How Do You Reprogram Your Mind With God's Word?

If you've read it so much that you've desensitised to it have you considered actually listening to the bible being read and/or listening to sermons on the passage?

E.g. acceptance Sermons - SermonAudio.com

It's good that you have the willingness to want to program your mind into God word.

Remember how you were saved and how you felt when you fully surrendered yourself to God. That might help. Remember how you felt God'd presence in your life. Remember how God changed your ways.

The thought of Jesus dying on the cross for you is sufficient evidence that God loves you. His acceptance of you into His family is also sufficient evidence that He accepts you.

These things might not sink into your mind yet but God will bless you in a moment in your life when your flame of passion for Him will blaze brighter.

Well here are some scriptures about God loving us that are probably worded different than you are used to. Sometimes just using different translations can help give you fresh impressions.
God's Love in The Old Testament
God's Love in The New Testament

God is alive and real in you today. Be honest with Him and tell Him that you want to recognize and feel His love more today.

When the enemy tempted Yeshua while He was on earth, He immediately spoke Scripture. So when a thought comes that's opposite The Word, we need to immediately speak Scripture because that's the truth. When we do this, those thoughts that are opposite The Word will get weaker, fewer, less frequent. It's called renewing our minds - with His Word (Rom 12:2). As someone posted the other day there's nothing in Scripture for us to do that we cant do with His help.

rita727 said:

I have bad self esteem, and doubt God's love and acceptance of me. I know the verses that say that God values us and loves us, but it just doesnt sink inside my mind.

How do you reprogram your mind to believe what God says about you?

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Start with Christ.
Study His life as revealed in the gospels and the rest of the New testament.

Jesus Christ is God expressed in a man.

Jesus Christ is the "expressed" representation of God's character, likes, dislikes,
plans, purposes, good news, salvation, grace, mercy and love
as expressed to all men through the God/man Jesus Christ.

Jesus came for the broken hearted, lost and all those who know they
are not perfect and are hopelessly deficient in all the virtues of God's
Holiness and perfection.

You have a lot in common with Jesus if you think you are
not physically beautiful as the world judges outward appearances.

The scriptures declare that Jesus was plain and unremarable in appearance
and that no one would be drawn to Him based on His appearance.

God does not reguard the outward person but He is in love with the
real person that happens to dwell in a body made of clay.

God is in love with YOU, not your abilities, beauty, talents, position
in life or your own perfection or holiness.

God sees you in Christ as who you are meant to be.
God sees you in Christ as His son or daughter.
God sees in you the potential of all you will be in Christ.
God sees in you an eternity spent with Him in love and fellowship.

We look to what is here and now but God looks to the fulfillment
of your life in Christ and the glorious perfection of God's mercy,
grace and love expressed in you as a redeemed and perfected
child of His that will dwell in the very presence of God's glory.

Stop thinking in terms of this temporary life.

Start thinking about the life God has called you to live now that
will draw you closer to God in this life and bring you into God's
plan for your life so you can point others to the call of God for their lives.

How do we renew our minds?
By believing what God says about us and by speaking against the lies
of the devil and telling them to depart and by calling them what they are, lies.

Read God's word, especially the gospels and the words of Christ.

Speak God's word out loud whenever you have a wrong thought that
challenges the truth of God's word.

Pray and ask God to give you His Holy Spirit of truth that will guide
you and empower you to change not in your own strength but
in the strength of God's Holy Spirit that will give you the strength
to over come the lies in your life.

The book Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyers will help you
to understand the battle that the devil wages against all men
as a spirit of lies that can influence people and drive them away from God.

rita727 said:

I have bad self esteem, and doubt God's love and acceptance of me. I know the verses that say that God values us and loves us, but it just doesnt sink inside my mind.

How do you reprogram your mind to believe what God says about you?

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I have a different take on "self esteem" than many....

I personally think that there is little we can do to improve how we feel about ourselves until we begin BEING a person who shows caring to others... yes, we can change our negative thinking, blocking the bad thoughts that are often untrue...thoughts planted there over the years by negative and hateful people.... and begin to tell ourselves --try to convince ourselves into believing how much God loves us...

and indeed He does, unconditionally love us... but for some reason (IMO) those truths don't seem to "stick" until we begin to show caring for others. Volunteering is a great way to give to others, and receive their appreciation. Even so, unless we do realize our negative viewpoint of our own selves is NOT from God but from the devil and our history of how we were raised and treated, and dispel those horrible phrases and words from our minds... we won't be able to accept the thanks from others and finally get to where we do have what is called "good" self esteem.

