Bishop T.D. Jakes sermons on Power of vision

Proverbs 23:7

We need to continually purge our thoughts because we become what we think. It is not just the lust that we must clean out, but also low self-esteem, pride, arrogance, hidden jealousy, and much more. To use a medical metaphor, the mind is the “placenta” of the spirit man. It holds and nurtures the seeds it has been impregnated with until their of delivery. If you have the seed of a thought in your mind and you don’t want the child that the seed will produce, your only resource is to abort it before it is carried to full term.

            If you don’t want depression, why do you continue to rehearse those same sickening thoughts that led you there in the first place? You don’t need a famous minister to lay hands on you to win the battle over your mind! What you need is the inner discipline required all disciple to resist evil thoughts before they become evidenced in your life. Abort those seeds that are causing you to miss the mark and press on!

            My sister, your mind is continually being reconstructed by the Holy Spirit. He wants to put new thoughts within you that will enable you to soar above your past and fil you with a great sense of destiny.

            Most of us come to the Lord damage-dead spiritually, damaged emotionally, and decaying physically. When He saved you, He made your dead spirit alive. He also promised you a new body. Then He began the massive renovation necessary repair your damaged thoughts about life, about others and about yourself.

            While we dress and smell nice outwardly, people do not hear the constant hammering and sawing going on inwardly, as the Lord works within us trying desperately to present us a newly construction masterpiece fit for his use.

            Beneath our pasted-on smiles and pleasant greetings, we alone hear the rumblings of the midnight shift. God is constantly excommunication lethal thoughts that hinder us from grasping the many faceted calling and gifting burial beneath the rubble of our minds.

            We all need the Lord to help us with ourselves. We came to Him as condemned buildings and he reopened the place that Satan thought would never inhabited. The Holy Spirit moved in. and He brought His hammers and saws with Him.

Source: T.D.Jakes