30/05/2023
YOU HAVE TO RENEW YOUR MIND:
Every believer needs to understand that there’s a change that occurs in our human spirit at the point of accepting Christ.
Our human spirit is replaced by a recreated spirit that carries the nature of God. This is actually what makes us God’s children and is what it means to be born again. That’s the greatest thing that can happen and should happen to any person.
WHY YOU HAVE TO RENEW YOUR MIND
As children of God, we do not possess the old nature of sin and death anymore. We now possess eternal and spiritual life. We can boldly say we belong to God.
But it’s important to note that our minds (or souls) and bodies did not change at the point of salvation; It’s only our spirit that experienced change and became exactly like Christ. Our minds and bodies remain the same!
Our bodies will eventually be changed to become exactly like Christ’s at the rapture (or the resurrection of the saints) when Christ returns into the world; But then, we are expected to renew our minds.
To renew the mind means to change our mindset. We are to correct our thoughts and thinking pattern and start reasoning differently in line with who we are now, and the benefits that belongs to us. This is what we are expected to do through our stay in this world! It’s an endless work, and that’s what brings spiritual growth.
We are to change our mindset by God’s written word because only God’s word can clearly explain our new reality. It explains the things we have received and have been empowered to do.
The more we study, speak and act God’s word, the more the mind gets renewed.
The old contents of the mind and way of seeing God, the world and ourselves in it gets reshaped. We now begin to see things in a new light. We will also begin to see the physical reality of God’s word in our lives. This way people won’t doubt the reality of our salvation experience. We will actively live above sin, sicknesses and diseases, and put an end to the works of the devil in our lives. Our bodies will begin to cooperate with our recreated spirit to express God’s nature.
DECLARE: I will renew my mind to God’s word and begin to walk in the reality of all I have become, been given and empowered to do in Christ. I see remarkable spiritual growth in my life. Hallelujah!
(FURTHER READING: Romans 12:1-2, Ephesians 4:17-32, Colossians 3:1-17)
(1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Mark 14-16 )
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