The Three Things You Control

The three things you control
1. Your thoughts
2. Your speech
3. Your actions

That's part of the reason we have scripture reading every week, it's we want to feed your mind with the word of God. We want you to be thinkingabout the word of God.

Because if you think about it, what exactly is thinking?
Thinking is nothing more than you talking to yourself. You're asking yourself questions, and you're answering your own questions.
And so if your mind is filled with the word of God, what will you be asking yourself questions about?

What will you be thinking about?

That's part of the the reason we have the weekly home cells, bcuz we want to get you talking about the word of God. You can talk to yourself, but it's actually much more powerful to share with someone else. To help clarify each others understanding. To discuss, to listen to other versionsof thought, if you will.

And obviously, at the end of the day, what do is controlled by what you think about and what you talk about.

In computing they have a saying, garbage in garbage out, meaning that what you put in is what you get out.

Now people are not computers, I get it. But the same rule applies. What you put in your mind, what read, what you watch, what you listen to, is what you will think about.

And what you thinkabout, is what you will talk about. And what you think about and talk about is what you will do.

And as we all know, what you do, is who you become. You can deny it all you want, ormake excuses all youwant. But at the end of the day, if you lie a lot, then you are a liar. And if you steal all the time, you are a thief.

Watch what you feedyour mind. When you're on your phone, Instagram, Facebook, tiktok, MySpace, what are you feedingyour your mind?

When you read magazines, drum, you huisgenoot, shwashwi, what are you feeding your mind?

When you watch TV, listen to podcasts, movies, what are you feeding your mind?

Because remember, what you think about, is what you talk about, and what you talk about is what you end up doing. And what you do is who you become.

At the end of the day, think of your minf as a garden. If you plant apples in your garden, you will have apple trees growing in your garden. If you plant oranges, you will have oranges growing in your garden.

So now think about what you're planting in your mind...
Are planting the word of God?
Are you reading your bible?
What are you talking about?

Are you attending the home cells where we talk about the word of God?
What are you doing? Are you doing as the bible says to do?

Feed your mind.
Feed your mind.
Feed your mind.

Because what you feed your mind is what you think about. What you think about, is what you will talk about. And you think about and talk about is who you become.