess that he found you in. And I've
heard that from many different pastors that have encouraged me
to try to help me understand how God feels about me.
(11:54):
And it's my choice to believe. And I do believe.
I've seen God's power is working power in my life.
That's my phone notification. Sorry, but I've seen. So. There's
(12:19):
a Greek word. I believe it's Greek. It's gnosco, and
I think I'm trying to remember what that means. It
means to know someone, but this no, it means not
know of like I've heard of him, Not that kind
(12:42):
of no, but to have had experience and time with
knowing someone. And that's how God wants to know us,
and how we want to know God is to know
him through experience, and that may mean going through some
(13:06):
hard things sometimes, but we must be careful about what
things we let enter our hearts and our minds, and
the things that come out of our mouth. Another verse
I wanted to read about that was Matthew fifteen seventeen
(13:26):
through nineteen. So it says, don't you see that whatever
enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out
of the body. But the things that come out of
a person's mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery,
(13:49):
sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. So my mind
goes back to the heart and the mind, because it
starts in your heart how you feel, and it starts
(14:10):
in your mind what you then think about whatever. And
if we're not careful about making every thought that we
have obedient to God to Christ, then we can be
in real trouble with our mouths and our minds and
(14:31):
our hearts. And it's very easy for that poison to
get in there if we don't have a hold on it,
you know. And one last verse I'll read is Colossians
three two. Set your minds on things that are above,
not on things that are on earth. I love that verse.
(14:52):
It's very nice to think on heavenly things. I love
you family. I hope this was helpful. Bye bye
Hey, family, this is jess Ones in the mess. So
on this episode, I'll be talking about our thought lives
and our speech. Someone said to me one day, they said,
(00:22):
think about your thoughts that you have daily. What do
you think about? Is it good things or is it
bad things? And then I have it written down on
my paper here it says practice thinking first before you speak.
(00:44):
And I've gotten a lot of practice with that, probably
in the last decade. And I wanted to add that
I'm very grateful to know his word and to know
these things, because before I knew these things, I could
(01:06):
see myself. I was just very ignorant and immature, and
I would really say the first thought that fell into
my head and say it. And I did have some control,
you know, like I did, and now even more so
(01:29):
because of Jesus helping me to have more self control.
One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is self
control or self discipline. So and that has since grown
in me. And I'm really grateful because whenever you're just
(01:49):
saying a bunch of cusswords or being rude, or you know,
just talking on something that you don't really know much
about but you don't don't want to look foolish. I
guess I'm just I'm glad I'm not in that place
of deceit anymore, because it's a deceiving mindset. It's and
(02:15):
I believe, yeah, it's it's got to come from pride.
You know. If you're I don't know, just acting very
like self righteous in your speech, or ignorant, inconsiderate of others,
just sounding very self centered, then that has to start
(02:40):
with pride. There's got to be some pride in that
person's heart. And I remember being that way, you know.
But that's why I wanted to read some scripture that
I thought was very important for all of us to know. Yes,
so let's start. That's a good one. Let's start at
(03:04):
Ephesians four. Ephesians, chapter four, twenty nine, Verse twenty nine.
So it says, do not let any unwholesome talk come
out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for
building others up according to their needs that it may
benefit those who listen. Well, that's a lot to unpack,
(03:32):
because it's really easy for us to you know, not
control our tongues basically, and when we feel upset or
offended to automatically just go with it and start having
(03:53):
unwholesome talk. But the thing is, whenever whenever you see something,
you're not just saying something, you are actually speaking that
thing into existence or manifesting it for yourself. And that
leads me back to Proverbs eighteen twenty one. Death and
(04:17):
life are in the power of the tongue, and those
who love it will eat it's fruit. And what it
means by that is whatever comes out of your mouth,
whether it be good or bad, you're planting seeds, and
those seeds are going to grow. And once those fruits are,
(04:39):
you know, ripe and ready, you will have to eat
of that fruit. Whatever was that thing that you said.
And I want to speak life over myself and over
my own life, my kids, my everyday circumstances. You know,
I might have a messy house, but I'm going to
(05:00):
clean it. I can do this. I have energy. Please
give me energy, God for real. But we have to
speak positive positivity over our situations and in the moment
whenever you're angry, irritable, frustrated, you know it all kind
(05:25):
of it all does originate from pride in your heart.
