00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 3rd December 2015 Positive thinking or Christ thinking? Positive thinking or Christ thinking? Brothers and sisters, again today let’s remind ourselves that I’m
humble. We get grace from God. God opposes the proud.

00:23 We can call ourselves Christian if we are proud. God opposes us. Why? He knows we’re going to put ourselves in trouble.

00:30 He cannot allow proud. Proud was the first Pride is the first sin ever in the universe. Not the Adam and Eve sin.

00:39 Pride. Pride is the first sin. And it came from Lucifer who became Satan finally because of his own pride.

00:46 Brothers and sisters, humble grace, Proud, opposed. So what is proud again as reminder? Ourselves and anything that we do not want to use the Word of God. We do not want to submit to the Word of God that is Jesus Christ.

00:56 We do not want to lean on the Word of God, that is leaning on Jesus Christ who is the word of God, who is depending on him, trusting him, adhering to his prescriptions, authoritative prescriptions as the Bible says. Hebrew interpretation says one is
keep my commandments, if you love me, keep my commandments. And the commandments are interpreted as one aspect is authoritative prescription.

01:24 It’s prescription for us. So those of us who our heart will want to be proud, get it straight. Our heart will want to be proud.

01:32 But we know Jesus already told us our hearts are treacherously wicked. Who can know it now? Our spirit man must control our heart. These are fundamentals that we need to go through from time to time.

01:46 Because this thing slowly creeps up our heart and mind slowly creeps up at and takes over. For instance, if anyone thinks himself be something when he’s nothing, he deceives himself. These scriptures are all repeatedly put in the emails that come to
you.

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02:05 Those of you who are joining new, please go to the graceoflife.com and go to the page the section of power of Christ and begin to choose the things that are important to you because some of it may not make sense because this is 180something segment.
So we are going ahead and talking and teaching believing that the fundamentals have been settled in your souls. Now the other one is if you think you know something, you do not know anything yet as you ought to know.

02:50 So therefore don’t deceive ourselves. Brothers and sisters, these are Many fundamental scriptures examine ourselves. God tells us to examine ourselves.

02:59 And I tell ourselves to examine ourselves in the bed before going to sleep. Brothers and sisters, today, the power of Christ daily. Positive thinking or Christ thinking.

03:08 Obviously, when a question is posed like that, Positive thinking or Christ thinking, everybody will answer. Christ thinking. But let’s look in detail.

03:18 True is Christ thinking, but what is wrong with positive thinking? What is wrong with positive thinking? Now, brothers and sisters, positive thinking has its own set of problems. Simply because it doesn’t consider one, it doesn’t consider other
factors. You can take something and begin to think positively.

03:40 And then to a point it will work. To a point it will work. But it doesn’t consider other factors.

03:45 That’s why it will finally fail. Therefore, if all positive thinkers finally failed in other areas of their life, maybe in that particular area something good is happening, but that’s not going to solve. We need a wholesome life, a holistic life.

03:58 God put us here as ambassadors for Christ so that we are looking at eternity. Positive thinking doesn’t definitely look at eternity. Now, positive thinking, the issue is, for instance, it doesn’t consider factors like our hearts are treacherously
wicked.

04:15 It doesn’t. And finally, it doesn’t consider that major big, as they say in English, the elephant in the room. Satan came to steal, kill and destroy.

04:24 The ruler of the world is Satan. It doesn’t consider that at all. It has no knowledge of that.

04:30 Because of that, the devil allows all your positive thinking. Carry on, carry on. And when the time comes, the devil comes and steals, kill and destroy.

04:38 It’s out to destroy souls. It starts stealing from us. So you can be positive thinking.

04:43 Positive thinking. Positive thinking to pass an exam, let’s say a positive thinking. And then before you reach the exam, there’s an accident and you can’t even reach the exam.

04:52 How’s that for positive thinking? Only Jesus Christ can keep you safe right to the examination. Because He’s a creator, all things under his feet. He has all things under his control.

05:02 He has power to deal with all things. So therefore, positive thinking cannot solve the problem. Christ thinking.

05:10 Now. Christ thinking. Now let’s look at this.

05:13 First of all, let’s look at some scriptures and let’s see some examples of how positive thinking can go wrong. For instance, take positive thinking example. Let us say, and I’ve done this, me and my wife before marriage, of course, we had this heart
because we were not following Christ, we are following a religion.

