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Many of us want to move forward into the new things that God has for us, but the more time goes by, the easier it is to feel like we’re just waiting on God. The waiting period can be a time of preparation and transformation so when those new opportunities come we have the right mindset. The best way to transform and renew our mind is to study God’s Word. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It's time 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.200 to get the recognition you deserve and earn a degree 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.840 you'll be proud of, one that employers will trust and 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.119 respect when you take the next step in your life 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.280 and career. Make it count with Purdue Global Produce Online 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:15.320 University for working adults. Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.959 I just want to encourage all of us today with 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:32.200 the scripture that's found in Romans Romans twelve, and this 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.080 is Paul talking to the Romans, and he's encouraging them 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.360 and urging them with great fervor to change. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:44.160 Their minds to be more like God. And he says this. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:50.040 He says, do not be conformed to this world, but 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:54.400 be transformed by the renewing of your minds. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.360 See, he knew that God wanted to do something in. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.240 His people, but they couldn't keep thinking the old way 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.040 and have the new things that God wants to do. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:05.720 You've heard it said like this. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.520 They couldn't put new wine and old wine skins. They 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.919 had to change their mind. And you know what, that's 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.320 the same with us today. We can't be conformed to 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:19.520 this world's culture. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.560 We can't be conformed to the wrong types of thinking. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.760 We have to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.840 You see, our salvation on this earth starts in our mind. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.320 If you're born again today, if you've given Jesus your life, 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.440 you're a new creature in Christ Jesus. And so your 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.640 spirit has been made new. It has come alive in 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:50.280 Christ Jesus. The problem is our mind needs to catch 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.440 up with what's going on in our spirit. All right, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.840 but we can do that by not conforming to our 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.720 old thinking, but submitting ourselves to the word of God, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.760 to the teachings of God. You see, we are so 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.799 blessed because we can get the word of God at 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:12.040 the at our fingertips. We can google the Word of God. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.160 We can take our phone and get our bi ble aps. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.119 We can listen to podcasts. We can turn on the internet, 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.519 we can turn on the TV listen. We can put 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:28.200 our music on our Christian faithful music that declares the 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:32.520 goodness of God. We are so blessed. We have to 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:37.640 submit and stay under this word of God so that 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:42.160 it can change our thinking. You see, some people may 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.680 not have been been brought up in church. I was 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.960 brought up in church. But you may not be have been. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.280 So maybe you have some things that are contrary to 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.040 what God wants you to think today. Some of you 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:01.080 have addictions. It's contrary to what God has for you today. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.000 You see, God is saying, don't be conformed by a habit, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.040 don't be conformed by an addiction. Don't be conformed by 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.200 the cultures of this world, the way this world thinks, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:17.200 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. You 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:22.160 have the choice of what you listen to, of what 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.839 you put yourself under. And God is saying, renew your mind, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.600 change your mind, get into what. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:32.920 I have for you. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.320 You see, I talk to people all the time who 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.359 have an addiction, and they are struggling to break the addiction. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.760 And what I tell them is just don't stay down, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.640 get back up, put yourself. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:46.440 Under the word of God. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.040 And those strongholds, those things that are trying to hold 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.279 you back, they can't stand up against the word of God. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.680 It's only a matter of time before your mind catches 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.599 up with what the spirit is doing. In Ephesians, the 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.680 Bible says, to him who is able to do exceedingly 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.520 abundantly above all we can ask, think or imagine, I 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.320 love that God can do anything. But listen to the 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:17.760 second part. According to the power that works in us. See, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.880 God is saying, when you transform your mind, you line 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.520 your mind up with the power that's in you. See, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.560 there's power in a made up mind. There's power in 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.920 a mind that says, no, I'm not staying here. I'm 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.400 on my way to greater places. I'm on my way 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.840 to God's destination. I'm not gonna be held down by 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.280 always in old patterns of thinking. You see, I think 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.760 about the apostle Paul, and he was so passionate to 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.760 let them know, by the mercies of God, by the 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:50.560 grace of God, this can happen for you. You see, people 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.880 they drink drinks to detox their body. Have you ever 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.800 heard somebody say, you know, drink this for five days 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.000 and it'll get all the junk out of your body. