Speaker 1: Greetings and praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the third week of the month of July.
Speaker 1: We thank God for His grace and favor and presence and joy and blessings and I know the list can go on and on and especially during this season of prayer and fasting, I pray that you are enjoying yourself in the presence of the Lord and I also pray that you are already tuned in to the season of revival.
Speaker 1: This particular month, our theme remains the impartation of uncommon mind shift, spirit-led discernment.
Speaker 1: I pray that your mind is continually engaged with the Lord and that there is a shift in the way you are viewing and the way you are engaging life.
Speaker 1: Today I want to invite us to consider the subject a mind shift through the word, a mind shift through the word, a mind shift through the word, a mind shift through the word.
Speaker 1: And this draws us to 2 Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16 and 17.
Speaker 1: It's a passage that many of us could be familiar with, and the Bible says all scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting and training in righteousness.
Speaker 1: That is what Scripture does and what is the result?
Speaker 1: The result is that, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Speaker 1: How can we experience a mind shift through the Word of God?
Speaker 1: Let me suggest to us five ways that we can experience.
Speaker 1: It's actually a process, and the first one is that we need to read or listen.
Speaker 1: It's by reading or listening to the Word of God.
Speaker 1: What this does is that it exposes your mind to the word of God.
Speaker 1: Romans, chapter 10, verse 17, tells us that faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God.
Speaker 1: And so you will start experiencing a mind shift as you expose your mind and yourself to the word of God.
Speaker 1: But secondly, you need to go to another level, and the second level is by studying the word of God.
Speaker 1: And what does this do to the mind?
Speaker 1: As you study the word of God, then you start engaging your mind with the word of God.
Speaker 1: Second, timothy, chapter two, verse 15,.
Speaker 1: Paul is exhorting Timothy and telling him study the word of God, study to show yourself as an approved workman, one who divides the word of truth in a manner that glorifies the Lord.
Speaker 1: And so when you start studying the word of God, you're going deeper and your mind now starts engaging with that word.
Speaker 1: Number three is meditating, meditating on the word of God.
Speaker 1: And what does meditating do to your mind?
Speaker 1: Meditating saturates your mind with the word of God, and so your mind starts being saturated with the word of God.
Speaker 1: And that word makes the difference.
Speaker 1: You start thinking more in the direction of the word of God because your mind is full, is saturated with the word of God.
Speaker 1: You know Psalm, chapter 1, verse 2, tells us that man delights in the word of the Lord and in it he meditates, day and night.
Speaker 1: He meditates upon that word.
Speaker 1: His mind, his thoughts are saturated by the word of God.
Speaker 1: But fourthly, you need to go to another level, and that level is practicing the word of God or obeying the word of God, the word of God.
Speaker 1: What happens to your mind?
Speaker 1: Transformation starts happening to your mind through the word of God.
Speaker 1: The Bible tells us in Romans, chapter one and verse two.
Speaker 1: It tells us be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Speaker 1: And it is at this level when you're practicing, because Paul reminds us in that passage that do not conform.
Speaker 1: Therefore, you are practicing something different than what the world is offering.
Speaker 1: And then, number five how do you experience a mind shift through the word of God.
Speaker 1: Number five is when you start teaching others.
Speaker 1: As you teach others, you are now receiving an impartation through the word of God.
Speaker 1: It is that uncommon mind shift.
Speaker 1: And then Paul reminds us in 2 Timothy 2.2,.
Speaker 1: He tells Timothy the things that you have heard, the things you have heard me say, entrust them.
Speaker 1: And that's where impartation begins.
Speaker 1: You start transforming the lives of other people through the word of God.
Speaker 1: And so I pray, even as we engage in the season of revival, I want you to pick these five things and make them your practice.
Speaker 1: As you engage with the word of God, that you will commit yourself to reading, to listening, you will commit yourself to studying, you will commit yourself to meditating, you will commit yourself to practicing, to obeying.
Speaker 1: And as you commit yourself to teaching others, then your mind will shift and become a vessel and a tool that the Lord will use for his honor and for his glory.
Speaker 1: In fact, your mind becomes spirit land.
Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you, may the Lord keep you and may his grace and favor continue to abound in your life.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen.