RCCG ONLINE CENTRAL DIGGING DEEP SERVICE TEACHING – MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA – TOPIC: REPROGRAMMING YOUR THOUGHTS
(ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER (AGO) ADMIN. AND PERSONNEL, RCCG)
DATE: 2ND JUNE, 2020
BIBLE TEXT: PROVERBS 4:23; PEOVERBS 23:7; AND PHILIPPIANS 4:8
Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!!
We are grateful to God for the rendition by the Praise Team. May the Lord increase them! May the Almighty God Anoint them from above, in Jesus’ Name – Amen!
Shall we Pray!
SONG
We Bless You, Oh God of Heaven and Earth;
We Bless You, Oh God of Heaven and Earth;
Heaven and Earth,
Heaven and Earth;
Heaven and Earth, oh Heaven and Earth.
Repeat!
OPENING PRAYER
King of Glory, You are the only One that is Worthy to be Praised.
Thank You, You are responsible for all the Good Things that we receive. Lord we say THANK YOU!
Thank You for our family, Thank You for our Health, Thank You for Protection and Provision.
Great God, we bow our head and our heart before the Great I AM. Please, accept our Thanks in the Name of JESUS!
You are our King, and You are our Lord. Thank You that You are the One who is a Shadow over us! So we are believing and trusting in You, just as You Promised and You are not a liar: that no evil will touch us.
And I Pray for everyone connected now (and reading on the label of DMC) no evil will touch them.
As we are sitting around Your Table today, Jehovah God arise in Your Word. We Pray to You Father God; Break the Word of Life to us in the Name of Jesus!
Let there be Healing, let there be Salvation, let there be Joy, let there be Anointing;
In any area You need to rebuke us, Please, You are always a Loving God. Do it in the Name of Jesus.
Father we declare and decree; that everyone who has sent their Prayer Requests, Jehovah God to our father in this Organization and to all Pastors in any level – Answer them by Fire, in the Name of Jesus!
Father Almighty, we ask oh God, that at the end of the Digging Deep tonight, we will have reason to Testify – to Glorify Your Holy Name.
And at the end of our life, at the end of our race; Lord together with You, let us reign in Glory, in the Name of Jesus!
As You have prepare a place for us in Heavenly Kingdom – where the streets are made of Pure Gold, don’t let any of us miss the Place!
We Thank You Father; we give You Glory and Honour.
In Jesus Most Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!
… Let somebody shout Hallelujah again – Hallelujah!
We want to appreciate the Name of the Lord, for my father – who has given us the opportunity.
I Pray for him, his wife and his family; that God of Heaven will put more Grace over his life and family, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!
And everyone Praying for our Leader – our father in the Lord and his family; may the Lord raise Helpers of Destiny for you, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!
Today, we will be considering: REPROGRAMMING YOUR THOUGHT
I’m going to take three (3) readings – two (2) in the Old Testament and one (1) in the New Testament: Proverbs 4:23; Proverbs 23:7; and Philippians 4:8.
… I will read them together, and we will now go into what we need to do today.
Proverbs 4:23: “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
Proverbs 23:7: “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee”.
Philippians 4:8: “Finally, Brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are Pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of Good Report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any Praise, think on these things.”
May the Lord Bless the Reading and Hearing of His Words, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!
In Life and in Destiny; in fulfilment of God’s Purpose – our THOUGHTS is very crucial.
The first Place we read says: “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life”.
The second one says: “As “he” Thinketh in his heart – Not ‘as GOD’ thinks for him. NO! But as “he” thinketh in his heart!
It is one thing for God to think Good for you; it is another thing to align your thoughts with Him.
And in the Book of Philippians 4:8; He was mentioning things Pure, things Holy – that we should think on these things!
Now, in Life and in Destiny: your thoughts will make you and unmake you. Your thoughts will heal or hurt you. Your thoughts will generate friends or will enemies. Your thoughts will make you happy or make you miserable. Your thoughts will make you a Victor/Victorious or make you a victim!
Your thoughts will make you an Overcomer or a Captive. And your thoughts can also make you a Success or a failure!
Information is the mother of transformation; and transformation of your Thoughts is the transformation of your Life.
