Renewing of the Mind - 2

The Head Of An Individual - The Mind

corona means 'crown'.

The corona virus has a resemblance to a crown when seen under the electron microscope.

Spiritually, crown depicts the head and the mind.

It would therefore be appropriate for us to study about the mind, from the word of GOD.

What is GOD speaking to us through this?

What is the Almighty GOD alerting us to, spiritually, that is towards eternity?

The brain in the head needs to have control of every system in the physical body to function healthy. When one’s mind is renewed according to the truth of GOD’S word and the Spirit rules the mind, that person is made whole, spirit, soul and body. Such a person is living and walking in the spirit by faith which comes through the word of GOD.

Romans 12:1-2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 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.

I live according to the will of GOD when my mind is renewed by His word and my body is offered to Him as a living sacrifice.

Ephesians 4:22-23

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Just like clothes that get dirty and need to be washed, my mind needs to be cleansed and renewed regularly.

Matthew 15:17-20

Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

My concern should be more about what goes into my mind and comes out of my heart than about what goes into my mouth. GOD sees and tests the motives of my mind and the attitudes of my heart.

Ephesians 4:17-19

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

I have to connect with GOD in my mind so that I may not sin.

Romans 1:29

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

Bad thoughts that linger in my mind will affect the attitude of my heart causing me to sin  and eventually manifest as wicked deeds.

Luke 12:29

And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.

The vicious cycle of worrying thoughts will bring me to anxiety and depression.

Isaiah 26:3

You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.

When my mind is connected to GOD I have peace.

Mark 5:15

Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Demonic spirits enter a person through the mind, causing chaotic thinking but the Holy Spirit keeps the mind sound.

Colossians 2:6-10

As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

It is so important for me to have my mind established in CHRIST and not be swayed by philosophies, principles and traditions that are deceitful.