Ezekiel 16:4 And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. The traditional practice in the Semitic(Hebrew-Arabic) culture at the birth of an infant was to wash the baby, rub salt...
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31 July 2021 – Salty or Seasoned – Part 2
Leviticus 2:13a “And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt”. Salt was a very valuable condiment of trade in the ancient world. The special salt rations paid to the Roman soldiers were known as “salarium argentums”. The word “salary” is derived from the root word “salarium” (“Sal means salt in Latin). ...
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30 July 2021 – Salty or Seasoned – Part 1
Mathew 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. The meaning of the word “salty” has been morphed as sassy or angry in modern usage....
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29 July 2021 – Mastermind – Part 7
2 Corinthians 5:10 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Repetitive thoughts build layer by layer “walls” called “strongholds” in the mind. Strongholds of the mind are thoughts of building blocks cemented by emotions. Positive...
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28 July 2021 – Mastermind – Part 6
Genesis 6:5 God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagining of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The National Science Foundation has concluded that 80% of an average person’s thoughts are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts. A common cold, guilt, condemnation, idleness, physical...
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27 July 2021 – Mastermind – Part 5
Colossians 3:2 Set your minds and keep them set on what is above. There are over-thinkers and steady-thinkers. Over-thinkers voluntarily invite doubt and turn into double-minded defaulters. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind (James...
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26 July 2021 – Mastermind – Part 4
1 Peter 4:7b Therefore be clear-minded and self-controlled, so that you can pray. To have the mind of Christ simply means that we must think like Jesus. Before we talk and walk our thoughts must change. The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude – John C Maxwell. Attitude must transform before actions...
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25 July 2021 – Mastermind – Part 3
Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Mind controls our emotions. The brain is the physical place where the mind resides. Mind is the spiritual energy that generates thoughts and emotions which build physical structures in our brains. Dr Caroline Leaf, a cognitive neuroscientist, explains that...
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24 July 2021 – Mastermind – Part 2
1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ‘Abstract thinkers’ unlike ‘analytical thinkers’ glide on imaginations. They are normally criticised as “wishful thinkers” who cruise on empty space and fancy fallacies and fables....
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23 July 2021 – Mastermind – Part 1
Philippians 2:5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus A recent study has concluded that a normal person has from about 6,000 to 6,200 thoughts a day! The brain is the body’s most complex organ. The brain is the central processing unit and the rest of the nervous system...