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:05:58.599 You know. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.760 They say that the stuff we eat, even the water 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.159 we drink, you know, has toxins in it. So people 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.520 want to be healthy, they want to detox their body. Listen, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.400 when you read the word of God and put yourself 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:10.880 under the word of God, you're. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.159 Detoxing your mind. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:18.000 You're dislodging strongholds, your weakening their grip on you. Listen, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.240 you're in a battle. You're in a battle, and it's 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.599 time to stand up and fight. It's time to say, 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.839 I'm not gonna let the wrong words come out of 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.640 my mouth. I'm not gonna let my ale way of 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:36.880 thinking stop me. I've heard people who are fighting illnesses 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.800 and they listen to the word of God constantly. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.520 They've constantly got it going. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.680 Whether they have the Word of God, whether they have 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.680 a good teaching, whether they have joel, whether they have praise, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.359 they are constantly bathing and sanctifying their mind in the 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.720 word of God. See, we're justified in our spirit, but 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.880 we have to be sanctified in our mind. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.120 That means we have to set our mind apart and 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.240 the only way. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.760 Of doing and being, and we have to get in 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.760 God's way of doing and being. You see, if we 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.440 want to know God's will, We're gonna have to know 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.280 God's way. Now, he was telling them, don't be conformed, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.760 but be transformed. And he was saying, this is a process. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.360 Don't get down on yourself. It's a process. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.440 And then he went on to say this. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.760 He says, do not be conformed to this world, but 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.400 be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that by 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.560 testing you may be able to discern the will of 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:39.000 God for your life. What is pleasing, right and acceptable? 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:40.440 How many of you want to know the will of 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.200 God for your life. I want to know the will 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.880 of God for my life. I want to know the 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.160 will of God for my life. And God is saying, 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.840 through this transformation, through this new way of thinking, you 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.320 can take all these choices and you can put them 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.800 under the scrutiny of what you know. You can test 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.920 it and see shall I make it or shall I not? 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.720 Shall I choose it, or shall I go the other way? See, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.160 you can put the choices you make every day under 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:10.600 the scrutiny. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:11.080 Of the word of God. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.200 See, God wants us to walk in confidence before him. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.240 He wants us to know what his will is, so 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.200 we'll know what way to go. It's kind of like 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.680 taking a test. Have you ever gone in when you're 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.520 in school to take a test or for your job. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.640 The better you knew the material, the more confident you were, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.600 the more answers. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.800 You got right. It's kind of like that. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.880 God is saying, this transformation comes little by little, but 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.440 keep gaining knowledge, keep testing your choices by what you 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.760 know to be right. You know, we make choices every 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:50.200 single day, and those choices make us. So it's so 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:55.640 important that we put our choices under God's authority. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.840 Now, you know, sometimes we don't want. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:04.280 To put every choice under God's authority because some choices we. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.600 Just want they look so good. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.720 God, I can fix this with you later. Let me 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.079 go ahead and make this choice. You know what, And 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.680 God knows that. I mean, we've all been there, We've 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.960 all done that. And the good thing about God, he 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.360 can take our bad choices and bring him glory and 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:22.920 us good. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.600 All right, he can. He's a good God, and he 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.400 loves us, and I love the fact that he's not 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:29.079 judging us. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.120 The point is is that we need to not be 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:38.439 afraid to take our attitudes, our unforgiveness, our habits, everything 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.160 about us and put it under the submission of God. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.800 See Paul was saying, be a living sacrifice. That's how 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.000 he started a be a living sacrifice. What he was saying, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.480 he was going, go all in, Go all in. Don't 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.920 hold back certain areas of your life. You have a 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.440 bad habit, put it under God's authority. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.319 Don't hold on to it and. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.400 Say, God, I'll fit as soon as I fix it, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.319 then I'll come over here and give it to you. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.679 God is saying, get it all to me, the good, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:08.200 the bad, the ugly. