¡§FROZEN THOUGHTS¡¨
By Bishop M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
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This teaching was inspirited by a teaching I was listening to that I would have to say really stretched me! Yet, this truth can be found and validated with scriptures.
The good thing that I have learned about being stretched is, unlike a rubber band, once the human mind is stretched it can never go back to its constricted dominions; thank God!!
Hebrews 11: 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith is literally the spiritual existence of what you desire to manifest in the natural. The key that we miss is that ¡§there is no faith without thought¡¨. We have people in the church that have been trying to exercise proper faith without first developing proper thinking.
¡§Your level of faith is only as strong as your clarity of thinking about the things of God.¡¨ ¡V Apostle M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
This would make it clear why the Apostle Paul encouraged us by saying ¡§Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus¡¨. By taking the Mind of Christ, we take the thinking pattern, obedience & faith of Christ.
Faith is the substance (spiritual existence) of things hoped for. Wikipedia defines Hope as, an emotional belief (faith) in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances within one’s personal life.
Hope is the mental process by which our thinking is coupled with our desire (faith, belief) for something that we desire to see manifested at a future time.
- Apostle M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
¡§Frozen Thoughts¡¨ (Faith X Thought)
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
So, if the things we see where not created by other things we see, then all material things are nothing more than someone¡¦s ¡§Frozen thoughts¡¨. The things you desire manifest into reality as things. Anything you desire must first exist in your mind. If you can¡¦t see yourself with what you desire you will never have the faith needed to call it out of the spirit realm.
Mathew 9: 21-22 For she said within herself (thinking), If I may but touch his garment (the plan), I shall be whole (desire, belief, faith). 22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole (results of thinking and faith). {Notes in parenthesis added}
Faith Brings Wholeness
By looking into this verse, with the intent to find a deeper understanding, we can see that our faith has the ability to bring wholeness into our life. It comes from God, but it is delivered out of you, not to you!
The verse says, ¡§she (the woman with the issue of blood) said with within herself¡¨. Within her enter dialog this woman coupled her thoughts with her desire (belief, faith) and devised a plan for her own healing; ¡§If I may but touch¡K¡¨ As a result of her focusing her thoughts and faith she received her desire.
Align Your Thoughts & Faith
When you align your thoughts with your faith, you can receive whatever you desire from God. We understand that to align our faith with God is to confess; the Greek word is Homologeo, to say the same thing as (Roman 10:9-10). Our problem is we have not aligned our thoughts with our faith in God. Aligning our thoughts with God deals with us conforming our will to God¡¦s will or simply said, taking of the Mind of Christ.
Many people have faith but they are not thinking. They are not aligning their thoughts with the will of God. If you¡¦re not thinking you will never get closer to the place of receiving what you desire. The woman with the issue of blood had faith, but it was her thinking coupled with her faith that gave her a plan. Not only did she want to be healed, because she aligned her thoughts with her faith, something in her knew it was God¡¦s Will for her to be heal. Therefore, God gave her of plan, an idea, to bring her desire and His will into reality.
Psalm 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
How do we delight in the Lord? We delight in God by aligning our thoughts with God¡¦s thoughts. That is why King David literally begged God, Ps. 51: 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. What David was saying was clean my mind! The mind in this verse is refers to his way of thinking! He wanted to think like God! When we begin to think like God, the answer to our situations become clear; we have these treasures in earthen vessels.
¡§Pastor Wilson I just don¡¦t believe that we think like God.¡¨
1Co 2:14-16 KJV But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Your answer is not outside of you, it is in you, your faith, your obedience and your thoughts! Jesus did not come to define himself; he came to define us as:
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The woman with the issues of blood had a plan from God, because she coupled her thoughts with her faith. If you have no plan, you¡¦re not going to get any results! Need a scripture?
James 2: 20; 26 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Get a Plain
What are your works? Works are not as much an action as it should be a plan from God. There are people that are working every day, but because they have not aligned there thoughts with their faith they have no results. If your faith does not have a plan, it is dead!
It is not that people don¡¦t have faith; the bible says in Rom 12:3 that ¡§God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith¡¨.. Remember I said, your faith is only as strong as your clarity of thinking. If God gave you faith, I don¡¦t believe the devil can take that from you. Therefore, what the devil does, to hinder your success, is messes with you¡¦re thinking. If you can¡¦t think correctly you will never reach the level of faith that is need to receive what you need from God. How does the devil mess with your thinking? He does it by causing distractions!
