The Mystery of the Mind

Oh dear! I just looked at the date of my last post.....apologies to the 3 people who actually read this blog :) So since my last post I had a birthday - a great day and I felt incredibly blessed.....

I have been going after something in God for a while now. I have been captivated by Romans 12:2 for a while now "Don't conform any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, then you will be able to test and approve God's will, his pleasing and perfect will"

For a while I was sitting in the place of going...Yep I totally agree, my mind needs to be renewed in order that I might be transformed but I was getting a little stuck on the "how".

A friend lend me a dvd series entitled "your body, his temple" which I'm pretty sure I've blogged about before. It made me realise just how incredibly complex and astounding our minds are. It was also a little scary to hear how little we use of the potential our mind has.

The last couple of days I have begun working my way through a teaching series entitled "The supernatural power of a renewed mind" by Bill Johnson ( www.ibethel.org)

I am only up to the third teaching cd but already I am gaining so much insight into the importance of a renewed mind and the impact that it can have not only on ourselves but our world as we seek first the kingdom.

Bill said " faith is constricted by our misconceptions" - ain't that the truth. I think back to the times I've heard people say that sickness is from God and he's using it to teach us something, or the view of God I've carried around for so many years that he will eventually tire of me, or love me with conditions, or even down to thinking that there was a special formula for prayer - all these misconceptions have definately constricted my faith over the years.

I'm up to the part where Bill is talking about the "word of the kingdom" and how it is the living seed of another world..... so I'll wrap this up so I can get back to it...such good stuff.

I want to live my life not to the best of my potential, but to the best of the potential of the 'word of the kingdom' planted in my spirit, nurtured and nourished by the presence of the Holy Spirit in my life.... I want to live a life "out of this world"

grace & peace