Yesterday’s mind qualified you for the past; today’s mind qualifies you for the present; but you’re going to need a new mind to qualify you for your future. Your future always requires something of you that your present doesn’t. In other words, you’ll stay at today if you continue to think the way you think today. In order to navigate a successful future you need to cultivate a successful mind (if you will).
The thinking on this level does not qualify you to go to the next level. You must step into the thinking realm of the next level in order to enter it. You need a new “mind” in order to have a new “life.”
If you want to improve your “actions” you must improve your “thoughts.” You have to think better; think higher, and with more quality. Your thoughts are your actions’ parent. Your actions are not automatic. Your actions are under the influence of your mind. Instead of trying to change your actions, focus on changing how you think and your mind will change your life. Your lifestyle looks like your mind style.
2 Practical Things:
- In order to get a new mind you have to put new thoughts in it.
- In order to get a new mind you have to allow it to hear things from a world beyond the current world in which you operate.
- You must constantly hear things that are beyond you.
- Find a source of revelation, inspiration, and impartation that are beyond your world of thinking.
- Who is the greatest thinker that you know? Get in their presence and hear some of their thoughts.
- Then put the message on repeat.
If you want a new world you have to get a new mind. Your life transformation takes place in your mind before it ever appears in your world.
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I agree totally! Too many people make resolutions each year they don’t keep because they don’t change their mindset. I wrote an article for my newspaper column last year discussing this issue. What I like about your message is that you include some steps. Many of my clients in my spiritual program, I’m a therapist, state that they keep hearing people say they need to change their thinking but no one tells them how and no one gives them tools. I design cognitive restructuring tools. The Body of Christ needs to get busy destroying the works of the devil in each industry! The god of this world (the devil) specializes in blinding minds. Meaning, the devil uses unconscious programming to control people. It’s hard to fight an invisible enemy.
Anneshia,
Your “cognitive restructuring work” is amazing! You aim at what’s influencing people’s self-defeating actions. As you know, that which influences your thoughts is actually aimed at influencing your behavior. …The Kingdom of God is not just a spiritual dimension…it is a thinking dimension. When we understand what’s really going on in our mind we can change the direction of everything in our life. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts here.
This is a great and timely message for me entering into a season of new beginnings…Thanks Spiritual Legislator!
Kris,
Great to hear! At some point your transformed mind will do the work for you…and transform your life.
Stan (Spiritual Legislator)