Day 14

Today we.re fasting from the thought that says:

"Its no use."

These thoughts go with it: "I might as well give up." "It doesn't work for me."

This is wrong thinking. It's a mindset that will defeat you. Some people think this way until it becomes a disease. We 'dis-ease' ourselves with defeatist thinking. Winners don't think like that. People don't want this kind of spirit around them.

Overcome this today by taking these steps!
Go into partnership with God, where you cannot fail. Psalm 124:2 says "The Lord is on your side!" This is not religion. This is common sense. You cannot fail when you awaken to the fact that He walks with you!


Recognize the problem exists for you to conquer it. When things go wrong, and money is short, or you lost your job, find out what is wrong and conquer it. Numbers 13:30 says "We should by all means go up and possess the land, and conquer it!"


Get understanding. Proverbs 3:15 says, "She (understanding) is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire compares to her." Ask for it, and God will always give it. Evaluate what you have, and use it!


It does work for you. It works for anyone. Remember, Jesus said in Mark 11:23, "Whosoever will say to this mountain, 'Be removed and cast into the sea', and does not doubt, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted!." THINK this marvelous promise. BELIEVE this marvelous promise!


Stop waiting for opportunity to come. Stop thinking that you don't have the opportunities that others have. Fight the fight of faith, and don.' GIVE UP until opportunity SHOWS UP! Do it regardless of your feelings.
THINK IT & SPEAK IT:

I give up, giving up. I am in partnership with God. He is on my side. Therefore I cannot fail.

My problems don't devour me. I eat them for lunch! I have the spirit of might and power.

I will conquer my problems in every way, and by every means. God gives me understanding, which is true wealth.

Things DO work out for me. They work out for whosoever believes! And I'm a believer, not a doubter.

Opportunity comes to me, because I expect it to. I will not waver, give up or quit until God-ordained opportunities come to me!

Day 13

Today we're fasting from a "victim" mentality.

This includes thoughts that say, "It's their fault." "I was mistreated." "If someone gave me a break, I could make it too." "It's the government's fault." "It's how I grew up." "It's not my fault.", etc.

Viktor Frankl survived the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by defining ultimate freedom as the ability "to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to chose one's own way."

The worst prison in the world is the one we put ourselves in - in our mind. Mindsets and victim mentalities strip us of the power God has given us to rule our lives in victory.

This is a thought we need to take time and care to dismantle.

Let's go:

1. No one can keep you in your current situation except you. We must begin TODAY to accept total responsibility to become victors, not victims.

2. People may have had something to do with how you got in the situation, but only YOU can decide whether you stay in the situation.

3. The "victim" mentality ends when we TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY for our attitude and direction in life. Deuteronomy 30:15, 19 says, "See, I have set before you this day, life and prosperity and death and adversity...so choose life, that both you and your descendants might LIVE (the victorious, abundant, God-kind-of life)."

4. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you. Full responsibility doesn't mean, we're in it, alone. God is on our side and He will help us. It's natural to look for help - but let's get it from God. John 16:13 says the Holy Spirit is "Our Helper"! When you have His help, you don't need to blame anyone for anything! We blame when we're helpless - but we're NOT!

5. Understand the root word of "responsibility" is response. We may not be able to control everything that others do to us, but we can control our RESPONSE. In our response lies our freedom and our growth!

6. Don't give away your power. We give away our power to live in victory, health and success - when we allow others to determine how we RESPOND. We have the power to choose; the power to forgive; the power to recover; the power to overcome anything. When we blame others, we give away that power to them.

7. TAKE CHARGE OF WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU. The master said to the servant who hid his talent: "Why didn't you at least invest my money so I could have received interest?" (Matthew 25:24-27) He blamed the master, and excused himself. As a result, he fell to the temptation of resentment and fear. He lost everything because he had a victim mentality. THINK IT & SPEAK IT:

No one can keep me down.

I am not a victim. I am a victor. I take full responsibility for my responses in life - my attitudes and my decisions.

God has set before me prosperity or adversity. He has given me the power to choose. I choose prosperity!

Holy Spirit, I am asking for your help. You live in me, and you are my Helper! I refuse to give away my power by blaming others. I choose to respond to life with God's Word.

I take responsibility for my thoughts, my actions and my REACTIONS. I abandon the idea that my situation is the fault of anyone else.

I am an overcomer. I am more than a conqueror through God's great love.

Day 12

Today's thought that we.re fasting from is: "I'm not that smart'"

("I'm not smart enough." "Everyone seems to figure it out except me", etc.)

Some may think this is not that important, but make no mistake, this thought permeates our thinking and keeps us limited in what we can do, and what influence we can have.

It's another thought that the devil uses to try to make us feel inferior.

Most media and institutions of "higher learning" are not as smart as they think.

Think about how the media reports on politics, health and the economy. Who understands what they're saying? I don't think they do! This world's system is designed to make you feel you don't know enough about what's going on, so you will be dependent on what they say you should think, feel and do.

If you're born-again, you are brilliant! YOU HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. His mind is far smarter than the smartest businessmen, educators, politicians and newsmakers of this life. And you have His mind!"

