Transformed Mind

Today I am back to one scripture that I find totally fascinating and by which the doors to true faith are being opened. I am finding so much relevance in this scripture, that even though I have previous messages on Romans 12:2, I am again going to be writing about being transformed through the renewing of your mind.

Romans 12:2 "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed through the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

Programmed by the world.

I am very involved in the world of online marketing to supplement my income, and sell quite a range of products of which weight loss products are one of my specialities. I have a number of products that are extremely good which include Hoodia, Acai Berry and Proactol, but the top product does not consist of a pill, but rather a program that is followed. It involves no real diet, no major exercise system, and yet the people who do embark on this course lose weight easily and permanently. This course uses what I call the "X" factor to encourage people to lose weight. What is the "X" factor. It is simply the deprogramming of the world system that you have adopted and the renewing of the mind. The program is called Weight Loss God's Way and Romans 12:2 forms one of the core principles of the course.

What amazes me to no end is the fact that 9 out of ten people will rather buy a pill that may help them lose a little weight, or they will buy a strict diet that is going to make them so miserable that they will fall out of the diet and feel a total failure, before they are willing to trust in God and to use a system that is guaranteed to make them lose weight both easily and permanently.

Why? Simply put, people are programmed to trust a pill or a worldly system before they are prepared to trust in God, who created them, to fix their problems.

People who are sick, and I am talking about good solid faith filled christians, are more likely to trust in a pill prescribed by a doctor, than in a word from God that tells them to do something else that will cure their sickness. We are programmed to place our trust in places that do not belong to the Lord Jesus. Yes, I do know that Doctors are good and serve a great purpose, but do you know that God is far greater and far more knowledgeable than any Doctor! God says that when we are sick, we should call for the elders of the church to anoint us with oil in the name of the Lord, and to pray for us ( James 5:15).

Whether we choose to confess it or not, we have all become conformed (Moulded To) to this worlds standards and requirements of us. We are programmed to the worlds system.

Breaking Free from the world's programming.

The day that we accept the Lord Jesus into our lives as Lord and Saviour, we are filled with love for Jesus, and also given the power of the name of Jesus, so that we may break free from the worldly systems that have held us captive. The largest problem is that we have been given the love of Jesus and the power of Jesus as a gift, and for many people it is one of those gifts that are seldom used, but rather put aside and kept on show somewhere.

Someone I know had a son who was walking to work daily. The walk was a fair distance and this family got together and feeling sorry for the young man having to walk to and from work daily, decided to buy a small car for him to save him the long walk. The gift was well recieved and well looked after by the young man who was very proud of his new possesion, washing, cleaning and showing off his new gift to everyone, but alas, he never ever drove in the car because he just felt so much more comfortable walking to and from work.

Many Christians are the exact same as this young man. They  love Jesus, proudly show the love of Jesus to others, they know the power of the gift they have received in the name of Jesus, but they are more comfortable carrying on in their old wordly ways and therefore they fail to ever use the power of the name of Jesus to set themselves free from the situations that they find themselves in. 

You have to break free from the mould that the world has placed you in, and undergo change by renewing the way that you think and accepting the power that has been given to us in the name of Jesus, and start using it.

How Do I Renew My Mind.

One of the most frequent questions asked is, "How do I renew my Mind?" This is in fact so simple that it escapes most people. To each of us is given a measure of  faith when we accept Jesus as Lord of our lives. The faith that is given to us is the gift that we can choose to either use or place on show on the mantlepiece. When we start to choose to  use the gift instead of the wordly system, and our trust in the gift is greater than our trust in the wordly system, we have begun the renewing of our mind.

When we choose to rather use the faith that is given to us, we undergo an automatic renewing of our mind, that continues to manifest itself into a transformed being. "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind", implies that we will start to undergo physical change. When we place our trust in God's word to lose weight and we apply His systems into our lives, our bodies undergo a transformation and we become that  good and acceptable person that God created us to be. ( God actually says that we must test Him in this fact - "That you may prove.")

When we start to rather seek prayer and the annointing by oil of the elders when we are sick, and to follow what God tells us to do, instead of following what the doctors are telling us, the faith that we start to exhibit is a renewing of the mind and you will start to walk in the health and healing that Jesus has promised.

When you are in financial difficulties, start to give away what you have. The world's system says that you must take what you have and hide it away so that nobody can take it away from you. It is the worldly investment system. God's investment system is to take what you have, give some to the church in order to further His work, and give to the poor and needy, that they may be fed and clothed. When you do this, He will look after it for you and return it to you, a good measure, pressed down and running over! (Do you still want to renew your mind.) 

Start to renew your mind today through the forsaking of the worldly system and by placing your trust in the word of God.