SATURDAY 21ST SEPT., 2019
WORD FOCUS: A LIFE RENEWED FROM INSIDE
TEXT: Ephesians 4:23 “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;..”
When you sell a house, it feels great to get rid of things lying about untidily you’ve accumulated overtime. You wonder why you lived so long with it weighing you down. It’s the same with mental and emotional clutter. Many a time ‘We fill our minds with thoughts that hold us back, habits that limit us, distractions that derail us, negative people who drain us, fear that paralyses us, time-sappers that sabotage our productivity. We spend so much time and energy on things that don’t matter-we fail to focus on what does matter. We fill up with so many things that generate negative energy, there’s no room for positive energy in our lives.’ Paul writes, ‘…throw off your…former way of life…let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes’ (vv. 22-23).
The clutter you need to lose includes: believing that you’re alone, trying to please everybody, feeling insecure, putting yourself down, needing everybody to like you, jumping to negative conclusions before you know the facts, thinking you’re always right, recalling all the times you messed up, wanting to know how it all turns out, needing to have all the answers, agonising that you’re not rich enough, good enough or clever enough, surrounding yourself with people who remember the bad times and not the good, making energy-sucking comparisons, viewing life like a movie instead of participating, believing that your best days are over, waiting at all times for the right moment, fearing you will look foolish, focusing on negative type-casting…and anything else you don’t want to pass on to your children. How can you get rid of the clutter? ‘…let the Spirit renew your…attitudes.’ Lord, I thank You for giving me Your Spirit to mortify the deeds of my body
MEDITATION: Rom 8 :11,13b Rom.12:2
STUDY THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
JN 21; 2CHRO 33; PS 89:1-18
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