Renewing The Mind

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Good evening and welcome to ICare Let's Pray Ministries. I am your host, ABC, and I'm very grateful that you tune back in to listen to another podcast. I will forever be indebted to the Lord for you and your faithfulness. Amen. For whenever you do log in, it's a blessing. And I pray favor, blessings, healing upon you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Continue to be encouraged, continue to spread the word and continue to be a vessel for God. Amen. Because you are important, you are special, and you are loved. And as always, you know, we're going to pray before we get started. In today's topic, we're going to talk about renewing our mind. Amen. I want you to know that in today's world, the world is trying to get our mind. And our mind is what we have to protect. Our mind is what we have to continue to keep in the word of God. Amen. We have to make sure we're reading scriptures and replaying it in our heads over and over again or singing songs of worship in our head over and over again, trying to block out the enemy. Amen. So we're truly going to talk about renewing our mind today. So we're going to go to the Lord in prayer. We're going to get into our discussion and then we're going to close out. Amen. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Our Father, which are in heaven, we come bowing before you just then thank you, oh God. Now we thank you for this day. We thank you for your love. We thank you for your grace. We thank you for your mercy and your favor, oh God. Now we come before you with a humble heart, just giving you thanks this evening, oh God, for our life, for the breath in our bodies, oh God, that our heart is still beating, Helly Father. We thank you for the opportunity for us to gather in this moment in your presence. Holy Father, we invite you into this discussion. We invite you into our homes. We invite you into the radio, the phone, the microphone, wherever we are listening, oh God. We just invite you in. Holy Father, I pray in this very moment that you open up our minds and our hearts to receive your truth today, oh God. Renew our thinking, restore our faith, oh God. Remove anything that is not aligned with you, oh God. Heavenly Father, we pray that you bring peace to the minds of those who are anxious, clarity to those who are confused, and strength to those who are overwhelmed. Henry Father, let your word transform us from the inside out. So we can hear what thus says the Lord. So, God, have your way in this very moment. I pray we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Today I want to talk about something that affects every single person listening, and that is the mind. In today's world, we are constantly being exposed to information, opinions, negativity, and pressure from every direction. But I want you to know that the Bible speaks clearly about the importance of our mind. Because if the mind is not grounded, everything else becomes unstable. Amen. Many people today are overwhelmed not just by circumstances, but by thoughts. Anxiety, fear, comparison, doubt. These are battles that often happen internally. And the truth is, not every thought that enters your mind belongs there, right? So I want to take us a moment to let's reflect for a moment. Have you ever had negative thoughts that go in your mind and you want to replace them with something? And if so, pick up your Bible and read scripture. And that scripture that you read, that you are more than a conqueror, that by his stripes you are healed, that you can ask, you can seek, and you can knock, and he will hear and answer your prayers. You can replace negative thoughts with the word of God, amen. And also ask yourself this question: what truth from God's word can I bring to focus on instead? Just like I just said, when you are thinking negative thoughts, or negative thoughts are coming into your mind or trying to creep in, you can pull out your sword, your Bible, and read God's word, read God's love, read God's reassurance, and it will bring peace to your mind and it will protect your mind, amen. And this is why we should always know Ephesians 6 of putting on the whole armor of God so we can protect our heart, mind, souls, and spirit, amen. Because what we need to understand is what we allow to stay in our mind will eventually shape our lives, right? And we don't want negative energy, negative thoughts to shape us because we are God's children. We are truly, beautifully, and wonderfully made, right? So we have to understand that renewal doesn't happen by accident, it happens by intention, meaning we have to do something to be renewed. We can pray, God renew my soul, renew my strength, renew my heart, renew my mind, right? It comes by us focusing in on connecting to God because when you choose truth over fear, God can step in. When you can choose peace over panic, God can step in. When you choose God's voice over everything else, God can step in. So this is why it's very important for us to focus on the word of God, right? To focus on hearing his voice, to focus on praying to him each and every day, you know, and and as we go through life, we have to understand that God is truly trying to restore us, he's trying to rebuild us, he's trying to uplift us, right? And I know I didn't read our scripture text for today, so I'm gonna give you that because it tells us in Romans 12 and 2, and be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God, amen. Which means transformation begins with your thoughts. What you constantly think about shapes your perspective, your attitude, and your actions. God desires to renew our mind daily through his word, through his grace, through his mercy, and through his favor, amen. We have to focus on God when we need to be renewed, when we need to be re-energized, when we need to be uplifted, we have to focus on God and his word because his truth is in the word of God, his truth is in the Bible from the beginning all the way to the end, from Genesis all the way to Revelation. God's word can uplift us, God's word can correct us, God's word can direct us, amen. And God wants to renew us, God wants to transform us, and God wants to make us whole. So we have to understand that we have to make it a choice to want to be renewed, that we don't want to be the same person with the same negative thoughts, with the same gossip in spirit, but we want to be renewed in his grace, renewed in his mercy, renewed in his favor, right? We have to focus on that our minds can be renewed, our life can begin when we truly let go and let God have his way. And I want you to know that transformation is not just outward, it starts inward, right? It starts in the heart, it starts in the spirit, it starts in the soul and the mind. And what happens inward will eventually show outward. Amen. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Honey Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for this moment to talk about renewing our mind, oh God. We thank you that true truth transformation begins with renewing of our minds in Christ Jesus. Cleanse our heart, mind, soul, and spirit. Honey Father, I'm praying that you remove anything that's not like you from without out of us. Come, Father, I pray that we break cycles of negativity, fear, doubt, and confusion. We stand on your truth, we stand on your peace and your promises, oh God. Honey, Father, for the one who don't know how, teach us how to recognize thoughts that do not align to your will and your way in our lives. Hunt, Father, give us the strength to reject them, oh God. Fill our minds with your word daily. Let your truth become louder than anything else that we hear, oh God. Guide our thinking, Lord, so that our thoughts lead to life, not destruction. Let our attitudes and our responses and our actions reflect your will, oh God. God, we surrender our minds to you today, oh God. Protect our minds, keep our minds, guide our minds, purify our minds, oh God, so we can be in your presence to hear with us, saith the Lord. God, we raise you up above the heavens and say thank you, oh God, for being the king and kings of our in our life. We love you, Lord. We exalt you, Lord. We thank you, Lord. It is in Jesus Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I thank you all for joining today. This is our care, let's pray ministries. I hope you all can reflect on the word of God and pull your Babel out, pull your sword out, and pull up scripture to renew your mind. Because there is scripture out there that can help us along this journey. Just like it says, creating us a clean heart and renew the right spirit within us. We truly want God to renew us each and every day, to restore us each and every day, to guide us each and every day. So I want you to pull out your Bible, get close to the Lord, and listen to what thus says the Lord. I thank you all for tuning in. You take care, walk in a renewed mind, walk in peace, walk in God's favor. I want you to know that you are loved, you are blessed, and you are highly favored. This is our care. Let's pray, ministries.