2017 IS OUR YEAR OF FLOURISHING There are three things you should know. This is the year of: 1. LUXURIANT GROWTH We will grow and flourish like the palm tree. The spreading continues. As we spread, we grow upward as well. 2. SIGNIFICANT ATTAINMENT God is about to do marvelous things. Nothing will stop me from growing. It’s going to be News making attainments. 3. PERSISTENT PRODUCTIVITY The weather doesn’t count, the economy doesn’t count, the country doesn’t count. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO You have to speak in tongues like never before. 1 Corinthians 14:4 Amp “One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church [promotes growth in spiritual wisdom, devotion, holiness, and joy].” Speak in tongues, edify yourself! Jude1:20 Amp But you, beloved, build yourselves up on [the foundation of] your most holy faith [continually progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher], pray in the Holy Spirit,” Your most holy faith is your most sanctified faith. This means your faith that had no doubt around it that you have used. God is saying, build on that faith. 1 Corinthians 14 :18KJV This is Paul’s secret of success. If you would speak in tongues. Nothing will stop you. Don’t take light on speaking in tongues. Ignore those that say speaking in tongues is not important. This is 2017, flourish with tongues. Aside speaking in tongues, add this to it. Go to Hebrews 11:1-3 The word ‘world’ is the Greek work ‘Aion’. This means the times. Like the times of the Roman Empire. The times of someone, like the times of Mr. John. And the word Framed here is the Greek ‘Katatizo’, this means to arranged. And ‘Word’ is the Greek ‘Rhema’. How 2017 is going to be a year of Flourishing is in your mouth! The Rhema Word for the year has come and all of 2017 must comply! None of those in our family tree ever failed. Some made mistakes but didn’t fail. They got up and continued running. Look at Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Jehoshaphat, look at them. Satan is not more wicked than God is gracious. If Satan did this wicked things through ISIS, God’s graciousness abound. God has Angels that are more fierce than the demons of darkness. He has sent these Angels. You are going to love the Lord more than before. The Holy Ghost is going to knock many into Christ. Those that were previously built up against the Gospel, you will see them turn around completely and start preaching this same Gospel just like Saul of Tarsus. This year you are going to make so much progress. You are going to be so wealthy! Nothing can stop you. Happy New Year of Flourishing!
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A Short Exercise: If someone were to make a statement to you, for example, about your performance: which of these two statements would you prefer?
From the statements above, it’s clear that the first one is more positive and emphasizes the achievements of the individual, while the second tends to highlight his/her errors, which only occur once in a while. We would look further into this, later in our study. What is the Mind? The mind is not something that the best historians, scientists, or medical doctors of the world could give you the best light on. Only the Bible gives detailed and accurate information on the mind. The reason is because the mind is an intangible and spiritual facet. It can’t be discovered or made known by science, and the best you can get from the world on it, would be speculatory. Only the Word of God brings revelation of the spiritual. For example, the Bible says in Hebrews 4:12-13 (English Standard Version) “12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow…” The Word of God can distinguish between the soul and the spirit, an attribute, which the ordinary mind cannot give you. It takes the knowledge and revelation of the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit to make such things known. Let’s begin with a simple definition of the mind. The mind is the faculty of man’s reasoning and thoughts; it holds the power of imagination, recognition and appreciation. It’s responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes. There are some key words in this definition that we’ll examine, to help us understand the mind. The first one is Thoughts. Thought is the creation, recalling, reviewing and processing of images for meaning, reason, language and expression. This means you create, recall, review and process the images that you get, for meaning, reason, language, and expression. When you study Scriptures on the mind, you’ll discover that in the Old and New Testament, several words are interchangeably used to refer to the mind or its activities. Examples are the words: thoughts and reason. Sometimes whilst reading one translation the word thought is used; and then you read another translation, and it uses the word reason. Even in the case of the same translation, thoughts may be used in a verse in one section, and then another writer uses reason for what was previously used for or written as thoughts. In addition, the words mind and heart are sometimes interchangeably used in Scripture, but the mind is not the heart and the heart is not the mind. These are generic expressions, and so you may find them synonymously used at different points. The words imagination, thinking, reasoning, inclination are also used interchangeably in referring to activities of the mind, as you would find in Bible translations. This goes to say that there are a broad number of synonyms that are used in expressing the phenomenon of the mind and its activities. Moreover, to better understand the mind, you’ll need to understand the scriptural description of the human person. The Two fold nature of Man: Man primarily has a twofold nature namely: The Outward Man, and The Inward Man. According to the Bible, God created the inward man first, and then formed the outward man. The inward man is the human spirit, and his soul. On the other hand, the outward man is the human body and its senses. The Bible says Hebrews 11:3b “…that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear”. The spiritual realm gave birth to the physical realm; therefore, to understand more clearly our description of the inward man as the human spirit and his soul, look at this: what the nervous system is to the body, the soul is to the Spirit. The soul functions for the human spirit. If you were to see the human spirit, you’re not going to see the soul standing outside of the spirit. But again in the scriptures, you’ll find generic expressions in which the soul is used in describing the whole human spirit – the inward man. Sometimes, even the word heart is used to describe the inward man. Words and statements like: the hidden man of the heart, the human spirit, the soul, are all sometimes used in describing the inward man. However, there is the soul that belongs to the human spirit, and that soul is the seat of the mind, the will and the emotions. Going further, and it gets a little more complex here, note this: in the central nervous system, what the brain is to the body, the mind is to the Spirit (note that the mind is in the soul). The mind however is far more complex than the brain because it has power over the brain. It has more power, more influence than the brain because it’s spiritual; it belongs to the human spirit, which is the core of your nature, the real you. You are not a body; you are a spirit living in a physical body. Your body is your domicile, but the spirit is the real you. What is the Brain? Science defines the brain as the primary centre for the regulation and control of bodily activities, receiving and interpreting sensory impulses, and transmitting information to the muscles and body organs. The brain is not the seat of consciousness, because a man’s brain could be working alright, even when he is not conscious of life or anything around him. The seat of consciousness and emotions don’t reside in the brain. The brain can process and recall information, but true memory is more than recalling information. There is much more to know about interpretation, meaning, language and expression (seen in our definition of thoughts), and these are not in the power of the brain. In addition, the brain is neither the mind nor the soul. The brain is a physical organ of the body while the mind and soul are spiritual. The brain however works with the mind to give the character of a man. Remember this: The body’s central nervous system works in conjunction with the mind for human consciousness, conception, memory and expression. This statement is very important. These two – the central nervous system and the mind, are ultimately responsible for the character of a man. |
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