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What Does The Renewal Of The Mind Mean? · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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  Hey guys, welcome to This Week She Speaks live for a solo
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  episode with me. I just started Do These as this
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  is something that the Lord has put on my heart for a while and
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  I feel like there's no time but the present to chat about the
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  gospel and encourage us in the days ahead.
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  So I'm bringing us through a contentment series from the
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  journal Serenity, which you can purchase on my website
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  jamieelizabeth.com. And for 15% off with free
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  shipping, you can use code VIP 15, but by any means it's not a
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  necessity to have one to listen to the solo episodes.
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  So I'll basically be taking us through a personalized scripture
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  verse in the contentment series and then we'll chat about it,
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  much like a mini Bible study. And I've got to say, I've had so
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  many women share about the struggles of lacking contentment
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  as well as myself in seasons. And really, to me, being content
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  is not waiting for everything to be so before we start living
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  like it's so. In other words, to help us
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  understand being content, it's that we don't wait for
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  conditions to be pleasing, to be content or peaceful.
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  Why? Because peace, joy and
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  contentiveness all comes from the Lord, not our circumstances.
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  And Paul says in Philippians 411 I'll be reading from the Joyce
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  Meyer battlefield of the mind Amplify version, Philippians
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  411. This is so good, Paul says Not
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  that I speak from any personal need, for I have learned to be
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  content and self-sufficient through Christ, satisfied to the
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  very point where I am not disturbed or uneasy, regardless
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  of my circumstances. I mean, of all places to write
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  about content. The Apostle Paul was in prison
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  when he wrote this. Paul was not disturbed in a
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  disturbing place. Why?
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  Because he was drawing out from what was in him, not what was
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  around him. And this is the key for us to
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  draw on the power of God's Word and live in the fullness of the
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  nine fruits of the Spirit, which is love and joy, peace,
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  patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and
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  self-control. God's word and the fruit of the
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  Spirit is the divine force that feeds us our faith and gives us
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  victory To overcome that discontentment.
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  It's basically not waiting for everything to be ought before
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  you start living like it ought to be.
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  So wherever we give attention to the most is what will gain
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  movement in our lives. So if we pay attention to God's
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  word and feast on it, we'll be looking at our circumstances way
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  differently and be walking daily in this confident hope that our
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  God will care for our needs. If you turn with me, Proverbs
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  420 through 22, it says in the amplified version, Pay attention
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  to my words and be willing to learn.
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  Open your ears to my sayings. Do not let them escape from your
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  sight. Keep them in the center of your
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  heart, for they are life to those who find them and healing
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  and health to all their flesh. Strong faith, you guys, has
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  disciplined attention. We can't give our attention to
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  God's word if we're giving all our attention to the wrong
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  words. Paying attention to incline our
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  ear to hear His word and recognize a wrong thought is
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  being skilled with our faith. It's guarding our minds while
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  it's being guided by the Holy Spirit, not our flesh.
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  Which brings us to the scripture verse we will be personalizing
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  today. Those verses I'll be reading
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  Romans 12/2 in the NIV version and it says do not conform to
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  the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of
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  your mind. Then you will be able to test
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  and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing and perfect
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  will. So now let's go and personalize
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  this verse with me. So when I say Jamie, you say
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  your name. So here we go.
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  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed
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  by the renewing of Jamie's mind. Then Jamie will be able to test
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  and approve what God's will is, His good, pleasing and perfect
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  will. How awesome to feed on this
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  verse with placing our name inside the verse as it brings us
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  urgency to focus on God's values, on His word by proving
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  to ourselves His plan and purpose for our lives.
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  So let's dive into what renewing our mind even means.
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  It's actually just getting rid of our stinky thinking and
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  thinking God's way. It's taking God's thoughts above
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  our own. And how do we do that?
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  By feasting on God's word, and not just reading it and letting
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  it go in and go out, but living it out, taking action to what
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  the Word of God says. We've got to remember though
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  that this renewing of the mind is a daily discipline.
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  Our mind so easily wants to just take off.
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  But one of the many inheritances that God gave us was a sound
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  mind, a self controlled mind. But this only works for us if we
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  choose to do it. If we choose to think right
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  thoughts, which will lead us to the right believing to, then the
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  right speaking to than the right actions, it's in our control to
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  decide what kind of life we want to live.
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  When we decide to not be OK with anything less of God's best,
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  that's when we start living this consistent life of peace and
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  joy. Circumstances can come, but we
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  can still live in God's flow of peace and joy because he never
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  withdraws that from us. OK, turn with me if you're
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  following Psalm 23 Five, it says.