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.200 Put it under my word. Let me break those things 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.880 off of your life. See, Jesus came as the living Word. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:20.800 The Bible says he came as the Word made incarnate, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.520 man made flesh, and he walked among them. And do 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.440 you know that when you read the word of God, 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.400 you get good teaching. You're walking with Jesus. And he's 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.600 still doing what he did those days in the Bible. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.199 He's still healing, he's still delivering, he's still setting free, 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:37.359 he's still restoring. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.199 Take his hand and put all of it under his authority. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.280 We can't be afraid and listen. You know, we have 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.640 big decisions that we have to make in our life. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.680 I've heard people say, I want to know the will 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.640 of God. Should I take this job, should I start 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.600 this business? Should I go back to college? Is this 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.760 the person I should marry? And those are all very 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.560 important decisions. But we need to put every decision under 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:03.880 the will of God, because the. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.400 Better choices we make, the closer we are. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.160 To those better decisions on those big issues of our life. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.760 When I was a young girl, I remember my heart. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.920 I would just say to God, God, when I get 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.000 married someday, all I know is this. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.000 I want a man who loves you more than I do. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.480 You see, my heart said this, God, I don't want 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.400 to be dragging anybody up. I don't want to be 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.439 constantly pushing them up. God, I want them to sharpen me. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:34.000 I want us to be better together. I want us 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.120 to do great things for you. Now, girls, I just 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.880 want to tell you this. Don't say this part, but 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.120 this is literally what I said, because if I was you, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.080 I would find a man with a job. But I said, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.319 I said, God, he doesn't have to have a lot 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.040 of money. You know what, he doesn't have to be rich. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.120 God, I just want him to love you. Because my 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:55.719 heart was. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.080 Like this, God, you can do anything in our life. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.679 If we serve you, we can rise higher. We can 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.760 do anything. But the bottom line is my gold standard 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.600 is that he loves you a lot. So when I 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:14.040 met Joel, he looked good on the outside and back 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.320 from the outside, and he looked like he was perfect. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.200 But you know what, I didn't want to just judge 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.600 him from the outside. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.200 I wanted to judge my who I was gonna marry, 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:25.360 by the word of God. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.400 And although he looked good, he seemed to have. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.240 The right credentials. You know what, that wasn't good enough. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.560 I watched him, I studied him. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.599 I saw if his beliefs lined up with his actions. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.960 I watched how he treated his family, what he said 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:44.440 about his friends, his generosity towards others. See, I let 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.559 that character line itself up with the word of God. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:53.200 Then I could make an educated, bodily decision. You see, 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.520 God wants us to be confident in our decisions. As 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.160 our minds are gaining more knowledge and being transformed, we 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.360 can test our choices and make the right decisions. Well, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.360 I had the peace of God. He asked me to marry, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.079 so I did. Thirty years later. It's been a wonderful decision. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.360 It's been a great decision. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:20.559 Can I tell you girls. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.040 Don't judge from the outside. Make sure their character lines up. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:29.480 You're far too valuable to get together with someone who 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.760 doesn't appreciate you and know how to bring out the 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.200 best in you, who doesn't serve the living God. You see, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.720 I made my decision I'd rather be home with a 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.600 peanut butter and jelly Sanwach than with a man that 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.200 wasn't good enough for me and God. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:52.520 All right, it's not worth it. Every decision you make, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.120 use the word of God as your goal. Standard. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:00.480 Keep conforming to God's word in his likeness. Don't conform 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.240 to the world, don't conform to habits. You may be 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.800 fighting something right now, and I just want to encourage 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.040 you to get yourself, submit yourself under the word of God. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.280 Don't let anything come out of your mouth that doesn't 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.240 line up with what you want. Listen, when you're in 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.920 a fight, you've got to fight to the end. You 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.240 gotta be serious about where you're going. God's word will 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.280 renew you, strengthen you, and refresh you. It'll detox all 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.720 those old ways and I'll bring you into the new 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.160 ways of God. We love you so much. 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