“You can think your way to failure and unhappiness, but you can also think your way to success and happiness.  The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.”                                                                                                                                                                     -Norman Vincent Peale

Marcus Aurelius said,  “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”

It has been said that the wisest man who ever lived in America was Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Sage of Concord.  Emerson declared,  “A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

If you think you can have revival, you can.

You get what you preach.  If you are preaching revival and believe with all of your heart that revival will come, it will come.  It will come with God’s timing, and He is bound by His word.  And His word says that He hears us when we pray.  If we are seeking for His will and are sincerely seeking revival for our church and community, it will come.  We have to believe!

“But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle,     because the             harvest is come.”  (Mark 4:29)

If you think your church will grow, it will.

If you are praying for your church to grow, it will.  If you plant the seed of faith, and water it with prayers and fasting, the church is destined to grow.  It is the will of God for the church to grow.  This is His church and He wants it to succeed.  We have to get our thinking right, get our attitudes straightened up and get on board with what God has in store for us.  Rick Warren, in his book A Purpose Driven Church, tells us to not ask the question “Why is the church not growing,” but to ask,  “What is causing the church to not grow.”  Whenever we get our thinking on the right path, the church will begin to grow and mature.  Paul wrote to the church at Corinth,

“I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”  (1 Cor. 3:6)

If you think you can have harmony amongst your leadership, you can.

Always strive for unity among the leadership team of your church.  There will be times of disagreement regarding certain issues, but you can have these disagreements and still maintain unity among your leaders.  The Devil will target leadership teams in an effort to bring the whole church down.  Knowing this, make it a priority to pray and fast over your leadership team and always think positively concerning them. 

• “Great things will happen with our team.”
• “Great results will occur in our meetings.” 
• “We will maintain harmony and unity among our brothers and sisters.”

If you think positively, positive things will happen.

It’s as easy as that.  Positive thinking produces positive results.  However, negative thinking produces negative results as well.  It’s time to get rid of the negative mindset that most have.  It’s easy to be negative.  It’s easy to find the worst in any situation.  Anyone can do that.  But, we need spiritual leaders and pastors who recognize where we live and what’s going on around us, but still believe in the awesome power of our God!  Don’t be afraid to start that new project or that new program in your church because of past failures.  You will never hit the target if you stop shooting!

It’s time to have a checkup from the neck up and get rid of stinking thinking!

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any   virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.  (Philippians 4:8)