We are one church. We love God, love people, love
His mission, and love His church.
Welcome to the One Church podcast.
The last three weeks have been brilliant as we've started to
look at what it means to love the Lord our God with all of our
hearts, our soul, our mind and our strength.
It's the greatest commandment. And when Jesus was asked by a
teacher of the law what was the greatest commandment, it was
Jesus answer. He said, hear O Israel, the Lord
our God, the Lord is 1 Love the Lord your God with all your
heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength.
And the second is this, love your neighbour as yourself.
There is no commandment greater than these.
The 613 commandments of the Jewish law summarised, squished
into these amazing statements, this vertical movement of love
to love God, this horizontal movement of love to love our
neighbours here at one church. This is our heart.
We love God, we love people, we love His mission, and we love
His church. But what does it really mean to
love God with all of our heart, our strength, our mind, our soul
today? Love the Lord your God with all
of your mind. Now.
The mind is a powerful thing. The mind is also a fickle thing
that sometimes can be distracted.
Now when preparing for a wedding, it is important not to
get distracted. Sometimes one number can make
all the difference. I heard a story last week and I
have to share it with you. It's a true story of someone
that we know who used to be a minister is now retired, and
they were at a wedding where the following happened.
The prepared passage for reading was 1 John 4, verse 16, which
goes as follows. And so we know and rely on the
love God has for us. God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in them.
This is how love is made complete among us.
And then in verse 18, there is No Fear in love.
Perfect love drives out fear. Wonderful, the power of love.
And in writing the notes for this they managed to miss out
the one. And so the reading for that
wedding was John chapter 4 verse 16 which reads as follows.
He told her go call your husband and come back.
I have no husband. She replied.
Jesus said to her, you're right when you say you have no
husband. The fact is you have 5 husbands
and the man you have now is not your husband.
What you have just said is quite true.
There is a very much apparel of missing even one number.
Let me encourage you to check and check again. 5 husbands is
quite the revelation for a wedding day.
Battling for our mind was the theme of what we talked about
around a month ago. We talked about a mind
controlled by the spirit as life and peace.
We felt we were significant as a house to start to go to war with
some of the things that would come against our mind.
And we talk about the battle that's on for our mind, for our
thoughts. We pulled down strongholds.
We talked about believing truth, not lies.
We talked about how the power of the Word of God and leading us
into praise and prayer can transform us from the inside
out. Let me encourage you to keep the
battle going. Do not give up the battle for
your mind. And today we will realise that
our minds were made for far more than just getting caught up in
little illusions and moments and things getting stuck in a rut.
The dark corners and the uniqueness of your mind, they do
not need to distract you today. But would you have a revelation
that your mind was created by God to fully love Him and
worship Him? Your mind was created by God to
love Him and worship Him in complete fullness.
I wonder today how is your mind doing at fulfilling its
God-given purpose? We talk a lot about the mind in
the English language. In English, you can change your
mind. You can set your mind, open your
mind and close your mind. You can clear your mind, free
your mind, lose your mind and read your mind.
You can speak your mind, make up your mind, sharpen your mind,
take a load off your mind and give someone a piece of your
mind. Something can cross your mind,
be on your mind, slip your mind, ease your mind, weigh on your
mind, and blow your mind. You can be out of your mind and
in two minds. You can have a frame of mind, a
state of mind, and a Peace of Mind.
And if you don't like how my mind works, I'll bear that in
mind. But really, you can mind your
own business now. The mind is a wonderful place
for me. I'm always making connections
like that. I think in pictures most of the
time. So if you tell me a story, I'm
imagining the story. If you tell me a story of
something you've done that week, I'm picturing the supermarket,
I'm picturing the child you're telling me about, I'm imagining
your workplace. My mind is very vivid.
And I know some people, they, they picture things in words or
in factual information and other things.
And maybe you just have one thing and you don't store it.
For me, I forget certain bits of information.
I even know that just today, as I was out in the foyer, I know I
called someone by the wrong name who I really shouldn't have
called by the wrong name. But I did because my brain
sometimes decides not to keep the very important information
of people's first and or second names.
Your mind is a very powerful thing.
Your mind is far more than just your thoughts.
Your mind is your inner being. It's the sum of your mental,
spiritual and emotional self. That's how the mind was viewed
in the days when the Bible was first written.