Everything that you will ever become; everything that will ever happen to you in life – it has to come FIRST, from your heart.
The Bible says: “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
… Either Greatness or wretchedness – they are all Products of your thoughts.
So, Conscious Thinking is almost lost among Christians, among Believers: People who Consciously choose what they need to think today!
On this Platform we have said that you need to Pray Right; and you need to think Right!
In the Book of Ephesians 3:20 (that Popular Passage) – “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we Pray or think.
If you Pray so much and you think evil so much there is a way your thinking nullifies the Prayers.
There is a valid, a balance: if you Pray SO MUCH, and you THINK EVIL so much; there is a way your Thinking nullify all the Prayers!
I remember a story in the Book of the Bible, when Moses sent spies to go and examine the land that God had Promised them.
… How can God Almighty Promise People and fail to deliver?
They have not been to that side before; they went there on the account of God. And when they got there, they discovered exactly what God said there!
So they came back with the News: And ten (10) of them said – the Giants there are too HUGE – the Promise is TOO BIG! We could not go.
But Caleb and Joshua – they stood; they had other Perspectives.
And now you find that in the Book of Numbers 13:26-33. But in Numbers 13:30, Caleb and Joshua said: No, No, No! We are able!
No wonder, it was Caleb and Joshua in that Generation (apart from the younger ones) that were able to get there!
… They got there by the Reprogramming of their THOUGHTS.
I read a story many years ago, about when Bata (Shoe Company) wanted to invest in Africa. They sent their People from Great Britain to come to Africa.
The first set of People that came – they came to Africa and said: The People there don’t wear shoes; so there is no Prospect!
So when the Management changed over the time, they sent another Group. The second Group said: They don’t wear shoes in Africa but we will have a Great Market.
That is why in every village and town in Africa, they still have Bata.
In fact, in my own language – everything you put on as shoe, they call them Bata.
So, because People can think out of the box – Productive Thinking delivers Victory where others see defeat.
Every word comes from the abundance of the heart.
Jesus said this in one of His Teachings in Matthew 12:34: Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh – Whether consciously or unconsciously.
Now, your values, your beliefs; everything come from your thoughts!
And your thoughts will either make you or break you.
So once your MIND is Reprogrammed, you are sure will make it!
… Because Right Thinking is Right Living.
Some People see themselves as Victims in the world – Praise God! Some people see themselves as Victorious – Praise God!
There are Good Organizations that People work in – like ours! Some People believe: this Organization suit you! It is not the Organization.
Many a times we give the devil credit for what he didn’t do! Oh, it was the devil. What about your thoughts? Because He made us like Him!
… So your Thought has a Validity for the life you live.
Someone said (I read it years ago), he said:
“Watch your thoughts, they become your Worths; Watch your worths, they become your Actions; Watch your actions, they become your Habits; Watch you habits, they become Character; Watch your Character, for it becomes your Destiny.”
No matter how impossible a situation may seem; if you can handle it in your HEART, it’s done!
A case at hand, was the case in Genesis 11:3-6 – Some People thought (the People that God made) – ‘How can we be left here alone?’ Go to, let’s burn bricks;
… No wonder, way way back at the beginning of the Bible, they had cement!
And so they determined to build a Tower.
Even God said; these People are jokers!
In Verse 5, God said, let us go and see. But when God saw is, in Verse 6 God said Ah! These People will do it!
Look at what God said in Verse 6: “And the LORD said, Behold, the People is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have IMAGINED TO DO.”
What your MIND cannot Accommodate today, you can’t see it tomorrow.
Where you are today is largely due to God. But Primarily, due to your Thoughts because you are actually like God.
And many a times when you Program evil thoughts in your heart, because God is not a Manipulator – He cannot manipulate your heart.
Angels don’t advise People; they carry out whatsoever is in their heart!
So, if you want to succeed in anything in life, then you must FIRST, succeed in your Thoughts.
That is why they call those Nations which they categorized to be developed (First World) – IMAGE NATION!
So, what you are looking for is not in Abroad, it is in Above! What you are looking for somewhere else is within you.
I’m not talking about a kind of Naturalistic Philosophy; of Psychology of Thoughts and Thinking – No!
I’m talking about what the Bible says about: “As he thinketh in his heart, so he is.”
