Trees or Thornbushes

DeAnna Willman

Heal me, O YHWH, and I shall be healed; save me and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

The picture you see here at the top of this post is a drawing of how a thought looks in the physical. When you have a thought, it forms a protein within the brain that has a nucleus and begins growing “limbs” called dendrites and axioms. Now the more you think upon or practice this thought, the more entrenched the protein becomes within the brain. A healthy thought will cause the dendrites (limbs) to grow long, remain pliable, and connect to the axioms from other thoughts. If you had the medical and scientific equipment needed to view these healthy proteins and their activity, you would witness multiple things happening. The most obvious would be chemicals being released from the thought and traveling through the shaft and down the axioms to be passed into the dendrites of connected thoughts (proteins). You would also witness vibrations traveling from the whole protein as electromagnetic energy passed from it to the connected thoughts and rest of the body. Pictures cannot do justice to the beauty God placed within the actions of our brains! However, you can compare what you would see to a grove of very healthy trees in the midst of spring. The limbs are growing and are pliable. There is much activity taking place within the whole, from the root to the tips of the leaves, and most of it is not seen by our eyes!

However, if the thought is negative or even toxic, the protein will not grow long healthy dendrites or axioms. The “limbs” will not connect to other thoughts as they should. In fact, the dendrites will remain short and stiff similar to thorn bushes. The axioms may not connect to the dendrites of other thoughts. The whole area surrounding that negative or toxic thought, if it is allowed to remain, will begin to resemble a black hole in the middle of a brilliant galaxy. The more that negative thought is practiced, the greater that black hole will become as “negative” chemicals and energy are repeatedly poured from, through, and around it. It will eventually encompass and kill off any healthy thoughts (proteins) surrounding it. (can you think of any diseases that this might cause?....)

Yet, our gracious and loving Creator did not leave us without hope and power! HalleluYah! In as little as a week of working to change a thought, that toxic/negative thought can be completely destroyed with the power of thinking upon those things that God encourages us to think. The healthy chemicals and energy will help the brain eliminate that negative thought. In 21 days, that protein (thought) can be replaced with a new and healthy thought that will grow and connect and communicate as God intended it to do. But don’t stop there! You are on a roll! Keep going forward with the new thought, exercising it repeatedly each day! In another 43 days you will have made that protein a permanent part of you, fully connected to surrounding healthy thoughts, and repeatedly releasing healthy chemicals and energy throughout the brain and body, influencing you in so many areas of your life, including your physical health. AMAZING!!! And it is yours to choose! trees or thorn bushes? Which do you prefer?

Blessed is the one who trusts in YHWH, whose trust is YHWH. One will be like a tree planted by water that sends its roots out by the stream and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and it is not anxious in the year of drought for it does not cease to bear fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8 HalleluYah!