Friday, March 02, 2007

AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART SO IS HE. PERCEIVE - PERCEIVING - PERCEPTION

HOW YOU PERCEIVE A THING CAN PUT INTO BONDAGE OR SET YOU FREE. PERCEIVE: TO BECOME AWARE OF SOMETHING THROUGH THE SENSES...... SIGHT, HEARING, FEELING, TASTING, OR SMELLING. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT WHAT YOU SPEND TIME LOOKING AT AND LISTENING TOO. THERE WAS AN EXPERIMENT DONE WITH A PIRANHA FISH PLACED IN A SMALL GLASS CUBE AND SET IN THE MIDDLE OF A BIG AQUARIUM. THE AQUARIUM WAS FILLED WITH GOLDFISH. THE PIRANHA WOULD START TO GO FOR A FISH AND BUMP INTO THE GLASS CUBE SIDE . AFTER A FEW TIMES THE PIRANHA STOPPED TRYING BECAUSE HE REALIZED HE COULD NOT GET TO THE GOLDFISH. THE CUBE WAS REMOVED FROM AROUND THE PIRANHA AND HE WAS FREE TO ATTACK THE GOLDFISH AT WILL. HE DID NOT ATTEMPT EVEN ONCE TO GO FOR A GOLDFISH. HE STAYED IN HIS SPOT AS THOUGH THE CUBE WAS STILL AROUND HIM. HE DIED OF STARVATION IN A TANK FULL OF FOOD BECAUSE HIS PERCEPTION WAS THAT HE COULD NOT GET TO THE FOOD AND HE GAVE UP TRYING. NEVER GIVE UP TRYING BECAUSE YOU WILL BUMP UP AGAINST A WALL WHEN YOU START TO WALK BY FAITH IN AN AREA AND UNTIL YOU BECOME SETTLED IN YOUR HEART THAT GODS WORD IS TRUE AND TOTALLY BELIEVE AND TRUST HIM IT WILL BE LIKE THE PIRANHA IN THE CUBE. ONCE FAITH IS SOLID IN YOU IT WILL REMOVE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO OBTAIN YOUR GOAL. NEVER GIVE UP. EVEN THE DEVIL FALLS FOR THIS. HE GAVE UP ON ATTACKING JOB. JOB HAD GOTTEN INTO FEAR AND HIS PROTECTING HEDGE WAS DOWN. THE DEVIL HAD TRIED SO MANY TIMES TO GET TO HIM AND COULDN'T THAT HE GAVE UP. HE TOLD THE LORD JOB HAS A HEDGE AROUND HIM, BUT IN REALITY IT WAS NO LONGER THERE BECAUSE JOB HAD GOTTEN INTO FEAR AND OUT OF FAITH. 2nd COR. 5:7 FOR WE WALK BY FAITH NOT BY SIGHT FAITH: TRUTHFULNESS, CONVICTION, AND CONSISTENCY SIGHT: EXTERNAL APPEARANCE, THAT WHICH IS EXPOSED TO VIEW, THAT WHICH STRIKES THE EYE. WHAT IS YOUR REALITY? THAT WHICH STRIKES THE EYE. THAT WHICH IS EXPOSED TO VIEW. YOU CAN CHANGE SEEN THINGS BY BELIEVING IN THINGS NOT SEEN. WHAT YOU PUT INTO YOUR HEART WILL BE WHAT YOU BRING INTO EXISTENCE IN THIS WORLD. GOOD OR BAD. PROVERBS 23:7 AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART SO IS HE. THINKETH: ESTIMATES: TO FORM AN APPROXIMATE OPINION OF ( SIZE, AMOUNT, NUMBER, ETC. ) TO FORM AN APPROXIMATE OPINION ABOUT, A ROUGH CALCULATION BASED ON INCOMPLETE DATA. YOU CREATE YOUR WORLD FROM YOUR HEART AND WHAT IS IN IT. THAT IS THE WAY GOD MADE YOU. AS A MAN ESTIMATES IN HIS HEART FROM INFORMATION GATHERED WHETHER RIGHT OR WRONG IT WILL FORM A PERCEPTION OF HIMSELF, AND HE WILL MOVE TOWARDS THAT AND IT BECOME A REALITY IN HIS LIFE. WHEN THE 12 SPIES OF ISRAEL WENT INTO THE PROMISED LAND TO SCOUT IT OUT, THEY HAD WHAT THE LORD HAD SAID WHICH WAS TO GO IN A POSSESS IT FOR THEY WERE WELL ABLE. AS THEY WENT IN THEY GOT DISTRACTED BY THE SIZE OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVED THERE WHICH WERE GIANTS. THEY ALLOWED WHAT THEY SAW TO EFFECT THEIR JUDGEMENT. THEIR PERCEPTION WAS THAT THEY WERE AS GRASSHOPPERS IN THEIR OWN SIGHT SO THEN WERE THEY IN THE GIANTS SIGHT. AND THIS DEFEATED THEM. NEVER WALK BY WHAT YOU SEE FOR IT IS ONLY A CIRCUMSTANCE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. WHAT THE LORD SAYS WILL CHANGE THE REALITY OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN SHOULD WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE AND STAND ON IT. PROVERBS 4:20-27 NEW LIVING New Living Translation (NLT)Passage Proverbs 4:20-27: 20 My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. 