You’ll Only Get What You Want Out of Life

I spoke in Los Angeles some years ago on this subject, and a couple of young men saw me on the street the next day and said, “Oh, Rev. Ike, that was some good stuff you talked about yesterday; and as soon as we get some money, well, we can do that.”

Let me give you a shocker. It doesn’t cost one cent to make up your mind. You can be penniless, or as my mother would say, as poor as Job’s turkey. My friend, things begin to happen the moment you make up your mind.

The power of a made-up mind is the power of God-in-you, and you turn on the power of God-in-you by making up your mind.

Everything Begins with a Made-Up Mind

I challenge you; I dare you today; I don’t care what you’ve got, what you haven’t, or what your condition may or may not be -- make up your mind about something right now while you’re reading this.

Don’t like where you’re living? Right where you’re sitting, decide, “I’m moving.” Do you need some more money? Right now, make up your mind, “I am going to have some money.” And don’t waffle about it. Don’t mess around about it. Don’t say, “Lord, if it’s your will, give me some money.”

Be You Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind

Money and everything else is, first of all, made up in the mind. My favorite scripture in the Bible that I quote more than any other is from Paul in Romans 12, “Be you transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

I challenge you, dear reader; nothing can stop the power of a made-up mind because the power of a made-up mind is the power of God.