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  You, God, prepare a table before me in the presence of my
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  enemies. Let the enemy watch you feast on
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  God's living word. The enemy can only see our
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  actions and how we respond to a thought.
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  If we have doubts and fear and say I'm not good at this or I
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  don't know how we are going to make this month's bill, the
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  enemy sees that as a weakness and then he can keep pushing his
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  way to get us even more anxious and stress than pushing our
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  buttons. The enemy's tactics are to
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  constantly, three, constantly be throwing us off of God's
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  territory so he will get us in his territory by responding to
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  things that oppose God's word so he can then easily just trip us
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  up. Look at sports teams, they are
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  looking constantly at strategies to win the opponent by seeing
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  where that opposite team's weaknesses are.
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  They don't go in full fear, but they have a game aim plan.
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  That's what we are doing. Notice a verse that says God has
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  prepared a table in the presence of the enemy.
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  We are not to be afraid that the enemy is present.
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  There's a spiritual battle going on every day and that's why we
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  need to feast on God's word. We When we do that, we are in
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  God's territory and it completely expels the enemy's
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  tactics. So let the enemy watch you eat
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  and speak God's word. That's victory and that's faith.
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  So speaking God, thank you that you are my provider.
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  You will provide what I need for my bills or God.
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  You have already equipped me and will give me all the resources I
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  need to do what I need in excellence.
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  God's got the ultimate power. He's the victor, and we live in
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  his victory as a child of his turn with me, Second Timothy 17,
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  and the amplified version. It says God did not give us a
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  spirit of timidity or cowardness or fear.
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  He has given us a spirit of power, of love and a sound mind.
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  A personal discipline that results in a calm, well balanced
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  mind and self-control. Notice that fear is a spirit.
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  It's the wrong spirit. It's a spirit that comes from
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  the enemy. God gives us a spirit of power,
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  love, a self controlled mind. When our minds are disciplined,
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  we have peace. An undisciplined mind disrupts
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  our peace. When we discipline our mind,
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  it's a renewed mind. An unrenewed mind is an
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  undisciplined mind, and it's open to receiving thoughts that
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  are not from God. And if it's not righteous, we
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  don't want to go down that path because everything we know
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  follows from our thoughts. When the verse says do not
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  conform to this world, it's because the world has the
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  ability to conform. People, even people who don't
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  even contend to conform, can be conformed.
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  I know the way I used to live. I didn't realize how much I was
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  conforming to the world. Sometimes we don't even know it
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  and we're conforming to the world.
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  You know, I wasn't renewing my mind with the word of God, which
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  is, you know, taking God's thoughts and choosing that to
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  transform my life. When we are transformed by God's
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  word, our lives won't look like it used to.
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  Our life should not stay the same when we are believers.
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  We should be constantly growing and living out.
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  That set apartedness from the world acting and thinking
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  differently. Back in the day when I was a
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  little girl, there were these toys called Transformers and the
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  Transformer were turned from a car to a giant robot looking
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  thing with a weapon. It was able to do things it can
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  do as a car. This illustration is living a
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  transformed life. We believers are doing things we
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  can do before knowing Christ. Renewing the mind gives us
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  access to the transformed life, and that renewing of the mind is
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  a lifelong process. It's daily going to the word and
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  feeding our minds with His truth.
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  If we don't get disciplined in our minds, then we won't look
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  much different than the others of the world.
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  We got saved because we were done living the way we were
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  living, and we know that being saved doesn't mean we won't run
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  into problems, but it does mean the outcome of our problems will
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  be different. The renewed mind sees problems
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  differently than the unrenewed mind.
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  If our thoughts oppose God's word, we need to lay it down and
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  reject it before it starts to go into the process of our thought
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  life, because then that affects our belief and then our speech
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  and our actions. We will know basically, that we
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  are living in the renewal of the mind life when we show it in the
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  actions of our daily lives. It takes more than just quoting
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  the word we. We need to have the word of God
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  dictating the way we live. The renewed mind isn't renewed
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  until it shows through our actions.
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  We confess and speak out God's word to align ourselves with
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  what we just confessed by showing it in our lives.
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  If we say I'm beautifully and wonderfully made and we don't
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  live in the we are His masterpiece and in what we do,
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  then our minds have not taken root with the renewal way of
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  thinking. It's not in the talk, but in the
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  walk. It's showing up daily with the
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  fruit that comes from from the renewed mind.
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  This is the transformed life. This is growing up spiritually
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  that will never end until we get to heaven.
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  We can't keep growing spiritually mature until we
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  learn to put into practice the renewing of the mind.
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  A mind that chooses to be self controlled by the word of God.
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  So let's keep going and place God's thoughts over everything
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  else by living out His faithful word in our lives.
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