Using the Mind as a tool

By Rev Stephen Okhutu
Tel:+256 712 734 661
s_okhu@yahoo.com

I have been wondering how many people are living in total poverty! the list is endless but many of them are suffering just because they fialed to use their mind as a tool to help them come out of this situation.

May be this is because they have failed to realise that you are what you are because of what you think, what a serious problem!

I know of a friend here who has always complained of poverty but when you could consider his expenditures, it is like he owns a financial institution or something of that sort!

He is poor, true, but this comes as a result of what he always think! he trained his mind to think small and to believe that he is poor!

you may wonder why this is so! Is it not because we have failed to rearise that prosperity in not mesured in monetary value only?

Think about it this way. Who would be more richer, a person who does not buy food but never misses a meal or the one who has alot of money but could not afford a meal beacuse of financial commitment like debts and such things of the sort? What about someone who lacks money but is healthy, he has a nice house and all the necesaries or the one who has money but he is always on the run because he fears his creditors?

May be this has taught you something! We all need money and indeed without money life may be difficult but we should not take it to be the solution to all our problems.

Many people have even failed to work because they take themselves to be poor.

They train themselves to believe that they don't have capital to start a business and the end result is more time wasted in worrying and suffering! This means we cause suffering to ourselves, not so?

Could you ask your self how many times you caused yourself to think that you are too poor to start a certain project? and what did you get from that? Just discourage! but what about when you see a person you believe to be very poor than you, doing the project you thought you can't do?

I want to tell you that you are not poor, it is your mind that has failed to show you what to do. May be you have trained it to be like that! Surely I say unto you, it will take you no where unless you consider utilising it and making use of it.

That mind of yours is a tool that God gave you to help you solve most of your problems. So please stop using it in worrying because as a tool, it will be generating only the prducts of worrying and that means more problems to you. remember it is always working, either negatively or positvely.

Discourage it and it will discourage you! heard that? Discourage it and you will live most of your life suffering!

Put you mind into some positive thinking, you will see where it will take you. may be you will give me a call when you see results, not so? and I will live to be the most happy man because you have taken my advise. I know God has blessed you even before you have started doing that project so please, start working now! remember how Jacob worked for 14 years and came out the richest person? yes he even met losses but he never lost hope and he even never worried, he was focused on what he wanted to achieve.