We can receive God’s best by learning to think like Him and bringing our thoughts into alignment with His. This allows us to learn what God’s beautiful plan is for our lives.

We eventually become what we think about and believe, which is why it’s so important to keep our focus on Jesus and not on worldly issues. If there’s ever any question or confusion over the importance of our thoughts in our Christian walk, this Scripture spells it out with perfect clarity.

God’s Word is overflowing with eternal truths; meditating on it brings us life-saving wisdom and godly understanding. Studying it establishes it in our minds and roots it in our hearts so that we’ll eventually find ourselves speaking it automatically in every situation.

There’s a connection between what we believe in our hearts and what we verbalize. If our hearts are turned toward God and our motives are pure, our speech will reflect that.

God gives us close-knit families as one way of expressing His love for us. The devil hates the family put together by God, and therefore tries to destroy it from within. We defeat the enemy by refusing to let family disagreements separate us from our loved ones.

Jesus’ birth brought God to us in human form, so that we might be reconnected to Him and inherit eternal life. All who accept the Son receive this life. 

Jesus lived according to the Spirit, not according to the flesh, which was pleasing to the Father. Everything He said and did was to glorify God. Christ in us empowers us also to be pleasing to God.

We can’t begin to approach perfection by our own actions; this is possible only through Jesus. Letting Him live inside us makes us holy, blameless, and worthy to stand in God’s presence.

Jesus is the perfect image of the Father’s love, and we’re perfected through Him. When we realize that, we won’t have to wait until we get to heaven to experience God’s best—the manifestations of what Jesus is can begin in us right now.

God has given us dominion over all He has made. Believers have the same authority as Jesus; when we command the binding or releasing of something on the earth in His name, it’s also bound or released in heaven.

Our words have the potential to transfer what already exists in the supernatural realm into the natural realm; everything we say brings consequences, either good or bad. Faith in the authority of the spoken word brings to pass in our lives either blessings or curses.

God’s benefits include all the blessings He pours on us out of His great love. Sin is a spiritual sickness; Jesus, the Great Physician, took all of mankind’s sins onto Himself when He went to the cross.

Jesus made healing available to us as one of His finished works; permanent healing is manifested when we accept His Word by faith. Neither sickness nor sin are God’s will.

There’s an amazing connection between what we think and how it affects us physically, and God didn’t make any mistakes when He designed us this way. Meditating on His Word lets His peace move through us and keeps out envy and negative emotions.

We can’t trust in our own strength, intellectual capabilities, financial expertise, college education, or in any glittery things the world values; they’ll eventually fail us. The true source of strength that won’t crumble when everything else is sinking is found only in God.

Thanksgiving is a powerful component to our prayers that makes them more effective. Earnest prayer with the right attitude comes straight from a grateful heart.

God always hears His children’s prayers. As our heavenly Father, He wants us to approach Him boldly, with no fear. This is plainly and simply stated, with no guesswork involved.

Prayer is a powerful weapon that helps us win the spiritual battles we face each day. We don’t have to be perfect to pray, we just need to have the right spirit. Prayer and healing go hand in hand; when our hearts are in our prayers, God hears us.

In painful times when it’s difficult to find the strength to carry on, the Bible gives us multiple examples of perseverance. Noah and Moses demonstrated perseverance by responding in faith to God’s Word. Believers who accepted Jesus’ message learned the reality of God’s promises when Jesus was resurrected; this gave them the courage to persevere.

It’s hard to follow through on what we know is the right thing to do when life throws challenges in our face. When we’re tempted to give up and throw in the towel, God reminds us to persevere. His promises are based on what Jesus has already done; the strength to endure comes from Him.

Reading this and all the other promises God makes to us in the Scriptures reveals that He only wants good for us. Life can be a confusing puzzle, but when we study and meditate on His Word, all the puzzle pieces begin to fall into place. The big picture He envisions for us is overwhelmingly joyful.

Letting ourselves become more concerned about what others think than what God thinks makes us less effective as Christians. When we’re spreading the Gospel of Grace, the world will disapprove and hate us the same way it hated Jesus during His earthly ministry; however, we can’t worry about others’ opinions of us.

We aren’t accidents that just evolved; God, Himself, deliberately made us in His own image. We can praise Him because His works are indeed marvelous. We’re at the top of that list of works.

Being humble and avoiding pride and arrogance is good, but part of having godly wisdom is also maintaining healthy self-esteem. When our self-respect shows through in everything we say and do, others will notice. This makes our message of the gospel even more powerful.

Accepting Jesus into our life and receiving the Holy Spirit enables Him to reveal to us godly wisdom, eternal truths, and things hidden from the world. The world operates in the natural realm—it can’t understand and won’t accept the supernatural realm.

Obeying God’s Word gives us confidence that we’re behaving according to His will. The world tries to take that confidence away, but we must hold fast to it. When life gets difficult, we mustn’t give up; God always keeps His promises.

Religion tells us to be meek and timid in God’s presence, but the Scriptures tell us the exact opposite. Believers have been made righteous and holy through Jesus; because we’re the righteousness of God, we have a level of confidence the world doesn’t have.

What we speak certainly is important, but our actions show the world whether or not we really believe what we say. Those professing to be Christians must be careful that their behavior demonstrates their belief and reflects God’s teachings.

Words are powerful; as believers, we must realize the authority of what we say. We can bring good or evil to pass, depending on what comes out of our mouth. Our words should therefore line up with God’s Word.

If we’re to demonstrate God’s love to the world in the same manner as Jesus did, we must be willing to take action and let God order our steps in our Christian walk. Following God goes beyond simply trusting what we think intellectually or feel emotionally is right; it involves studying His Word and letting the Holy Spirit reveal the way we should go.