Increasing Your Faith

There are just two mindsets upon which all of your belief system, decisions, thinking patterns, thoughts, words and actions are based.

These two mindsets are:

1. The Faith Mindset
2. The Fear Mindset

You may be thinking, but most of us seem to have a bit of both - right?

There is a very interesting word picture found in James 3:10-12 in the New Testament of the Bible

Jas 3:10  Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Jas 3:11  Does a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter?
Jas 3:12  Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs?

So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

Isn't that interesting?

Think about this: If you add even a pinch of salt to fresh water, is it now pure fresh water? No, it has crossed over to the category of salt water. Sure it may not taste TOO salty, but it has salt!

How to make sure you are building a FAITH mindset:

• Guard what you hear.
• Guard your thoughts and your spoken words.

You will think and speak according to what you allow to enter your mind.

You cannot avoid having a negative thought knock on your door, but you CAN avoid opening the door.

Your mind records what you speak in a "to be trusted" file.

Words that you allow to enter your mind and words that you speak build your mindset.

Are you building a mindset of FAITH or a mindset of FEAR today?

Photo Quebrada, Acapulco Mexico, taken by Jill Rapley