RENEWING OF YOUR MIND
1. Be transformed
2. My thoughts are not your thoughts
3. Thoughts of peace
4. The Lord’s counsel will stand.
5. Have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6. Consider him
7. To be carnally minded is death
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RENEWING OF YOUR MIND
1. Be transformed
Romans 12 : 2
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Matthew 22 : 37
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
1 Corinthians 2 : 16
16 for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
Proverbs 23 : 7
1 Corinthians 13 : 11
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
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2. My thoughts are not your thoughts
Isaiah 55 : 8 - 9
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Proverbs 3 : 5 - 7
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord and shun evil.
Proverbs 16 : 3
3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and he will establish your plans.
Isaiah 48 : 17
17 This is what the Lord says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go.
Isaiah 42 : 16
16 I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,
along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light before them
and make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do;
I will not forsake them.
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3. Thoughts of peace
Jeremiah 29 : 11
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 26 : 3
3 You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.
Philippians 4 : 6 - 8
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
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4. The Lord’s counsel will stand.
Proverbs 19 : 21
21 There are many plans in a man’s heart,
Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand.
Psalm 33 : 11
11 But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations
Job 42 : 2
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
Isaiah 14 : 24
24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,
“Surely, as I have planned, so it will be,
and as I have purposed, so it will happen.
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5. Have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Philippians 2: 1 - 11
1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
James 4: 6 - 10
6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
1 Peter 5 : 5 - 9
5 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
Romans 12 : 3
3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
Romans 12 : 16
16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.Do not be conceited.
Galatians 6 : 3
3 If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.
Acts 20 : 19
19 I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents.
2 Kings 5 : 9 - 14
9 So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house.
10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”
11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.
13 Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!”
14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.
2 Timothy 1 : 7
7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
1 Peter 1 : 13
13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
James 1 : 5 - 8
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
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6. Consider him
Hebrews 12 : 1 – 3
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
1 Peter 4 : 12 - 14
12 Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
13 But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
14 If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Genesis 50 : 20
20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
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7. To be carnally minded is death
Romans 8 : 6
6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
2 Corinthians 10: 3 - 5
3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Hebrews 4 : 12
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Psalm 139 : 23
23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Proverbs 14 : 12
12 There is a way that appears to be right,
but in the end it leads to death.
Matthew 7 : 13 - 14
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Proverbs 12 : 5
5 The plans of the righteous are just,
but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
Matthew 15 : 19
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Philippians 3 : 17 - 19
17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.
18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.
2 Corinthians 4 : 4
4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Psalm 10 : 4
4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
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