Let's abstain from the thought: "I'm not that smart." We're giving it up for the rest of our lives beginning today! Now let's replace it:

1. You have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:14.)

You have the ability to see things the way God sees, understand the way He understands, and choose the way He would choose. STOP listening to any thought otherwise.

2. EXPECT wisdom today. James 1:5-6 says, "If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men generously; but let him ask in faith without doubting".

3. Psalm 16:7 "my mind instructs me in the night." Friends, you are so smart that your mind is even teaching you while you're sleeping!

4. If you ever feel foolish or less educated than the mentally "elite", remember: "He takes the foolish things to confound the wise."

5. Don't think small anymore; and don't talk small. You are made in the image of God, with His intelligence, His brilliance, His understanding.

THINK IT & SPEAK IT:

I have the mind of Christ. I think His thoughts and understand His ways!

I will never again submit to the thought that "I'm not that smart" or "I can't figure it out." I am smart and I can figure it out.

I expect wisdom today and I expect MY MIND TO INSTRUCT ME IN THE NIGHT! I make wise and intelligent decisions.

I will never again be intimidated by the mentally "elite." I am made in His image, filled with His intelligence, His brilliance and His understanding.

Day 11

Today we're fasting from the thought that says: "Don't get your hopes up".

This mindset has subtly found its way into our heads. We have been trained by doubt and unbelief to lower our expectations--to brace ourselves for mediocrity and status quo.

To hope is to look up-to have expectation! To hope is to live. Hope is like oxygen. It's like light-in a dark and negative world.

Proverbs 13:12 says: "hope deferred makes the heart sick." There are many great truths from this scripture.

When hope is "put off to the side", your heart becomes sick. When your hopes are "dashed to the ground", your heart becomes sick. Most importantly, your heart becomes sick when you STOP hoping. Hope HEALS!

Let's fast from this thought and replace it with these:

1. GET YOUR HOPES UP. No matter what. Ps. 78:7 "That they might set their hope in God."

2. KEEP THEM UP. I John 3:3 FIX your hope on Him, and it will purify you.

3. When you don't see something happening, hope even more. The fact that you don't see it, gives hope a reason to remain alive in your heart. Once you have something and see it, you don't need to hope for it anymore. It's when you don't see it, that your hope has a reason to exist.

4. Get Faith. Faith is not like hope. Faith cannot be deferred. Faith is a tangible force. It is substance. If you are exercising faith, no one will be able to tell you that God's promise will not come to pass. All fear and doubt pass away and you will be thoroughly convinced of God's promise in your life. There are no ups and downs, just a knowing and a sense of his presence. Faith will overcome all opposition. Faith is the fulfillment of your hope; it is the tree of life. Romans 15:4 "Hope comes from the encouragement of Scripture." And Romans 10:17, "faith comes from hearing the Word".

5. Meditate on the love of God. Hope that IS NOT DEFERRED (delayed, or disappointed) comes from Love. Romans 5:5 "...and hope does not disappoint (or leave you with shame), because the love of God has been shed abroad in your heart."

6. Free yourself from people who think they're doing you a favor by "managing" your expectations, or "protecting" you from disappointment. Get around hopers and dreamers and people who are filled with expectation!

7. THINK IT & SAY IT: My hopes are up! I eliminate the notion of lowering my expectations. I refuse to accept people's advice to "not get my hopes up". I get my hopes up NOW and I keep them up. I expect God's promises to come to pass in my life today! I expect good to come to my life today-In my family, in my home, in my church, in my job, in my relationships, in my body and in my finances. I expect ideas, favor, and wisdom. I look up, expecting to receive the best of what God has for me today. I have unlimited and unhindered hope and expectation.

Day 10

Today we are fasting from the thought that says:.That.s just the way I am..

One of the things that limits us and keeps us defeated is the opinion we have of ourselves. Over time, what other people think of us begins to shape our view of ourselves and what we.re capable of.

"He's shy." "She's stuck up." "He's all talk." "She's not the sharpest knife in the drawer."

We often end up living up to the very opinions and expectations that others have had of us, because it has kind of conditioned us.

Or we feel, .I.ll always be average.. .I.ll always be overweight.. .I.m capable of only making .x. amount of money.. We.re limited by our self-imposed expectations of ourselves.

Today, we are breaking out of the limitations and boundaries we, or others, have put on us. That may have been the way you were, but that.s not the way you are.

1. First of all, He is the potter and we are the clay. (Jeremiah 18:1-6)

God is working on you, to make you what He wants you to be. Trust the Artist to make a masterpiece. Be flexible and adaptable. See yourself as a GOOD work in progress.

2. Philippians 1:6 says, "He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ." Withhold judgment of yourself (or others). Don.t pre-judge what your capacity is, what your potential is.

3. Jeremiah 18:4 says, .the clay was marred, so He made it again.. God doesn.t throw you out. HE NEVER GIVES UP ON YOU.

4. You are changing as you are reading this!

Whatever flaws you have, they are not the final sentence. You are NOW being conformed to the image of Jesus! (Romans 8:29)

Think it & Say it:

I am unlimited in my ability to grow and change.

