Renew your mind

We see this in the Bible and that we need to do this but how? How do we get to that renewed mind of Christ? Here are some simple steps that I have used that I know are effective to help retain your brain.

1. Get in the Word of God and get to know Him as a person. He is real! We do not read the Bible knowing that those people were real and those were real experiences that occurred in their lives. We say we believe but do we really? Do we really accept all of Who God is? He is mind, body and spirit like we are. We were created in His likeness. We, too, are a three part being- mind, body and spirt (soul) and when we accept Jesus as our Lord we get the spirit of adoption and the Holy Spirit. We see all of these spirits in the Bible but we do not fully ask them to come be apart of our lives. We have the authority to loose things and to bind things. Whatever we loose is loosed over us OR others and when we bind things are removed. Faith is everything. Your faith will cause all of this to happen but your faith is really dependent on how much you know how to operate with it. Jesus operated in the whole 5 fold ministry so why cant we? Umm, we can! Jesus said we would do all of the things He did and greater works. Know you were created in His image. That you were born to be His brother or sister. Know that you have the spirit of adoption and that orphan spirit must flee. You are loved!

2. Meditate on the Word of God. Get it in your head and it will move to your heart. Just because you can quote a lot of scripture doesn’t mean it is in your heart. The Holy Spirit will guide you in this. If you need music, play some instrumental music and relax. Let God speak to you through the Spirit. His spirit now lives in you and you are free to have any and all conversations with Him. This morning I got aggravated and vented to God. I then apologized for venting. He said, “You need to vent to me because you better not be venting to anyone else. What can they do to help you solve any problems they are merely man.” I laughed but understood. Take it all to Him! He is the lover of your soul. The last thing God wants is for us to complain. It could always be worse. What is your worse? How bad have things gotten in your life where this could be the worst you’ve ever faced? In fact the Bible tells us not to so please take everything to God in a conversation. Prayer and meditation is a two way conversation that works. He will tell you everything you need to know about your day. Who will come by.. why they are there.. etc.

3. Relationship. When you are in an intimate relationship He will tell you absolutely everything you ask about almost anything. I have learned that there are times He is silent because He is checking me. Things come up and all hell can try and break loose in my life and it is a test. It is a test of the fruit He is producing through me and how well I allow Him to lead. He will do everyone this way. He is not a respecter of person. Get to know all three of them. They are a tri-part being just like we are. God the Father. God the Son. God the Holy Spirit.

4. Pray- pray a lot! Pray in the spirit. Ask for a fresh anointing to pray it through. Make a recording of your voice reading scripture that you need help in. I had lost so much of myself (not just my memories but me) due to brain injury but I got back the most precious parts of me through prayer. I can literally remember praying portions of my brain back into existence and then trusting Him to do a great work in me. He promised me healing and I stood on that word for 7 years. It took 7 years to work the Word in order to see my healing in the natural world we live in. I would wake up every day wondering what happened the day before and have to read about it. If you haven’t seen “50 First Dates” I highly recommend you watch it. This movie is all about brain injury. When I watched it I realized my life could have been so much worse because I could have been like 10 second Tom. I learned to journal my feelings and what occurred in my life. This helped guide me while I felt I was totally on my own. I was never alone and have learned to fully embrace everything I love about me- especially my TBI. With brain injury it is hard to hold a grudge because none of it really matters. I will not allow people to be mean to me anymore and accept it but I also forgive quickly and love hard.

5. Tell your heart to beat again. No matter what you are going through you are never alone and you are loved so much! His love is greater than anything I could ever attempt to compare it to. There is no comparison. Try some soaking prayers and allow Him to show you how much He loves you. I asked for Him to show me one day and He showed me His crucification. I went into an open vision and it was like I was standing next to Him. It was as if I was seeing with mine own eyes what He went through because of His love for us. We have not because we ask not. Take it all to Him and trust me these things work. They are not hard but can be time consuming. God is the ultimate teacher of patience. 7 years to receive healing and if that did not teach me patience nothing would. I was not a very patient person before TBI and I learned a ton of patience on this journey. Abraham did too waiting over half his life to finally have a son with Sarah when it should have never been physically possible in our world.

6. Take the limits off of God. He is truly limitless and His ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours. If He tells you He is gonna do something believe Him. Most of us never get what He promised because we get tired of waiting. Patience are tested. Faith is tested. Love is tested. All of this leads to a mature relationship. I am not where I want to be but I am much better when it comes to all of this. I crave a deeper relationship with Him than I do anything of this world.

7. Love and love deeply. Love Him most and more than anything of this world. Stop with earthly desires but set your mind on Kingdom things. You are seated in heavenly places through Jesus. We are His body and you gotta have a full revelation that you are not from this world. That none of it matters. And, love yourself. I wrote a blog about loving yourself this morning. I do not remember what it is titled but it went up the same day this one is. Love you. Choose you. This loving myself was one of the most important phases of my process. I had truly forgotten who I was and WHO I belong to so I figure many of us do. Don’t let the messengers of satan come at you and make you dislike or hate yourself. You ARE WORTHY!!

8. Trust the process. All of this is a process and will not happen overnight, unfortunately. We live in an instant gratification society and want everything right now. Want to be out of pain – take a pill. Want demons to calm down so you dont have to deal with them – take a pill. Want your brain to heal— there is no pill, haha. It takes trust! Trust Him implicitly and judge Him faithful. Making the word manifest takes praying it through and trusting His process to finish the works in which He started in you.