When we “believe” anything of our own making instead of
asking God to show us the pure truth of His Word, we experience the harvest of
all those things at some point in our lives.
And we daily experience what we are “believing” and thinking.
I made the word “believe” in quotations, but I am really
speaking of unbelief or false thinking a/k/a lies. Last devotion I wrote about thinking upon the
words of God concerning receiving the “engrafted Word” which is able to save
your souls.
Yesterday I heard a powerful teaching from a brain research
doctor who is a Christian and has been for many years. God dropped in her heart those many years
ago, a desire to study the human brain.
Through her research she found the wondrous workings of this organ but more
importantly, that the brain functions according to the spirit of a person.
In other words she states from a scientific fact that the
brain functions and is shaped according to thoughts and is directly linked to
thinking – the mind of the spirit.
Now we all know that a spirit of a person can be dead in
trespasses and sins. (Ephesians 2:1, 2). We also all know that the brain can
have aptitude, intelligence levels, and that a person can be educated. The brain though by itself, cannot give a
person pure motives or true love, which this comes only from God. Therefore with all the advancements of
technologies, etc., a person can still be overtaken by greed and selfishness
because of sin, no matter how highly intelligent they are.
This then, makes every human being subject to problems of
how the brain ultimately is shaped – for if the spirit of a person is not
rooted and grounded in Christ and is knowing Him and His Word, their end is
definitely still, eternal death. Even
the child of God can be born again but have an unrenewed mind, ultimately
suffering in ways God never intended, because of not understanding His Words of
Life nor being willing to let God be the True Teacher in all things.
So for the Christian – the child of God, this is where I
find her research a most fascinating reality.
And it is truly something I have been working on all my life, without
this present knowledge of scientific collaboration. By the way this doctor says that the brain
can change according to the renewal of the mind. It has been scientifically proven that the
brain structure does change when a person thinks differently.
If “indents” were made because of repeated thinking in a
certain way, resulting in negative reactions to the human body, she states that
through God’s Word, renewal to Truth and the Holy Spirit, that even the brain structure
changes in accordance with this true thinking, therefore affecting the human
body in positive ways.
It makes me think that God knew all about this before man
made the microscope. (Even this came from Him).
For in Proverbs God had Solomon pen, “As a man thinks, so is he.”
It all goes back to the Gift of God He has given us when we
received Christ Jesus as our Savior and Lord.
This gift is none other than the Holy Spirit Himself who was sent by the
Father to lead and guide us into ALL Truth. He alone is the agent who brings
this renewal of mind and spirit to all of our thinking and ways.
It is through Him we will find the true knowledge of the Son
of God, communion and true fellowship as we believe that Christ has paid the
price through His cross and blood for us to do so.
Even John the Beloved Apostle penned by God, “And truly our fellowship is with the Father
and with His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Fellowship and speaking with God continually, humbling
receiving His Word of Life and Truth as taught by His Spirit in us (through our
dependence on Him), is definitely the true way to a genuinely renewed mind
resulting in LIFE and PEACE, even to the human body.
As Paul the Apostle penned in Hebrews, “Let us not neglect so great a salvation.”
Pressing on to a greater harvest,
Sue Gaither
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