It's you. It's the encapsulation of you.
And every unique, wonderful, nuanced corner of your mind was
crafted and lovingly made by God.
And he longs to be loved with the mind that he created.
And a lot of our lives are spent learning, being educated, trying
to enhance our mind, grow our mind, educate and help our mind
to learn. As I was preparing this, I was
struck by the thought that there are people here today listening.
That you've been told in the past that because you have
failed a test or because you have not met the standard, or
because someone has labelled you as too dumb, inadequate, your
score was too low, you you didn't meet the grade and
therefore you'll never amount to anything.
Can I tell you today that God, He loves it when we make the
most of the gift we have. He loves it when we excel in
life. He cheers us on.
But your mind was created to love Him and worship Him.
Anything else is an additional bonus.
And if you know Jesus, you have already known the fullness of
the greatest knowledge there is to know by any human mind.
You are not missing out on anything because you failed a
test, didn't meet the standard. No matter what a teacher, a
parent, an individual, a friend said over your life, you are
adequate and God, He longs and desires for your mind to be
fully devoted to Him, to fully love Him, and to fully worship
Him. You were created to love and
worship God. Jonathan Edwards, the teacher,
not the triple jumper, said that seeking after God is the main
business of the Christian. St Augustine of Hippo, born in
the three hundreds. That's a long time ago, said
this. We must believe in order to
understand. It was coming against the spirit
of the day, which said that if you know lots, you're important.
If you're smart, then you have status.
And I think sometimes that's part of our world today.
If you know a lot, you're important.
If you're smart, you have status.
What Augustine said is this Faith is the gateway to
knowledge. Faith illuminates our mind and
guides our human understanding. In fact, to believe in Jesus is
the greatest understanding anyone could have, and
everything else is lit up by that knowledge.
The theologian RC Sproul argued that anybody evil and righteous
can conclude that 2 + 2 is 4. That's basic.
But he suggested that our pursuit of knowledge without
loving God first is futile and wasted.
Here are his words that spoke to me this week.
To love with the mind. It's to hold in high esteem to
think about God with reverence and adoration.
Because the more we love God with our minds, the more we'll
be driven to do the other thing that is alien to us in our
fallen condition condition. And that is to worship Him.
You were made to love and worship God with all your mind.
I wonder, are you living in that reality today?
Now we're going to look at a case study, Somebody whose mind
was transformed. For me, I love to see examples.
I don't just want to hear about it can happen.
I want to see someone who's been changed by it.
And so when I look to the Bible, I find the New Testament, the
new part of the Bible written after Jesus came Incarnate, came
to earth, God with us now and forever.
And after Jesus came, we have this man who emerged as one of
the primary teachers that wrote lots of the New Testament.
His name is Paul. You will have heard of him.
Even if you don't know his name. You'll have heard the words of
the letters and the essay that he wrote.
Paul is a significant figure who wrote the New Testament inspired
by God. And I love what happened to
Paul. He used to be known as Saul of
Tarsus. He was someone who persecuted
Christians, That's right. With his educated status, with
his knowledge, his prestige, with the fear that surrounded
him, he chose to persecute Christians, to take them and
imprison them. He was there and witnessed the
stoning of Stephen as he was martyred for his faith.
He breathed out murderous threats against people who
shared Jesus and the good news. And he was travelling one day to
Damascus to imprison believers and bring them back to be tried.
And on his journey, with all his knowledge, wealth of learning,
his awareness of the scriptures and grasp of God's word and
promises, with all of these things in his very well educated
mind, suddenly in a moment he realises that all of it is
futile and worthless without the one who shone and broke into his
life. In a moment, his life was lit
up, his mind was lit up, and physically a bright light shone
and blinded him. And in one moment, Saul of
Tarsus heard the voice of the one that he'd been persecuting
saying so, so why do you persecute me?
And in that moment he knew Jesus is real.
He is who he says he is. And suddenly that educated,
wonderful, brilliant mind that was used for evil was turned
around by God and used for good. Suddenly a mind that sought to
persecute was one that sought to tell the world that Jesus lives,
he's resurrected, and he's the way for all who comes.
And people couldn't believe the transformation of Paul.
They couldn't believe how much his life had changed.
