GIG285 Renewing Your Mind

Growing In God Podcast

Program Number: GIG #285

Title: Renewing Your Mind

 

Web Description: Imagine a recording continually playing in your mind, telling you how unworthy you are and how incapable you are of doing the will of God. This in effect is what takes place in our subconscious minds and works against what we are consciously trying to achieve. This podcast delves into the subconscious issues that we all face and offers some scriptural and practical solutions.

 

Show Notes: We know that Christ’s sacrifice on the cross brought salvation to the world. We also understand that our salvation is not only spiritual but also includes our physical bodies. We have salvation for the purpose of growing, maturing, and being transformed into His image. We are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice and experience transformation by the renewing of our minds. That means we must break out of the limitations in our thinking that still hold us in bondage to this world.

 

Scriptural directives like, “Do not be conformed to this world” and “be transformed” are meant to be acted on. We are the ones who do them. And yet so much in religious thinking makes us content to just be hearers of the Word rather than doers of the Word. We are called to “prove what the will of God is.” But religion is not known for proving things. That is what science does. And there is a concept that religion and science are at odds with each other.

 

When it comes to changing the conditionings and responses of our subconscious mind, which continue to hinder our growth, religious thinking has not been effective. On the other hand, recent scientific approaches to meditation have been very effective, even resulting in physical healing. It is not a matter of belief versus science. There are many limiting beliefs in our subconscious that are not the truth about what God says we are. So we reach into God to effectively remove these limitations.

 

Key Verses:

 

•       Romans 12:1–2. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

   Mark 12:30. “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH … ALL YOUR MIND.”

•       Ephesian 4:13. “Attain to … the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.”

•       Romans 8:19–21. “The creation itself also will be set free … into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.”

•       Matthew 12:1–4. “He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun.”

•       Philippians 2:12–13. “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”

•       2 Corinthians 3:16–18. “We all … are being transformed into the same image.”

 

Quotes:

 

•       “When we're giving our bodies as a living sacrifice, when we're seeking Him, when we're walking with Him, we are looking for this transformation into His presence, into His image.”

•       “What we find is a lot of times our subconscious mind is not supporting what our conscious mind wants to do. It's not supporting where we want to go in life, and it's not supporting what we want to accomplish in life. And therefore, we find ourselves struggling.”

•       “We must break out of limited thinking that is holding us in bondage.”

•       “Put it on a scientific footing where you're literally reaching to do something and prove how it works and why it works and what it does.”

 

Takeaways:

 

1.    Paul tells us that our physical bodies should be presented to the Lord once we experience salvation. Salvation is the beginning of our journey, not the end.

2.    Salvation begins the process of transformation in our lives for the purpose of proving the will of God in the physical world through our physical bodies. This transformation begins with the renewing of our minds.

3.    This is a scientific process, not a religious process. And we do not want our religious concepts getting in the way of our growth and maturity in God.

4.    Meditation has been a part of our teaching for years, and it has demonstrated its effectiveness in releasing people from the unconscious patterns that work against the will of God in their lives.