How to Get God's Best for Your Life, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
There's a way to experience real life change, and it isn’t about trying harder; it’s about a completely new way of thinking.
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. |
| 0:14.2 | Do you want to change? |
| 0:16.2 | I mean, do you want to do life differently, but you just can't seem to make it stick? |
| 0:21.6 | Well, here's what you need to know. There's a way to experience real and lasting life change and it isn't about |
| 0:27.4 | trying harder. It's about a completely new way of thinking. Today, we're going to talk about |
| 0:34.7 | how this process can begin in your life. Stay with me. |
| 0:39.3 | How do you actually change lifelong patterns? Workaholism, people-pleasing, insecurity? For years, you've tried harder and mustered willpower, but nothing sticks. |
| 0:51.3 | Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram reveals why trying harder never |
| 0:55.7 | works and what actually does. He'll share his own battle with these issues and the specific tools |
| 1:01.8 | that brought real transformation. From hearing and reading God's word to memorizing and meditating |
| 1:07.6 | on scripture, you'll discover practical methods for renewing your mind. |
| 1:12.1 | Now let's join Chip Ingram for a very important message titled, How to Get God's Best for |
| 1:17.1 | Your Life. Here's what Romans 121 said. Therefore, I urge you my brothers in view of God's mercy. |
| 1:23.6 | Remember 11 chapters of His love for you? Offer your body a living and holy sacrifice well-pleasing to |
| 1:29.9 | god this is your spiritual service in other words that's what god really wants but here's the question |
| 1:35.7 | it's one thing to give god what he really wants second question is how do you get the very best from |
| 1:42.8 | god and it's interesting that's verse two. |
| 1:45.8 | He's going to say, and do not be conformed any longer to this world, but be transformed |
| 1:51.4 | by the renewing of your mind that your life, in other words, your lifestyle, what you |
| 1:55.7 | actually experience would be the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. |
| 2:02.6 | And so here's the key. What I want you to get, |
| 2:10.0 | review. Stop allowing the world to conform you. Start being transformed. Here's what I want to camp on. |
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