This is such an AMAZING message given by Joel Osteen today! I am so happy that somebody posted this message on YouTube so that I could share it with all of my readers. I have typed a transcript of the first 7 minutes of this message for all of my international readers who need to use Babel Fish to translate. Allow this message to inspire you to transform your mind thereby transforming your LIFE! Always remember, YOU ARE a child of the Most High God. YOU ARE God's perfect Creation!
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I want to talk to you today about detoxing your mind. We hear a lot about detoxing our physical bodies and how there can be chemicals in the food that are harmful, bacteria can build up, even pesticides in the air. Many people don't realize it, but their bodies are full of these these harmful toxins. That's what is causing them to feel bad. Most experts will recommend that you go through a DEEP cleansing. Where you put yourself on a fast, you eat a certain diet, staying away from everything harmful and overtime you can rid yourself of those toxins and begin to feel much better.
In the same way there all kinds of toxins that can build up in our mind. When we go around dwelling on the wrong thoughts. Thinking about what we can't do and how somebody hurt us and how we'll never get ahead. Those thoughts are toxic thoughts. Toxic thoughts left alone become like toxic waste. It will eventually contaminate our whole life. It affects our self image. It affects our attitude, our level of confidence. It becomes a part of who we are.
That's why it says in Proverbs 4:23 'Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do'. The writer is saying making guarding your mind a priority. Put this at the top of your to-do list. Because if your mind gets polluted, your whole life is going to be polluted. You probably know people right now that are bitter, cynical, they always expect the worse, they have a sour attitude. Why is that? They've allowed these toxic thoughts to take root. Now they've become strongholds that are poisoning their future.
What's the solution? They need to go through a detoxification. Not a physical cleansing, but a mental cleansing. The only way they are going to get free, the only way they are going to get back to the way God made them to be, is to detox their mind. Some of you today need to detox the bitterness, detox low self-esteem, detox the negative words spoken over you, detox condemnation from past mistakes.
How do we detox? You make a decision you are not going to dwell on it anymore. You have to starve those toxins. Everytime you dwell on a negative thought, that condemnation, that bitterness, that low self-esteem, you are feeding it you are giving it new life you are making it stronger. When those thoughts come saying, you are never going to get well you heard what the doctor said or you're never going to be happy you've been through too much you're never going to accomplish your dreams.
Instead of dwelling on it, just turn it around and say NO I'm NOT going there. I'm NOT dwelling on who hurt me. I'm NOT dwelling on my past mistakes. I'm NOT dwelling on what I don't have. I'm going to dwell on what God says about me and God says I'm forgiven. God says He'll pay me back double for every unfair thing that has happened. God says my BEST days are still out in front of me. If you'll ignore the toxic thoughts and keep your mind filled with thoughts of faith, thoughts of victory, those toxic thoughts will get weaker and weaker and before long they won't have any affect on you.
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