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The 3 factors that determine your life:
1. What you believe in your heart to be true.
2. How you think with your mind.
3. The words that come out of your mouth.
How you think means how you, as a person, perceive and interpret things -- how you process facts and experiences.
Romans 12:2 NASB1995
Conform: Outer pressures and forces press and form you into a particular shape.
Transform: a change that begins from inside. It brings freedom and positive growth.
“…by the renewing of your mind…”
A renewed mind is a mind that is influenced and directed by God’s spirit and God’s truth.
Romans 8:6 NASB1995
The mind set on the Spirit is yielded to God’s Spirit and sees life through God’s eyes and evaluates everything by His word.
A mind set on the flesh is limited to human reasoning and restricted by ignorance, prejudice and past hurts.
Romans 8:7 NASB1995
Ephesians 4:17 NASB1995
The natural or unrenewed mind has 2 main problems:
1. It mostly wants the wrong things
The natural or unrenewed mind has 2 main problems:
1. It mostly wants the wrong things
2. Even when it wants the right things, it goes about trying to get them in a futile way which is destined to fail.
We will keep doing the same things over and over as long as we keep believing the lies of our unrenewed mind.
Ephesians 4:17-18 NASB1995
A renewed mind brings a total paradigm shift.
Isaiah 55:8-9 NASB1995
What seems foolish to the natural mind is God’s wisdom on a higher level.
A renewed mind sees the invisible reality behind the visible
II Corinthians 4:18 & 5:7
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal…. for we walk by faith, not by sight…”
6 Secrets to Spiritual Power that goes against the natural mind:
1. We become free by surrendering.
John 8:34, 31b-32
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. 31 “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
6 Secrets to Spiritual Power that goes against the natural mind:
2. We receive by giving.
Luke 6:38a Give, and it will be given to you.
6 Secrets to Spiritual Power that goes against the natural mind:
3. We are raised up when we humble ourselves.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
6 Secrets to Spiritual Power that goes against the natural mind:
4. We are strong when we are weak.
II Corinthians 12:9-10ad And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you… Therefore I am well content with weaknesses…for when I am weak, then I am strong.
6 Secrets to Spiritual Power that goes against the natural mind:
5. We find our life by losing it.
Matthew 16:25
For whoever wishes to save his [v]life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
6 Secrets to Spiritual Power that goes against the natural mind:
6. We become great by becoming a servant.
Matthew 23:11
But the greatest among you shall be your servant.
I Corinthians 2:14ab
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him…
How do we gain a renewed mind?
How do we gain a renewed mind?
1. Yield your will to God’s will.
How do we gain a renewed mind?
1. Yield your will to God’s will.
2. Yield your mind to Christ.
How do we gain a renewed mind?
1. Yield your will to God’s will.
2. Yield your mind to Christ.
3. Learn, memorize and meditate on God’s Word until it becomes a part of you.
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