Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

Welcome to this edition of PowerPoint with Jack Graham later in the program will tell you how you can get a copy of Dr. Graham's brand-new book, reignite the first hears his message change your thoughts change your life. Your Bibles turn to Romans the 12th chapter. Let's back up to verse one I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God which is your spiritual worship. And in today's verse. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect your mind, your thought life is control center of your life.

Everything that your body does physically response to what your brain says emotionally and intellectually, psychologically, one thing I noted as I studied the Bible over the years. The Bible is not only good theology but is good psychology. Jesus is the great physician. The Holy Spirit is our counselor God the father loves us and embraces us so we have this this amazing record. The revelation of God. The Bible which tells us how we are to live what we believe and how we then behave and every human situation, a motion is addressed in the Bible whether you're talking about guilt or fear, worry, anxiety, anger, depression, relationships is all in the Bible so the Bible enables us to think and when we think the transformed thoughts of God's word in our lives are powerfully changed every day.

So many people think they can't change.

In fact, one of the big questions I get. As a pastor regularly is can I really change. I tried so hard to break this addiction or to overcome this opponent.

I have tried and tried and I keep failing. I can't seem to change. I got great news for you. You can check and you will change if you will do exactly what God's word tells us to do first is an act of consecration to the Lord, bring your life totally and completely to him, no holds barred unreserved seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and having consecrated are dedicated our lives to him.

Then there comes this this separation from the world. For the Scripture says here, do not be conformed to this world. All of us look at life.

We have a worldview and we either see the world through the lens of Scripture or the lens of culture or in society, we are not to live and learn from the world as compared to the word your mind can change your life the way you think you can cast down according to Scriptures imaginations and thoughts. Now the world of course is not the world of people, but the world of ideologies, you might just substitute the word culture here it is. The world system, the cosmos, but actually the word here for world has to do with the idea of the spirit of the age. So whether it is the opinions, ideologies, philosophies, the spirit of this age says don't conform to that. Don't allow your thinking to be conformed or compromised by the world branch you've heard this line these lines, so a thought reconnection so an action, reap a habit. So a habit, reap a character so a character and you reap a destiny you we are the sum total of our thoughts.

The Bible says as a man thinks in his heart so is he, and therefore the most important decisions that we make every single day of the thoughts that we choose what we think about all day long because as the mind goes, the man goes the way you think is the way that you live in so it's obvious isn't if you are a Christian you want to think biblical thoughts you want to think God's thoughts not the world's thoughts not his. This is all obvious, isn't as matter-of-fact science and Scripture are in agreement that the way we think influences not only our psychological life. But even our physical life. You are wired brain wired by God, the creator to think with hope and optimism to think good thoughts, but rather so many are thinking toxic thoughts and this is poisonous not only to the brain, but to the body. This is why were told in the book of Philippians chapter 4 in the entire passage about anxiety and overcoming anxiety and having the peace of God in our lives. He says whatever is true, and praiseworthy and good and pure concentrate, think on these things, God has so made us that we can only think one thing at a time. If you could take more than one thing at a time they call that schizophrenia, by the way, but really you can only think one thing at a time. I know you know people deal with ADD and those kinds of issues, but the brain is so designed that if you are thinking the right thoughts. You cannot be thinking the wrong thought, you can't. So thoughts of fear and anger and expect to so peace and grace in your life and again so many people in the physical realm are are sick. All of course, not everyone is sick because of the way they think. But scientists positions.

They tell us that so many of the patients they see.

It is not initially at least a physical problem but a problem of the way we think about.

We have three enemies as believers and followers of Jesus the world, the flesh, the devil world around us influencing us pressuring us the world system that is anti-God and antichrist. The flash our own human nature were getting better as we grow in Christ were becoming more like Christ but to the day we die we will deal with our humanity are fallen humanity.

We are being changed day by day that's happening. I pray in your life but we will always deal with the flesh the world, the flesh, and then the devil and the devil is real and the devil, of course, uses our pleasure uses the world to taunt us or tempt us or take us out. There are several big lives that the world is telling us and our young people line number one is that life is an accident. Life is an accident you just a blip on the evolutionary ascent or as we know decent just to make it a you are a result of blind chance. There is no creator there is no meaning no accountability to God in your life because life is an accident big lie of the world. Another lie. The world throws at us truth is relative truth is relative. There are no moral absolutes is the world no real commandments. You are your own fruit or you have your own true that you can do what you want to do and as a result, people decide their ethical and moral behavior. 1/3 lie that the world throws at us is that you are what you are. You can't change it. That's called determinism. Philosophically, and you can't change who you are what you are as a big lie. If you do bad things is because you have a genetic predisposition that cannot be re-created or is your parents. You know, we are no longer know we are victims of our environment are lack of education etc. you are what you are. You can't change it.

That's what the world and the world says if it feels good do it that the goal of life is pleasure, so indulge yourself eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. The goal of life is self-fulfillment. According to the world. But what is the word say the truth is opposite of this life is not an accident. You are made by a creator God and Savior. Your life is sacred. All life is sacred from the womb to the tomb and into eternity. God has a plan for your life.

