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  • Empowering Our Future with Mind Renewal – Part 1

    “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).
    The renewing of the mind can happen both in the positive and negative. Obviously, Romans 12:2 is about positive mind renewal, but the reality is that when we give our inner agreement (our “amen”) to a belief, mind renewal takes place and it impacts our future experiences.

    I used to only “renew my mind” with my feelings and experiences.

    • I felt weak, so I renewed my mind with the belief I was weak.
    • I struggled to have heart connections with people; therefore, I renewed my mind with the lie I did not do relationships well.
    • I used to think that certain geographical areas were hard for the gospel, so I renewed my mind with that belief and created an even more difficult experience for myself.

    I would passively agree with these feelings and experiences, regularly concluding they were the truth. Each agreement would strengthen the negative stronghold in my mind, and my future would be negatively transformed by these beliefs. (more…)

     
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  • Letting Go!

    In India, farmers had problems with monkeys stealing their crops so they designed a trap to catch them. They would tie a coconut to the side of a tree, cut a small hole inside the coconut and place a banana within the hole. When a monkey would smell the banana, it would stick its hand inside the hole to grab the fruit, but the hole was too small to let the monkey get both its hand and the banana out. Unwilling to let go of the banana, the monkey would stay in the same spot until it got caught.

    In the same way, we can sometimes refuse to let go of things that are not good for us. 
    Here are four things that are not worth holding onto:  (more…)

  • The power of our conclusions

    Our conclusions about circumstances are almost always more important than the circumstances themselves. Consider the story of the twelve spies in Numbers 13 and 14. The spies were commissioned to give a report to Moses and the children of Israel concerning the land God had promised to them. After forty days, they came back to Moses and were divided into two groups: 1) Joshua and Caleb, and 2) the other ten spies. Both saw the same set of circumstances but put a different conclusion to what they saw. Many factors contribute to how we make conclusions. Some of them are:

    • Whether we have the habit of magnifying the Lord or magnifying the problem (Psalm 34:3)
    • Whether we have been renewing our minds on spiritual faith food or worldly doubt food (Romans 12:2)
    • Whether we believe God has equipped us to be victorious or has not really promised that (Deuteronomy 28)
    • Whether we believe that opposition to our promises is normal or not  (1Timothy 1:18)

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