WHAT IS YOUR DEFAULT MIND?
By Pastor Peter Okaka
By Pastor Peter Okaka
Stoney Creek ON - Photo by Jok |
Everyone has a default mind. Your default mind is the dominant thought that your mind switches to when you are unguarded and "not acting" public or when you are under pressure.
A. Why is it important to know your default mind?
What you don't know can hurt you. At any point in time, there is a dominant thought on your mind whether you are aware of it or not. There is no such thing as an idle mind. A mind left to itself does not stay idle or neutral; it simply goes to work on 'whatever' it is exposed to. Meaning, the mind is at work at all times. Since the mind is directionless in it's abandoned state, it quickly degenerates into a lower state of wickedness, destruction and eventually death. Anything left to itself does not appreciate, rather it depreciates in worth. Therefore, the dominant thought on your mind is either helping or hurting your worth as a person. You need to know your default mind. If you do not know what it is you cannot deal with it.
Your default mind predicts your future. What happens to the mind consistently will happen to the man eventually. If you consistently think that you are at the mercy of your prevailing circumstances around you, you will be living with outside-in approach to life. But if you think that there is something inside you that can help you live above your external circumstances, you will live with an inside-out approach. These two lifestyles produce two significantly different results - results as different as peace and war or life and death. Therefore, our default minds predict our outcomes in life. See Romans 8:6 and Isaiah 26:3.
B. How does my default mind predict my outcome?
The mind is a thought -processing centre. Thoughts are things; they occupy tangible space on our minds and produce tangible results in our lives. Our thoughts control our behaviours and our behaviours determine our results in life. "As he thinketh, so is he" Proverbs 23:7. Consider the following:
- Our thoughts about people. If you think that someone is kind and favourably disposed to you, you will most likely be kind and favourably disposed to them. What if you think that someone does not like you, what would you most likely do when you see them? Avoid them! What brought about that physical act of attraction or avoidance? -your thinking, which of course may or may not be correct.
- Our thoughts about life experiences. Imagine that you are watching a comedy show. If you think that what you are watching is funny, you'll laugh. If you think that the joke is really funny you may continue to laugh until you fall off the chair or have tears rolling down your cheeks. Same thing applies if you were watching an horror movie. If you think that the movie is scary, your pulse rate may increase and you may even stop watching completely. In both cases, your physical responses were simply influenced by what you thought about the person or the movie.
Thinking influences behaviour and behaviour determines outcome. If your dominant thought is negative, your behaviour and results will be negative. If your dominant thought is positive, your behaviour and results will be positive.Therefore, the first thing to do in our desire to change the results we are getting is to identify our default mind or 'dominant thought' about life. And of course we cannot successfully do that without identifying who or what is influencing our thinking. Why not take some time this week to think about what you have been thinking about as well as those people and things that have been influencing those thoughts?
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From the series: "Supernatural Living" Part 4 - The Bible Way to Mastering the Mind. By Pastor Peter Okaka. FreshWater Christian House Canada
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