The Renewed Mind!

There’s a battle going on to control your mind. Perhaps some strongholds of wrong thinking have taken hold in your mind that need to be broken. You can’t keep thinking in negative ways and have the new things God wants to do in your life, but what do you do?

The apostle Paul says the answer is to renew our minds. He says, “Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).

We can’t let this world’s culture squeeze us into its mold with its wrong types of thinking. When you renew your mind, you transform your life.

If you’ve given your life to Jesus, you’re a brand-new creation, and your spirit has been made new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

The problem is that we have old habits, addictions, and strongholds in our thinking that are contrary to what God wants us to think.

Our mind needs to catch up with what’s going on in our spirit, which can only happen when we are no longer conforming to our old thinking.

When you read the Word of God and put yourself under its teaching, you dislodge strongholds in your mind. You break the grip that wrong thoughts have over you.

Fortunately, we have the Word of God at our fingertips—printed Bibles, Bible websites and apps, Christian music, podcasts, radio, and TV. We choose what we read, listen to, and watch, and when you put yourself under the Word of God, the strongholds that are trying to hold you back will be broken.

Paul says, “To Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or imagine.” I love that. God can do anything, but listen to the second part: “According to the power that works in us” (Ephesians 3:20).

God is saying that when you align your mind with the power of God that’s in you, your mind will be transformed.

You’re in a battle, and it’s time to stand up and declare, “I’m not going to be held down by old ways and negative patterns of thinking. I’m going to live in the Word every day.”

Whether you’re fighting an addiction or an illness or wrong thought patterns, listen to the Word of God constantly and let it bathe and transform your mind as it renews you. It will detox all those old ways and bring you into the new ways of God.