21 Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, 22 for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body. 23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. 24 Avoid all perverse talk; stay away from corrupt speech. 25 Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. 26 Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. 27 Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil. VERSE 23 SAYS THAT WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART DETERMINES THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE. ONE DAY A FEW WEEKS AGO I WAS IN THE KITCHEN AND THE LORD STARTED TALKING TO MY HEART. HE ASK ME ABOUT SOMETHING THAT I HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. HE SAID,"DO YOU REMEMBER THE SIMULATOR AT THE MALL IN KANSAS CITY?" I SAID,"I SURE DO." HE WANTED TO SHOW ME SOME THINGS ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE WE ALL HAD THAT DAY AND HOW EASY IT IS TO LET OUR SENSES RULE OUR WORLD AND CHANGE THE REALITY WE LIVE IN. THIS IS THE STORY THAT HAPPENED TO US THAT DAY AT THE MALL. MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER WENT SHOPPING IN THE STORES THAT THEY LIKED, AND THE 3 BOYS AND I WENT LOOKING AROUND. WE CAME UPON A SIMULATOR. IT WAS A BIG RECTANGLE SHAPED BOX. KINDA LIKE A SMALL MOBIL HOME SETTING ON A STAND WITH HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS AND CABLES AND WIRING HOOKED TO AND COMING OUT OF IT. THESE CABLES WERE LINKED TO A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT CONTROLLED THE HYDRAULICS AND THE ELECTRONICS IN THE SIMULATOR. WE PAID 5 DOLLARS AND GOT INTO THE SIMULATOR. IT HAD A VIDEO SCREEN AT THE FRONT AND A BUNCH OF SEATING WITH A CONSOLE THAT HAD OPENINGS FOR AIR FLOW IN AND AROUND EACH SEAT. I GOT ON THINKING ..." MAKE ME THINK I'M REALLY IN THE SITUATION THEY WERE SIMULATING. " OTHERS GOT ON WANTING TO GET LOST IN THE NEW REALITIES THAT THE SIMULATOR WOULD PROVIDE. OTHERS DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. AS THE PICTURE APPEARED ON THE SCREEN IT WAS FROM THE EYE VIEW LIKE YOU WERE SEEING IT FROM YOUR OWN EYES. WE WERE ON A ROLLER COASTER AND THE SIMULATOR WAS ROCKING AND ELEVATING AND DROPPING TO THE PICTURE OUR EYES WERE VIEWING. FANS WOULD PUFF AIR ON US FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS TO MATCH WHAT WE WERE SEEING. SOON IT BECAME SO REAL ALL THE FEELINGS A PERSON WOULD NORMALLY HAVE IN THAT SITUATION FLOODED MY BODY AND MIND. THE COASTER AS IT FLEW UP A HILL CAME OFF THE TRACKS AND THE FEELING WAS SO INTENSE JUST LIKE BEING THROWN OUT INTO THE AIR AND AS YOU WERE STARTING TO FALL IT WENT INTO THE COCKPIT OF A SMALL PLANE AND YOU FELT JUST LIKE YOU WERE THERE FLYING. IT BECAME SO REAL IF YOU DIDN'T CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS YOU WOULD GET LOST IN THAT REALITY AND FEEL ALL THE SENSATIONS OF REALLY BEING IN WHAT WAS SIMULATED. YOU HAD TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX TO KEEP A FOCUS ON WHAT WAS REAL. THE TRUTH IS IT WAS A BOX AND WIRES AND HYDRAULICS AND VIDEO AND COMPUTERS. WHEN WE GOT OFF AND MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER SHOWED UP WE GOT THEM TO GO ON IT. IN THE BOX WAS NOT TRUE REALITY. AS THE SIMULATOR STARTED