The life that Jesus died to give us is a life of peace with God, Peace with ourselves, great relationship, real joy and ability to become all God has created us to be. It comes down to choosing to believe what God says more than we believe our feelings, what other people say or our circumstances.
There are three (3) things we must do to develop a mind that agrees with God, which are as follows.
(1) (Col 3:2) when we make up our mind ahead of time, over what we will and won’t do, then when temptation comes; we are more likely to overcome it because we have laid a foundation to make right choices. For example; before you go out for an occasion, you may decide that, ”I am not going to gossip. I am not going to ruin someone’s reputation and offend the Holy Spirit. I am not going to hang out with people who are bad influences.” We don’t wait until temptation comes and then react based on how we feel about it. (Rom 12:2) Renewing the mind is an ongoing process. Every day we need to take time to study the word so we can purposely think according to what it says. We need to make progress each day so we can keep our mind renewed and grow in our relationship with God.
(3) 1 Peter 2:13 “Gird up the loins of your mind …” we need to get all the junks in our mind out of our way so we can keep running the race in Christ Jesus and have the victory God wants us to have.
Have a think session every day. Spend some time thinking about the scriptures that renew your mind with the truth about what God says —- about His love for you, His plan for you, how He wants you to live and behave. You can use a Bible with concordance to find verses that cover the areas you need to know more about. Write some of those passages down. place them in places where you will see everyday. In doing this, you experience the fullness of new life that we can all have in Christ Jesus.
PRAYER POINTS:
Read (2 Cor. 10:4-5) and pray as led.
CONFESSION:
I am Christ representative on earth. I love Him and want to be like Him, in compassion, humility, love and obedience. So help me God.
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