Best Friend or Bad Dog?

Thoughts are like dogs if you train them then they will bring you joy but if you don’t they’ll cause stress, run wild and destroy your house. The enemy is always trying to get you to take his bad dogs and trying to corrupt your good dogs. If you control your thoughts they’ll guard your life but if you don’t it’s like they’re bred to fight and bite. You wouldn’t just let a pack of stray dogs in your home nor should you just let your thoughts run wild. So beware of the mean dogs and also the little sickly ones that don’t seem like a threat but carry debilitating diseases like discouragement. The Bible says we will “have the fruit of thoughts” and “as a man thinks in his heart so is he.” So we have to defend our thoughts in order to watch over our hearts and protect our lives. The next issue of your life is currently being processed by your mind and stored up in your heart. Hopefully it’s not something titled like, “Man is maimed by a pack of stray dogs” but instead, “Man saved from calamity by his own trained dog faithful and true.” What you’re going to think and do is up to you. No one else can train your dog but you, and when you do then your mind will begin to bring you joy. The best and most powerful way to change your thoughts is by thinking God’s thoughts. If you will mediate on His Words and see yourself the way He said you are then you will begin to change your life for the better and forever.

Isa 55:8-11
8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord.
9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.

10 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
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Prov 4:20-23
20 My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
21 Do not let them depart from your eyes;
Keep them in the midst of your heart;
22 For they are life to those who find them,
And health to all their flesh.
23 Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it spring the issues of life.
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Heb 4:12-16
2 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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2 Cor 10:3-5
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
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