You become what you think.

Picking up where we left off - Proverbs, the books of wisdom, tells us that pleasant words are SWEET to our soul and nourishment to our bones. The word nourishment in the Hebrew is the word picture of your bones taking a drink. The reverse of Proverbs 16:24 would be that unpleasant words are BITTER to your mind and emotions and dryness to your bones. The words you speak God have a profound effect on your health and wellbeing.

So how do you get pleasant words to come out of your mouth?  EASY!  You simply use the system God has designed:

You decide what to think

You entertain the thoughts you have accepted

Your heart speaks these thoughts out of your mouth

Your words begin to have their effect in your soul and body


Pleasant words come from pleasant thoughts.  The reason God told us to think on things that are true, honest, noble, lovely, praiseworthy and of good report is because, soon, those very things will be coming out of our mouths.  You become what you think.  The old adage, “You are what you eat” is true spiritually as well.  If you feed on (meditate on, entertain, rehearse, think and rethink) on those honest, lovely, noble thoughts – they become part of you and they come out of your mouth.

 As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.  The Lord tells us to think that certain way because we come what we think on.  Your enemy knows about this system of thinking, speaking, becoming and he uses it too.  The Scriptures caution us not to be ignorant of our enemy’s devices”.  The Greek word “devise” are exactly this system, but turned negative.  Your enemy is endeavoring to get you to think like he thinks, speak like he speaks and soon you will be behaving like he does.  His intention is to get to renew your mind to his way of thinking and get his disposition to be yours, thereby transforming you in to his image.  We become what we think upon.  The yucky thoughts from that kingdom of darkness, if left unchecked, weave their way into the fabric of our character.  We become critical, fault finding, judging, unforgiving, unkind, impatient, accusatory, suspicious and all the other yucky characteristics of our enemy.

 This is the tragedy of many Christian lives.  They don’t want to talk or act in those yucky mannerisms, but are forced to by what they have given place to in their minds and later, their hearts. The Holy Spirit quickened to me, "When you say what your enemy says, you get what he says, but when you say what your Savior says – you get what He says instead.