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Speaker 5: Hi, this is Victoria, Thank you so much for downloading
Speaker 5: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.
Speaker 5: I hope you enjoy this message. I just want to
Speaker 5: encourage all of us today with the scripture that's found
Speaker 5: in Romans. Romans twelve and this is Paul talking to
Speaker 5: the Romans, and he's encouraging them and urging them with
Speaker 5: great firm to change their minds to be more like God.
Speaker 4: And he says this.
Speaker 5: He says, do not be conformed to this world, but
Speaker 5: be transformed by the renewing of your minds. See, he
Speaker 5: knew that God wanted to do something in his people,
Speaker 5: but they couldn't keep thinking the old way and have
Speaker 5: the new things that God wants to do.
Speaker 4: You've heard it said like this.
Speaker 5: They couldn't put new wine and old wine skins. They
Speaker 5: had to change their mind. And you know what, that's
Speaker 5: the same with us today. We can't be conformed to
Speaker 5: this world's culture. We can't be conformed to the wrong
Speaker 5: types of thinking. We have to be transformed by the
Speaker 5: renewing of our mind. You see, our salvation on this
Speaker 5: earth starts in our mind. If you're born again today,
Speaker 5: if you've given Jesus your life, you're a new creature
Speaker 5: in Christ Jesus, and so your spirit has been made new.
Speaker 4: It has come alive in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 5: The problem is our mind needs to catch up with
Speaker 5: what's going on in our spirit, all right, But we
Speaker 5: can do that by not conforming to our old thinking,
Speaker 5: but submitting ourself to the word of God, to the
Speaker 5: teachings of God. You see, we are so blessed because
Speaker 5: we can get the word of God at our fingertips.
Speaker 5: We can google the Word of God. We can take
Speaker 5: our phone and get our bib ble apps. We can
Speaker 5: listen to podcasts. We can turn on the internet, we
Speaker 5: can turn on the TV listen. We can put our
Speaker 5: music on our Christian faithful music that declares the goodness
Speaker 5: of God.
Speaker 4: We are so blessed.
Speaker 5: We have to submit and stay under this word of
Speaker 5: God so that it can change our thinking. You see,
Speaker 5: some people may not have been brought up in church.
Speaker 5: I was brought up in church, but you may not
Speaker 5: be have been. So maybe you have some things that
Speaker 5: are contrary to what God wants you to think today.
Speaker 5: Some of you have addictions. It's contrary to what God
Speaker 5: has for you today. You see, God is saying, don't
Speaker 5: be conformed by a habit, don't be conformed by an addiction,
Speaker 5: don't be conformed by the cultures of this world, the
Speaker 5: way this world thinks, but be transformed by the renewing
Speaker 5: of your mind. You have the choice of what you
Speaker 5: listen to, of what you put yourself under. And God
Speaker 5: is saying, renew your mind, change your mind, get into.
Speaker 4: What I have for you.
Speaker 5: You see, I talk to people all the time who
Speaker 5: have an addiction, and they are ruggling to break the addiction.
Speaker 5: And what I tell them is just don't stay down,
Speaker 5: get back up, put yourself under the word of God.
Speaker 5: And those strongholds, those things that are trying to hold
Speaker 5: you back, they can't stand.
Speaker 4: Up against the word of God.
Speaker 5: It's only a matter of time before your mind catches
Speaker 5: up with what the spirit is doing.
Speaker 4: In Ephesians, the Bible says.
Speaker 5: To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above
Speaker 5: all we can ask, think or imagine.
Speaker 4: I love that God can do anything.
Speaker 5: But listen to the second part, according to the power
Speaker 5: that works in us. See, God is saying, when you
Speaker 5: transform your mind, you line your mind up with the
Speaker 5: power that's in you. See, there's power in a made
Speaker 5: up mind. There's power in a mind that says, no,
Speaker 5: I'm not staying here. I'm on my way to greater places.
Speaker 5: I'm on my way to God's destination. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: be held down by always in old patterns of things.
Speaker 5: You see, I think about the apostle Paul, and he
Speaker 5: was so passionate to let them know by the mercies
Speaker 5: of God, by the grace of God, this can happen
Speaker 5: for you. You see, people they drink drinks to detox
Speaker 5: their body. Have you ever heard somebody say, you know,
Speaker 5: drink this for five days and it'll get all the
Speaker 5: junk out of your body.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: They say that the stuff we eat, even the water
Speaker 5: we drink, you know, has toxins in it. So people
Speaker 5: want to be healthy, they want to detox their body. Listen,
Speaker 5: when you read the word of God and put yourself
Speaker 5: under the word of God.