05:32 And when we are becoming more and more demonized, she was becoming more and more religious. Religion cannot Solve our problem. Only Jesus Christ can because he is the only one who died and rose again and gave us power.

05:44 But to solve our problem, we must get to Jesus the Christ, the son of the living God. Now so in marriage, let’s say somebody thinking for marriage and positive thinking, I want a girl like this, like this, like this will take care of me who take
care of this and that. And then forgetting what not Christ thinking, positive thinking.

06:05 I want the girls. I want a beautiful girl. I want a girl who take care of me.

06:09 And some people, you know, some people think they want a girl like their mother. Don’t do this, brothers and sisters. God has a plan for you to have a perfect wife for your match.

06:16 Now then, having said that, that applies to even girls. They want their future husband like the Father. Don’t do that, don’t do that.

06:28 The Father loves you. Yes, but you want a husband who God gives. A God fearing man who’s a Christian through and through.

06:38 Not selectively, not just choosing to follow Christ here and there, but fully in Christ, knowing Christ is the only way. You want a husband who will submit to the word of God, who leans on the word of God, who leans on Jesus Christ. Now let’s say
this future, this man looking for a wife like that, you know, take care of me, this and that.

06:59 Now positively thinking, the positive thinking the secret will tell you. Think of the kind of woman you want. Lies.

07:07 It’s not true, brothers and sisters. Then what happens? But actually Christ’s thinking will be what Christ’s thinking will be that you the marriage is what you will love your wife as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for it. That’s a
command to future husbands and husbands.

07:27 Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for it. Now instead of this man, including me, never thought about giving myself up for of course I thought of protecting her and all that. Because I loved her very much.

07:41 So I thought of protecting her. Having children of my marriage, my wife, I’ll take care of her. All that we had, but actually finally can’t do.

07:49 Isn’t it why the devil came to steal, kill and destroy? And our treacherous heart pulled me by my own self and committed adultery and all these other rubbish that came along with it. Now more importantly, Christ thinking will be thinking of how you
will be a good husband as according to Christ’s word. Now girl, a girl.

08:08 I want a handsome boy who takes care of me, who loves me, who provides for me and all that. Maybe you know, if you’re in the World, you are looking at all the worldly things. But what is Christ thinking is? Christ’s thinking is that you submit to
your husband as you submit unto Christ.

08:26 That one many girls are not thinking about before getting married. Now, when they are positively thinking the other way around, what happens? Finally, the marriages break. They may stay married because of culture and pressure from the peers and all
that.

08:40 They may together as married, but the marriage already broken. The many, many marriages are like that. They’re actually broken.

08:48 They don’t have the relationship that Jesus Christ ordained, but they are together. And so people think they’re married for so many years. Fantastic.

08:57 You know, they take care of each other. That’s a fallacy because you’re looking not in the spirit, you’re looking in the kernel, in the Spirit. What could have happened is they could have actually no more, no more relationship.

09:09 They just playing out their marriage, living out their marriage to the end of their days. That is not the thing what Jesus Christ done for me and my wife. This marriage, our marriage, my marriage has been transformed into something that I cannot
believe, I couldn’t imagine because I had my own facet of how marriage should be.

09:31 Now in Christ, Christ makes it happen. But that can only happen because I decided that Jesus says, this wall is black. When it is looking white to my eyes, I will say it’s black.

09:44 I want to obey. I’m willing to obey. That’s how your marriages can become perfect.

09:50 When you don’t expect your wife to change or your husband to change, you change. You change, sister. You change, brother, according to Christ’s precepts.

09:59 So when you obey Christ Lord, this world, I know you said it’s black, but I can see why my eyes are playing tricks on me. I command my eyes to now look at the spiritual, look at the things above and know it is black. Because Jesus Christ cannot tell
lies.

10:17 He is the truth. It is impossible for him to lie. In Jesus name I pray.

10:22 This is the way you pray and follow Christ. Now, there is a scripture in Ephesians 3, 1921, which says something like, the love of God surpasses all understanding. And then at the same time, what he does is he will do for us more than we can ask or
think.

10:41 And some translation will say, imagine more than he ask or think or imagine. Now, positive thinking will only do what you think or imagine. But Christ thinking, now let’s read the scripture is going to do much, much more than we can ever imagine
Christ thinking in Ephesians 3, 1921amplified.

11:01 I am reading and that you may come to know practically through personal experience the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience. In Ephesians 3:19 says you come to know the love of God which surpasses all understanding
of knowledge. But that is without experience, not just knowledge which you must pass that we must know the love of Christ through experience.

11:29 Not just without experience, but just head knowledge that you may come to know this Apostle Paul praying We come to know practically through personal experience. So we have to go personal experience to know this love of God. That means you must not
make a stand.

11:43 When Jesus says do something, you make a stand and do that. Although your heart and mind something else and people around you are telling something else, you made a stand. And when you make a stand in Christ and you see the miracle happen, then
you’re experiencing the love of Christ for you.

11:59 That is far beyond knowledge that you may be filled. Why that you may be filled throughout your being to all the fullness of God. Now when you begin to know the love of Christ not just merely by knowledge, but by experience, you will be filled
throughout your being to all the fullness of God so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself.

12:29 20 now to Him who is able to carry out his purpose, whose purpose? Jesus Christ. To him who is able to carry out his purpose and do super abundantly more than all that we dare ask, ask or think infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, greatest hopes
or greatest dreams, according to his power that is at work within us now. Very critical.

12:56 It says to him who Jesus Christ, who carry out purpose, is able to carry out purpose and to do super abundantly more than all that we dare ask or think or imagine, infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, infinitely beyond our greatest hopes,
infinitely beyond our greatest dreams according to his power that is Jesus power that is at work within us. Can you imagine, brothers and sisters? So this is a powerful thing. So in Jesus Christ thinking will bring us to much, much more than your
positive thinking and be protected from the devil even because you cast out Christ thinking will cast out the devil in Jesus name.

13:27 Christ thinking will make you humble. You won’t have opposition. Christ thinking will use the word of God and the name of Jesus Christ.

13:43 Your heart and mind will change and will be flooded with God. You’ll be flooded. Every cell will be flooded with God himself.

13:49 Now this is Christ thinking. Now. 2nd Corinthians 10:3 5.

13:54 I’m reading from Catholic version. Indeed we live as human beings, but we do not wage War according to human standards. For the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds.

14:09 We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God. And we take every thought captive to obey Christ. This is a very important scripture.

14:20 Why positive thinking will not consider 2nd Corinthians 10:3 5 because 3 to 5 dealing with the supernatural. The spiritual element of our warfare. The warfare is not flesh and blood.

14:33 We are not fighting human beings. We are fighting spiritual forces. I’ll read that now in Amplified to get a greater explanation.

14:41 For though we walk in the flesh as mortal men, we are not carrying on our spiritual warfare according to the flesh and using the weapons of men. Do not fight with men. Love them.

14:55 Love every human being. It’s not a human being thing. The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy.

15:00 They are captives themselves. We supposed to love all, including our enemies. If you want to be sons of the Most High God.

15:06 So we do not get into this. We get into the spiritual warfare. The weapons of our warfare four are not physical weapons of flesh and blood.

15:15 For our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. Strongholds. What are the strongholds in the mind? Our way of thinking has to change.

15:23 Our thinking is carnal, worldly. We are destroying sophisticated arguments. We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God.

15:36 And we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ. We have to crush every thought, positive thought even, which is not positive. Every thought has been crushed that is not of God.

15:49 Every stronghold, every mind, stronghold, beliefs, false beliefs, all have to be crushed and brought to obedience, subject to the word of God. Only then we can have a good life. Positive thinking by itself is not going to cut it.

16:02 It’s not going to solve it. For instance, positive thinking can easily tell you. Wicked heart will say, I’ll be Robin Hood.

16:09 I’ll steal from the rich and give the poor. But you know that is wrong. But your positive thinking can change.

16:15 Can go and do that because your heart says this is the right thing. The world is terrible. My boss is cheating people.

16:22 So I will steal and help the poor for sisthinking. But it will kill you. Brothers and sisters.

16:29 Bring every thought subjection to the word of God. Get to Christ thinking and you will end up getting more than you can ever imagine. More than your prayers, more than all that.

16:39 Because he loves you. He loves you so. More than what you can ask, more than you can dare to think.

16:46 Will all provide for you. If you get to Christ thinking, brothers, in Jesus name I pray, get to Christ thinking, use these two scriptures again and again. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.