Three Important Life Choices

What you See is what you Get is typically how we are taught to perceive life, but perhaps just the opposite would be closer to the truth...."What you Get is what you See"!!!  What we get out of life(Or Results) depends a lot on what we choose to think, what we choose to declare and how we choose to conduct ourselves.

Do you live your life on the premise of "I'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT" or I'LL SEE IT WHEN I BELIEVE IT"?  The former philosophy fosters a pessimistic outlook while the latter fosters an optimistic outlook.  What we choose to base our point view on will determine whether we are a pessimist or optimist.

Facts say one thing....Truth says another!!  The bible says...."You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free".It didn't say "facts" will make you free, but "truth"!!! In this life we are taught to only believe the facts, but there is something that trumps fact and that is truth.  The fact of a matter does not necessarily determine the outcome of a matter.  Truth is constant, fact is variable.  The factual circumstances of your life may not be good right now but the truth is Jeremiah 29:11...."For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for provision and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope".  If we live by the "I'll believe it when I see it" philosophy we may never see it, but if we live our life on "I'll see it when I believe it" we already have the truth of God's promise even though it hasn't materialized.

Check out this incredible passage of scripture and allow it to speak life into your circumstance...II Corinthians 4:16-18....though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. (Did you see the fact and truth in that statement? The fact is that this life is corrupt and decaying but the truth is our spirit man is getting better day by day!!!)
For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, (Again, the fact is, in this life we will have affliction but the truth is our affliction can work in our favor.) while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal,but the things which are not seen are eternal.  (Now, notice the fact here is the things we see now are only gonna last for awhile, but the truth is the things we can't see with our eyes are eternal. So, even though we may be going through difficult times, we don't have to base our future on the difficult.  The truth will eventual overcome the facts of our circumstances as long as we choose to believe it even though we don't see it!!!

Three Important Life Choices
1. Take on a New Mind.....In scripture we are instructed to "Let this mind be in your which was also in Christ Jesus".  The fruit of your life will be what you choose to think about..... as a man (chooses) to think in his heart, so is he.   We are the sum total of our thoughts!!  Romans 12:2 gives us a clue in how to transform our life...."Be transformed by the renewing of you mind"  Begin to see yourself as a child of God and take on the mental image He has of you.  Instead of thinking God is mad at you, think about how much He loved you by giving Jesus Christ to the Cross.  Instead of thinking you've blown it and God has it in for you, start thinking about God's Mercy that is new every morning.  Instead of thinking you'll never make it start thinking about the way the truth and the life we have in Christ!!!
2. Take on a New Tongue......Life and death is in the power of the tongue, which simply means that what we say about ourselves and others has great impact.  Start by changing what you say about yourself. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, we are the Apple of God's eye. What I say about myself should be in accordance with my Position not my Condition.  Even though my current condition may be one of need, my position with God according to Ephesians 2:6 is..... an elevated position with Him and seated with Him in Christ Jesus. So, based on this we declare "I am what God says I am, I can do what God says I can do, and I can have what God says I can have". Once we take on a renewed speech about ourselves we can then focus on what we say about others.  As long as you have a poor image of yourself it will be very difficult for you to say good things about somebody else.
 3. A New Conduct.....In order for our conduct to change we have to first choose to do numbers one and two. I'm not advocating that you can change your behavior and conduct by just thinking it or talking about it. The new way of thinking and speaking that I am talking about is a result of us first taking on the mind of Christ which in turn will affect the way we talk. When we get our Mind Right, and when we get our Tongue Right, our Conduct will get right!!!  NEW MIND+NEW THOUGHT+NEW DECLARATION=NEW CONDUCT, which in turn produces NEW RESULTS!!!!!

Blessings,

Terry Baker