Twelve Thousand Thoughts per Day

[oak]

I was in the hospital lately and I looked at the heart monitor it went in U

[BlindSeeker]

I think I am way behind my daily quota . . .

way behind . . . .

[MorningGlory]

I think I am way behind my daily quota . . .

way behind . . . .

You're in good company...I think I had TWO coherent thoughts today.

[traveller]

I think i know what you're saying oak.

I think all day long because I don't speak much - no one to talk to really. Besides, a lot of time, when I do speak I wish I hadn't. That's because I mess up a lot. I fail in being a good servant to Christ. I fail in many ways. It's really hard to stay the course, to do the things that I feel important to do. Instead, I do/and think/ a lot of things that I don't want to do and to think.

I wish i could say that I only thought good things, but that wouldn't be true. However, the Lord is faithful to meet me when I go to Him in repentance.

How do we gain control of our thoughts? I don't know oak. Prayer, I think, is the best avenue. Each day, day after day, all we can do is the best we can do, and with each and every thing - be it good or bad - we turn it over to God.

12 thousand thoughts a day? yeah, probably. 10,000 steps a day is close to five miles, and a lot of people walk that over a day's time, without realizing it. And really, most people think more than they walk.

Another good topic, oak.

[MorningGlory]

Another good topic, oak.

It IS a good topic....and now I'm thinking a lot about whether I'm thinking enough. I KNOW I don't have 12,000 thoughts a day. I wonder how anyone would know? I'd better go think about it.

[Guest]

Only Twelve Thoughts A Day!

Wow!

I Could Do That!

Now

If I Could Only Learn To Read.......

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Do you suffer in trying to control what can only be helped with grace and prayer?

Yes

Search me, O God, and know my heart:

try me, and know my thoughts:

And see if there be any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalms 139:23-24

Often

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 12:9

Yet I Rejoice

He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30

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Most importantly do you feel your saved and then damned, day to day?

Yes

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord,

I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

And having an high priest over the house of God;

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,

having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Hebrews 10:16-24

Yes I Do

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God:

for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. Psalms 43:5

And Then I Remember My Shepherd

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. Lamentations 3:18-26

And I Sing Praises To The KING

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Psalms 22:3

[Hunterpoet]

I couldn't resist.

I googled, "how many thoughts per day"...several threads suggest 60,000, while others stated 50,000, another suggested 15,000.

Interestingly, one article stated that 100 years ago we only had 5000 thoughts per day and now it is up to 55,000.

I wonder how many thoughts cavemen had.

Another article talked about how many thoughts a baby had, but I didn't read it.

Would a memory be considered a thought?

I think thinking about thought is how philosophy got started. If I think about my thoughts, does that make me a philosopher?

[alljoy123]

this is interesting stuff.......I think we all sufer from this in one way or another.......for me, when thoughts come into my mind that are not pleasing.....i start saying bible verses

[Smalcald]

I believe this is a critical topic.

How we think impacts how we feel and how we act.

So if our thinking is continually negative, un-holy, evil, etc, we may be able to NOT act on those thoughts, but it is a continual battle. However if we change our thinking intentionally it will change the terms of this entire battle. Really all we can control is what is going on inside of us, we cannot control the world, we cannot control how or when we were born, or how or when we will die, or control what we look like or how smart we are, or any other people; and on and on. We only can control our minds and our hearts. This is actually a very freeing thing.

So anyway I will pray and meditate on that today thank you for posting this topic.

[Believer1997]

Ok Oak.... There's no way I can count what I think each day and I am none to proud of some of the things I think sometimes - and I do pray dozens of times a day for forgiveness of not thinking too kindly of something or someone ... My husband is convinced that I have more than 12,000 thoughts a day and asked me just this morning - What made you think of THAT?

Why don't you hear about more people who claim to be psychic winning lotteries?

Why do I have to put broken staplers and items of absolutely no worth whatsoever in "government surplus" to be sold at an auction where no one buys it and it has to be in paid storage for a year?

Makes ya wonder, doesn't it?