#yehoshua

What is the history behind the name Joshua?

Joshua comes from the Hebrew name "Yehoshua," meaning "God is deliverance."

THEN YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW THAT IMMORAL THINKING IS LEADING YOU STRAIGHT INTO SIN.

THE BIBLE OFFERS GOOD NEWS! THERE IS A REMEDY.

Pro 23:7 for as he thinks in his soul, so is he; Eat and drink, he shall say unto thee, but his heart is not with thee.

Inevitably, we have to face the reality that Yehovah has given us the responsibility of cleansing the thoughts of our hearts. The Ruach HaKodesh and Yehovah's Word are available to help us, but each person must decide for himself what he will think, and what he will imagine. Being created in Yehovah's image requires that we be responsible for our thoughts. Deliverance starts with confession and true repentance.

The Word makes it clear that our thinking and our hearts are inseparably linked. What we think affects our heart. How we think affects our heart. Likewise, the condition of our heart affects our thinking.

Gen 6:5 And Yehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

WHAT WE THINK IN OUR HEARTS, IN TURN, AFFECTS OUR ACTIONS.

Mat 15:19 “For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

Murder was a thought before it became an act. Theft started as an idea before it evolved into an action. Humans act out the condition of their hearts through deeds. Our actions and our lives resemble what we think.

So, to take responsibility for our thoughts, we must renew our minds and clean up our thinking:

Php 4:7 And the peace of Yehovah, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds through Messiah Yehoshua. Php 4:8 For the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is righteous, whatever is clean, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good report, if there is any uprightness and if there is any praise – think on these.

The human mind can only be set on one thing—either the desires of the flesh or the Spirit:

Rom 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the matters of the flesh, but those who live according to the Ruach (Spirit), the matters of the Ruach.

Rom 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Ruach is life and peace.

Rom 8:7 Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Yehovah, for it does not subject itself to the Torah of Yehovah, neither indeed is it able,

Rom 8:8 and those who are in the flesh are unable to please Yehovah.

Rom 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Ruach, if indeed the Ruach of Elohim dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Ruach of Messiah, this one is not His.

Rom 8:10 And if Messiah is in you, the body is truly dead on account of sin, but the Ruach is life on account of righteousness.

Rom 8:11 And if the Ruach of Him who raised Yehoshua from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Messiah from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies through His Ruach dwelling in you.

The heart and mind, where our thoughts reside, represent our invisible, inner person. This inner person is who we are. And this inner person determines our moral character. For this reason, we are what we think. As believers in Yehoshua Mashiach, we must constantly renew our minds so that we don't conform to this world, but rather transform into the image of Messiah.

Rom 12:1 I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Yehovah, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Yehovah – your reasonable worship.

Rom 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Yehovah.