In fact, people did not trust him initially because they
thought that he was just tricking them, going to come and
arrest them or do something, because that's what Saul of
Tarsus did. But his mind has been
illuminated from the inside out. It's been lit up by what?
It's been lit up by the light of Jesus.
Everything changes when our minds are lit up by the light of
Jesus. And suddenly Paul becomes this
incredible gift to the church. This wonderful mind is used to
spread good news. He writes, he encourages, he
becomes, he goes out. We know him as the Apostle Paul
taking the good news of Jesus to the Gentiles, to many nations
and on different trips, taking the good news to many new
places, and today through the Bible, bringing the good news to
me and you. I love what God has done in
Paul's life, and I love that his mind was lit up and illuminated
by Jesus himself. So in Paul's writings, we can
see he truly does value the breakthrough that happens in our
mind because he's experienced it.
Maybe you've known someone who they've experienced something,
so they just always talk about it like something's happened to
them. So they'll always talk about it.
Usually it's a negative thing. Something happens to someone.
It just keeps coming back up. They keep bringing it up.
Oh, I remember when I was, and that happened to me as well.
But with Paul, his mind has been transformed, renewed illusions
illuminated, changed in every way.
He now knows what it means to love God with all his mind and
he can't stop talking about it. And I'm hoping and praying today
that his words will begin to transform us too, as we seek to
love God with all our mind. Let's have a look what he said
in Romans 12 written by Paul. He says this, do not conform to
the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. Then you will be able to test
and approve what God's will is, His good, pleasing, and perfect
will. Here's Paul talking about the
mind again. It's important.
What can we conclude from this? It's easy to conform to the
patterns of the world. And also a renewed mind
transforms a life and a renewed mind discerns the will of God.
If you've asked God recently, God, what do you want me to do
here? God, what can I, what, what are
you asking me to say? God, where are you leading me?
God, is this right? Perhaps it's time to stop
saying, God, what's, what's your will?
Maybe it's time to say this, God, renew my mind.
And then just perhaps through the renewing of your mind, your
life will be transformed and you'll be able to discern the
will of God because your mind has been renewed.
So we can conclude from this, it is God's heart that you would
have a renewed mind and a transformed mind.
Acts 17. We hear this account of Paul and
some of his travels and you see his transformed mind on display.
They came to Thessalonica where there was a Jewish synagogue.
As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue and on three
Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the scriptures,
explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise
from the dead. This Jesus I'm proclaiming to
you is the Messiah, he said. Some of the Jews were persuaded
and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God
fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.
I love the role there of the prominent women in those
converts who choose to follow. What can we conclude from this?
Well, you can use your renewed mind to do many amazing things
for God. You can reason, you can explain,
you can prove, you can persuade, you can proclaim.
But note this. What did Paul do?
What was he proving, Persuading, reasoning, explaining?
It was all about Jesus. OK.
A renewed and enlightened mind that is being lit up by the
power of Jesus, the reality of who he is, that is filled and is
spirit filled, will always point and reason and explain and prove
and persuade for and proclaim Jesus.
It's God's heart that you would have a transforming mind, not
just a transformed. 11 Corinthians 2.
Some more of Paul's words. This is what we speak, not in
words taught us by human wisdom, but in the words taught by the
Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit taught
words. The person without the Spirit
does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, but
considers them foolishness and cannot understand them because
they are discerned only through the Spirit.
The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things.
We have the mind of Christ and suddenly we see again, what's
the key to all of this? It's the Spirit's influence.
It's the Spirit transforming us, and it's us being renewed to
have a Christ like mind, the mind of Christ.
And what can we conclude here? Human wisdom is foolishness.
Sometimes it's fun to entertain for a short while.
Sometimes facts and knowledge and things are good to hold for
certain purposes, but in the end, human wisdom is foolishness
when compared to the spiritual reality that comes when we have
the mind of Christ. You were made for more than just
swelling your intellect. You were made to love God with
all of your mind and to worship Him.
And it's only when we enter into the spiritual reality of being
transformed by Him and having the mind of Christ that we learn
what God really wants from us to have a spirit taught mind.
He also longs for us to have a spirit governed mind.
Romans 8. The words of Paul speak out
again. Those who live according to the
flesh have their mind set on what the flesh desires, but
those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds
set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh
is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
Can you see these two contrasting views presented?
