I THOUGHT SO Part 1

Did you know that thoughts are the beginning of Everything? Yes, Everything!

You can create ANYTHING with a Thought! ANYTHING.

Everything we do, and everything we want, starts with a thought.

Even the things we don’t want, start with a thought.

It has been said that when we change our thoughts, we also change our world.

Every time we think a thought, we put action to motion! Because ALL thoughts are creative.

Every thought produces SOME result. Sometimes favorable, sometimes not.

Research has concluded that we have on average more than 50,000 thoughts a day.

That’s more than 30 thoughts every second. Most of them being carried over from yesterday.  

We are all here because of a thought.  A thought from God.

God cast an image from His thoughts into the Earth, and that thought became you, and me.

The prophet Jeremiah revealed that God still thinks about us, “For I know the thoughts and plans that I think toward you, says the Lord. Thoughts and plans for your wellbeing, to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

Thoughts are the most valuable assets ever, because they can create anything.

The Atomic bomb was a thought, Polio vaccination was a thought, Heart surgery was a thought.

We’ve likely all heard that life and death are in the power of the tongue. Our tongue expresses our thoughts for us. Therefore, life and death originate in our thoughts.

God’s word says that as a man thinketh so is he.

Many times we overwhelm ourselves with our own thoughts, and a good many of those thoughts aren’t productive. Then we become functionally overwhelmed. Which is obviously not good.

Each thought becomes a choice. Each choice becomes a decision. Each decision alters our life.

Sometimes we have so many decisions to make that we get Decision Fatigue.

Rather than dealing with some things we begin to avoid making a decision, which causes stress.

Have you ever been troubled by your thoughts? Have you wondered where thoughts come from?

Scientists say we don’t know how often we have troubling thoughts because there might be permanent transcripts written on our brains. Now that’s troubling!

Neuroplasticity has revealed that our brains neutrons can be altered by the thoughts we think.

We can think ourselves sick, or we can think ourselves well. Rich or Poor, Troubled or at Peace.

I have no idea of all that I am thinking about during those 50,000 times a day. Do you?

Most of us would like to think that we are living life mindfully.

Mindful of current affairs, mindful of world affairs, mindful of our community and our households. But in all that mindfulness, we might not be mindful of ourselves.

Being mindful requires us to be in the here and now. Not the past, not the future. Not the probable, or the possible, but in this Present Nowness.

Mindful of the Nowness of this very moment, and then being mindful again of the very next moment, and so on. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

Since mindfulness requires knowing our thoughts and monitoring our thoughts because thoughts are creative power. I “thought” it would be a great idea for us to take inventory of those thoughts.

Not all 50,000 of them, just maybe a few. Whatever you feel personally comfortable doing.

God is also very concerned about what we think. Here are some examples.   

…whatever is honorable, pure, lovely, and worthy of praise think on these things. Philippians 4:8

…search me God so that I can know my anxious thoughts. Psalm 139:23 

…give careful thought to the paths of your feet... Proverbs 4:26                                                          

The way I recommend we approach taking Thought Inventory is just like you would take inventory of things in your business or home.

We need to get an idea of what we have a lot of, as well as what things we’re running low on. Inventory provides us with a direct indication of how sales are going.

What things we’ve been sold, as well as what things we are trying to sell. (To Ourselves as well as to others)

In taking inventory we need to look in 3 different locations because items are stored in different places depending upon the amount of preservatives that have been added.

Some things we have set to be preserved for a long, long, time. Which is not always good.

1st we need to inventory the cabinets where we put our words. To know what we order regularly with our mouth.

Worried, Can’t, Never, Always, Little, Best, Worst, They, Them, Others, Mine, My, I, etc.

Next, we should inventory the room where we put our feelings. For ourselves as well as others. 

Angry, Hurt, Used, Judgement, Justified, Anxious, Revengeful, Entitled, Earned, Due, etc.

Lastly let’s look in the locker where we store the meat, our flesh. Our body can tell us a lot about our thoughts.

Headaches, Stiffness, Nervousness, Fatigue, Weary, Excited, Scared, Sleepy, or Sleepless, etc.

Most of us live without much awareness of our thoughts. They can be so innate that we become unaware of what they are there, and we can forget about knowing and understanding them.

The good news is now we have a tool to help us begin the process of Thought Inventory.

You can do this as little or much as you want to. Don’t get weary by this exercise.

Feel free to exchange any thoughts, anytime you don’t like it for a new one.

If we realize how powerful our thoughts are, we will never again think a negative thought.

During my conversations with people, I often ask them what they are thinking.

Over the next few conversations, we’ll be discussing whose been stealing our thoughts.

Do you know if you own your own thoughts?

“Think like your life depended on it – because it does” – Benton T Thompson III                         

                       This is a Thompson Truth