In today’s podcast, we are going to be talking strength — being strong in the Lord. We’re talking about strength to run your race — talking about going from one level of strength to another, a higher level of strength. You know the scripture says that Jesus’ followers are to be ‘strong in the Lord.’ Did you know that a person’s mental attitude has an almost unbelievable effect on his strength levels, both physical and psychological? The British psychiatrist, J.A. Hadfield, gives a striking illustration of this fact in his booklet, The Psychology of Power. “I asked three people,” he wrote, “to submit themselves to test the effect of mental suggestion on their strength, which was measured by gripping a dynamometer.” A dynamometer is a device used to measure power. They were to grip the dynamometer with all their strength under three different sets of conditions. The first test was normal conditions. The average grip was 101 pounds. Then Hadfield tested them after he had hypnotized them and told them that they were very weak. Their average grip this time was only 29 pounds. In the third test, Dr. Hadfield told them under hypnosis that they were very strong. The average grip jumped to 142 pounds.1 Now, I am not a hypnosis advocate, but it is noteworthy that they became physically stronger when suggested that people were strong. When the suggestion was that you were pretty weak, the results followed that very suggestion. Why People Who Are Strong in the Lord Thrive, that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.
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