Such a classic style of writing? I love that.
You can go this way or you can go that.
You can choose that path or you can choose this.
What do we see here? You can either set your mind on
things of the flesh and it leads to death, or you can have a
mindset on the Spirit and it leads to life and peace.
I wonder today, is there anyone here who would say, do you know
what? I'm going to stay with a mindset
on the flesh just for a little bit longer because I want to
stay on this path that leads only to death.
I don't know there's anyone here who would want to proclaim that
over their life. I want to follow the words of
the Bible, inspired fully by God, written by Paul's hand that
says the mindset on the Spirit will lead to life and peace.
That's the kind of life that I'm striving for.
I want my mind to be a one that is full of life and one that has
peace that rests upon it like a cool and soothing balm everyday.
I want to be able to walk into fire and know that He's with me.
I want to go through conflict and struggle and strife but
still have life and peace resting on my mind because I'm
set on things above and I am governed by the Spirit.
I want to be a spirit governed mind.
I want to have it. And that's what God's heart is
for you and your mind. Philippians 4, My favourite book
of the Bible, Psalms Philippians one of the two.
Philippians 4. Verse 6 to 8 says this.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every
situation, by prayer and petition, with Thanksgiving
present your requests to God, and the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your
minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters,
whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable,
if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such
things. I want to live a life like that.
I don't want to get caught up in the dark corners of my mind
anymore. I want to live a life that is
fully Thanksgiving, that is completely prayerful, where I
submit everything to Him and know that without Him I can't do
anything, but with Him I can do all things.
I want to live that kind of life.
I want to guard my heart and my mind.
I want to love and think about things that are true, noble,
right, and pure. I want to live a life where in
the depths of the night and first thing in the morning I
wake up dwelling on things that are lovely, admirable, excellent
and praiseworthy. I don't just want to give my
money and my time when I come on a Sunday morning.
Instead, everyday I want to give my mind to Him and let it be
filled with everything He wants from me.
I want it to be filled with something wonderful, in fact,
something beautiful. It's God's heart that you would
have a guarded mind. And it's God's heart that you
would have a beautiful mind where if you turned it inside
out, people around you would be amazed at what God's doing on
the inside. In Colossians 3, Paul writes
again, he really does care about the mind, because God's heart is
that your mind would be transformed.
Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things, for you
died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly
nature. And there's a list that we'll go
through a little bit later. You have taken off your old self
with its practises and have put on the new self, which is being
renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly.
What do we conclude from this? Well, the Bible speaks to us
today and says this. You can set your mind on things
above. It also talks about what's
happened and it's the testimony of many people in this room.
And I believe for some of you, it's the testimony you're going
to have. And we'll declare over your own
life that you died and the old practises of your old life died
too, buried with Christ in the grave.
And you have new life. You are now risen with Christ
and hidden with Christ in God. You're being renewed day after
day in the image of your Creator.
You're becoming more like Him. Your thoughts become his.
Like spouses who've been together for decades where they
just know what one another are thinking and they don't have to
say a word. Either that or they just don't
speak much anymore. It's one of the two, but for me,
sometimes I just know from a look.
Yesterday I had a moment like that with with my wife, with
Philippa. I just looked her in the eyes
and without her having to say anything, I knew exactly what
was going through her mind. I, I want to have that kind of
mindset with my Creator. When my thoughts are his, where
when he speaks as it's as if it's my inner conscience
speaking to me. I want it to be so entwined with
Him. I want the message of Christ to
dwell among me, in me, through me and around me.
I want a heavenly mind and just as a name drop. 2 Timothy 17 God
has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a
sound mind. God wants you to have a sound
mind and 1 Corinthians 2 verse 2 it is God's heart that you would
be resolved to know nothing while I was with you, says Paul,
except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
It's God's heart that you would have a Christ filled mind.
These are the words of Paul spoken to us through the living
Word, showing us today a little bit of what it means to have a
mind that is transformed to be more like Jesus, completely led
by the Spirit, but one that enters into the reality of what
it was made to do. Your mind was created by God
beautifully and intrinsically to love Him totally and to worship
Him. And if you are not loving Him
and worshipping with your whole mind, then all of us have a
journey to go on today. So a renewed, transformed,
transforming, spirit taught, spirit governed, guarded,
beautiful, heavenly sound and Jesus filled mind in Jesus name.
