SPIRITUAL DEVELOPING OF YOUR MIND

SPIRITUAL MIND

Romans 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

     Ephesians 4:23–24

23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. 

1 Peter 1:13 - Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14  As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,”

HAVING A GODLY POSITIVE MIND

The best mind cannot compete with a blessed mind that is the mind of God. One of the greatest areas, as the body of Christ, we need to change is our mind from a missionary barrel mentality to a prosperity mentality.  A poverty ridden mind is not God’s plan for us. We need to change our mind.

If the spirit of our mind are renewed then we will think like God thinks.  We will feel like God feels and speak like Jesus speaks.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. (so that you by his poverty might become rich.)

New International Version – Psalms 66:12
You let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of abundance.

King James Bible – Psalms 6612
Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

A.  KEY TO RENEW YOUR MIND YOU ZERO INTO THE WEAK AREAS OF YOUR MIND.

 1 Corinthians 2:10-12  (NKJV)

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

1. A WILLING  MIND - 1 Chronicles 28:9

9 “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.” 

2. A TEACHABLE MIND – Acts 17:11,12 

 Readiness of mind or being teachable.

“I will receive the Word with readiness of my mind.”

                  3 Keys To Being Teachable:-

a. Meekness – James 1:21.  Essential in Hearing.  Meekness being teachable towards God.

b. Humility – means the proper estimation of yourself according to the Word – Phil. 2:3-4, 4:17

c. Gentleness – 2 Timothy 2:25 – In teaching and many more. The quality of being kind, tender, or mild-mannered.

So meekness toward God; humility toward self and gentleness in your outreach towards others.

1) A Teachable Mind is Noble –
Acts 17:11,12

Noble means true spirited – positive – not negative with the Word.  Most Christians are negative with the Word.  They tried to question the Word with their human mind.  They wanted facts and figures.

2) Readiness of Mind

Stubbornness is a mental attitude and has a spirit sometimes – pride, self-centerness, self-esteemed. Stubbornness is still an attitude which we choose in our mind – against the mind of God’s spirit.    So stubborn – is unwilling, unteachable and unreadiness.

The key of blessings is readiness and willingness.  There was instant response to the Word and instant involvement.

The Ground of Readiness and
Willingness

Matthew 13:23 - King James Version (KJV)

23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 

3)   A Teachable Mind Believe the Word 

Romans 8:6 – “To be carnally minded” means hostile to Word; worldly mind always resisting the Word. The Spiritual Mind is life and peace.  It is a Heavenly mind.                       

Colossians 3:1 – “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”

A believing mind is a spiritual mind and can be easily teachable. 

May the Lord
bless you and your family