Speaker 4: Your detoxing your mind.
Speaker 5: You're dislodging strongholds, your weakening their grip on you. Listen,
Speaker 5: you're in a battle. You're in a battle, and it's
Speaker 5: time to stand up and fight.
Speaker 4: It's time to say, I'm not gonna let the wrong
Speaker 4: words come out of my mouth. I'm not gonna let
Speaker 4: my whole way of thinking stop me.
Speaker 5: I've heard people who are fighting illnesses and they listen
Speaker 5: to the Word of God constantly.
Speaker 4: They've constantly got it going.
Speaker 5: Whether they have the Word of God, whether they have
Speaker 5: a good teaching, whether they have joel, whether they have praise.
Speaker 5: They are constantly bathing and sanctifying their mind in the
Speaker 5: word of God. See, we're justified in our spirit, but
Speaker 5: we have to be sanctified in our mind. That means
Speaker 5: we have to set our mind apart from the old
Speaker 5: way of doing and being, and we have to get
Speaker 5: in God's way of doing and being. You see, if
Speaker 5: we want to know God's will, We're gonna have to
Speaker 5: know God's way. Now, he was telling them, don't be conformed,
Speaker 5: but be transformed. And he was saying, this is a process.
Speaker 5: Don't get down on yourself. It's a process. And then
Speaker 5: he went on to say this. He says, do not
Speaker 5: be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
Speaker 5: renewing of your mind. That by testing you may be
Speaker 5: able to discern the will of God for your life.
Speaker 5: What is pleasing, right and acceptable. How many of you
Speaker 5: want to know the will of God for your life.
Speaker 4: I want to know the will of God for my life.
Speaker 5: And God is saying, through this transformation, through this new
Speaker 5: way of thinking, you can take all these choices and
Speaker 5: you can put them under the scrutiny of what you know.
Speaker 5: You can test it and see shall I make it
Speaker 5: or shall I not? Shall I choose it, or shall
Speaker 5: I go the other way? See, you can put the
Speaker 5: choices you make every day under the scrutiny of the
Speaker 5: word of God. See, God wants us to walk in
Speaker 5: confidence before him. He wants us to know what his
Speaker 5: will is so we'll know what way to go. It's
Speaker 5: kind of like taking a test. Have you ever gone
Speaker 5: in when you're in school to take a test or
Speaker 5: for your job. The better you knew the material, the
Speaker 5: more confident you were, the more answers.
Speaker 4: You got right. It's kind of like that God.
Speaker 5: Is saying, this transformation comes a little by little, but
Speaker 5: keep gaining knowledge, keep testing your choices by what you
Speaker 5: know to be right. You know, we make choices every
Speaker 5: single day, and those choices make us so it's so
Speaker 5: important that we put our choices under God's authority.
Speaker 4: Now. You know, sometimes we don't want to put.
Speaker 5: Every choice under God's authority because some choices.
Speaker 4: We just want they look so good.
Speaker 5: God, I can fix this with you later. Let me
Speaker 5: go ahead and make this choice, you know what.
Speaker 4: And God knows that.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've all been there, we've all done that.
Speaker 4: And the good thing about God he can.
Speaker 5: Take our bad choices and bring him glory and us good.
Speaker 4: All right, he can.
Speaker 5: He's a good God, and he loves us, and I
Speaker 5: love the fact that he's not judging us. The point
Speaker 5: is is that we need to not be afraid to
Speaker 5: take our attitudes, our unforgiveness, our habits, everything about us
Speaker 5: and put it under the submission of God. See Paul
Speaker 5: was saying, be a living sacrifice. That's how he started
Speaker 5: a be a living sacrifice. What he was saying, he
Speaker 5: was going, go all in, Go all in. Don't hold
Speaker 5: back certain areas of your life. You have a bad habit,
Speaker 5: put it under God's authority.
Speaker 4: Don't hold on to it and say, God, I'll fix it.
Speaker 5: As soon as I fix it, then I'll come over
Speaker 5: here and give.
Speaker 4: It to you.
Speaker 5: God is saying, give it all to me, the good,
Speaker 5: the bad, the ugly. Put it under my word. Let
Speaker 5: me break those things off of your life. See Jesus
Speaker 5: came as the living Word. The Bible says he came
Speaker 5: as the Word made incarnate, man made flesh, and he
Speaker 5: walked among them. And do you know that when you
Speaker 5: read the word of God, you get good teaching. You're
Speaker 5: walking with Jesus. And he's still doing what he did
Speaker 5: those days in the Bible. He's still healing, he's still delivering,
Speaker 5: he's still setting free.
