Renewing your mind

[faithnprayer]

The Bible says to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. My question is how do you actually put that into practice? My walk is growing ever closer to our Lord. Sadly, satan's attacks are growing just as strong.
For every positive thought, three negative follow. Not literally, but you get the idea.

 

[HumbleBee]

faithnprayer! tiz wonderful to hear that you are growing ever closer to your Lord! The closer you draw to Jesus, the deeper He goes into your heart revealing what is there. Sometimes, negative thoughts could signify an emotional wound that needs healing and or indicate strongholds, such as fear, doubt, worry, even erroneous mindsets, etc that require ousting. One's mind is certainly the spiritual battle ground, so the more filled with God's renewing Word of Truth, the more Divine Power to wage effective warfare against negative thoughts! Our Lord's mighty Presence, the Power of His precious shed Blood, prayer, and praising Him would all work wonders in renewing one's mind!


Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

Psalm 19:14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 104:33-14 I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. May my meditation be pleasing to Him, as I rejoice in the LORD.

Romans 12:1-2 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. 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.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Ephesians 4:21-24 ...if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Philippians 4:4-9 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, 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...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. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

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[Johnnz]

Renewing your mind is learning to have your thoughts and values framed by Christian concepts. This is a lifelong process. We try to understand and then apply biblical understanding to our own lives, our relationship with God, our careers, our marriage and family, our relationships with people, our struggles, our civic responsibiities, our christian community and service and so on.

Not all neagative thoughts come from Satan either. We can generate quite a few of them for a variety of reasons.

John
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[woman.at.the.well]

The Bible says to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. My question is how do you actually put that into practice? My walk is growing ever closer to our Lord. Sadly, satan's attacks are growing just as strong.
For every positive thought, three negative follow. Not literally, but you get the idea.

entails totally emersing yourself in God's presence, God's word, staying in constant communication with Him and the Son; asking daily for the infilling of the Holy Spirit to empower you to be renewed mentally and spiritually. And by keeping yourself surrounded as much as possible with people who are living a whole life faith and not mediocre Christians.

That's my 2 cents.

 

[Anti Existance]

this renewal of the mind is purely putting what Jesus teaches you into practise. You put it into practise by sticking out your hands and loving and helping other people like Jesus told you to do.

 

[qh93536]

The Bible says to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. My question is how do you actually put that into practice? My walk is growing ever closer to our Lord. Sadly, satan's attacks are growing just as strong.
For every positive thought, three negative follow. Not literally, but you get the idea.

I don't know if Satan's attacks are growing stronger or more frequent, or if because of your growth in your walk, you are just more aware, more conscious of them.
If you want to eliminate those negative thoughts, you will need to rebuke your flesh or carnality, and replace it with the constant influence of the Holy Spirit. That is called spiritual growth. If this is a direction you would like to take, I can help you.

 

[~Beauty_from_Pain~]

I would recommend getting and reading a book called "You Are What You Think" by David Stoop, Ph.D. It is an awesome book that I am reading about controling how you think and managing your thoughts. It has really been helpful.

I would also just say that loooking to God, and thinking on His Words.

 

[Just Me Garry]

Keep feeding on the Word Of God. We all need to have our minds renewed on a daily basis. Good Post.

 

[eden2760]

Good posts. Faith, may I say what you probably already know (and someone else said): The spiritual fight is fought in the mind and amid your emotions; your soul. You're drawing closer to the Lord, increasing in fellowship with Him. Well... this is going to allow God to use you more to further His kingdom, through ministrering to others, sharing of his Love and the knowledge of His son.

This is the very thing that Satan stands against. He tries to steal, kill, and destroy, especially those things that glorify God, because Satan desires glory for himself.

You said you're drawing closer to God, good. As you draw closer, he will begin to sanctify you more. Just realize something I've come to in my relatively short time walking with the Lord: In his sanctification of you, he will deal with one area of your life at a time. You'll still have conviction of the Spirit, and he will steal deal with you on things; but idols in your life, anything that you haven't given over to His lordship, he will deal with those areas one at a time, and then move on to the next, and the next.

So take heart sis. As long as your conscious that these thoughts you're having are negative, and opposed to the Lord, give them to him. Ask him to reveal the source, and to deal with the source whatever it may be. In the end, His grace is sufficient, and His word is sufficient. You're on His way. God Bless, faith.

 

[faithnprayer]

I don't know if Satan's attacks are growing stronger or more frequent, or if because of your growth in your walk, you are just more aware, more conscious of them.
If you want to eliminate those negative thoughts, you will need to rebuke your flesh or carnality, and replace it with the constant influence of the Holy Spirit. That is called spiritual growth. If this is a direction you would like to take, I can help you.

qh,
thats an amazingly simple revelation. I guess I hadn't considered the obvious..... as we draw nearer to God then we may just be more aware of satan's attacks. I am interested in how I might eliminate negative thoughts and replace them with the constant influence of the Holy Spirit. Any suggestions or advice is much welcomed.

Thank you all so much for the words of encouragement. I am finding comfort in the realization that my circumstances do not determine my identity.
Giving up and laying it all down at the foot of the cross has been, and at times continues to be , a struggle. I realize finally..... God has it worked out and if I abide in Him... He will make His way clear to me.

 

[IronFire]

Everyones responses are great! I have something to add: Do you memorize scripture regularly? Just think, whats a soldier wihtout his sword? And if you don't have it with you, how can you use it! I would recommend reading this to help you get going: http://www.memoryverses.org/how1.htm
It truly changed my life when I started memorizing scripture!