WE WERE WATCHING FROM OUTSIDE. THE BOX DIDN'T MOVE MORE THAT A FEW FEET ELEVATION AT THE FRONT AND MOST OF THE TIME ONLY INCHES. WE HEARD SCREAMS COMING FROM INSIDE THE BOX. I HEARD MY WIFE SCREAMING IT'S NOT REAL, IT'S NOT REAL. WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON INSIDE THE BOX ONLY WHAT WE COULD HEAR. GETTING IN A SIMULATOR YOU MAY NOT KNOW EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING TO BE SIMULATED. SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE DEATHLY AFRAID OF THINGS MAY COME ACROSS THAT VERY THING IN THE SIMULATION. YOU CANNOT GET UP AND RUN. IF YOU GET LOST IN THE SIMULATION IT CAN BE VERY BAD FOR THAT PERSON. MY WIFE SAID THE LADY BEHIND HER WAS VERY AFRAID OF ROLLER COASTERS AND EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T REAL .. IT BECAME REAL TO HER THROUGH THE DECEPTION OF HER SENSES. SHE WAS GOING INTO A CARDIAC ARREST UNTIL MY WIFE BROKE IN AND BROUGHT HER BACK TO THE TRUTH.. IT IS NOT REAL. ALL THE THINGS IN THE BOX WERE REAL BUT THEY WERE NOT THE TRUE REALITY OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO YOU. BUT YOUR SENSES LEFT UNCHECKED CAN DECEIVE YOU INTO BELIEVING THAT IT IS YOUR STATE. THAT IS WHY WE WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT. WHEN A SICKNESS OR WHATEVER IS APPEARING ON YOUR BODY OR IN YOUR BODY IT IS TRUE THAT IT IS THERE, BUT THE TRUTH IS JESUS TOOK A BEATING FOR YOUR HEALING AND BY HIS STRIPES YOU ARE HEALED. YOU MUST BELIEVE THE WORD OVER WHAT YOU SEE IN ORDER TO CHANGE THE REALITY THAT YOU HAVE. IF YOU EVER WANT TO CHECK AND SEE HOW MUCH YOU ARE LEANING ON WHAT YOU SEE JUST GET INTO A SIMULATOR AND YOU WILL FIND OUT. JOEL OSTEEN TOLD OF A MAN THAT WORKED ON RAIL CARS. THEY WERE WORKING ON SOME REFRIGERATOR CARS AND AT THE END OF THE DAY SOME HOW HE GOT LOCKED INSIDE ON OF THEM. HE GOT SO FREAKED OUT HE CLAWED THE INSIDE OF THE RAIL CAR TRYING TO GET OUT. HE HAD SCRATCHED A NOTE ON THE WALL. IT SAID THE CAR WAS TO COLD TO SURVIVE AND THAT HE WAS FREEZING TO DEATH. WHEN THEY OPENED THE CAR THE NEXT DAY HE WAS DEAD. THE AUTOPSY REVEALED THAT THE MAN HAD FROZE TO DEATH. THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THE CAR WASN'T FUNCTIONAL AND THE REFRIGERATOR WASN'T WORKING. THE TEMPERATURE IN THE CAR WAS 62 DEGREES. THIS MAN BELIEVED IN HIS HEART AND MIND THAT IT WAS WORKING AND THAT HE WAS FREEZING TO DEATH AND HE DID EVEN THOUGH THE TRUTH WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT . WHAT YOU TRULY BELIEVE YOUR HEART AND MIND PREPARES YOU TO RECEIVE. WHEN JESUS WALKED ON THE WATER AND PETER SAID LORD IF IT IS YOU BID ME TO COME. JESUS SAID COME. PETER GOT OUT OF THE BOAT IN THE STORM AND WALKED TOWARD HIM. HE WAS WALKING BY FAITH IN THE WORD JESUS SPOKE. AS HE WALKED HE WAS DISTRACTED BY THE WAVES AND THE WIND AND GOT FOCUSED ON THAT AND BEGAN TO SINK. YOUR SENSES WILL AMPLIFY THE PROBLEM TO THE POINT THAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL YOU SEE IF YOU LET THEM. THE WAVES AND THE WIND DIDN'T MATTER. IT WAS WINDY AND HUGE WAVES WERE THERE WHEN HE STEPPED OUT. HE PERCEIVED HE COULD WALK ON WATER BECAUSE JESUS SAID COME. HE DIDN'T SINK UNTIL HE ALLOWED HIS SENSES TO SPEAK LOUDER AND LET FEAR AND DOUBT IN. WE MUST NOT LET OUR SENSES CONTROL WHAT WE BELIEVE.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice Article
i Love your opinion

Aedyanto Yudiwibowo

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