Choosing to Manage My Mind — Part 1

Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Does it seem like the thoughts you don't want to think are what you can't stop thinking about? How do you focus your mind on the things that lead to the freedom only found in Christ? Join Pastor Rick as he teaches the biblical way to manage your thoughts.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.
0:09.1	Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series
0:15.0	called Rethinking Your Life. In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars we need to reshape our minds so that we can
0:24.2	become more like Jesus Christ. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with a message called
0:30.3	Choosing to Manage My Mind. Now, let's begin with Romans 12, verse 2. If you'll take out your message notes, Romans 12, 2 is one of the theme verses for this series.
0:42.2	And let's begin with it.
0:43.4	In the New Living Translation, it says this, do not be conform to the pattern of this world,
0:48.8	but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. And that's what this whole series is about by changing the way you think.
0:55.8	And that's what this whole series is about, changing the way you think.
0:59.0	You know, God is far more interested in changing my mind than he is in changing my circumstances.
1:05.5	We always want God to change our circumstances.
1:07.6	God wants to change your mind.
1:09.3	Now, before we look at how to manage your mind,
1:12.5	how to make your mind mind, have you ever noticed your mind doesn't always obey you? Well,
1:17.9	we're going to look at today how to make your mind mind or how to manage your mind. But first I want
1:22.1	to review why it's so important that I manage my mind. Now I gave you about 11 reasons in the very first message to this series, but let me just mention a couple in review. I need to learn how to manage my mind because, number one, my thoughts control my life. My thoughts control my life. If you have good thoughts, you're going to have a good life. You have bad thoughts, you're going to have a bad life. If you have sick thoughts, you're going to have a sick life.
1:46.0	If you have sinful thoughts, you're going to have sinful life.
1:48.0	Proverbs 423 says,
1:50.0	Be careful how you think.
1:52.0	Your life is shaped by your thoughts.
1:56.0	We control what we eat, we control what we believe,
2:00.0	we control what we drink, but we don't always
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