Skip to main content

 FROM HEART TO MIND

I think that one of the difficulties that beset evangelicalism is an adoration of the intellect. I have heard and read all too often, “The battle to shape our hearts by the truths our minds already know is never over.”

The truth from Scripture is that it is our minds that are in desperate need of renewal. You never read in the Epistles any Apostle stating that, after being born again by the Holy Spirit, our hearts need to be renewed. It’s our minds that are in need of being daily renewed by the work and power of the Holy Spirit applying the Word of God to practically and demonstratively change the way we think and see life.

Our lives are in desperate need of reorientation to see all of life as God alone sees and knows it. You see, the believer has already been given a new heart and a new spirit made right with God where the Holy Spirit is living out the Life of Jesus Christ transforming us from the inside out. The Holy Spirit is perfecting in us the obedience of Jesus, His faithfulness, His righteousness, His Truth, His salvation, and His will. The Holy Spirit makes the things of Jesus Christ real to us; revelation insight for living.

Daily “hiding His Word in our hearts” gives the Holy Spirit what is needed to transform our minds to understand with God’s understanding from heart to mind. For salvation is of the Lord, not of our intellect and reasoning ability. It’s when our minds are renewed by the work and power of the Holy Spirit that we are able to prove that the will of the Lord for us is good, perfect and acceptable. The direction of life transformation, the living out of the salvation of God is from heart to mind.

The enemy doesn’t want us to realize that we can live from the new heart and new spirit, the new Life we have been given. Satan wants us to trust our minds rather that the Lord Himself. The enemy wants us limited by what seems reasonable to us, when “what eyes has not seen, what ear has not heard, what is beyond anything we could ever ask or conceive of…” THESE things are revealed by the Holy Spirit. He is able to do far beyond and above all we could ask or think.

Lord God, I ask in Jesus Name that, what You have established in my heart and spirit be an ever more transforming reality in my mind that I may live life in sole reference to Who You are and not merely to what “I think”.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

  PRAYER Jesus Christ NEVER taught on what we call "unanswered prayer." James wrote that a divided loyalty between trusting the Lord God for life and at the same time relying on the world's systems to get what you want will result in you not getting anything from God you may have prayed about. God will never reinforce the unbelief that flows from divided loyalty. THAT is not unanswered prayer. That is God saying, "No." to your request. God saying, "No." to your requests is not unanswered prayer. It is His grace. His "No" is just what I would want if I knew what He knows. The Lord also answers with, "Not now; not yet." because we are not yet prepared to receive what we think we need. God works in us both to will and to do His good pleasure. If I am praying for something God wants to do in me and the Holy Spirit is working in me preparing me to receive what God has in store, His "Not yet." is NOT unanswered prayer. As we see...
Post a Comment
Read more
 HEBREWS 10:1-2, 10-18 "The sacrifices under that system ( the Old Covenant) were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.   If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.   For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.  Under the Old Covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins.   But our High Priest offered Himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then He sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand.   There He waits until His enemies are humbled and made a footstool under His feet.   For by that one offering He forever m...
Post a Comment
Read more
  From Oswald Chambers today: "If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn’t ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.” When the light shines and the Spirit brings conviction of sin, be a child of the light. Confess your wrongdoing, and God will deal with it. If, however, you try to vindicate yourself, you prove yourself to be a child of the darkness. What is the proof that carnality has gone? Never deceive yourself; when carnality is gone you will know it— it is the most real thing you can imagine. And God will see to it that you have a number of opportunities to prove to yourself the miracle of His grace. The proof is in a very practical test. You will find yourself saying, “If this had happened before, I would have had the spirit of resentment!”...
Post a Comment
Read more