As a Man Thinketh

This powerful message confronts us with a truth we often overlook: our thought life shapes who we become. Drawing from Proverbs 23:7, we discover that 'as a man thinks in his heart, so he is'—but this isn't about the physical organ pumping blood through our bodies. The Hebrew word 'levav' reveals something deeper: our subconscious mind, the place where our beliefs, motivations, and attitudes are stored. This is where the real battle happens. The enemy doesn't show up demanding our worship; instead, he subtly influences our thoughts, knowing that if he can control what we think, he can determine how we act. We're inundated daily with information, images, and messages designed to shape our thinking, yet we rarely take inventory of what we've allowed to download into our hearts. The comparison to a computer's hard drive is striking—we may look fine on the outside, but what's stored internally determines our true operation. This message challenges us to become people who hold thoughts captive, who refuse to let lies take root, and who actively download God's truth into our subconscious through hearing the Word, meditating on it like animals chewing the cud, and renewing our minds through the Holy Spirit. Nothing changes until our minds change, and we get to choose whether truth or lies will do the transforming.