Transformation of Mind Begins with God
[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”14″ css=”.vc_custom_1519139948548{padding-top: 44px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1519046037656{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][qode_elements_holder number_of_columns=”one_column”][qode_elements_holder_item item_padding=”30px” horizontal_alignment=”left” advanced_animations=”no”][vc_column_text]The Lord has put great potentials in each one of us. We all have the capacity to become or develop to produce more than we are producing right now. There’s so much inside you that needs to come out.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]But how do I identify my potential and develop it? I don’t think there’s any good in me, my situation is worse and my problem is beyond redemption. Does that describe you? I have good news for you, the answers to life’s questions begins with God and ends with Him. He created you, first in His image and had plans and purposes for how your life would be on this earth. And it all starts with you desiring to transform your life by changing the way you think and perceive things.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]Transformation is changing from meaninglessness to completeness. It changes you from defeat and disappointment to faith and victory. Transformation changes you from lack of self-confidence and inferiority to courage and boldness. It helps you to become all that God created you to be.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]You can and should participate in the process of putting off the old man and putting on the new man, but ultimately both the process and the outcome belongs to God; He is the one who transforms people. Everybody can be assisted in the all-important work of being renewed in his or her mind (Rom.12:2; 2Cor. 4:16) by practicing the spiritual disciplines: Examples are, Bible study, memorization of scriptures, prayer, worship, service, ministry, witnessing, missions, giving to God, fasting and church attendance.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]A man’s life is what His thoughts make of it. The way you think determines the way you feel and the way you feel determines the way you act. The way you feel begins with the thoughts, feeling anxious, frustrated, defeated, depressed, all starts with a thought. If you can change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and can change the way you act. Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1Peter 1:13[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]Change and your spiritual well-being[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]To know God is to have a personal relationship with Him through Jesus Christ His Son. The relationship we have with God is the truth of salvation – that it is a gift of God that comes by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8-9) is an example of His exceedingly rich kindness that believers will never completely fathom.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][blockquote text=”“Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones“ (Proverbs 3:7-8 NKJV).” show_quote_icon=”yes” width=”95″ line_height=”32″ quote_icon_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]The moment you begin to stay away from God, the more difficulties, trials, temptations, troubles, you are going to get in life because you are not acknowledging your creator in your life, and also not following His plan for your life. “Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death” (Proverbs 10:2 NKJV). Holding on unto unrighteousness is potholed, crowded with thorns, rocky road. The closer you get to God, the more your life is going to be transformed.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]Mary Magdelene was a woman from whom Jesus cast out seven demons ( Luke 8:2). After her deliverance, she became a follower of Jesus Christ. She was one of the women who were last to leave Jesus tomb when He was crucified and the first to witness His resurrection, and she was sent by Jesus to tell the others (John 20:11-18).[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]Paul’s life demonstrates God’s amazing ability to redeem and transform. Paul once lived as an enemy of the Christian faith. He sought to destroy everything that Christ achieved through His death and resurrection. Yet God did not simply stop Paul; in His grace He utterly transformed Paul. He even took Paul’s strengths as a Pharisee – his knowledge of the Hebrew Bible, his education in the Greek and Roman system, and his overwhelming zeal and used it to help spread the gospel (Acts 9:3-6).[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]When Moses came down from Mount Sinai after getting closer to God for forty days and forty nights, his physical appearance was transformed and the Israelites could not look at his face, because his face shone with the glory of God (Exodus 34:29-30).[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”47px”][vc_column_text]Your life can also be transformed and used by God when you give Him your mind. God is not mad at you, He loves you and thinks of you as wonderful even in your messed up times.[/vc_column_text][/qode_elements_holder_item][/qode_elements_holder][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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