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Beth Jones is a Bible teacher and founder of The Basics With Beth, a non-profit Christian teaching ministry dedicated to helping people learn the Bible basics.
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Transforming Your Mind 0:00 Hi, guys. I'm Beth Jones, and welcome to the Basics with Beth, where learning God's word is a joy. And I just want to say we are so honored to be with you right here on Pray0:12 dot com. In every message, we will do our best to teach you the Bible basics in such a way that it strengthens your faith foundation. In addition,0:24 I want to empower and equip you so that you have confidence to share these Bible basics with others. So lean in and listen with your heart. If you'd like to know more0:36 about our ministry, just go to thebasicswithbeth dot com and get all the scoop. With all of that said, now let's jump into today's message.0:48 Welcome to today's program. I'm so glad you joined us. And listen, we are talking about a really, really important subject, a life changing subject, literally. We're talking about who do you1:00 think you are. And it's so important that we see ourselves the way god sees us, and and and it it's because of the verse we began to talk about last time in Proverbs 23 7, where it says,1:12 as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. In other words, the way we think in our heart, that is how we is. We is the way we think. You cannot underestimate it.1:24 You can't underestimate the power of how you think in your heart about everything, really. But in today's topic, we're talking about how do you think about you? Because it is true, it is a truth.1:36 As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Man, listen, if you've been praying for a breakthrough, I told you my story last time, if we if you've been praying for a breakthrough, a1:48 breakthrough is possible, and it's possible by this process of transformation. So let's pick up where we were last time, in Romans chapter 12, verses 1 and 2.2:00 The apostle Paul wrote this, he said, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present yourselves a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which2:12 is your reasonable service, and do not be conformed to this world. Don't be conformed to the pictures, the images of this world, but be transformed2:25 by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So we talked about the word transformation, be transformed. How2:36 transformed can I be? You can be extremely transformed, in fact, supernaturally transformed, a metamorphosis to the degree that we see a caterpillar2:48 going from being a caterpillar to a butterfly. You can be that transformed in any given area of your life. Oh, no, not for me. That's just how I am. No, it isn't. No, it isn't. You can3:00 be transformed in every area of your life. Well, I'm not a very happy person, I'm kind of a grump. Well, you can be transformed. Well, I don't like hugging people. I don't like being all3:12 lovey dovey. You can be transformed. Well, I don't really like talking about my faith. That's a private thing, you know? You can be transformed.3:25 Well, I'm kind of a stressed out mom, and I'm, like, freaking out in the pick up line at school every day. You can be transformed. Well, I'm kind of a stingy3:36 boss. I don't need to promote and give raises and increases to my employees. Heck no, this is my business. They're working for me. You3:48 can be transformed. Are you hearing are you hearing the chorus? You can be transformed. In any given area of your life, whatever pictures you have on the inside that are not congruent with God's pictures, with4:00 God's word, you can be transformed dramatically to the point that a butterfly was once a caterpillar. Now, how is the big question. How? How does this work? What's the4:12 process? Well, the good news is you don't have to strive and you don't have to struggle, but you do have to submit yourself to the process. And the process he tells us, what happens in this metamorphosis4:25 cocoon, He tells us what happens in our part in it is the renewing of the mind. Be transformed, be transformed, get your4:37 breakthrough by the renewing of your mind. As a man thinks, your mind. As a man thinks, your mind. Renewing of the mind. Now listen, literally4:48 the word renewing there, the renewing of your mind, literally it means the renovation. Renovate your mind. You can renovate. You can renovate your mind.5:00 If we'll spend our time installing the new, God will see to it supernaturally, this is the transformation piece, God will see to it supernaturally that the demolition5:12 happens, and that the new renovation is in place, and the byproduct of that will be you are transformed. You go from being a caterpillar5:24 to being a butterfly in areas of your life. Amen? Come on, y'all getting this? Amen? As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So let's get some new pictures in the book, let's5:36 renovate our mind with God's word. How do we do it? How do you renovate your mind? Well, I want you to picture God's word, the Bible. I want you to picture it like a5:48 bucket of paint, alright? I want you to picture it like a bucket of paint. Now, let's pretend we're going to renovate 1 room. Okay? Let's just take 1 room. Let's take the dining room. The dining room is6:00 painted red. It was painted red in the eighties. I had 1 of those. And it's still red. Okay? But now we need to update, we need to upgrade because all the colors have changed,6:12 and so we need to renovate the dining room. How do we do it? Well, first thing we do is we get the primer. We have to go