Well, there are all kinds of Thinking:
- Reflective Thinking,
- Constructive Thinking,
- Realistic Thinking,
- Critical Thinking,
- Radical Thinking and all that.
They are all there!
… That’s not where I am going today!
I mean, each of these Thinking has a backing of the Scripture.
So, what Isaac, Jacob did regularly is Reflective Thinking;
What David did when he was facing Goliath is Victorious Thinking;
What Calab and Joshua did when others brought Negative News is a Radical Thinking!
There are all kinds of Thinking, but that is not were I’m going today.
We just want to see few things regarding Thoughts, because:
Whatsoever you Programmed into your Thought, that is what will come out of it.
There is a Wall Paper I came to know many years ago; GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out!
That is the Principle of Computer.
… But what is true about Computer is also true of our Normal Life!
I want to say this to you Sir/Ma, wherever you are reading this Message now on the Label of DMC that:
You are born a Winner, don’t’T die a loser; You are born to be Great, don’t end up as an unknown person; You are born to be the Head, not the tail; You are to be a Billionaire, DON’T DIE as a Pauper.
… You are born to be a World Changer, Please, don’t die frustrated!
You are born as a Runner, don’t’T die as a crooker. You are born as a Champion, don’t’T become a chicken!
You are born as a Prophet, don’t become a Parrot. You are born an Eagle, don’t become a worm!
… Many are born to Goldmines, they end up as Prisoners!
I Pray today; that the God of Heaven that we serve will help each and everyone of us (including me) to REPROGRAM our Thoughts for a Productive life, in the Name of JESUS – Amen!
Now, *WHAT ARE THE WORTH OF YOUR THOUGHT LIFE?
The Worths of your Thought Life – let me roll out Seven (7) Things from that before we go to others:
- It takes Good Thinking to Produce a Good Life –
Proverbs 23:7 says: For as he THINKETH in his heart…
… You are what you always think about!
The real man is not the one that is dressed here; the real man is inside there!
So it is your heart work connected to the brainwork is the Real Work!
You have the capacity to determine what happens to you; so, as he THINKETH …
It takes a Good Thinking to Produce a Good Life!
- The state of your Thought determines the state of your life;
… You cannot think one thing and receive another!
So, whatever can affect a man’s Thinking Process can affect his life.
I read the story of a man (I don’t want to embarrass him and I don’t want to mention name) of a man that was born without limps.
… I mean, somebody from our own part of the world would have been crying – why is my own like this?
But the man became a Pastor of over a thousand Congregation; happily married and has a wonderful family.
… Because whatsoever you think, is what you will get.
We refer back to Numbers 13:25-33; some People became victims – By their Thoughts and Perspectives.
No wonder, when we got to Numbers 14 21-24; they became what they thought about.
- Your Thinking Pattern designs your Future Pattern.
Proverbs 4:23 says: “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
Your Mental Picture determines your Actual Picture!
It is one thing to see the Vision, it is another thing to declare it, and see, and work towards it.
I want you to know that: Thinking usually precedes Seeing – Before you SEE!
Men may be looking at you, but they can’t see the Person. Because People may be looking at you, without seeing you. Some people are looking at your direction, but their Thoughts are somewhere else.
That is why – you know it!
It has happened to you, it has happened to me. You say: you are looking at me, I thought you saw me? – I didn’t see you!
So, what we are saying is that – Your Thinking Pattern determines your Seeing pattern – Very, very important!
God’s Order of things: You see FIRST, before Possession.
You think, when you THINK, you see. And then Possession follows.
When God intends to help a man, what He will first of establish is HELP him to SEE!
In Genesis 13:15; the Bible says: “For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.”
God was referring to a kind of SEEING in the life of Abraham; and in Ephesians 1:17-18, it says: “That the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened”.
So, what you discovered in the Word of God can only be yours in reality – to the extent of the reality you have created in your mind.
There is a Professor in this country, the man cannot see – I mean, he was born without eyes!
But he became a Professor; A Head of Department of Physical Education in one of the Federal Universities in the Northern Part of the country.
And the man is very brilliant! I don’t want to mention names.
