God Wants Your Mind

Rom 12:1-2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 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.

Rom 7:25.  I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord!  So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

God tells us to do things that seem foolish:

• The enemy is coming… Sing!
• You want to see rain… Dig Ditches
• You need wine… Fill pots with water
• Walk around the city 7x

It can seem like you’re being asked to suspend your thinking & reasoning 

          Actually, you’re accessing a higher wisdom

1 Cor 2:6-16

However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written:

"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.  13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For "who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

We can have the wisdom of God & the mind of Christ 

Isa 55:8-9

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord.

9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

That was before He put His Spirit IN us 

Eph 2:6. He has made us sit together with Christ Jesus in the heavenly places.

Col 3:1-2

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

Elevate your mind – Elevate your thinking

You can’t change your life until you change your thinking

With the wisdom of God, you will have incredible advantages in all areas!

• ·       Answers to questions
• ·       Divine strategies
• ·       Direction for decisions
• ·       See things from the right perspective
• ·       Handling family situation – children
• ·       Understand complicated things
• ·       Insight
• ·       Memory
• ·       Test Taking
• ·       Evaluations
• ·       People management
• ·       Conflict resolution
• ·       Job decisions
• ·       Projects
• ·       Financial issues
• ·       Creative solutions 
• ·       Spatial Thinking 
• ·       Product Development
• ·       Scrum Methodology

Accessing wisdom “glorifies” us – makes us look good

Prov 25:2.  It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

(Jesus has made us kings and priests.  Rev 1:6)

Daniel was promoted – Dan 2:11, 16-22 

Joseph was promoted – Gen 40:8; 41:16,25 

You will be noticed, listened to, respected, promoted, etc.

Honor and Wealth follow Wisdom

2 Chron 1:7-12

Wisdom and knowledge are granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor. 

It starts with Asking for Wisdom!  

James 1:5-6

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

We are supposed to be involved in the counsel of God

Rom 11:34 (1 Cor 2:16; Is 40:13).  "For who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has become His counselor?"

Ex 32:9-14

And the Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! 10 Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."

11 Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said: "Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, 'He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"  14 So the Lord relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

Keys, Binding & Loosing

I have the Spirit of God and the mind of Christ
Therefore I am smart and increasing in knowledge
I have access to Divine wisdom
And unlimited creative power
Making available to me unsearchable riches
I have an unction from the Holy Spirit
Therefore I can know all things
I can understand all things
I can remember all things
And I don’t have to worry about anything.

God reveals His wisdom, mysteries & secrets through the prophet

Amos 3:7.  Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

Why we need the Prophetic

To bring out your best – 1 Cor 14:3

• ·       Edify – Build Up
• ·       Exhort – Strengthen
• ·       Comfort – Cheer Up

To find hidden treasure in you – not just a confirming word

To transform you into the person God designed you to be

1 Sam 10:5-6

After that you shall come to the hill of God where the Philistine garrison is. And it will happen, when you have come there to the city that you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a stringed instrument, a tambourine, a flute, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.

6 Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.

1 Sam 10:9.  So it was, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel that God gave him another heart; and all those signs came to pass that day.

The prophetic releases destiny in you

The prophetic tells you what season you’re in

The prophetic tells you what to do in that specific season

The prophetic announces the next season

1 Kings 17:1.  And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word."

The prophetic tells you how to handle the changes in your life

i.e. the brook dried up – where to go (1 Kings 17:7-8)

Don’t quit.  Let your fishing nets down again, except in a different place this time – Luke 5:4-6

The prophetic warns us – Acts 21:10-11