“If you can?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.” Mark 9:23

A boy possessed by an impure spirit was presented to Jesus’ disciples. They toiled for a long while without seeing any visible results. Frustrated, the dad turned the case over to Jesus who freed the boy instantly. After witnessing the struggle the disciples have gone through, I believe doubt found its way into the dad’s mind. This was clearly stated by his quest to Jesus “if you can”.

Our past experiences have an uncanny ability to quickly become strongholds that can rob us from our breakthroughs. This unbelief can easily give way to fear. Both fear and faith believe in something that is yet to come. They look into the future, one expecting a positive and the other a negative outcome. Both of them require a certain amount of belief. Therefore, whichever we choose to give time and attention will eventually grow.

Jesus Christ, aware of the dad’s drifting from belief to unbelief, needed to correct that mindset that can ultimately become a roadblock to the child’s healing. The mind is to the human what the rudder is to the ship. The human race is at the mercy of the mind. The mind has the propensity to propel or restrict a people or a civilization to a spot. The wiseman Solomon has rightly pinned in Proverbs 23:7 “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…”. Show me a man who has a transformed mind and I will show you a winner.

Paul the apostle has observed that everything is subject to change under certain conditions. In Philippians 4:8 he presents the formula to a transformed mind: “Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things…”.

The mind is divided into the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious is the rational part, it can also be seen as the seed whereas the subconscious is irrational and can be seen as a field. Whatever thought you imagine and process will inevitably come to pass. Paul understood that thoughts are seeds, they are a powerful vehicle that births realities. “A man is what he thinks about all day long” Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thus, choose your thoughts wisely.