Welcome back to the morning mindset. It is time for us to get our minds aligned with the

truth of God. Now these last four episodes we've been talking exactly about that issue. What does it mean to set your mind

on the things of God, on the things of the Spirit, as the Apostle Paul says? And I mentioned in yesterday's episode if you haven't listened to that go back in fact I would encourage you to go back and listen to the last three or four because we've been talking extensively about this issue of setting your mind and what it means and the power

that it can be for everyday living.

But I mentioned yesterday that I was going to give you an example, kind of a don't know I didn't say it this way but kind of a

sorted example of what it is like to set your mind now let's think about people who have

problems with some of the more unseemly things that we see in life. People who are obsessed with some sort of vice.

Maybe it's alcohol, maybe it's drugs,

maybe it's some kind of a sexual addiction,

those kinds of things.

And I'm not saying what I'm about to say to be critical

or to be, shall I say, uncharitable or unmerciful toward people who have that very real struggle that we're

addressing. The reason I point this out is to just point out an observation. People

in those kinds of struggles have their minds typically set on the thing they struggle with.

You see they think a lot about it, right? They think about alcohol, if they're an

alcoholic. They think about sexual things if they are a sex addict.

You see what I'm saying?

Their mind is set on that thing.

It's something they obsess over, they seek after,

they pursue mentally before they pursue it physically. It is a mind set. It is a place they

have chosen either through compulsion or through an active decision of the will to set their minds.

And that is an example, it's a demonstration of what it means to set your mind. And in this case, I would say it's

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