You can break the power of the lies in my life. I need You to show me the lies I believe. I cannot do it myself, and I acknowledge my dependence on You. I need Your Spirit’s help and ask You to break these destructive strongholds by Your divine power ( 2 Corinthians 10:4-5). I give You permission to show me the strongholds in my life. I want Your truth to be my final authority. Help me to believe Your truth on a daily basis. Help me to discipline my thought life with all my heart. I want to have a positive mind and life, honoring You in my thoughts. Lord, I pray that You would help me take every thought captive and think about whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy ( Philippians 4:8). Shouldn’t Christians be worn out by this brokenness? Our eyes get grimy by what we see, our ears get clogged by what we hear, and afterward our brains become polluted by what we have allowed in.

We cannot take a stroll on any road of any city without seeing it. It takes time and practice, yet it can be performed. We should pray that he assists us with getting our minds focused on what is acceptable and unadulterated. Most importantly, we need to be reading God’s Word every day and seek him in prayer. We need to remove the destructive intake with healthy material. Paul advises us to program our brains with the thoughts that are just, unadulterated, true, of good report, ethical, and worthy of praise.ĭo any of us have issues with polluted musings and fantasies? We need to look at what we are placing into our heads through the internet, TV, books, motion pictures, and magazines. What we put into our brains will influence what is displayed in our actions and is spread by our words. That should precede all the other things in this life. In any case, the most important need for us is to break through to Christ. Life is brimming with its more modest issues and obviously, they are genuine to us. Paul said that whatever things are lovely, honest, just, and true, we are to think on those things, the things of Christ. We should not turn out to be excessively attached to what is just transitory and temporary.įinally, 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 ( Philippians 4:8). The more we consider the life that is around us from God’s perspective, the more we live in amicability and harmony with him. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.' Can Christians Grow Closer to Having God's Thoughts? The New Living Translation puts it this way: “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. This is the counteract-ant or antidote to being materialistic we acquire the appropriate and proper viewpoint on material merchandise when we take on God’s perspective on life. Man’s thoughts and ways are only on earthly things, not heavenly things. If the unrighteous man would only forsake his wicked ways and thoughts, and come to the Lord, God will have mercy on him and pardon him ( Isaiah 55:7). Man thought that he knew all that he needed to know. So again, we see that man would not and did not think as God thought. Tragically, numerous Jews did not perceive or recognize Jesus as the Messiah, and they did not comprehend that God was offering salvation to everyone, Jew, or Gentile, who comes to him through confidence and faith in Jesus Christ. Paul, himself a Jew, adored his people ( Romans 9:1-5) and wanted to offer each of them the chance to go along with him in broadcasting God’s salvation. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles” ( Acts 13:46).įor what reason was it fundamental for the gospel to go to the Jews? God had arranged that through the Jewish people all the people of the world would come to know God ( Genesis 12:3). Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first.

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