There's something about going the extra mile for another person (or charitable organization)... and Dr Selinger has researched and studied much about it, calling it positive psychology. Add in the Christian, GOD's love aspects...and it's a complete package, imo.

Quit doubting your own worth. Stop those thoughts. Keep reciting the verses about God's love and His value of you. Give to others until you realize the joy, and the reward and the proof that you are indeed a valuable person to God, and to us.

Yes, That's how "love others as ourselves" works. We learn who we are according to Yahwah then we are able to love others. Of course this isn't going to be a boastful view of ourselves. Along the way He will help us with our pride and other issues. When we have His view of us then we aren't needing nor expecting someone else or something to bring fulfillment to our lives. We are able to share His love to others even when folks who are unloving towards us, we are able to continue loving them.

rita727 said:

I have bad self esteem, and doubt God's love and acceptance of me. I know the verses that say that God values us and loves us, but it just doesnt sink inside my mind.

How do you reprogram your mind to believe what God says about you?

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Read St. John 3:16 & 17. They really are meant to be read together, not separately.

tturt said:

When the enemy tempted Yeshua while He was on earth, He immediately spoke Scripture. So when a thought comes that's opposite The Word, we need to immediately speak Scripture because that's the truth.

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If you have some time this weekend, watch a little bit of Carolyn Leaf's research on how the brain works in relation to understanding God's heart for you.

carolyn leaf - YouTube.

It's true that God loves us and that we don't have to earn His love; it's unconditional. I think it's not so much about "reprogramming" yourself, but letting Him come in and work in you. As one of my favorite writers, CS Lewis, describes it, it's like you're a dilapidated house, and if you let God come in, He will not only bring you up to code, He will make you into something better than you ever thought you could be. It requires a surrender and cooperation on your part, though. We can't do it without Him and He won't do it unless we ask Him to.

if you let God come in, He will not only bring you up to code, He will make you into something better than you ever thought you could be.

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A good reminder to yield to His better plan.

rita727 said:

I have bad self esteem, and doubt God's love and acceptance of me. I know the verses that say that God values us and loves us, but it just doesnt sink inside my mind.

How do you reprogram your mind to believe what God says about you?

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Most often, the root of this is works salvation. Many of us have developed a deep rooted belief that we must earn and deserve God's love and salvation. If we perform up to certain expectations, we deserve for Him to love us and to save us. If we fail, we can't imagine Him loving us, and He certainly won't save us.

This belief is instilled by the big three: the world, our own flesh, and the origin of it all, the devil. And it is so pervasive, and at the same time so subtle, that it can be hard to detect, let alone uproot.

At the bottom of it is self-focus. Your motto says you are a closet narcissist. There may be truth to that. The antidote is to know the truth about Christ and His real nature.

He loves unconditionally. He lowered Himself to our level, and then suffered unspeakable agonies, in order to bear all our sins and sorrows. He did it voluntarily, not out of necessity. He did it so that He could see us reunited with Himself, and free and happy.

Our sin was so profound that this remedy was the only way out. Therefore, our own works regarding salvation are dead - and not only dead, they are an insult to the Spirit of Grace. Essentially, we are saying to God that our works are on the same level as Christ's.

Can you see where this is going? The answer is to give up on any and all confidence in the flesh (Php 3.3). Our righteousness - not our sin - is as filthy rags - literally, as a used menstrual cloth.

If you come to Christ with this accurate knowledge of your lack of virtue and your need for Him, as He accepts you as you really are you will be freed of your need to perform. You, being forgiven much, will now love much.

But the key is this: the whole thing is Christ-centered, not self-centered. You see, raw self-esteem can be the ugliest thing you ever want to see. Many of the greatest human monsters in history were perfectly comfortable in their own skin as they committed their atrocities against the innocent. But fill yourself with Christ, and your own self will stop being an issue. You'll be too consumed with His love to worry about yourself.