Change Your Point of View
(5 minutes)
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. (Romans 12:2 NKJV)
Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God's will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes. (Romans 12:2 TPT)
"Your mind is your perception, it's how you see things. Let me put it another way: change your point of view! Some of us have long held our point of view, and that point of view is from this world, not His...I have some casualties of holding on to religious points of view in my own life. I have casualties. That means I have received damage from holding on to the point of view that I inherited from religion. If you're honest, everything you think about God, you inherited from someone else. Most of the things that we regurgitate out of our mouths, we just heard someone else say, and it sounded right. And then we started implementing that point of view in our life and all of a sudden that point of view leads us down a road that causes casualties. But God's point of view doesn't lead you down a road that causes casualties." (Pastor Tim)
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, your perception, your point of view. What point of view are we still holding onto that we didn't receive from Yahweh? What point of view are we still nursing that didn't even come from Abba's mouth? How much of our perception is still shaped by the religious point of view that we inherited from someone else?
This is so important for us. We cannot trust anything that comes from an unrenewed mind, even our own unrenewed mind, and what it thought and believed five years ago, or ten years ago, or thirty years ago. We should not hold on to a point of view just because it's been around a long time.
Our relationship with Yahweh and the Kingdom of God is ever-expanding and ever-growing. We're being invited deeper and deeper with every encounter. The unrenewed mind will always want to cling to doctrinal certitude and be right, but the renewed mind learns to trust what is coming from Abba's mouth day by day. The renewed mind has learned to live on daily bread from the presence of God. Like Pastor Tim said on Sunday, are we more concerned with being right or having right thinking? There is a difference.
As we take the walk with Abba today and continue the conversation that He started with us, let's allow Him to speak to our hearts about our point of view. Abba and His goodness will lead us into a new way of seeing, and a new way of thinking, if we let Him.
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