Victory Life KY

Intentional Mind II

Episode Summary

You know when the apostle Paul tells us to not give any place to the devil? Guess where that starts? Leave here today with an intentional mind.

Episode Notes

• Deuteronomy 9:1-3,MSG-  Attention, Israel! This very day you are crossing the Jordan to enter the land and dispossess nations that are much bigger and stronger than you are. 
• You’re going to find huge cities with sky-high fortress-walls and gigantic people, descendants of the Anakites—you’ve heard all about them; you’ve heard the saying, “No one can stand up to an Anakite.
• TODAY KNOW THIS: GOD, your God, is crossing the river ahead of you—He’s a consuming fire. 
• He will destroy the nations, He will put them under your power. You will dispossess them and very quickly wipe them out, just as GOD promised you would.

• The Canaan mission represents leaving the old, overcoming sometimes the seemingly impossible, it’s going into a new place, a new mind set, a new way of living. 
• Canaan boldly declares that God has and always will be the force surrounding and empowering every believer willing to follow Him.

• Today-Da-Day!! It’s time for us to be a little more intentional in our thinking, our faith, our actions, let this story of our ancestors inspire us to make our minds up. To ask God to give us a intentional mind.

• Paul really brings this revelation home in his letter to the Ephesians when he instructs us that it’s up to us to put on our brand new God fashioned lives.

• Canaan makes it very clear, we’ve got to let go of the old and trust God to take us into the new. And it all starts with an intentional mind. Seriously, make up your mind!

• You know when the apostle Paul tells us to not give any place to the devil? Guess where that starts? Leave here today with an intentional mind.

• “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.”

• We’ve got to understand that what we think on continually becomes the dominate influence in our lives.

• 2 Corinthians 10,MSG- The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. 
• We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, 
• fitting every loose thought, emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ.

• Something every Christians has got to come to terms with is the fact that we’re made in God’s image. But because of free will, it’s our responsibility to make room for faith inspired thinking. In other words, renew our mind.

• This is why He told us to take control of our thoughts, to actually bring them into obedience with Christ. Canaan is waiting. Make your mind up, you’re letting go of the old and going in and taking the new God has for you.

• Remember last week in Matthew 6, Jesus tells us, “take no thought” He actually says, “Take no thought, saying” I’m convinced, every Christian needs training in the language of faith.
• Here’s the thing, an intentional mind produces intentional speaking.

• And I realize these are spiritual realities that will contradict the things of this natural world, and this is why we have to become people of faith, which means we have to do things God’s way.

• Practice seeing yourself the way God’s word describes you.

• Think about it, right now, what kind of in Christ image do you have?
• Don’t kid yourself, wrong thinking leads to wrong believing.

• What’s your thought life look like? What occupies the most space in your thinking? 

• Do you honestly believe that according to Jesus, Isaiah, Paul, and so many other patriarchs, that the more you think on what God says, the more transformation is happening?

• Hebrews 12, We run with endurance the race God has set before us by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith...

• Is it possible that we could get to a place in our walk with Jesus that the cares and trials of this world no longer have the power to sideline us?

• Why not let God inspire our thinking, empower us to be more international with our thought life, to the place where we see from His perspective?

• This means taking the time to make room in our thinking for God to inspire our faith. Remember the Psalmist says, be still and know that He’s God.

• Remember, it’s the little things that make the difference. And the majority of the time it’s those seemingly small decisions we make that shape our lives.

• In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus gives us a great picture of how God’s Kingdom operates. How something seemingly so small becomes something very significant.

• Matthew 13:31-32,NKJV- “Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

• Start today with one small decision, acknowledge Jesus as the author and finisher of your faith. The reason inspired thinking is so important for the believer is because our faith goes in the direction of our thinking.

• And for the born-again, our new lives (Canaan) can only be found in Him, willfully giving our lives to Him is the key to our success.

• This is why Paul instructs us that we have to put on our new man in Christ.

• Ephesians 4:21-24 NLT, “Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from Him, 
• throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 
• Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. 
• Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.”

• In Isaiah, God tells us, “I don’t think like you, or work like you. Just like the rain waters the earth, making things grow, so do the words that come out of my mouth. They will do what I sent them to do.”

• Remember what Jesus told us in Matthew, the King of heaven is like a seed. In like he also makes it clear that His word is seed.

• And this is where our faith has to be activated. From an intentional mind. We can’t keep doing things our way and expect to exercise Kingdom of God realties.

• This is why God told us not to despise the day of small beginnings. Just like a seed, which God’s word is, as it begins to grow the fruit will be recognizable in our lives today.

• Remember, God told us His ways are different. All His promises, His covenant comes from a world we can’t see in the natural. And it’s only through faith that we bring them into our world.

• God rarely asks us to take giant leaps of faith, usually He’s simply encouraging us to take small, everyday steps discovering the life Jesus died that we could have. He didn’t take the children of Israel to Canaan the first day.

• One of the most valuable lessons we can learn from our ancestors in the OT is that we will never enter into the life God has for us as long as we refuse to trust Him. Not to mention letting go of the old wilderness thinking or even worse Egypt thinking.

• The is why the first group stayed where they were in the wilderness, wandering through life, never getting to experience the promised life God told them was theirs for the taking.

• At the end of the day, absolutely everything pertaining to the Kingdom of God comes down to faith, what we believe.

• Matthew 9:28-30,NKJV- And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.”And their eyes were opened. 

• Remember, “According to your faith, let it be to you.”

• On the other side of us saying yes to God, there will be fears, uncertainty, opinions, challenges, giants and fortified walls we’ll have to overcome.

• The question is, will you continue wandering in your wilderness of unbelief, or will you take one of those steps of faith and cross over into your Canaan?

• Deuteronomy 9,  Attention, Israel! TODAY KNOW THIS: GOD, your God, is crossing the river ahead of you—He’s a consuming fire. 
• He will destroy the nations, He will put them under your power. You will dispossess them and very quickly wipe them out, just as GOD promised you would.

• Canaan boldly declares that God has and always will be the force surrounding and empowering every believer willing to follow Him.

• Today-Da-Day!! It’s time for us to be a little more intentional in our thinking, our faith, our actions, let this story of our ancestors inspire us to make our minds up. To ask God to give us a intentional mind.