Salient points:
- One of the greatest battles ahead for God's people is the battle for the mind
- To move in complete victory, we must transform our minds to think the way God thinks
- God wants us to walk with wisdom and understanding, and in faith - not fear and confusion
- Two keys to overcome - meditate on the Word and take every thought captive
- God is raising up the prophetic people
- It’s harvest time
Notes from Robert Heidler’s sharing on May 31, 2023 (Glory Zion International Church)
The world has entered a very stormy season… the world is falling apart… and we’re wondering if we're the last hours before Jesus returns. Many people are confused, filled with fear.
But God does not want His people to walk in fear and confusion.
He wants us to walk with wisdom and understanding, and most of all, He wants us to walk in faith.
To move forward in complete victory, we must transform our minds to think the way God thinks.
We must adopt His thoughts for today rather than our own, as one of the greatest coming wars will take place in the battlefield of the mind.
For every process of moving into a new dimension, change is necessary. Mindsets have to be altered. Old patterns must make way for new ones. And ultimately, we must learn to think differently. Now, to gain victory in the mind war, we need to understand mindsets.
In Romans 1:14-16 the Bible categorises the human race into three basic mindsets
Barbaric
Greek
Hebrew/Biblical
God promises if you resist the devil, he will flee from you. But if your life is dominated by fear, you are being held captive by a barbarian warlord named Satan. Fear is Satan's tool. It's the opposite of faith. God does not want you to live in fear. He wants you to know a loving Heavenly Heavenly Father who cares for you.
God confounds the mind to test the heart. He will deliberately do things that our minds don't understand to see where our hearts are.
Romans 12 calls us not to be conformed to the world, don't be pressed into the world's mould, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
Faith works through love. Know the living God and learn to walk by faith in him.
It's a totally different way of operating and it seems foolish to the world, to the barbarian.
The Hebrew mindset says I will trust and not be afraid… I will trust in the Lord and not lean on my own understanding.
The Hebrew mindset says you get ahead in life by learning to walk in God's favour… you gain wisdom and direction from God.
God is working to restore a Hebrew mindset in his Church. One of the greatest battles ahead for God's people is the battle for the mind.
God wants our minds to be transformed. He doesn't want us to walk in fear. He doesn't want us to walk in pride. He wants us to walk in faith.
God says don't let the world press you into its mould. God wants to set you free from the world's domination and free from fear.
God wants us to draw close to Him to learn to hear His voice, to walk in His ways.
To win the mind war, there are two keys:
1) Meditate on the word. That means you need to know the word.
2) Discipline the mind to take every thought captive.
How do you meditate on the Word? Well, the word meditate literally means to chew on something. A cow will go out and eat some grass, but then she'll sit down and spend the day just chewing it over and over and over again.
And that's what God wants us to do with the Bible.God wants us to take it in and think about it. Chew on it throughout the day. Ponder it. Saturate your mind with it.
Joshua 1 says if you meditate on the Word daily, you will be successful in everything you do. If you meditate on God's Word, the Holy Spirit will speak to you. The result is your mind will be transformed.
Not only do we need to meditate on the Word, but we also need to take our thoughts captive.
See, not every thought that pops into our mind is from ourselves. Satan is able to plant thoughts in our mind, and those thoughts are not usually aligned with God's truth.
So we need to make it a habit to examine our thoughts to see if what we were thinking is really from God. Many people are slaves to a barbarian mindset and they don't even know it. So ask yourself, what am I thinking?
Living in faith looks at the future, and says surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life.
We have a good Father, a Good Shepherd who's watching out for us.
If you've been walking under a barbarian mindset, there’s good news for you. You can repent.
You can just say, Lord, I see I've been living in fear. I've been having a barbarian mindset. Right now. I choose to renounce that. I'm going to choose to trust You and not be afraid.
There will be times in the days ahead when your mind will not know the way. The only way to move forward will be to know by the Spirit you need to stop and take your thoughts captive.
If you have been walking in a Greek mindset, there’s good news for you. You can repent. You can change. You can learn to walk in the spirit. God wants you to walk with the mind of Christ. You can transform your mind to think the way God thinks.
God doesn't want us to have a Greek or a Barbarian mindset. He doesn't want his people to live in fear.
He's calling us to a biblical mindset. He wants us to walk in faith, knowing that your God is in control.
That is what God is doing in the Church today. God is raising up the prophetic people who know His voice, who walk in His ways.
God is raising up a people who will not be pressed into the mould of the world, who will not be filled with fear and confusion by the storms that are raging around us, who walk in the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
He wants us to be a people who do the works of Jesus and will bring in a great harvest in the earth. God is preparing the world for harvest.
So if you have been captured by fear, fill your mind with God's word. Stand on God's promises. Take every thought captive. Be willing to repent, be willing to walk in faith because God wants you to know - it's harvest time.
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