Today I would like to share the grace of God under the title, “My Thoughts Show Me the Best Way.” Thoughts are the ingredients that create life’s future. This is because a person’s life is determined by what kind of thoughts he has. Then, what kind of thoughts should we have? We are the vessels that hold the treasure called Jesus. Therefore, Jesus’ cross must be the foundation of our thoughts. Because Jesus finished everything by dying on the cross, our thoughts, dreams, faith, and spoken words change when we embrace the cross. If this happens, amazing works of change take place in our life. American poet Longfellow compared humans to an architect; everybody builds a house of life by bricks of time every day. While everybody builds his own house by bricks of time, some construct a very strong house but others a weak house. Why? It is because their houses differ from each other depending on their thoughts. According to an architect’s thought, his house of life will be done accordingly. We must remember that our thoughts rule over our entire life. Your life changes depending on what kind of thoughts you have. Proverbs 4:23 says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” We must commit our lives to the cross of Calvary to watch over our thoughts. Galatians 6:14 says, “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” When we surrender ourselves to the cross of Calvary, the Holy Spirit begins to mold our new lives with our surrendered selves. We must straighten ourselves up and embrace the cross with all our might. We must be in the cross and the cross in us. We must create a touching scene of our being crucified with Christ on the cross. 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 says, “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” When we hold tight the Fivefold Gospel on the cross, the work of God starts through our thoughts. God searches our thoughts and we live with God in our thoughts. If we dream a dream in the world, it means that we still have tomorrows. Those who keep looking back on the past only will fail. Those who are being agitated between joy and sorrow focusing on the present only are nobody. Those who dream dreams will become victorious. It is because our thoughts make brilliant tomorrows in unceasing dreams. When Jesus’ disciples receive the Holy Spirit, He gives visions to the young while the old have dreams. With those visions and dreams they look forward to tomorrow so a bright tomorrow will come to them. As dreamed tomorrows keep turning into the present, we can live a successful tomorrow as today. Today one family that think positively succeed while another family that thinks negatively fail over and over again. Jesus did His best to give anyone the privilege to be able to have heavenly thoughts in his heart. When this Jesus took His disciples and went through Samaria, it was noon and He became hungry. He sat down at the well in the suburb of Samaria. His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. A Samaritan woman came to draw water. This was unusual because Samaritan women would not come to the well to draw water at noon. They usually drew water in the early morning or in the evening, not at noontime. This Samaritan woman came to the well at noon to avoid any human contact. Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" The Samaritan woman was so startled by this. She said to Him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman that you Jews despise. How can you ask me for a drink?" Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman said, "It is even more ridiculous. You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds? Then how can you give me water without having anything to draw water?" Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst." Then the woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water." He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back. Then I will give you this water." "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right. You are very honest. It is true when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband." She exclaimed, "How can you know my life so well? I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You don’t need to be preoccupied with any worship place. But God seeks those who worship in spirit and in truth. Then she wanted to avoid hard religious matters so she said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am He." At this she was so amazed that leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" They came out of the town and made their way toward Jesus to listen to His messages. As Jesus cast out the devil and healed many sick people, there was a great revival in Samaria. Nevertheless, the Lord did not bring any graduates from Harvard University or Tokyo University or Seoul National University to change Samaria. All His disciples came from random families and the Lord made them changed in their hearts and dream dreams. Then there was a another great revival in Samaria. After Jesus went up to heaven, His disciples once again passed through Samaria and raised a great revival in Samaria again. A group of dreamers will be a powerful group. When they begin to dream, God will work with them in their dreams. Who can win over God? However, God always works together with dreamers. If those who have positive thoughts dream, God adds faith to them. If they pray with faith, He will manifest changes and miracles to them. John 4:10 says, “Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.’" Living water can be eternal joy, delight, or hope. God gives us a gift to bring us happiness and changes in our lives. Our thoughts can transform our entire life. First of all, we must put down all our pain under the cross. Then our thoughts are changed, aren’t they? 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 says, “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” The power of God takes captive every thought that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and makes it obedient to Christ. When negative thoughts such as doubt and unbelief enter into our hearts, we must put them down under the cross to make them obedient to Christ. God knows your every thought by the Holy Spirit and works according to it. 1 Corinthians 2:9-12 says, “However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him’-- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” God makes us born again by water and the Spirit to change our thoughts spiritually. “Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.” When people are born again with water and the Spirit, they can understand spiritual thoughts. When we read the Bible, we can find that it is filled with God’s promises from first to end. When we read the Bible and spiritual thoughts become secure in our hearts, we come to be a wholly renewed person. Acts 4:12 says, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." 1 Corinthians 12:3 says, “Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, ‘Jesus be cursed,’ and no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit.” When the Holy Spirit comes, He leads us to understand all the works of God and to accept Jesus as our Savior. Therefore, we need to accept, welcome, invite, and rely on the Holy Spirit. Please repeat after me, “Holy Spirit, I believe You are with me now. I recognize You. I welcome You. I invite You. I count on You. Please walk with me.” Hallelujah. Then God’s power will be manifest in you so that you begin to work with Him. If you outstretch your arms and embrace the cross, your sins are forgiven. When we hold the cross of Jesus, our disease loses its power. We come to know, “By His stripes we are healed.” Again if we hold the cross of Jesus, our fear against poverty is gone as Jesus already took our curses away. Above all, we need to hold the cross tight. If we embrace the cross of Jesus, we won’t be afraid of death. Jesus died and was resurrected and has eternal life within the cross. John 11:25-26 says, “ Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.’" The work of the Lord manifested on the cross. Therefore, look up to the cross and embrace it with earnest prayer. Hold the cross of the Lord tight. If we are in the cross and the cross enters into us, our thoughts will be different. Precious thoughts will occupy us so we will live with eternal joy. Therefore, we need to look up to Jesus who is the author and perfecter of our faith and embrace the cross in our life. Jesus said, “It is finished,” on the cross. This kind of work of redemption cannot be done by anyone except Jesus. Only God can do it. We, who are born again with the Holy Spirit, must have different thoughts and faith and a changed life by looking to the cross of Jesus. New works of creation must take place in our life. This moving into the fourth dimensional spirituality makes the power of God come to your life actually. Your thoughts change into positive thinking so you need to dream and have faith and confess it positively with your mouth. With your embrace of all of them, your circumstances will be different and you will experience a miracle of creation. “to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness,”(Ephesians 4:23-24) It must be fulfilled in our thoughts first.