get a bucket of paint called primer, and we put that primer6:23 up. Right? We put up the primer. Now what color do we want the room to be? Let's say we want the room to be pale yellow. Let's say we want the room to be a very pale,6:35 pretty, happy yellow. So we put the first coat of paint up over the red paint. And now what color is the room? Well, guaranteed the room's not yellow, and the room's6:47 not white, what color is the room? The room is like light red. First coat of paint goes up, what are we doing? We're renovating the room. First coat of paint goes up, and now the room is light red. Well, what do6:59 we do then? Put up another coat of paint. Dip your paintbrush in the bucket, put up another coat of paint, paint the walls, and now what color is the room? Lighter red.7:12 We're not to the color yet, we're not to pale yellow yet, we're to lighter red. Well, what do we do? This renovation process isn't working. Yes, it is. What do you do? Keep painting, dip your paintbrush in the7:23 bucket again and put another coat of paint on the wall. And now, what color is the wall? You know, it's kind of pinkish. It's kind of pinkish. Do another coat of paint, put7:35 it up on the wall, paint the wall, now it's starting to look a little pinkish yellow. And put another coat of paint up, and now it's looking more yellowish. And another coat, and another coat, and7:47 another coat. And pretty soon, you have renovated the room. And what do you have? You have a dining room that is now light yellow. Pale yellow. You renovated a room from red to7:59 pale yellow. Now, those may not be your colors of choice, but you get the idea, right? You get the illustration. What happened? It didn't happen with the first coat of paint. And the way we renovate our minds8:11 and experience transformation and breakthrough, it doesn't always happen with the first coat of paint. What do I mean? I mean in our mind, in our thinking, in our8:23 photo album, if you go to that analogy, we have pictures in the book. And those pictures might be a red dining room, those pictures might be a blue bedroom, those pictures might be a8:35 green basement. I want to renovate my life, renew my mind. What do I do? You get your paintbrush, which it turns out is your tongue. Oh, come8:46 on somebody. You get your paintbrush, which it turns out is your tongue. You dip it into the bucket of God's word, you find8:58 the color palette you want, you find the scriptures that fit the areas of your life you wanna see transformation in, you dip the paintbrush in the bucket, you bring it up, and you start to say9:10 God's word. You start to renovate your mind by saying God's word in that area of your life. So let's say you're dealing with an area of your life, let's say you're struggling with being9:22 discouraged, hope to hurt makes the heart sick. I'm so discouraged, I'm down. Nobody likes me. Nothing ever goes my way. Life is hard. Okay? Those are your9:34 pictures. Let's say those are the pictures in the book. You need to renovate those. To be what? To be pictures like, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. If God is for me, who can be against me? It's9:45 not that I love God, it's that he loved me. God is for me. I'll rejoice in the Lord always, the joy of the Lord is my strength. Okay? You getting the idea?9:57 So we got some buckets of paint here, we've got God's word, and we're just gonna renovate the heck out of this house. So you dip your brush, your tongue, your words, into that bucket and you pull it up and you start10:09 saying, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Green basement. Well, what color is the basement now? You said it once. It is still green. You dip10:21 your paintbrush into the bucket and you come up and say, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. God is for me, he is not against me. Blue bedroom. What color is the10:33 bedroom now? Lighter blue? In other words, it's not renovated yet, but you're on your way. You're on your way, and what do you do? You just keep painting the walls of your mind, so to speak.10:45 You keep painting the walls of your mind with God's word. The paint from God's word, the scriptures. And the way you paint is by speaking, it's by saying, out of the abundance of the10:57 heart, the mouth speaks. A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good things. You bring forth good things. You change the paint11:09 color, you renovate your mind by what you say according to God's word. Are you following this? And you paint the walls of your mind with God's word. And you say it over11:21 and over and over, I rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice, the joy of the Lord is my strength. Amen, that's what I say. And pretty soon, that green11:32 basement is light green, mint green, and pretty soon you're changing that color because you need that room to be bright white. Well, it doesn't take but a couple of coats of paint.11:44 Sometimes, a lot of coats of paint. Depends on what kind of a stronghold you've had in that area, depends on how established those photos are. How long have those11:56 photos been in the book? But over time, listen, listen, listen, listen, this is a process, it's a supernatural metamorphosis, it's a process. Who do you think you are? It is huge, it is massive. And the12:07 way you change that, the way you change the way you think you are, is by renovating your mind with God's word, and the way you renovate your mind with God's12:19 word is you say what God's word says about you. And as you're doing that, it is literally like you are repainting the walls of your mind, so to speak, in that area of your12:31 life, and over