I am unlimited in my ability to grow and change.

I am what God says I am.

He began a good work in me, and He will finish it.

He is making me into something GOOD.

I am workmanship--His work of art.

I am not in bondage to my weaknesses and former limitations.

Every day and every moment that passes is making me more and more like Him.

Older every day

Ok, I know it is a fact of life, but geesh.
I watch my friends who keep getting older every day and every once in awhile the realization that I have to catch up with them slaps me in the head and sometimes I just am not ready to get that old.

can you tell I have another birthday approaching soon?

I mean really.
Some of these people are old. A couple of friends are only a few months older than myself but I am not old.
Yeah, my body is not the same as it was 5 or 6 yrs ago, I concede to that.
Yeah, I could lose a few pounds and have a better shaped body. But I don't have all the vain thoughts I had back a few years ago. All I want to do now is be healthy.
I want to be of sound mind. (praying all the time I don't end up forgeting who my loved ones are later in life.)
I also worry about my retirement.
I can legally retire in , oh, ok, 3 years.
Can't though, cause those little notices you get twice a year says I have not made enough money to retire with out worry.
Now I can retire when I am 70 and live pretty decent in today's economy, but what will it be like in 12 years?
Someone said the other day, that immigrants who are tax exempt are to be receiving some decent money for retirement from our benefits.
I have tried very hard since my last political rally back when they tear-gassed us so badly at the Pentagon,I have sincerely kept my mouth shut,tried to stay out of politics and not voice my opinions, but I am just about ready to get back on the band wagon if I am not going to be respected for the hardworking funds I have put away for myself all these years.
I have been quiet long enough, I fear it is time to rattle the acid burned entities left inside the skull sitting here in the middle of my shoulders and bring it back to a radical awakening.
I am going to research this issue some more.

Day 9

<"What's wrong with me?"

Have you ever thought that? Who hasn.t? We have all had our bouts with sin-consciousness.a haunting awareness of all that we do wrong, and all that is wrong about us.

We are going to crush this thinking today!

The first problem with this thinking is: it is "me-centered. not .Jesus-centered." It's selfish. We are called to LOOK to Him.the Author and Finisher of our faith. In Hebrews 12:1 God says, "look up" not "look within."

Another problem with this thinking is that it's OBVIOUS! There are many things wrong with all of us. We're flawed people from a natural point of view, but not in God.s eyes. But thinking "what's wrong with me" breeds perfectionism, self-centeredness, obsessive introspection and condemnation for our flaws and shortcomings. (Of course, we need to admit our weaknesses, and receive God.s forgiveness and strength.)

But it starts with developing a "righteousness consciousness", rather than a "sin consciousness".

The constant awareness of our "falling short" is where the devil and religion want to keep us. This keeps us defeated and limited.hemmed in by our human nature, rather than liberated through our divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4 says .Through His promises, we share in the divine nature of God and escape the corruption that is in the world through lust..

1. Understand the gift of righteousness.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says .He who knew NO sin, was made to be sin FOR US, that we would be MADE the righteousness of God.. This is the greatest EXCHANGE in human history! Jesus took our sinfulness and imparted to us His Righteousness.which means we are RIGHT in God.s eyes, not wrong. We are justified. I like the play on words here. Justified = .just if I.d. never sinned.

2. Awake to righteousness.

1 Corinthians 15:34 says "Awaken to what.s right in your life; and you will not sin." You are a child of God. You are forgiven. You are a joint heir with Jesus Christ (Romans 8:16). When God looks at you, He sees the blood He shed. He sees His Son. When God thinks of you, He thinks of a victorious, conquering, strong, powerful, wise, and holy son or daughter. He sees you as a mighty champion. The head and not the tail. Deuteronomy 28:13

Righteousness means: to stand in the presence of God as if sin had never been. To stand in His presence without a sense of guilt, shame, inferiority or condemnation.

3. Eliminate sin-consciousness.

When you are always conscious of what.s wrong, you will DO wrong. When you are always conscious of BEING the righteousness of God.you will DO right. You.ll act on the outside how you see yourself on the inside. (Whenever you think of your .wrongs., cast them upon Jesus. And remember, His .rights. are now yours!)

4. Ask the Holy Spirit to do what He does best.

1 Corinthians 2:12 says ....we have received the Spirit of God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.. Key ministry of the Holy Spirit is to REVEAL what is already yours (NOT TO REVEAL TO YOU ALL THAT IS WRONG IN YOUR LIFE).

5. Dwell on what.s right rather than what.s wrong.

THINK IT & SPEAK IT:

I decide to give up thinking about all that is wrong in my life.and I choose to think about what is right.

I am the righteousness of God, through the blood of Jesus. I stand in the presence of God without guilt, shame, inferiority or condemnation.

I awake to what.s right and believe it will lead me to a victorious life.

I am a joint heir with Jesus. When God looks at me, He sees His blood. He thinks of me as a conquering, powerful and holy son or daughter. I will not think of myself as anything less or more than what God thinks of me!