God has a purpose for everyone. Therefore, there is meaning and along with that meeting comes accountability to God that we are all accountable to God and the people around us. God has given us his word including clear commandments not suggestions but commandments that are good for us because God is good and knows what is good for those he has created and these commandments and precepts and principles that God has given us in his word if this is not this is not multiple choice. You can't pick and choose which commandments you believe in what you don't believe truth is not relative truth is real and the moral absolutes that we find in God's word applied to everyone. You are not a victim of your circumstances. God can change your life in the power of Jesus Christ. You don't have to live the way that you've been living you can overcome your past, you can overcome your lack in life and be changed from the inside out, and the purpose of your life is not self-fulfillment just doing whatever you want to do, and self pleasure and self-indulgent but the purpose of your life is now as a Christian as a follower of Jesus Christ is to honor God to live for him and for his glory and not for yourself. No wonder the Scripture says don't let the world conform, you don't let the world squeeze you into its mold will allow the spirit of the age. We know who is the God of this of this age for the Bible says Satan is the God of this age of first John 215 to 17 tells us how we are to respond to the world as believers do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in them for everything in the world. Here's the world, the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life comes not from the father but from the world, the world and its desires pass away is all going up in smoke, but whoever does the will of God live forever your listening to PowerPoint with Jack Graham in his message, change your thoughts change your life pastor this month we have a special gift for our listeners to give a gift to PowerPoint.

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Caterpillar wraps himself in a cocoon, a coffin in overtime.

The metamorphosis takes place in a beautiful butterfly appears this process is a transformation is a metamorphosis, Scripture, God is telling us that this metamorphosis must take place in our lives by the transformation of our thinking of our thought lot. The caterpillar the creature is no longer crawling in the dust but soaring like a beautiful butterfly. As Christians, we are no longer live in the dirt and the dust in the coffin of this world, but we have been metamorphosis size. We have been transformed. Yes, you can change by the power of God. The bondage is that you can't seem to break the chain that seemed to lock you up. They are breakable by the word of God you can overcome that addiction you can overcome that pain in your path. You can get beyond the way you used to think and begin to think the thoughts of God after him. When you are all in. So you need to get all in for the Lord and we change by making this commitment to the word of God to the witness of the Spirit within us.

Remember the story of Elijah when the people of God.

Israel were in bondage and the terrible keying of Israel.

As a matter of fact, Ahab and Jezebel were in control and they were leaving the children of Israel to worship false gods and all the rest.

And so at a place called Carmel and Elijah stood before the people of God, and said how long are you going to keep limping between two opinions.

If God be God serve him if bail is God serve him, but away with half in have to destroy your life when you go all in. In consecration, and then the separation then the transformation begins to take place, compromise and conforming to this world will destroy you and your family.

Another biblical story. The story of Lot. Remember lot, the nephew of Abraham, and when they came to the plains of Sodom and Gomorrah they need to split up for a variety of reasons, and Abraham gave lot. The choice and lot choose to move in to Sodom and Gomorrah first just moved near and then he moved in. It was it was compromise and lot is known as a compromise, rent, and when the judgment came upon Sodom and Gomorrah when God strictly judge the people because of their great sin. Lot and his family barely escaped. They lost their testimony. They lost everything because of compromise because they moved into the world. Instead of following by faith.

The plan of God. I can give you many many examples of this. One of the big things that we need to do is spend more time in God's word. If you keep looking at the world and listening to the world. Guess what you got to be like the world to get in the work word gets in you. Then you start becoming more like Jesus and less and less like the world can allow your mind to be captured by the spirit of the say you can't be seduced by society and an end. The culture at large and so what I've been doing for a long long time really since I was a child, and especially once I made that dedication of my life to the Lord as a teenager is. I have been memorizing and meditating upon the word of God and you say well your preacher you're paid to do that, is not why do it, I pray have a better preacher before because I do it but I do it for my own soul for my own psychology for my own spirit.

Colossians 316, says let the word of God lives in you richly that we saturate our hearts and minds with God's truth. That means time in the word, it means your mind all in the word of God so good question answer today is how much time do you spend listening to the world and how much time do you spend listening to God and his word.

The default set for every Christian should be to run to the word. How can I know the Lord better and therefore live for him, all in the past habit of my life has been memorizing Scripture to concentrate upon God's word to think it through and write it down and and pray it in. That's what I do almost every day and if I miss I feel hungry all day long for God's word is God's word is bread to my soul a lamp in the my feet.

A light in the my path is the way out of darkness is the light of God and there is tremendous here me. There is tremendous mental, psychological as well as spiritual therapy if you will get in the word. This is gold is priceless. As I said at the start of this message. Every situation in your life every circumstance, every problem every pressure.

Everything you face in your life is addressed in God's word so you need to feast on the word of God feed on the word of God and then they after day your life will be changed. This is what happens. This is the renewal of the mind. You see that phrase the renewal of the mind that actually means renovation. Renovation this transformation. This renovation this reset can happen in your life if you will be all in and commit and when you do this you're going to find the wisdom of God the ways of God and will promptly listening to PowerPoint with Jack Grant in today's message change your thoughts change your life, chances are you faced your share of crisis meeting or even in the fight of your life right now. Or maybe you're simply feeling exhausted by the busyness of life in Santa spiritual strength.

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