Clarify the Vision
The woman with the issue of blood had a clear vision of what she wanted. It was the mental clarity that activated her faith.
Your faith is strengthen when you have clearly defined in your vision in your mind and then on paper! When God told Habakkuk to write the vision, he was not writing is so God could see it! When you write your vision it move from one dimensional to two dimensional. You were just hearing and imaging your vision in your head, but your pin is the birth canal through which what is in the spirit take on its first physical form. If your vision is going to be birthed, you¡¦re the one that has to experience the birthing pains of pushing it out!
Pay Attention
The woman with the issue of blood could have just continued to have faith that maybe one day I will be healed, and nothing in her situation would have changed. We have saints in the church that are living just like this, waiting on someday. But, I declare onto you that this is the day! Forget all that in the sweet by and by, NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR! So, I want what God has for me NOW!
Unlike many of us, the woman with the issue of blood had the understanding that anything she desired that was not yet in her life, was only missing because she had not PAID enough attention to it!
The Principle of Manifestation: Pay Attention!
Faith is good. Faith is necessary. Nevertheless, the question still remains, are you willing to pay attention? We are praying and forgetting what we prayed. We receive prophecy and forgetting the prophecy and the prophet. We just want it to drop out of the sky; but nothing in life is free, everything cost something. One of the principles of manifestation is, to receive anything you must pay attention;
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
It is very easy to see that this principle is not limited to the saints. People in the world are using this principle everyday, while we sit in the church and are praying for God to do what he has given us the ability to do ourselves!
Attention is the Currency of the Spirit & Your mind is the Bank
Contrary to what we may think, nothing is purchased with money. Your PAYING ATTENTION purchases everything that comes into your life, good or bad. Everything you allow your mind to meditate on will expand in your mind until it leaks over into the physical realm as a ¡§frozen thought¡¨. The woman with the issue of blood meditated and gave attention to receiving her healing for 12 long years until God gave her a solution.
Please don¡¦t think it has to take you 12 years. I believe that it had more to do with the time it took to development of her faith & the alignment of her thoughts than a specific amount of years.
¡§Your attention will attract the people and create the right circumstance for the will of God to come to past in your life.¡¨
- Apostle M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
Her attention set her up for a miracle!
I believe that her faith and attention determined the day, the time and the street that Jesus would come down so that she could be healed. Many of us, which profess to know God, or given more attention to our problem than to allowing God to give us a solution.
Thoughts, your Purchasing Power
Where your thoughts go, your energy flows! Flow, currency, they are the same thing. We refer to money as currency. Why? We call money currency because money was not design to set still, but to flow. What we have to understand is everything that we give money for was first purchased in our mind. Before anything is manifested in the natural, you had to see or imagine somethings in your minds eye:
1. You have to see yourself making the money.
2. Finding what you wanted,
3. Then you have to see you giving the money you made in exchange for what you desire.
So, with this understanding we can easily see that our true purchasing power is not money, but our thoughts.
¡§You ideas are the Only Bank there is¡¨
-Bishop B. Bernard Jordan
What is a bank? A bank is a business that provides services to help you control your currencies. What Bishop Jordan was saying is, when our thoughts are coupled with faith they manifest into a plan, we then have everything that we need to manifest whatever we desire; that is within the will of God concerning you.
Spiritual Formula of Attention
The spiritual formula of attention would look like this:
Attention = (faith X thought = fulfilled desire)
Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
The reason we have (faith X thought) is that faith is strengthen through repetition. The word believeth as used in the King James bible denotes, to continue to believe. If you desire to produce ¡§frozen thoughts¡¨, you have to be willing to keep pay attention.
Conclusion
Psalms 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
3 John 1:3 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
The more I study the Word of God the more I see a great contradiction between the Word of God and what many denominations teach and believe. God has no problem with your material possessions or what I call ¡§Frozen Thoughts¡¨.
The word Prosper and Prosperity come from the Greek word ¡¥Euodoo¡¨ (U-a-doo). The literal meaning of ¡¥Euodoo¡¦ is to grant a prosperous and expeditious journey, to lead by a direct and easy way; to grant a successful issue, to cause to prosper, to prosper, be successful.
God does not have a problem with prosperity, people do! All God requires is that your prosperity of your soul be foremost!
¡§Prosperity of the soul is gaining clarity of thought as it relates to the will of God, which strengthens our faith and gives us a plan.¡¨
- Apostle M. Christopher, Sr
