Thinking Affects Your Talking and Walking

And when God’s Spirit blows His thoughts into your mind, then the will of God must come to pass. When the Spirit of Christ moves in your life, you will no longer be manipulated through your flesh.

The thoughts of the mind are usually expressed through the words of the mouth; thus, anytime there is an expression through the mouth, there is first a thought in the spirit. Consequently, it is logical that ex-pressive people are thinking people, and if you are not thinking, you have nothing to express. We can then assume that God talks much be-cause He thinks much. And bebe-cause God has so much to tell us, He blows His thoughts into our bodies to make us living thoughts. But even though God’s thoughts are formed in man’s spirit, neither the character nor the thoughts of a man are evident until they are given ex-pression from the man.

Descartes theorized in Meditation III that it is from God’s breath that you get your ideas. Descartes believed that God caused the idea of God in his mind. As a result of his belief, he then inquired into the subject of how he received this idea from God. He came to the conclusion that this idea is innate in him; because from the moment of his creation, God imposed the idea of Himself in the mind of Descartes very much like a worker stamping his name to the product of his making.

Descartes further hypothesized that he apprehended this idea in the same intuitive way that he understood the fact of his own thinking existence. Interestingly, He did not deduce God’s existence because he knew this immediately and intuitively. Descartes then concluded,

“The contemplation of the idea of God is the source of greatest hap-piness in life. Although he admits that this is incomparably less perfect than the contemplation of God in the life to come as faith suggests, it is a fact of experience that the contemplation of God provides great happiness.”²

In comparison to what Descartes said, God is saying, “When I blow My Spirit into you, I AM going to release you from your flesh, because your flesh will kill your vision.” When we are connected to God, we can reach into the Spirit and speak the Word to break the power of the enemy all around us.

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The Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7). The Hebrew concept of “heart” is the word leb. When the word leb is used in the Bible, every immaterial function of a man is attributed to his heart: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” This refers not to his face, nor to his physicality, but to what is happening on the inside of him—in his mind.

The heart, leb, then becomes the biblical term for the totality of man’s inner or immaterial nature. In biblical literature, it is believed to be the most frequently used term for man’s immaterial personality function as well as the most inclusive term.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), a French mathematician, physicist, and re-ligious philosopher, advocated a rere-ligious doctrine that taught the experi-ence of God through the heart rather than through reason.³So the heart has its own logic and its own reasons, which may be different from those reasons derived from the senses, but they are just as valid, because our inner most thoughts come from the heart. In essence, words are the voice of the heart.

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Another Hebrew word, ruah, means “wind or breath that is spa-cious.” Ruah in the Old Testament is translated into the Greek word pneuma, and it means “air in motion”—the Holy Spirit. Considering the Day of Pentecost, the Bible says, “When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind, and it [He] filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance”(Acts 2:1-4).

In order to understand the relationship between spirit and breath, it is imperative that you understand the relationship of the Father, the Son (Word), and the Holy Spirit (wind in motion). It’s the Spirit of God who blows into your nostrils, who refreshes and brings new life to your mind. Thus, to maintain control of your mind, you have to be

connected to the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is the key; and the law of the Spirit—not a written law—is the regulated principle of the Holy Spirit.

The law of the Spirit, or in other words, the regulative principle of the Holy Spirit, which exercises control over the life of the believer, provides energy from the Spirit that gives you a desire to come out of where you are and go where the Lord wants you to go. This energy comes from the Spirit of God and blows naturally into your mind. As the Lord blows His Spirit into you, the energy from His Spirit will take you higher into the next level. The Lord will blow into your spirit until you can tell the world and satan that:

◆ I am coming out; I can’t stay in the box.

◆ I have to come out. I am tired of being restricted, held back.

◆ I am coming out of poverty, depression, and low self-esteem.

◆ I am out of the box.

◆ I will never be the same because I am moving in the power of my anointing.

◆ I am liberated.

◆ I am free.

◆ No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

You are now empowered to defeat satan and to walk according to the Spirit because the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is the same Spirit who is alive in each of us. Consequently, we are no longer restricted by the carnal mind; we are no longer under law but are now under grace; we don’t owe the flesh any favors at all, we are debtors to the Holy Spirit because Jesus conquered the grave to pur-chase our redemption; Christ Jesus did it by the power of the Holy Spirit. That same Spirit is now available to you. Thus, you have an obligation to live according to the Spirit because you are now spiri-tually minded, and “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.”

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1. John Herrin, “Yahweh, His Breath and His Word” Heart 4 God, 18 June 2003, accessed 3 December 2005; avail-able from http://heart4god.8k.com.

2. René Descartes, Discourse on Method, 108.

3. Blaise Pascal, Pensees (London, England: Penguin Group, translated 1995), 28.

The apostle Paul boldly declares to all believers, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus…” (Rom. 8:1). To you who are in Christ Jesus, God has breathed His Spirit into your soul—your mind (nephesh); and because your mind is connected to the Spirit of God, you are therefore released to God’s original intention for your life.

Consequently, your mind wants to be at home with the Spirit of God. It’s like—“E.T., go home.” You may recall the popular movie, E.T., which was released in 1982. At one point in the movie, E.T. (an alien from another planet) had nothing else on his mind but to go home. He had a very interesting and enjoyable experience while visiting Earth; he was treated very well and was taken care of. But even though E.T. was living with a loving family and was adored by the children, he still was an alien away from his original home. The planet Earth was not E.T.’s original habitat, and even after having so much fun, he wanted to go back home to his own environment.

Just like E.T., you might be saying, “I know the world is all right and there are some good things here, but there is something greater—

my home. I am not currently able to do all of the things I am capable of, but I want to reach my full potential. I want to be released from this

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