May that be true in my life. May that be true in my
children's lives. May they wake up every day with
that kind of mind. May be true in my families.
May be true of everyone church kid in the whole of our church.
May they grow up from from birth and all the way up through their
primary school years with that kind of mind transformed by
Jesus. But it's also important in the
midst of the repair and the renewal that we are forgiving to
ourselves that we don't see that and say, I'm so far from that
and I'm good on five, not so good on 4, and dreadful on one.
It's good that you're not too critical about yourself because
we'll start to slip into something which is not the kind
of mind you're called to have in Christ Jesus.
Maybe you've labelled yourself, I haven't got a big enough
attention span to really read the Bible and take it in and I'm
not smart enough to grasp these things.
So I'll just stay where I am. I'll, I'll understand that and
that will be enough and I'll, I'll leave it there.
Or maybe I'm not going to socially push myself out of the
boat because I don't always know the words to say.
So instead I'm going to not say the words at all.
Stick to the people I know and just love ones and twos.
But I'm not going to put myself out there in the workplace in my
neighbourhood. Maybe you've limited yourself
because you're aware of the limitations of your mind.
Well, today I love this. God doesn't leave you to do it
alone. The journey of the renewal of
your mind is not something that he says.
Go on them. You're on your own kid.
Let's see how you do over the next 60708090 a hundred years.
I love that he says, I'm going to partner with you.
What do those passages say? It's the peace of God, the
transformation of God, the mind of Christ, the guidance of the
Spirit, new life from Christ. It's from him.
He's in the business of renewing your mind, changing you from the
inside out. And in addition to that, you
also have a role to play, to have your mind set on things, to
think about such things, to put to death your earthly nature.
You have a role in it, but he's the one that orchestrates it.
But we partner in this. Do you love that we have a God
who partners with us in transforming us from the inside
out? He doesn't leave us to find
ourselves. He doesn't leave us to empty our
minds and see what the world pours in.
He doesn't leave you to go and search for yourself out in a
wilderness and try and see who you are.
No, He says, I'm going to partner with you.
I'm going to give you my peace, my transformation.
I'm going to give you my mind. I'm going to give you my spirit
in you working with you and I'm going to give you new life.
But what's your mindset? What will you think about?
What are you going to put to death?
Every day we are to do our bit. Psalm 139 is a passage of my
life. Oh Lord, you have examined my
heart and know everything about me.
He knows you from the inside out.
Verse 17 says how precious are your thoughts about me.
Oh God, they cannot be numbered. He thinks about you before we
think about loving him with our minds.
He's mindful of you, He thinks about me, He loves me, He knows
my name, He knows the number of hairs on my head.
He catches my tears in a bottle. He's mindful of me.
And in verse 23 and 24, search me, O God, and know my heart,
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you and lead me along
the path of everlasting life. Point out anything in me that
offends you in Psalm 64. Thank you.
There's another perspective of this.
Surely the human mind and the heart are cunning.
This is a Psalm talking about enemies of God.
But God will shoot them with His arrows.
I love visual pictures. I'm not going to pull a crossbow
out of this bag, just to let you know, even though that would be
memorable. If you don't like balloons, this
you may just want to just hover your hands near your ears a
little bit. But it's party season in the
hind house so that we've got our balloons aplenty, which will
help me with this illustration. Search me, oh God, and know my
heart. Test me and know my anxious
thoughts. Point out anything in me that
offends you and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Point out anything in me that offends you.
It's a, it's a, it's a risky prayer to pray because he'll
point it out. I wonder if you went through a
list of some of the things that Paul listed.
Where are the areas where God is pointing out something in your
life today? Perhaps it's an area of personal
weakness, so maybe it's something that is linked to an
old wound in your life, and it grows and grows.
This thought in the back of your mind, this mindset, what you've
said about yourself, this weakness, this thorn in your
flesh, you could say, and it doesn't seem to disappear.
Occasionally it gets a bit smaller, but then in a moment of
peril or trial, there it is again.