So we kind of have to go all the way
back to the beginning. Just keep coming back to God
and like the verse says, therefore humble ourselves under the
mighty hand of God. And I do believe that just
(05:48):
requires a certain form of stopping. Whether you still have
to keep going physically and maybe you can take a
mental break while you're moving no, or if you are
able to get alone and just get in His presence
and bring whatever you need to bring to him. You know,
(06:10):
I have to do that consistently every day. I have
to keep coming back to Him because if I don't,
then it really hurts me, and I feel like something
in between me and God, like I'm far from him.
And I don't like feeling that way, like there's a wall,
(06:33):
or I don't want to cause that the distance. I
want to be close. I want to be close to Jesus,
not running away or ignoring him. But yeah, it all
(06:54):
starts with pride, you know, for us to and then
it starts with a thought. It begins with how someone
made us feel or how we just feel period, and
then a thought comes. It all begins with a thought.
But we have to be careful about what we think
(07:17):
about because even though a thought may seem just like
a thought, if you're meditating on such thoughts, then you're
building up, You're planting seeds or strongholds in your mind.
I've heard it be said like that, and I believe it,
(07:37):
you know, because I've experienced it myself, strongholds in my
own mind that I've had to work with God to
break and not think on anymore, or get out of
the habit of thinking on. You know what I'm saying. So,
and here's a very significant verse that can help me
(08:02):
clarify what I'm saying right now. And it's Second Corinthians,
chapter ten, verse five. Okay. So it says we demolish
arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the
(08:23):
knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to
make it obedient to Christ. And that might feel, you know,
pressuring to hear or scary, because I think it's the
word obedient is what makes people stand offish about. I
(08:46):
don't know, but I know that's how it made me
feel at first whenever I first read it. And this
isn't just words to boss us around or put us
under you know the law again, it's not. It's it
is so such critical information. And whenever we have these thoughts,
(09:14):
this verse is saying that we must take those uncomfortable
anxiety causing fearful, doubtful, insecure, worrisome, jealous, envious, slanderous, judge,
(09:34):
just bad intentioned thoughts. We must take those thoughts and
turn them around, make them obedient to who Jesus is.
And Jesus is our savior and our Lord, and he
is the God of love. He's a loving God. And
(09:57):
whenever we turn our hearts back to God, that is
what it is, just taking it back to God, over
and over again, every day, as many times as you
need to, humbling ourselves under God, because we know that
He is in heaven and we are on earth. And
(10:22):
it says in a verse that I wish I could
think of right now. It says, be careful not to
utter just any word to God, for he is in
heaven and you are on earth. And whenever I read that,
it just it gave me some reverential fear that I needed.
(10:45):
You know, God is loving, God is merciful. God is
present with us every day. He is our ever present help.
But we also must not lose that reverential fear of him.
He is sovereign, he is outside of nature, He is God,
(11:07):
but he is our loving, heavenly Father, and everything that
he does concerning us is for our good, our betterment,
and he chastises those who he loves. So if you're
going through some things right now, if you're working through
some bad moods, if you're feeling yourself being corrected by God,
(11:30):
that means he loves you, and he loves you so
much that he is not going to leave you alone
in the mess that he found you in. And I've
heard that from many different pastors that have encouraged me
to try to help me understand how God feels about me.
(11:54):
And it's my choice to believe. And I do believe.
I've seen God's power is working power in my life.
That's my phone notification. Sorry, but I've seen. So. There's
(12:19):
a Greek word. I believe it's Greek. It's gnosco, and
I think I'm trying to remember what that means. It
means to know someone, but this no, it means not
know of like I've heard of him, Not that kind
(12:42):
of no, but to have had experience and time with
knowing someone. And that's how God wants to know us,
and how we want to know God is to know
him through experience, and that may mean going through some
(13:06):
hard things sometimes, but we must be careful about what
things we let enter our hearts and our minds, and
the things that come out of our mouth. Another verse
I wanted to read about that was Matthew fifteen seventeen
(13:26):
through nineteen. So it says, don't you see that whatever
enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out
of the body. But the things that come out of
a person's mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery,
(13:49):
sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. So my mind
goes back to the heart and the mind, because it
starts in your heart how you feel, and it starts
(14:10):
in your mind what you then think about whatever. And
if we're not careful about making every thought that we
have obedient to God to Christ, then we can be
in real trouble with our mouths and our minds and
(14:31):
our hearts. And it's very easy for that poison to
get in there if we don't have a hold on it,
you know. And one last verse I'll read is Colossians
three two. Set your minds on things that are above,
not on things that are on earth. I love that verse.
(14:52):
It's very nice to think on heavenly things. I love
you family. I hope this was helpful. Bye bye
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