Winning Your Mind Over To God

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DAILY VITAMIN
When speaking to the Philippian church, Paul wrote about the ideal things a Christian engage as a lifestyle- the culture he should adopt in mind; and you would also notice that he didn't bother to write that we do these things but to think on these things (4:8). This he did I believe because he knew just as we must that intentions are the birthing ground of all actions. Even in the scripture, a similitude of this knowledge was revealed when it stated that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Before actions come forth, there must have been a willingness and an imagination to do so; and these invariably always begin in the mind of a man.
It's like a seed: before it comes forth as a tree, there must be a sowing, a watering and then a tending; and so our actions are the results of the thoughts nurtured within us. Little wonder why we are advised to renew our mind - our mentality, priority, intentions and imaginations, because we are the very image of what we think.
In fact, God knows this, and that's why He instructed that we serve Him not only in might (body and spirit) and heart, but also, as important, in mind, because whether we believe it or not, our mental status can debar us from the perfect will of God. You see, our greatest limitations are always the ones we set in our minds. The strongholds in our thought life that stand against complete obedience to Christ are the very reasons why we still live a life coyed in disobedience. As soon as we set things straight in our minds, things will begin to fall straight in place in our lives; and we would serve better than we ever imagined we could. The exasperation and everything that keeps you far from God will be easily overcome when the mind is surrendered to the power of His Holy Spirit.
Hence, in the same way we strive so hard to win all our physical challenges and our spiritual ones, do in the same might to win your mind unto God, for the very first front the devil must conquer to win a man is his mind as he did with Eve, because the content of the mind becomes the subject of the heart, and the subject of the heart becomes the focus of a man in life.
Thus, to win on all side, arrest your mind, surrendering it unto God, thinking only on God-like things (Colossians 3:2) so that both in mind and body you may be an exact replica of Him who is our very righteousness

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