08/05/2025
Guard your thoughts
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR THOUGHTS || APOSTLE AROME OSAYI
In order to walk free and to maximally find grace and express grace, you must train your thoughts. If the Bible says, "Think on these things," it means you must be in charge of your mind. Train your thoughts to focus on things that are pure, things that are honest, things that are just, things of good report, things that have virtue, and things that are praiseworthy. When you train your thoughts, your mind builds a barricade—so that when negative thoughts arise, a signal is sent, warning you.
I have noticed that on Facebook, there is now minor po*******hy appearing. I don’t know where it came from, but it is everywhere. Don’t watch it—it may seem like comedy, but it is designed to pollute your thoughts. There is no purity in that. If you keep feeding on it, over time, you will find that even in church, you visualize people in ways that lack purity—because your mind is no longer clean.
When I visited Israel and went to the Wailing Wall, I saw how the rabbis quoted the Torah while shaking their heads. They did this for 24 hours straight, fulfilling the requirement of scripture: "This book of the law shall not depart from thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate upon it day and night."
Historical accounts say that the high priest who condemned Jesus had stopped reading scriptures long ago. That’s why Satan could inspire him with such an idea. Keeping your thoughts filled with scripture is necessary so that you begin to think in scripture.
The things you cannot do are determined by the way you think. For some of us, casual immorality isn’t even a possibility—not because temptations don’t come, but because we have shut the door in our minds. When those opportunities arise, they feel as irrelevant as a disease outbreak we have avoided.
I was once in a mall in another country, and my friend asked, "Didn't you notice that girl was interested in you?" But I hadn't noticed—because that kind of thing is not part of my thinking. Many distractions and temptations will pass unnoticed when your thoughts are rightly trained.
The Bible says, "Thy word have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee." You need to study the Word, meditate on the Word, confess the Word, and memorize the Word. The more you meditate, confess, and store it within your heart, the more it becomes your wisdom. Train your thoughts.