Well, what does God say? Well, the heart of the psalmist
is this. Point out anything in me that
offends you and lead me along the path of everlasting life
today. God, if there's anything in me
that offends you, anything in my mind that is not the mind of
Christ, then come today. And even if it hurts, point it
out. Shoot it with your arrows.
The human mind and heart are cunning.
We are fallen humanity. We were far from God, fallen
short of His standard. We need saving, We need help.
Jesus came and has done everything required for you to
be completely restored in this life and in the next, but we
still need Him continually to point out in US anything that
offends Him. Here are 10 things on the screen
that Paul refers to. Lord, I want to love you with my
mind, but I'm struggling with following the world's patterns.
Lord, I want to love you with my mind, but I'm struggling with
foolishness, recklessness. Lord, I want to love you with
all my mind, but I'm struggling with personal desires.
Lord, I want to love you with all my mind, but I'm struggling
with sexual immorality. Lord, I'm struggling with
impurity and lust. I'm struggling with evil desires
and greed. I'm struggling with idolatry.
I'm struggling with anger and rage.
I'm struggling with malice and lies.
Lord, thank you today that there's not spirit of
condemnation in the house. But we have asked that you would
point out anything in us that offend you.
So point it out. But don't you love that within
His Word is a response to every one of these things.
If you're stuck in a place of following the world's patterns,
you're invited to follow the will of God.
If you're stuck in a place of living foolishly, you're invited
to have a mindset that pursues whatever is true and right.
If you are struggling with personal desires, then today
your mind can be filled with whatever is noble and pure.
If you're struggling with anxiousness, anxiety, you can be
filled with patience and peace. If you are struggling with
sexual immorality, today your mind can be filled with whatever
is lovely. If you're struggling with
impurity and lust, your mind can be filled today with what is
admirable. Evil desires and greed can be
replaced by whatever is excellent.
Idolatry can be replaced by whatever is praiseworthy.
And there's only one anger and rage replaced with compassion
and kindness and balance and lies can be replaced with
forgiveness and love. Lord, we ask that you would come
and right now in this room, point out anything in us that
offends you and lead us in your ways everlasting.
If there's something we know is there in the back of our minds
that we need to address today, here in your presence, with
love, in the atmosphere, and with the reality of who you are,
flooding our minds right now with what is excellent,
admirable, lovely, what is peace and patience, noble and pure,
true and right. Lord, we ask that you would
flood our minds with what is good and come and point out
everything in us that offends you.
If you're able, why not put your hands on your head just right
now around the room? Let's begin to pray over our
minds, shall we? So going out loud together,
we're going to pray. We think of Jesus who sweated
drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane as his mind was
filled with all that was to come, the weight of what was
about to take place. We, we know he is acquainted
with with our sorrow. He knew, He knows what it's like
to grieve, to feel pain. And right now He sees you as you
are. He sees you.
He knows every thought you have, He sees the anxiety in your
mind, He sees how far in some areas you are away from having
the mind of Christ, but yet He loves you in the midst of it.
I wonder if round the room we just start praying over these
different things. And if it's you, then just in
particular, receive the healing of Jesus right now.
Lord, for those who are following the world's patterns,
have been swayed by the ways of the world right now, we pray
that you would come, You would break in, and You would help us
to follow Your will and Your way.
Lord, for those of us in the room who are struggling in the
area of foolishness and making bad decisions, Lord, we speak
against them in Jesus name and we say that foolishness would be
gone and what is true and right would replace it.
Lord, we speak over minds right now that are pursuing personal
desires or anxiousness right now, sexual immorality, impurity
and lust, evil desires and greed, idolatry, anger and rage,
malice and lies. Whichever one of these is true
in our lives. Lord, point out what offends you
right now and in the name of Jesus, would you cleanse our
minds and fill us with what is lovely, what is patient, what is
peaceful, what is admirable. We speak over our minds what is
excellent, praiseworthy. We speak compassion, kindness,
forgiveness and love. May we have the mindset of
Christ even right now, so that, dear Lord, we may love you with
all of our minds and that we may worship You as you deserve.
Lord, we come to You today and we simply ask that You would
transform us from the inside out and You would help us with
everything we have within, with the whole of our mind, with all
of who we are, with every bit of our heart, with our very soul,
our mind, and with all our strength.
Would we love You and would we worship You?
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine
upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face towards
you and give you peace.