On a daily basis, we choose what we want our mindsets to focus on!
What you focus on determines your growth in Christ!
Jesus understood that the key to spiritual maturity was to go before FATHER and hear HIS instructions, resulting in the appropriate actions.
Matthew recorded Jesus’ encounter of the devil as he wrote by The Holy Spirit in Matthew chapter 4:
1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the Mouth of God.'”
GOD is not silent today. HE is speaking to those who have receivers tuned into HIS Voice. If you have your radio set to the AM channels, you will not pick up the FM signals all around you. We must tune our ears to hear what FATHER is saying. We are not only to read and meditate on the written Word, but we are meant to hear FATHER’S Words that are unique to our calling.
Jesus constantly spent time with FATHER and He declared it as He spoke in John chapter 14:
9 Jesus replied, “Philip, I’ve been with you all this time and you still don’t know who I am? How could you ask Me to show you the Father, for anyone who has looked at Me has seen The Father.
10 Don’t you believe that the Father is living in Me and that I am living in The Father? Even My Words are not My own but come from My Father, for HE lives in Me and performs HISs miracles of power through Me.
11 Believe that I live as One with My Father and that My Father lives as One with Me—or at least, believe because of the mighty miracles I have done.
Jesus’ mindset was based on Him constantly hearing FATHER’S Words. He was fully tuned in and had no worldly static. It was His daily choice to focus on FATHER’S Voice and no other.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 4:
17 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,
18 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;
19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
In essence, Paul said that we have the choice to walk in the futility of our mindset or to pursue the Mind of Christ. If you choose to focus on the world, you will alienated yourself from the Life of GOD and you will become dull of hearing.
20 But you have not so learned Christ,
21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the Truth is in Jesus:
22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
We are instructed to “put off” the old man’s mindset else it will grow corrupt and powerless.
23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in True righteousness and Holiness.
You have the choice to “put off” and to “put on”! How bad do you want to hear FATHER’S Words on a daily basis?