How to Get God's Best for Your Life, Part 2

There's a way to experience real life change, and it isn’t about trying harder; it’s about a completely new way of thinking.

Negative Command: “Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world…”

Passive voiceImperativePresent tense

Translation: “Stop allowing yourselves to be molded by the influences and pressures of this present world system.”

Application: We are to be SEPARATE from the world’s values. -1 Jn. 2:15-17

Summary: The world’s system seeks to SEDUCE us from our love for Christ by PLEASURE, POSSESSIONS, and POSITION.

Positive Command: “…but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

Passive voiceImperativePresent tense

Translation: “But allow God to completely change your inward thinking and outward behavior by cooperating wholeheartedly moment-by-moment with the Spirit’s renewing process.”

Application: Are you shaped more by the WORLD or the WORD? -Mat. 4:4; 2 Cor. 3:18

The means of transformation: “…by the renewing of your mind.”

Renewing your mind is a continual REFOCUS of a Romans 12:1 perspective.Renewing your mind will always involve a BATTLE.Renewing your mind is a SUPERNATURAL work of the Spirit.

Practical methods for “Renewing Your Mind”

HEARING God’s Word -Rom. 10:17Use your TIME wisely. Be in the WordREAD God’s Word -Rev. 1:3STUDY God’s Word -2 Tim. 2:15MEMORIZE God’s Word -Psa. 119:9,11MEDITATE on God’s Word -Jos. 1:8

A tool for transformation: The “2PROAPT” Method

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