Change Your Mind

(Notes from message by Joyce Meyer)


**You cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results!

**Renewing your mind is a life- long process.

**John 10:10
God came that we may enjoy life!

**We need to learn how to think the way God thinks-- really start paying attention to what your thinking about.


**The greatest freedom you have is the freedom of choice.

**II Corinthians 10:4-5
4)For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds,
5)[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasoning's and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)

**You CAN control your thoughts and have your mind renewed.

**Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

**Don't be conformed to this world, but be changed, renewed, in your minds.

**Renew your mind with the Word of God--study it everyday--it is full of life and has power!!

**Ephesians 4:22-24
22)Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion;
23)And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude],
24)And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God's image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.

** You can't change until you change and renew your mind.

**God is not pleased with our stinkin thinkin!!

STEPS TO RENEW YOUR MIND:
*Recognize what is wrong.
*Repent of it.
*Ask God to help you change.
*Study God's word-- the parts that pertain to what you need to change.

*Proverbs 23:7
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].

**How you think is how you will become.

**We must believe all thing and all people can change. --All things are possible with God!!

*Ephesians 3:20 (Amplified Bible)
Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]--



** GOD CAN CHANGE ANYTHING, ANYONE, ANY CIRCUMSTANCE!!