Welcome to the Jada Edwards podcast, where I get to take a few moments to share with you what God is sharing with me.

Hey, everybody, part two. All right. We are talking about how to change your mind, how to truly, practically, really change your mind.

And what we talked about in our last episode was some of the issues that I think believers face as we approach scripture,

thinking about anxiety and fear and doubt and all these things that we deal with all of the time,

even sin patterns in our thinking, patterns of sin

in our thinking, pride and greed and lust and all the things. But today I really want to focus

again on the anxiety issue and fear, doubt, all those things. But we were talking about some of

the issues that really face us, that make it hard for us to allow scripture to penetrate our hearts

the way it should. Number one, we approach it as a fixed to behavior. We're trying to just look for

a checklist of things to do better and do differently and then suddenly we're going to be different.

And that's not what it was intended to do. Hebrews 4 tells us that the scripture does everything

internal, that it scripture does everything internal,

that it divides soul and spirit, joint and marrow, thoughts and intentions of the heart. It's a two-edged

sword. It's sharp. It's piercing. It's meant to go beneath the surface into the deep things of who we

are so that truth can be planted in our innermost being and then changes from the inside out.

So we approach scripture as a fix to behavior, but also we tend to approach scripture as a band-date and we misdiagnose the things

we're wrestling with. We think that the fear or anxiety or doubt or anger or pride, we think those

things are scratches. And so because we think they're

just scratches, we just put a little band-aid of scripture on it and hope that it goes away.

But it's not. Those things are deep wounds and areas of sin and struggle in our hearts, in our

soul, which is why Jesus' response to the Pharisees in Matthew 23,

when they asked him, you know, what's the greatest commandment, trying to trip him up,

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