Speaker 1: Praise the Lord and welcome to the seventh month of this year.
Speaker 1: The Lord has been good to us, the Lord has been good to you, and we really thank God for carrying us in a very uncommon way in this year.
Speaker 1: And we thank God particularly for this month, because we are also ushering in the revival season, and so we invite you to continue journeying with us as we follow through the word of God and what he's saying to us in this great year.
Speaker 1: This particular month, our attention is drawn to the impartation of uncommon mind shift, spirit-led discernment.
Speaker 1: And to kickstart this particular theme, I want to invite us to look at the words of Romans 12, verses 1 to 3.
Speaker 1: And this is what Paul is telling the brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1: He's saying, therefore, I urge you, brothers, and I actually urge you, brothers and sisters, that, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, and he says this is your true and proper worship.
Speaker 1: Verse two says do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed.
Speaker 1: How are you going to be transformed?
Speaker 1: By the renewing of your mind.
Speaker 1: Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is.
Speaker 1: Test and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Speaker 1: You know, paul is telling us that God's will is good, it is pleasing and it is perfect.
Speaker 1: Nevertheless, the world around us could be saying something different.
Speaker 1: Hence the need for the mind shift.
Speaker 1: Hence the need for you to have a new focus.
Speaker 1: Hence the need for you to position yourself in a way that you will be able to discern this good, pleasing and perfect will.
Speaker 1: Let me encourage you, my brother and my sister, that in every circumstance that you find yourself in, I want you to remember that God's will for your life is good, it is pleasing and it is perfect.
Speaker 1: And this is what Jeremiah reminds the Israelites by telling them that God knows the plan that he has for them.
Speaker 1: In Jeremiah 29, verse 11, behold, the Lord knows the plans that he has for you, and they are plans for your good, plans for your welfare, plans for a future, not plans to harm you, but plans to give you a future.
Speaker 1: And so, as we enter this season, especially of the revival season, I want to remind you three things from this text that will position you to tap into God's good, pleasing and perfect will.
Speaker 1: You will be able to kick out the noises of the world number one by being transformed, allowing the Lord to impart you what transforms you.
Speaker 1: It is the word of God.
Speaker 1: Commit yourself to the word of God, and as you do this, then the second thing is that you will be renewed.
Speaker 1: And so I'm inviting you to be renewed, and this renewal is about a mind shift, and this mind shift invites you to connect to this good, pleasing and perfect will of God.
Speaker 1: But thirdly, you will also be enabled, he says, when you have been transformed, when you have been renewed, then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, that will which is his good, pleasing and perfect will for you.
Speaker 1: So I invite you, as we enter this seventh month, that you will submit yourself to the transforming work of the Holy Spirit through the word of God, that you will allow that word to dictate the state of your mind, so that you can experience renewal.
Speaker 1: And this renewal is about a mind shift, the way you view things, and then, that way, you will now be enabled in your life to appreciate, enabled in your life to appreciate, to experience and to walk in the perfect, the good, the pleasing will of God for your life.
Speaker 1: As we enter the revival season, prepare yourself, prepare your heart, prepare your mind, experience this uncommon mind shift and you will be able to tap into what God is doing for your life.
Speaker 1: And so may the Lord bless you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord bless this month.
Speaker 1: May the Lord bless the work of your hands.
Speaker 1: Indeed, may you be able to see the Lord through the lens of an imparted and common mind shift.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, god bless you.