In the kingdom of darkness we have been under Satan's sway. Kicked out of heaven for rebelling against God, Satan fell to Earth as a nobody. Then he pretended to be somebody by tricking Adam and Eve and usurping their earthly authority. Every since then he has taught mankind to think of themselves as nobodies just as he is. After a lifetime of feeding on negativity and impossibility thinking, most of us have a certain amount of mental damage that the Holy Spirit must heal. We have been slaves for so long that we don't know how to handle freedom. We apologize for getting ahead. We don't believe that we deserve or are entitled to the best. That may have been true while we were sinners lost and separated from God. As believers, however, we have been restored to our place as God's children and are entitled to all the blessings and benefits of that station.
The retraining of our minds is part of what Paul meant when he said, "give ourselves a living sacrifices to God". We cannot live effectively for the Lord until we learn to think like Him, That is what the Apostle Paul meant when he wrote to the Roman believers:
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.(Romans 12:1-2)
Keep in mind, that Paul is saying that we should not allow ourselves any longer to be molded by the world we have lived in all our lives but to be transformed by renewing our minds to think and conform to the mind of Christ. Renewing our minds means returning to the original mind that we had before the Fall, a mind that loves and honors God and that understands its rightful place as
The retraining of our minds is part of what Paul meant when he said, "give ourselves a living sacrifices to God". We cannot live effectively for the Lord until we learn to think like Him, That is what the Apostle Paul meant when he wrote to the Roman believers:
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.(Romans 12:1-2)
Keep in mind, that Paul is saying that we should not allow ourselves any longer to be molded by the world we have lived in all our lives but to be transformed by renewing our minds to think and conform to the mind of Christ. Renewing our minds means returning to the original mind that we had before the Fall, a mind that loves and honors God and that understands its rightful place as
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