Day 4

Limited thinking will lead to a limited life..
A blessed mindset will lead you to a blessed life..!
Being blessed is a perspective (attitude), it is having a mindset of joy (knowing God has already done it/finished it for you) despite circumstances – It’s the pursuit of the knowledge & fierce resolve to seek GOD’s kingdom, His Word, & His truth, despite the temptations of “blessing” from the world for which we tend to “give in” to..
And right in the midst of whatever we face, we can remain steadfast, strong, and faithful. Not because we are strong in ourselves, but because He is strong, and as believers, God’s Spirit lives powerfully within us..
How to Set Your Mind on Things Above: 6 Ways to Let Go of Earthly Things
1. Make the choice daily.
The number one way to begin to see things from God’s perspective is to come before Him daily, or many times through each day, learning to walk with Him and recognize His power and presence in our lives.
God loves us more than we could ever fully know. He longs to help us and is always there. His words of life remind us that He is our strong tower. He promises to draw near to those who are seeking Him and is faithful to see us through the struggles of this world..
2. God never asks us to figure it all out on our own.
Sometimes, we can know the right things to do, yet struggle to do it. We fail, we fall short, we don’t follow through. Other times, it’s a battle to trust that God’s ways are better. We might think He missed it or forgot us, or that He doesn’t really care, or understand how difficult this world might be. Or we start to think that we know better somehow. We get in a hurry. It’s hard to wait for answers, or we feel like we’re wasting time.
But the truth is, God never asks us to figure it all out on our own or to live in our own strength. He just asks us to trust Him, to recognize His leadership and sovereignty in our lives, and to set our minds and attention on Him. And He promises to fill our lives with the power of His Spirit, to go before us, and to make our footsteps firm..
3. Choose to listen to God’s voice and not the lies of the enemy.
God has a plan for our lives. The enemy has a plan for us too. We just have to decide which voice we’re going to listen to, and who we’re going to choose to follow each day. And chances are, if we don’t make a determined choice to follow God, we may eventually fall into a trap of the enemy who becomes very in tune with what our weaknesses are and will use anything he can to bring us down. Though God never tells us to walk in fear, He does tell us to be on guard and to live aware. As we keep pressing in to know God, who is real, who is Truth, and we set our minds on His Word, spending time there, meditating on it, eventually we become very trained in detecting the fake..
4. Put on the armor of God.
God gives specific instructions in His Word; He gives us all we need to stand strong in this life and to keep our eyes on Him. Yet all too often we race through busy days, ill-equipped, unprepared, or simply not aware of what we’re up against or who the real enemy even is. The forces of darkness don’t wait for us to be ready for their attack. Yet God’s given us His Word and Spirit, so we’ll have the wisdom to rise above and the protection to stand against the enemy..
5. Guard your heart, lay aside the old nature, and let go of fear, worry, and sin.
Our inner thoughts, our words, even what’s spoken to us, really matters. For it can hold the power to run our lives and dictate our choices. All the more reason to make sure our thinking is based on truth – on what God says.
Guard – protect, to keep safe; your heart – innermost being, which represents the very core of your thoughts, your mind, your actions, and decisions; for everything you do flows from it.
All of our lives depend on that choice to guard our hearts and set our minds on the things above. And when we fill our minds, our thoughts, our hearts with the right things, the wrong things won’t have any room to enter in. His Word, His Truth offers protection, a guard over our hearts and lives, for our decisions and thoughts.
It requires effort and trust on our part – letting go and choosing to give God our struggles..
6. Believe that He is in and with you.
His Truth reminds us that He’s in and with us, always. Our “in and with us” God will never leave us or turn away. He holds us through the fiercest struggles and brings peace to uncertain times. And as we set our minds on Christ, it becomes the place where doubts get crushed and confidence in Him can grow deeper and fuller..
“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” (Romans 12:2)