How to Get God's Best for Your Life

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Would you like to get God’s best for your life? Chip continues in Romans 12, and reveals how you can get God’s best.

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	This is the Chip Ingram Sermon podcast, brought to you by Living on the Edge.
0:06.8	In this podcast, you'll hear Chip's teaching unedited and from beginning to end.
0:12.7	Now here's Chip Ingram with today's message, how to get God's best for your life.
0:17.5	Have you ever wondered why there are so many decisions and so few disciples?
0:25.8	Here's what I mean by that. I mean, what I know historically right now in the next 24 hours,
0:31.3	tens of thousands of people all across the world will make decisions to follow Christ.
0:37.4	They'll get it where you realize I've sinned before a holy God for God, all across the world will make decisions to follow Christ.
0:39.2	They'll get it where you realize,
0:41.2	I've sinned before a holy God.
0:42.8	Christ died in my place.
0:43.9	He rose from the dead.
0:46.1	And you place your faith in him and he takes you from the kingdom of darkness
0:47.5	to the kingdom of light.
0:50.8	But I'm guessing that we all have either a short
0:53.1	or long list of friends, and for many of us,
0:55.2	I've certainly been there myself, where that's a reality. His spirit came into your life.
1:01.8	You begin to make some progress. You started to grow. But then things kind of got not so good.
1:09.0	And the great majority, at least statistically, of people that
1:11.8	genuinely know and love God, who are followers of Christ, their life isn't quite matching up.
1:19.5	I got a email from a lady that it's a picture of this, and it's interesting. She said,
1:25.0	thank you for your message this morning on Romans 12-1.
1:29.8	And then now listen to her story and see how much you can identify with.
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