Our behavior follows what is first birthed in our thoughts. Our thoughts control our brain, and our brain controls our body. Therefore we have the ability to control what we do or don’t through our thoughts.

Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he…” What are you thinking right now as you just read this verse? Our lives are shaped by how we think. 

I love to rehearse the story of Abram’s promise from God for a son. Genesis 15:4. Then in Genesis 17:5 God changed his name to Abraham ~ a father of many nations. Fast forward. Romans 4:19 says, “And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead…”

I want to pick up the word consider. It means to think carefully about something. Verse 20 in the Amplified says, “No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question)…”