Speaker 4: He's still restoring take his hand and put all of
Speaker 4: it under his authority.
Speaker 5: We can't be afraid and listen. You know, we have
Speaker 5: big decisions that we have to make in our life.
Speaker 5: I've heard people say, I want to know the will
Speaker 5: of God. Should I take this job, should I start
Speaker 5: this business? Should I go back to college? Is this
Speaker 5: the person I should marry? And those are all very
Speaker 5: important decisions. But we need to put every decision under
Speaker 5: the will of God, because the better choices we make,
Speaker 5: the closer we are to those better decisions on those
Speaker 5: big issues of our life.
Speaker 4: When I was a young girl, I remember my heart.
Speaker 5: I would just say to God, God, when I get
Speaker 5: married someday, all I know is this, I want a
Speaker 5: man who loves you more than I do. You see
Speaker 5: my heart said this, God. I don't want to be
Speaker 5: dragging anybody up. I don't want to be constantly pushing
Speaker 5: them up. But I don't want them to sharpen me.
Speaker 5: I want us to be better together. I want us
Speaker 5: to do great things for you. Now, I just want
Speaker 5: to tell you this. Don't say this part, but this
Speaker 5: is literally what I said, because if I was you,
Speaker 5: I would find a man with a job. But I
Speaker 5: said I said, God, he doesn't have to have a
Speaker 5: lot of money. You know what, he didn't have to
Speaker 5: be rich. God, I just want him to love you.
Speaker 5: Because my heart was like this, God, you can do
Speaker 5: anything in our life. If we serve you, we can
Speaker 5: rise higher.
Speaker 4: We can do anything.
Speaker 5: But the bottom line is my gold standard is that
Speaker 5: he loves you a lot. So when I met Joel,
Speaker 5: he looked good on the outside, in fact, from the outside,
Speaker 5: and he looked like he was perfect. But you know what,
Speaker 5: I didn't want to just judge him from the outside.
Speaker 5: I wanted to judge my who I was gonna marry
Speaker 5: by the word of God. And although he looked good,
Speaker 5: he seemed to have the right credentials, you know what,
Speaker 5: that wasn't good enough.
Speaker 4: I watched him, I studied him. I saw if his.
Speaker 5: Beliefs lined up with his actions. I watched how he
Speaker 5: treated his family, what he said about his friends, his
Speaker 5: generosity towards others. See, I let that character line itself
Speaker 5: up with the word of God. Then I could make
Speaker 5: an educated, bodily decision. You see, God wants us to
Speaker 5: be confident in our decisions as our minds are graining
Speaker 5: more knowledge and being transformed. Then we can test our
Speaker 5: choices and make the right decisions. Well, I had the
Speaker 5: peace of God. He asked me to marry, so I did.
Speaker 5: Thirty years later. It's been a wonderful decision. It's been
Speaker 5: a great decision. Can I tell you girls, don't judge
Speaker 5: from the outside. Make sure their character lines up. You're
Speaker 5: far too valuable to get together with someone who.
Speaker 4: Doesn't appreciate you.
Speaker 5: And know how to bring out the best in you,
Speaker 5: who doesn't serve the living God.
Speaker 4: You see, I'm made my decision.
Speaker 5: I'd rather be home with a peanut butter and jelly
Speaker 5: sanwich than with a man that wasn't good enough for
Speaker 5: me and God.
Speaker 4: All right, it's not worth it.
Speaker 5: Every decision you make. Use the word of God as
Speaker 5: your goal standard. Keep conforming to God's word and his likeness.
Speaker 5: Don't conform to the world, don't conform to habits. You
Speaker 5: may be fighting something right now, and I just want
Speaker 5: to encourage you to get yourself, submit yourself under the
Speaker 5: word of God. Don't let anything come out of your
Speaker 5: mouth that doesn't line up with what you want. Listen,
Speaker 5: when you're in a fight, you've got to fight to
Speaker 5: the end. You got to be serious about where you're going.
Speaker 5: God's work will renew you, strengthen you, and refresh you.
Speaker 5: It'll detox all those old ways and I'll bring you
Speaker 5: into the new ways of God.
Speaker 4: We love you so much. You're awesome. God is a
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