So, looking at the issues around you – Your disability and begin to make complains; this is the reason. It’s not the issue!
- Your Mind must change gear if your situation must move forward;
Anything you want to become – it is possible if your heart is TRANSFORMED.
Your heart must be TRANSFORMED; you are responsible for the renewing of your mind.
I like a Lady in the Bible – Mark 5:25-34.
The woman said if I can but TOUCH; it started from her heart! She TOUCHED, and she received her Healing.
… Her Healing was delivered the day she Thought ‘I can do it!’
If your heart passes the examination, you are already there!
A man was Practicing; when he jumped a 5 feet height; but he got to 6 feet height – he would approach it, and stop (repeatedly). So he now asked the Coach: “Why can’t I jump over the 6 feet height?”
The Coach said: Let your HEART jump over it, your body will follow!
… Once you can capture it, it is DONE!
- Your mind is the Gateway to the Miraculous.
Your Mind determines how well you live!
It’s for another day: God is the God of the Supernatural; it didn’t say He is the God of the Super ‘Spiritual.’
There is a way the thing connects – Whatever God needs to do starts in the Spirit.
Things happen twice.
What you are now happened once, before you became it!
The People (in Genesis 11) said: we will build it!
And they were building it.
The Prodigal son said: I’m I not a foolish Boy?- He said Yes!
I’m I not a crazy Boy? – He said, I Think so.
I will arise and go to my father!
He went to his father. And just as he imagined – the father received him!
In that Ephesians 3:20 (I quoted a while ago): “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”
God responds to your Thoughts the same way He responds to your PRAYER
Your Thoughts and confessions must be in AGREEMENT – before you can see the Manifestation of your Desires.
- Your Thought is strategic in Spiritual Warfare.
2 Corinthians 10:3-6, the Bible says: We are in the flesh but we don’t war in the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, they are Mighty through God to the Pulling down of strongholds.
And he was talking about HEART. The major target of the enemy (called a Stronghold) as we see there, is your mind, your imagination; Knowledge; your Thinking Pattern.
Imagine Job in Job 3:25-26. He said: For the thing that I FEARED has come upon me; and what I dreaded has happened to me.
No wonder, 1 Peter 1:13, the Bible says – Guide up the loins of your MIND.
Accommodation of Negative Thoughts will end you in the Negative End.
Stop thinking about Premature death or I will loose my job.
You must stop Thinking all those kind of stuffs – they are not for you.
And I Pray: Everyone that has evil thoughts or that is loaded with evil thoughts; I Pray from today: The Lord will change everything Negative about you, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.
- Your Thought Life determines your Holiness and Purity.
The devil can only corrupt you through the aid of your Thoughts.
2 Corinthians 11:3 says: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
Evil Thought Precedes evil acts. If you can stop the thought, then you can stop the act – You can stop it!
It takes a Pure Thought to live a Pure Life.
… You need to clean up your thoughts for a clean life!
An average man – those who Research says there are about ten thousand (10,000) Thoughts in a day. And seventy percent (70%) of course some people say eighty percent (80%) are Negative Thoughts.
And Betty Shaheli says (I read): “Two thoughts cannot occupy your heart at the same time. The choice is ours whether to be Constructive or Destructive.”
So, your life is defined by what is in your heart.
Now, when you think of becoming selfish – you will not be able to lend out to other People!
When you think of immoral sex, then you will become lustful!
So, Praying and Heart Power is the real Power!
They told us about a man; I also read about the same man so many years ago – the man called Albert Einstein.
The one who told us the “Law of Relativity”.
We were told that the man was one of the greatest men that utilised his brain (his thoughts).
But when he died, some People requested for his brain – and they tested his brain. And they discovered he only used five percent (5%) of his brain.
Each of us (Human Being) has about fourteen billion (14,000,000,000) brain cells. And that brain cells have capacity to retain information.
No wonder, the Bible says in Psalms 139:14-17; that: We are wonderfully and fearfully made.
So what are we saying?
Your thinking determines your belief; what you believe determines what you become!
A Christian has an advantage when it comes to the issue of the mind.
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 2:16: “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.;
The state of your thought determines the state of your life.
… As he thinketh in his heart, so is he!
