How to Get God's Best for Your Life, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you want to get God’s best but don’t know how? Chip unpacks how you can get God’s very best for your life.
Negative Command: “Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world…”
- Passive voice
- Imperative
- Present tense
Translation: Stop allowing yourselves to be molded by the influences and pressures of this present world system.
Application: We are to be SEPARATE from the world’s values. -1 Jn. 2:15-17
Summary: The world’s system seeks to SEDUCE us from our love for Christ by PLEASURE, POSSESSIONS, and POSITION.
Positive Command: “…but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
- Passive voice
- Imperative
- Present tense
Translation: But allow God to completely change your inward thinking and outward behavior by cooperating wholeheartedly moment-by-moment with the Spirit’s renewing process.
Application: Are you shaped more by the WORLD or the WORD? -Mat. 4:4; 2 Cor. 3:18
The means of transformation: “…by the renewing of your mind.”
- Renewing your mind is a continual REFOCUS of a Romans 12:1 perspective.
- Renewing your mind will always involve a BATTLE.
- Renewing your mind is a SUPERNATURAL work of the Spirit.
Practical methods for “Renewing Your Mind”
- HEARING God’s Word -Rom. 10:17
- Use your TIME wisely. Be in the Word.
- READ God’s Word -Rev. 1:3
- STUDY God’s Word -2 Tim. 2:15
- MEMORIZE God’s Word -Psa. 119:9,11
- MEDITATE on God’s Word -Jos. 1:8
A tool for transformation: The “2PROAPT” Method
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.5 | Are you getting God's best? |
| 0:17.0 | I mean, the God of the universe who created all there is and loves you wants the highest, |
| 0:22.8 | the best for you in every area of your life. |
| 0:26.7 | Is that what you're experiencing? |
| 0:28.6 | Well, if not, stick around. |
| 0:31.8 | Ever wonder why so many Christians feel stuck? |
| 0:35.1 | They genuinely love Jesus, but their lives don't reflect it. |
| 0:39.1 | Today, on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram exposes the invisible battle happening in every |
| 0:43.8 | believer's mind. |
| 0:45.3 | The world constantly pressures you to conform through screens, relationships, and endless |
| 0:50.7 | messages about what makes you valuable. |
| 0:53.4 | Meanwhile, God invites transformation through renewing your mind with his truth. |
| 0:58.3 | This isn't about trying harder or being a better person through willpower. |
| 1:02.5 | It's about allowing God's word to reshape how you think, which transforms how you live. |
| 1:08.3 | Now here's Chip Ingram with today's message, how to get God's best for your life. |
| 1:13.5 | Have you ever wondered why there are so many decisions and so few disciples? |
| 1:21.5 | Here's what I mean by that. I mean, what I know historically right now in the next 24 hours, |
| 1:26.9 | tens of thousands of people all across the world |
| 1:30.0 | will make decisions to follow Christ. |
| 1:33.2 | They'll get it where you realize, |
| 1:35.3 | I've sinned before a holy God. |
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