Renewing of the mind is a process that allows believer to grow into spiritual maturity in the Christian path. Renewing of the mind allow believers to see and think on the promised of God for us tnrough His words.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 NKJV
Before we can genuinely renew our mind with the word of God. There a certain things a believer must understand and one those key point is the knowlege of God? God is spirit and we can know Him through His words, because His words represent Him.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63 NKJV
In the begining of creation God imagined everything He created and spoke them into existence.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 NKJV
God created man in His ‘image’. The image here is from the word imagination and not a physical attributes. After God imagined everything He spoke it through the Holy Spirit into existence. (Gen1-1:3).
He created us to have the same attributes with Him. That is, man has capacity to imagine and speak according to what He has written about us in the holy scripture.
A very good example of capturing imagination. For instance when we moved to a new house with no furniture. Our ability to think where our bed and chair will take position in the house is using our imagination. When we are done with capturing then we speak it by calling bed frame and chair distributor near us and they will do accordingly as you have said upon payment. When delivered and arranged based on what you saw in your initial thought.
In the same manner we must be able to see what God has imagined from the foundation of the earth and He spoke through the Holy Spirit. Being mindful that that we have the same qualities with God. Meaning we have the ability to see His words in our imagination and also speak it to give life to those words.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV
Until a beliver can carefully see this fact and hold tight to it spiritial growth becomes a hidden mystory. It is important to know that the realm of the mind has alot of contention because Satan is very interested in the mind of a person. Until we can carefully labour on meditating on Gods words and discern to shut down any contrary thoughts through the power of the holy spirit a believer can still be held bound by Satan.
Also, it is very important to undertsand that man is trio being of Spirit soul and body. Their funtions and qualities as laid in the scripture must very well understood which will be discussed in our future blog.
Lastly, the tower of babel is another proof that we must get our thoughts and mind in the dire ction of thoughts and words of God. God said if i not disrupt their their plans nothing they have imagined with not be resricted because of what He said in Genesis 1:26 ro created us in his image(Imagination). Then God disrupt their plans with different languages so that they could not understand eachother.
Brothers and sisters you can think yourself out of depression, infirmities, misfortunes, poverty and many other course of the law my seeing with your mind and keep declaring what God has planned for you through His words before the foundation of the earth.
Stay blessed & encouraged!