time, the red room goes to pale yellow, the green basement goes to bright white, the blue bedroom goes to beige. I mean, whatever your color scheme is. Do you get the idea? You can change the12:43 colors, you can renovate your mind and be transformed. And all the people said, let's talk about this just a little further. How how does this12:54 process work in a little more detail? Let me let me share this with you. You guys know this passage, I think, second Corinthians 10, verses 4 through 5. Okay?13:07 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.13:19 What does? These weapons we have have divine power to demolish strongholds. Pictures that have been in the book for a long time. Thoughts, negative thoughts you've had13:31 for a long time, and it has become how you is. But we're gonna change that, we're gonna demolish some strongholds. How do we do it? Let's keep reading. We demolish arguments and every13:43 pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Now we've talked about this before in previous episodes, but I wanna13:55 get back to it because I think there's a huge massive truth in this passage, but not reading it from the top down. I think the massive truth is reading it from the bottom up. He's talking here about bad14:07 strongholds, about bad pictures in the book. About areas of life that were in bondage. But we want a breakthrough, we want to be transformed, okay? So we want to build a good stronghold. How do we build a good14:19 stronghold? Let's read from the bottom up. What do we do? Number 1, we take a thought. Take a thought captive. What is that? Take a thought captive. Well, it's something from the14:30 bucket. It's a thought from God's word, from the bucket of paint, of God's word, if you will. Take a thought from God's word that's true about this area of your life you wanna renovate.14:42 It's the same principle, it's another way of saying it, so I want you to get it from a lot of different angles here. Amen? You take a thought. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I take a thought. It's14:53 not that I love the Lord, it's that He loved me. Ugh, that just brings rest. It takes away striving. It takes away the fact that I'm disappointing the Lord because I'm just not doing it15:04 right. No. He loves me. I take that thought. It's not that I loved you, Lord, it's that you loved me. I take that thought. Now what do I do with it? Here's what you do with it, you15:16 argue for it. We're reading this from the bottom up. You argue for that thought. Well, Lord, I argue for that because A, your word says it. B, you sure did pay a mighty high price to demonstrate your love15:28 to me. I'm arguing for that. Jesus came to this earth to die on a cross, for God so loved the world, that included me. I'm arguing for this, God does love me. I know sometimes I have negative thoughts15:40 about myself. I know sometimes people say mean things to me. I know I live in a comparison culture. Man, if I look at everybody else's life on Instagram, my life stinks. But I know what God says, and I know God loves15:52 me. I'm arguing for that. I am defending that. I am arguing, I am presenting my case. God loves me, and he loves you. Do you understand what we're doing here? You're arguing for16:03 it. 1 version says to imagine it. Arguments and imaginations are arguments and pretensions. So now you begin to imagine it. Yeah, yeah, there you go, God loves me. What does that16:15 look like? You begin to get an image. You begin to get an image, a picture. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. You begin to get a picture of what does it look like that God loves you. Well,16:27 apparently, it looks like he's not mad at you. Apparently, it looks like he's for you. Apparently, it looks like he's going before you and behind you. Apparently, it looks like he is daily loading you with benefits.16:39 Apparently, it looks like all of your paths drip with abundance. Come on, somebody, you getting this? Are you getting this? You begin to argue for it, you begin to16:51 imagine what your life looks like loved by the Lord. Man, it just gives you confidence. You know that feeling when you're in seventh grade and you have a crush on somebody? And then you find out they like you back?17:02 You know that feeling you have when you just kind of walk around school like, he likes me, she likes me. You don't even care if everybody else in the school hates you. This person likes you. It just puts a pep in your17:14 step, it puts a confidence in you. It's like, I have an inside secret. What is it? He loves me. You're imagining it, you're arguing for it, because it's true.17:26 You're renewing your mind, you're renovating your mind to this truth, and then what happens? Ultimately, it becomes a stronghold. Now this is a good stronghold. You've just built a great stronghold.17:38 You've just built a stronghold by renovating your mind, you've built a stronghold in your life, you've been transformed. And listen, now that's how you is. Now that is how you is. You is that17:50 way. You is loved by the Lord. You're experiencing it in your daily life. Amen. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Oh, I guess I'm just stuck with how I think. No, you're18:02 not. You can be transformed, you can get breakthrough, you can change it. How? Renovate your mind. Listen, professional athletes know this. You know,18:14 professional athletes for years have been have been working a godly principle. It's just time the church did, come on. It's just time Christians did it, you know? Athletes, before they go to a golf tournament,18:25 professional golfers, before they go to a golf tournament, on the airplane, they're heading to Pebble Beach for a tournament, but on the airplane, they're imagining every hole. They're getting up to the tee box and18:36 they're hitting a great drive, and they're picturing, they're imagining, imagining where it lands, and they're hitting a second shot, a great second shot, then they're getting onto the putting green and they're imagining18:46 the putt. They're playing the whole course before they ever get there. What is that doing? It's establishing a stronghold, or in the secular world, it's called muscle memory. It's18:58 a godly principle. Come on, isn't it time that Christians put it into practice? There was a study done years ago about basketball players. 3 groups of basketball players,19:10 1 group actually shot free throws to practice, 1 group didn't shoot free throws at all, and the third group only shot free throws in their mind. They just imagined the free throws. And do you know, when they19:21 tested them out, the ones who didn't shoot any free throws did not do well in the testing. But the ones who actually shot free throws and the ones who only imagined shooting free throws, do you know they scored the same19:32 within a couple of points of each other? What's that all about? It's this principle, we can be transformed by the renewing of our mind. Let me let me close, you guys will get a kick out of this.19:44 How do you do it? Well, you do it all the ways I said, and all the ways we've been talking about here. Of course, there's other ways in God's word that, you know, other tools He's given us, but I I believe these are19:53 helping you hopefully to just get something really practical. To get your hands, and your heart, and your mind, and your mouth around these things. Well, another thing you can do, literally something you can do, is you20:05 can create images. Okay? Create a photo. Create a new photo. We had a season in our life when our church was in a building program, and it was really stressful. My husband and I are raising 4 kids, it's a busy20:16 season, and we're building this building, and I remember, I noticed, listen, I noticed I hadn't laughed in a long time. I noticed because things were just so busy and stressful and just a lot, I had not laughed in a long20:28 time, and we're like laughy people, like we like to laugh. But in this season, we hadn't laughed in a while. And my husband and I worked together in ministry, and I had this thought, like, I want us to enjoy doing20:39 ministry together. I want us to be laughing all the way to the end, to finish our course with joy. Amen? All of us, that's what God wants, for all of us to finish20:51 our course with joy, run our race, finish with joy. So I realized we hadn't been laughing in a while, and so I decided to get an image, and begin to get my mind renovated to this21:03 picture. So long story short, I looked for a picture of a husband and wife team, which back in the day, there weren't that many, a husband and a wife team behind a pulpit somewhere, and I was going to take their bodies,21:14 and I was going to cut out the picture from the magazine or wherever I could find the picture, and then I was going to put our heads on their bodies. I was going to find a picture of Jeff laughing, a picture of me21:23 laughing, and I was going to put our heads on their bodies behind a pulpit, and then we would be able to see an image of us years to come, laughing full of joy, finishing our21:34 course with joy. Amen. We're imagining, we're arguing for this, we're taking a thought. Well, back in the day, I found a picture of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland behind a pulpit together. They were21:46 1 of the rare couples back in the day. Legends. Legends. Heroes. Such great role models for so many generations. I found a picture of them, of course Jeff and I are really tall, and21:58 so I took this picture of them, their bodies, and I cut their heads off the picture, and I put our heads on it, our laughing heads on their bodies, okay? So we look like freaks. But here's the picture, So check22:10 it out. Yeah. Kenneth and Gloria's body. And me and Jeff's laughing heads. Do you know that crazy little picture has been in my Bible22:22 for decades now? Every now and then I'll pull it out just to remind myself, this is the finish line, y'all. This is what the finish line is. You guys are gonna finish your course with joy. You've got your mind renewed to22:32 it. It's a stronghold. We absolutely expect it. And to be honest, we live a joy filled, married life in ministry. So what about you? What areas do you need transformation?22:45 What areas do you need to get some new images? Maybe you need to create some crazy photos for yourself. What buckets of paint do you need to pull out and get your brush dipped in? What thoughts do you need to take?22:58 Argue for it, imagine it, and see it come to pass. Why? Because the lord promised it. Be ye transformed by the renewing, the renovating of your mind. Because as a man23:09 thinks in his heart, so is he. And all the people said, Amen. Hey, thanks so much for listening to today's23:21 message. I hope you were encouraged. Be sure to hit the Follow button so you can binge on all the Bible basics throughout the week and stay encouraged in your faith. And don't forget to share these23:33 messages with your friends. If you'd like more information about our ministry, you can always go to thebasicswithbeth dot com. That's thebasicswithbeth dot com. It's been great23:45 to be with you, and I will look forward to seeing you next time right here on pray dot com.In this video 0:00 Transforming Your Mind
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