Are You Getting God's Best?

• If you continue to fill your mind with messages that promote lust, greed, pride, desires of the flesh, or whatever, you are giving lots of room for these thoughts to become a mindset – a mind set on the things I fill it with.

• A worldly mindset is a mind filled with the values of this world, conforming to the pattern of this world.

You have to shut off that supply line, and renew your mind with the truths of God’s Word.

• You will experience something amazing – your thinking will change.

• And because of that, your desires and attitudes will begin to change. You’ll find your behaviour changing because some things just don’t appeal to you anymore.

You see, the change in your behaviour did not come by focusing on your behaviour.

It comes by changing your thinking. Here are some practical ways to renew your mind:

(1) Hear God’s Word – faith comes from hearing the Word (Rom 10:17)

(2) Read God’s Word – we grow in the knowledge of God (Col 1:10)

(3) Study God’s Word – Paul says to Timothy, so that you can “correctly handles the word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15)

(4) Memorize God’s Word – Psalm 119:11 “I have hidden your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”

(5) Meditate on God’s Word – the one who meditates “is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” (Psa 1:3)

Josh 1:8 “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”

(2) DO NOT QUENCH THE SPIRIT (1 Thess 5:19)

The Holy Spirit is our Helper, the Lord says. He reminds us of the truth. He prompts and enlightens.

• Jesus says in John 16:13-15 “13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. 15All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.”

• “For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose.” (Phil 2:13)

It is interesting to note that this word “renewal” in Romans 12:2 is only used one other place in all the Greek Bible - Titus 3:5 where Paul says this: “[God] saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.”

• It is renewal “of the Holy Spirit.” The Spirit renews our mind with the truths of God’s Word. It is decisively His work.

• Transformation is not switching from the To-Do List of the flesh to the To-Do List of the law (the Bible). When Paul replaces the list — the works of the flesh, he does not replace it with the works of the law, but the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:19-22).