Experiencing God's Promises through the Renewing of Your Mind

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In our second devotional positioning ourselves to more fully experience God’s promises, today we’re going to look at the role of renewing our minds in opening our heads and hearts to receive all God longs to give. May God do a mighty work today as we make space for him to fill.

Our Scripture for today comes from Romans 12:2, and today's worship is Just Jesus by Mark & Sarah Tillman.

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0:00.0	In our second episode positioning ourselves to more fully experience God's promises.
0:10.0	Today we're going to look at the role of renewing our minds and opening our heads and hearts
0:16.4	to receive all that God longs to give.
0:19.6	May God do a mighty work today as we make space for him to fill.
0:24.1	Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse of today comes from Romans 12, verse 2.
0:44.9	Paul writes, do not be conformed to this world,
0:49.9	but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the
0:56.6	will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
1:05.3	There's a battle being waged constantly for your mind.
1:09.7	This battle isn't about flesh and blood, but instead about experiencing the very promises of God.
1:17.0	You see, your mind is the place where emotions, perspectives, and decisions all collide.
1:25.0	Where lies in truth, wage war.
1:29.0	It's where you can choose to experience God
1:32.0	and see the world as he does, or choose a different path
1:37.1	and struggle in life to attain any sense of his promises at all.
1:43.8	Paul writes on Second Corinthians 10, 4 through 5.
1:48.4	For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
1:55.0	We destroy arguments in every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ.
2:07.0	Paul makes it clear that there is a very real spiritual battle happening in which taking your thoughts captive
2:16.5	is a chief weapon. So let's look today at the weapon of renewing your mind and how to effectively use it to experience all
2:26.2	that God has in store for you.
2:30.7	In God we have an incredible ally in the war for our minds.
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