2 Renew your mind

Renew your Mind: 

Restoration and Healing notes 18 Sept 2024

Getting to know who God is, and who we are with Him (or Him in us).

Spending quality time with Him, and including Him in your life all day long, for every moment, every trial, every win, every question/decision.--(more next week on how that looks) This develops FAITH

Your cup of suffering ended with Jesus, and He gave you a cup of salvation.  So pour out the old cup (give it to Jesus) of your suffering, and drink from His, and thank Him.

Most importantly, listen to Him. Give space and time to listen.  

Renew your mind

With what

With faith

Spiritual divine healing is not mental or physical 

And your spirit is already perfect and healed  (reborn)

So what’s the disconnect  

Your heart, faith.  

Romans 8:32 He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Romans 5:2 by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Faith doesn’t create healing.  Healing was already given to us by Grace.  

Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is written: “The just shall live by faith.”

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

2 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

Galatians 5:25

We Live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new.

It’s not a matter of what you or I or Jesus can DO, it's a matter of what we believe 

Mark 9: 23  Jesus said unto him, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

What we feed on is the fuel of our lives. Our bodies feed on food, our minds feed on information, our souls feed on events, relationships, and emotions, and our spirits must feed on the Word, which is Spirit. 

Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart…

Jeremiah 15:16

Remember we are the Temple for Holy Spirit, we are the Body of Christ.

God wants us strong and healthy

1 Corinthians 3:16

16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

God gave us Salvation despite our flaws, through His Son’s sacrifice.  

Titus 2: 11-14 God has shown us undeserved grace by coming to save all people. 12 He taught us to give up our wicked ways and our worldly desires and to live decent and honest lives in this world. 13 We are filled with hope, as we wait for the glorious return of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.[a] 14  He gave himself to rescue us from everything evil and to make our hearts pure. He wanted us to be his own people and to be eager to do right.

Romans 6:23 Sin pays off with death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Philippians 2:12-13 12 My dear friends, you always obeyed when I was with you. Now that I am away, you should obey even more. So work with fear and trembling to discover what it really means to be saved. 13 God is working in you to make you willing and able to obey him.

Romans 1:16   I am proud of the good news! It is God's powerful way of saving all people who have faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.

John 1:12-13 12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name—

13 Who owe their birth neither to [a]bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!]

Eph 1: 13-14 13 Christ also brought you the truth, which is the good news about how you can be saved. You put your faith in Christ and were given the promised Holy Spirit to show you belong to God. 14 The Spirit also makes us sure we will be given what God has stored up for his people. Then we will be set free, and God will be honored and praised.

John 3: 3-6 3 Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God.

4 Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb again and be born?

5 Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [[a]even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God.

6 What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

AND Jesus took authority away from satan and gave it to us, through Him: 

Luke 10:19, Luke 9:1, Mark 16:18, Acts 10:38

Renew your heart:

Matthew 6:9–15

Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Acts 2:38-39

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

What is the soul?  It is our mind, will, and emotions. (our outer and carnal selves which are molded by the carnal world -our personality….until we become born again). 

Galatians 5:25

We Live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new.

Ever hear ‘follow your heart’?  Your heart is your carnal soul, not of God, until we renew it.  Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart is deceitful. 

But Romans 8:14-16 says

14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, “Abba,[c] Father!” 16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God

We are children, that must grow into sons and daughters of God, or we can immaturely fall back into our carnal ways

1 Corinthians 3: 1-3

My friends, you are acting like the people of this world. That's why I could not speak to you as spiritual people. You are like babies as far as your faith in Christ is concerned. 2  So I had to treat you like babies and feed you milk. You could not take solid food, and you still cannot, 3 because you are not yet spiritual. You are jealous and argue with each other. This proves you are not spiritual and you are acting like the people of this world.

How do we grow our minds and will and heart in God?  Read the Word, and fellowship with Him daily. 

Romans 12:2 ….let God change the way you think….

2 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

Important WHY we must be born again, and die to our carnal selves, and grow in the Spirit!

1 Corinthians 6:19

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

If we remain passive,or revert back to old bad ways or habits, our bodies will become lazy and undisciplined, which is not a good temple for Holy Spirit to live in.