Thinking & Destiny: Chronicles of Thoughts Completed

By Lee M. Chapman

We recognize a need to advise you that this is not a story, ordinary writing or anything that can be read lightly and fully comprehended from a casual reading.

The work herein is the result of long meditation, much thinking and many, many trials and errors.

We have written it in order to help others in the way they think, encourage some to think and give all some appreciation of the effects or thoughts, acts, habits, character and destiny. Please read it prayerfully and pray for us as you do.

L. Manuel Chapman

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499016987

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Contents

Introduction & Preliminary Statements

How We Were Led To This Endeavor To

Shape Some Of Our Thoughts And Conclusions.

What Next

A Truth That I Must Face

My Prayer

Truth & Knowledge

Preface To Pursuit Of Truthful Thinking

Thoughts On Truth & Knowledge (For A Happy 1974)

More Thoughts On Truth

Further Thoughts On Truth And Knowledge

Some Uneasy Truths

Seeing God Through Truth And Knowledge

Marching Order To The Infallible Touchstone—The Bible

The Truth Is Marching On

Some Foundational And Concluding Thoughts On Truth

How Our Thoughts Are Formed & Shaped

Foundational Thoughts About How We Think And

Why We Think As We Do

Frames And Mind Sets

A Person Is What He Thinks

Human Intelligence Vs Work Of The Holy Spirit

There Is A Way That Seems Right But

How Weare Ultimately Led

The Will And The Soul

Spirit Life

The Steps Of A Good Man Are Ordered By The Lord

Major Way In Which God Guides And Leads

What Was Once Said About People’s Thinking

Conclusions, Epilogue And Final Thoughts

Epilogue

Discipline And Desire On Our Path To Our Destiny

Final Thoughts

In Retrospect

The truth shall make you free.

John 8:32

Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the Land of slavery.

You may say to yourself, My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me. But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 8:11-14, 17-18

The Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

Revised as 12/1 0/2008 as thoughts for 2009

9/11/2001 terror struck America and now is world wide.

October 2008 Economic trouble world wide. What next? Think about it.

January 21, 1994

Dear Reader:

We had to pray much over the twenty odd years before we started to put this little book in print, then had to pray much while writing it. Therefore, it has been pointed out to us that we out to strongly suggest that you pray before reading it.

The book is thin, though wordy at some point. We wrote it this way because we wanted to get the very essence of the relationship between thought, action, habit, character and destiny.

Please pray before you start reading, while reading and also for us here at the Foundation for Biblical Values and Biblical Lifestyle along with Perspective Publications.

Here is a suggested prayer:

Dear Lord, I don’t know all of the reasons I am reading this little book. Neither do I know what is in here for me. I do know that you know even the number of hairs on my head. You know my lying down and my uprising.

Please Lord, loose your grace in me and toward me as I read. Open my mind and my heart to receive whatever there is in here for me. For I wish to think and act right as well as develop the right habits and responses to all of life’s situations.

Lord, I know that ifl have accepted the Lord Jesus as my Savior and allow His words to abide in me, He will lead me into all righteousness. Help me Lord.

IN THE NAME OF JESUS NAME, I PRAY.

From The Publisher

FOREWORD

To our readers:

If you are willing to be challenged, to grow in God and to be stimulated into exploring new thought concepts, you will benefit by this writing. If you are questioning, seeking, contemplating the truth, read on. If you are ready to be enabled, affected, provoked and enriched, may God Bless you in these words.

Virginia B. Ayars

One of the great needs in our churches today is to know who we are as Christians, what we believe and why. Most of us have simplistic answers to these questions, which might be called the milk ofthe word. However, we are challenged by the apostle Paul to