Now remember, God Himself said in the Book of Deuteronomy 30:19. He said: I set before you life and death, blessings and curses.
Isaiah 26:3, this is what the Bible says: “Thou wilt keep him in Perfect Peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.
HOW DO I REPROGRAM MY THOUGHTS?
… Let me quickly roll out Seven (7) Things;
- Give Good Time to Thinking.
It is good to Pray; there are People Praying (screaming).
When you Pray, do you listen to God?
You must have a Thinking Time!
If want to Pray foe one (1) hour – I suggest to you; Pray for forty five (45) minutes, use fifteen (15) minutes to think!
Take time to reason!
High flyers in life, they have ample opportunity to Think!
Daniel 2:16; full of Prophecies, he knows the Scriptures – but he has time to reflect.
- Seek to be ALONE.
We are living in a noisy world; you need Privacy to allow uninterrupted flow of IDEAS.
Daniel went to his house, in Daniel 2:17 – There was Problem in the land. He went to his house – he has to think quickly!
- Select your “Thinking Companion” carefully.
Daniel 2:17, you need a co-thinker.
Relationship Plays a vital role in sharpening your mind. – Proverbs 13:20; 1 Corinthians 15:33.
- Spend time with God in Prayers.
Daniel 2:19; spend time (especially in the nights).
Your Night Season is the time to take counsel from God. – Psalms 77:6 l; Psalms 16:7.
- Receive “Laying On” of hand for Impartation.
2 Timothy 1:6 – Laying of hand!
The Spirit of Wisdom came upon Joshua because hand was laid upon him, in the Book of Deuteronomy 34:9.
… So, let hands be LAID upon you!
- Through diligent Studies.
2 Timothy 2:15; Learning sharpens your mind – Read Books; Listen to tapes; Sit down to study!
Even Daniel with his Books of Prophecies, he had to understand by reading – Daniel 9:2.
- You need to Think aloud; Think Talk;
Think aloud! Habakkuk 3:2; Think Talk – yourself! - Of course, you need to Trust God that He will help you to be able to Think.
If you think you can’t, you probably won’t. But If you think you can do it, then you can do it.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF RENEWING YOUR MIND?
… Let me quickly round up!
- You will see and understand things on a higher level – Matthew 13:19.
- You will gain an understanding of your Rights as a child of God.
- Refuse to accept defeat.
And when you refuse this – Poverty will run away from you! And when you refuse this, sickness will run away from you.
When you THINK, you will see your Benefits and you will be able to get it!
Do you want your Mind changed? You can do it!
God is a God of Possibility; incidentally, God cannot do it for you – you are the one who can do your THINKING; because your life is not God’s life – He borrowed your heart to dwell in.
So, whichever way your Thought goes, there is a Grace to deliver it: REPROGRAM your Thoughts today!
The woman with the issue of blood said: I’m TIRED; Jabez said I’m TIRED, the Prodigal Son said, I’m TIRED – and they were able to do it.
David said I’m able and he did it.
You can do it! You were not created to be at the backside of a dessert.
Your Father is the Most HIGH, don’t be the Most LOW. You are an EAGLE, don’t be a chicken!
… It’s time to Pray;
Please, if you are out there and you are not Born Again, Pray: Please Lord, come into my heart! And that is when you can Think Right.
And if you are Born Again, Pray: Lord, every evil thoughts I command you – CLEAR, by the Blood of Jesus!
… Pray! And I will Pray with you now.
And those of you who want to give your lives to Jesus, say these after me:
My Father, I have come to You today. I want You to come into my life. Forgive my sins. Lord, make Your abode in my life.
Thank You because I know that You are in. Let all my sins be forgiven. Let me be a child of God forever!
Those of you who are just REDEDICATION your lives; Tell the Lord – Renew my heart. I surrender to You.
PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER.
Lord, I Pray for the People who have Prayed and I ask that the Power of the Lord that declares life Worth Living be upon you.
May the Glory of God come over your life; May the Power to REPROGRAM YOUR THOUGHTS come over you.
And you will work in life, you will make it in life and you will make it to Heaven.
Whatever you are struggling with before now – Receive Power to overcome.
Thank You because it is done! Glory and Honour be to Your Name.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!
God bless you – Amen!
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