02/09/2026
DAILY STRENGTH
2nd September 2026
Pastor Benjamin Njatha
_Ephesians 4:22-24 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
RENEWED IN REPENTANCE
Repentance should be the effect of beholding the glory of Christ. We see the glory of Christ through communion with the Holy Spirit.
We have to take Repentance for what it is; it is much to do with the state of the mind than it is with obtaining forgiveness. The word that is translated repentance is metanoia. A compound Greek word. Meta (change, growth, expansion), Noia( ideally the mind, intellectual faculty). Basically repentance is a change of perspective or worldvies, an expansion of the mind that results in change in lifestyle or response. This is what seeing Jesus Christ in Scripture, prayer or fellowship with other Christians will do to us.
With this kind of approach, we know then that the focus of repentance is not sin but the mind. One can be at a very good level of enlightenment yet still have a change of mind in a progressive way. Not only that, repentance is a continous exercise of the saint because the saint's utmost desire is to conform to the totality of Christ and be the icon; the exact representation of the Father in time-space.
Repentance is the means by which we grow in all things into him. There are few endeavors more important than this.
MY EXTRA MILE READING:
2 Peter 1
MY THOUGHTS ARE ON THIS
The mind of a Christian should be in a state of continuous reconstruction, there is an image we should all aim to attain and retain in our mind; the person and glory of the risen Christ.
MY CONFESSION IS THIS
He gives power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But I that wait upon the LORD shall renew [my] strength; I shall mount up with wings as eagles; I shall run, and not be weary; [and] I shall walk, and not faint.