The Kingdom of God- Mental Recharge (Colossians 3:2)/ Rashea@LLO2 Academy
The ability to mentally recharge your mind is a proclivity and an internal decision that stems from your spirit. Burn out is real, and your soul and body can get burnt out from time to time. Hiwever, your spirit has the ability to recharge your triune being, when you take time to abide in the presence of God, and reflect on the Word of God.
.You must decide to think differently.
.You must will to think differently.
.You must put forth the conscience effort to think differently.
Why the conscience and not the conscious? Your conscience is governed by your spirit. Your conscious is governed by the 5 senses and the external world. It is imperative that you think, decide, will and make a conscience effort through your spirit and not your 5 senses alone.
To be carnally minded (governed by the flesh that is conformed to the debase nature of sin) is death and eternal destruction, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. The carnal mind opposes God and resist doing what is right. The carnal mind is not obedient to God's moral law nor can it be, because it is created in the nature of sin and disobedience. The carnal minds default is to dishonor and to disobey God (Romans 8:6-8).
The Kingdom of God is to yield and to commit your body as a holy vessel to God in thought, deed, decisions and communication. Then refresh your mind with God's Word and establish your thoughts, attitude, mood, and intellect) on God's Word (Romans 12:1-2).
Mentally the Kingdom of God requires:
.A conscience yielding to God's Word and to God's voice.
.A conscience commitment to God's Word and to God's voice in all areas of our intellect.
We must yield and commit to God's Word and to God's voice mentally not just spiritually. Too many Christian's are walking around spiritually free but mentally and emotionally bound, because there is a lack of submission and commitment to God's Word and to God's voice.👀 God doesn't just want us saved in our spirits. God wants us saved in our intellect, emotions, moods and attitude.
A Fixed Focus
God, through a renewed mind and through Kingdom principles, wants us to fix our focus on the truth of God's Word, so that we can produce the Kingdom of God through the right heart and the right frame of mind.
The Kingdom of God is to fix (to set; to establish; to look to unwaveringly; to stabilize; to direct your attention to; to gaze steadily upon in order to grasp the proper knowledge, understanding and wisdom of something or someone).
Fix your mind on things above and keep your mind set on what is above (heavenly things, higher things, the eternal things of God), not on the things that are on the earth (Colossians 3:2).
The Message Bible reveals that fixing our minds on heavenly things that stem from God's mind and heart is to see from God's perspective. In order for us to fix our minds on heavenly things and to see from God's perspective there has to be a shift and a change.
The Message Bible reveals that fixing our minds on heavenly things that stem from God's mind and heart and seeing things through God's perspective brings harmony. Let brotherly love continue God's way. If there is constant distress and discord within the body of Christ or in our homes, communities or in the workplace that is division and of the devil. God is the God of unity and not discord among the saints. God gives leaders in their respective roles to recognize discord and division, acknowledge it, check it and fix it as quickly as possible (2Timothy 2:23-26; 3:16-17).
The Living Bible teaches us that fixing our minds on God alleviates worry. Worry can be anxiety, stress, fear, frantic, paranoia, doubt, hopelessness or distress. As we fix our minds on God, God gives us His peace that surpasses all understanding (Isaiah 26:3; John 14:27).
The Bible also tells us to worry for nothing, but by prayer and earnest devotion make our request known to God (Philippians 4:6-7). Cast all our cares upon Jesus because He cares for us (Psalms 55:22; 1Peter 5:7). Your mind set has to become, I will not worry. What is out of my hands and control... I give to God to handle and to fix.
Instead of worrying the Bible encourages us to think on these things, whatever is true according to the Word of God, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God's Word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart] (Philippians 4:8/Amplified Version).
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