1 Romans 12:1-2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Be not conformed - do not traffic in camouflage or don't adapt or blend in. If you're truly gonna be one that stands out and you're gonna be outstanding for the Kingdom, this means there a lot of invitations and a lot of things that you're gonna have to stand out of.
* It doesn't matter if you've been in church your whole life or you can quote the whole books in the Bible, if you're trying to change and you feel as though you cannot change, it's tied to the fact that you have not took intentionality in renewing your mind. The only way you're gonna have transformation is you have to have a new mindset.
The devil loves to traffic in manipulation, deceit, trickery. He loves mind games. Reverse victim confusion - the disorder of when you wronged me but you acting like you the victim.
* Projection Infection - the illness of where how they see becomes your belief. They project their fears on you. Why they're not endorsing or supporting you? It's not that because they don't believe in you. It's because they don't believe in themselves and they project that thought pattern on you and the worst thing we could ever do is adjust to their projection.
* Never confuse adjusting as healing just because you have adjusted to the dysfunction or abuse does not mean you're healed from it. You can sit in the dark and eventually your eyes will adjust to the darkness but that does not mean you have night vision.
Moved People - Holy Spirit wants us to be purpose of cross or gospel
- Moved from familiar to forward; from petty to being unbothered; rebellion to repentance; death to life; lost to found; distracted to focused
We can never have a movement unless we have first become moved.
devil is not omniscient not omnipresent not all knowing
The only person that can be everywhere at the same time is God.
The devil doesn't have that much power, doesn't know what you're thinking, doesn't know what you're going to do, doesn't know the power of your purpose, he doesn't know. Greatest enemy is my inner me.
We don't have swift obedience because we allowed that inner critic our therapist.
Have you allowed your inner critic to be your counselor instead of the Holy Spirit to be a wonderful counselor? You're trying so hard to change, you're using willpower but many times a temporary fix will actually add more problems to the original problem because you're trying to change it on your own.
Inner Me - that mental bully that keeps defeating us to submission; it keeps me subscribed to everybody else's criticism
Keeps us entertaining stagnant people. What if I told you, you didn't fall for him, but your insecurity tripped you or your low self-esteem tripped you.
Sometimes that has us entertaining manipulators and the crazy thing about manipulators they try to convince you to be grateful for eating crumbs.
God wants to take you to new heights, to new levels. He wants you to come out into the deep. He wants you to know the unknown waters. He wants for you to grow, to be strong, but He has to first address your head, the way you think.
BE TRANSFORMED BY RENEWING YOUR MIND.
The Lord prepared a table for me in the presence of my enemies. Not crumbs but a table.
It is dangerous when you cannot discern when it is time to shift. When it is time to move, it is a threat to your destiny, to your calling when you cannot identify when something has expired - expired people, thought patterns, relationships.
When you cannot identify expiration dates, you end up consuming stuff that's spoiled. And you wonder why you're sick in your heart or your emotions, it's because you can't recognize this is no longer needed for your destiny. If you don't have discernment in this area, you'll stay in seasons longer than you have to and you'll make that very thing that God was using to be a season for it to actually transition into being a state.
Some things we have to deal with are divinely set up, other things are self-constructed. An area that the enemy likes to slither in and most of us don't like to address is - he likes to slither in former enticements. The war is not just over your calling (not just over your assignment), that war is also over your mind and your appetite.
AS A MAN THINKETH SO IS HE.
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS
What is your appetite?
No growth is no threat to the enemy.
We're so caught up with our AT LEAST LIST that it has blindfolded us the reality that we don't even crave forward because we're so caught up consuming familiar. You can never reach up and grab your upward calling while still holding on to your downward craving. It's your mindset.
There's nothing more comical to the enemy than us being saved but powerless. Transformation must happen in your head first.
Your mind is the epicenter of your life because you will always move in the direction of your most dominant thoughts.
YOUR LIFE IS CONSTRUCTED BY HOW YOU THINK.
How you handle information, content, intel - the way you think up scenarios. Some of us, your mind is a cinema and you keep making up scenarios. Have you ever made up a scenario in your head and you begin to get mad at the scenario and it's not even true. You're mislabeling bad days as bad thought patterns.
Your mind is the soil - to provide room and board for that seed and to push the identity of that seed out.
Therefore view people as gardeners because whoever you talk to they plant seeds. Whatever you watch / music, whatever you're doing is planting seeds and you wonder why you can't change, stuck or no growth.
Out of all the place where God could have chose for Him to make a public spectacle over the enemy, He chose a place called Golgotha which in Aramaic is the place of the skull. God knows if you want to be victorious in your life, you have to first be victorious in your head.
And when Jesus gave His life the veil of the temple was torn from the top to bottom because the way you gonna have breakthrough is when things start to get torn in your mind which will manifest in your life.
We want to keep going to a new level feet first and the reason it feels like your life keeps going in circles is because God keeps turning you around.
* INTELLECT - library
* IMAGINATION - canvas
* MEMORY - flash drive
* WILL - steering wheel
Example: your intellect holds unforgiveness, so everytime somebody new comes in your life, your imagination is going to make you think that they're going to do the same thing, now your memory keeps on thinking all men are the same.
FORGIVENESS FREES YOUR MIND.
If you put on God's word in your intellect, you're going to start imagining yourself free, whole, at a whole another level, then the will of your life will start doing the will of God, so now He can give the desires after your heart because your desires are after His desires, and your will is to do His will. And all that started because I'm putting the Word of God in my intellect. If I don't put it in my intellect / head, I'll never experience it in my will. And a lot of us keep wondering why do I keep willing to do wrong, it's starting with what you're putting in your library.
Are your friends conducive for where you want your will to turn?
How do I renew my mind?
1. MENTAL DETOX
Whatever I eat in private, I'm gonna wear in public. Have to identify the toxin (music, tv shows, toxic atmospheres). Put a shark on land, it's not as strong, why? Because it is not its atmosphere.
View your flesh, your lust as a shark, it's a beast if you put it in the right atmosphere, but if you take it out and let it dry, you starve it.
YOUR FLESH WILL EMBARRASS YOU. NEVER TRUST YOUR FLESH.
2. TRIGGER AWARENESS
A trigger is anything that prompts a return. What in my life will prompt me to go back?
Missing them does not mean return.
Isolation - is our attempt to hide the bleeding of trauma. You're not just cutting everybody off, you're hurt.
3. RELAPSE PREVENTION
Prepare. What you're gonna do if that ex comes back?
Bitterness just contaminates the container.
Spiritual wisdom without practical reinforcement are the ingredients for relapse. Pray, read the Word and run 3 miles. I can't have my life filled with just spiritual wisdom and no recreational activity. Do something as well that's not sinful but it lets me have fun.
Biblical Christianity is not boring.
Lack of calling engagement and recreation is having us say we're lonely.
4. STAY LOADED WITH THE WORD OF GOD (Psalm 1)
No comments:
Post a Comment