How to Find, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will Part 3
Renewing Your Mind
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
I. How to Find, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will for Your Life
A. Renewing Your Mind
1. (Jer. 29:11-14 NIV) God has good plans for your life. Finding, following and fulfilling God’s plans are the result of seeking God with all your heart.
a. (Rom. 12:1) becoming a living sacrifice is dying to your own will and surrendering completely to God’s will for your life. “LORD, whatever you say do, I’ll do.”
~(Matt. 16:24-25 NIV)
~God reveals His plans for our lives step by step. But if we never take the first step of becoming a living sacrifice why should He show us the next steps.
2. (Rom. 12:2) four parts to this verse.
a. And do not be conformed to this world
Conformed (syschematizo) to fashion or shape one thing (one’s mind and character) like another. Squeezed into a mold.
b. but be transformed
Transformed (metamorphoo) to change into another form. (caterpillar to butterfly)
c. by the renewing of your mind
Renewing (anakainosis) a renovation, complete change for the better.
~Everyone is being transformed into some mold! The question is what mold are you being transformed into?
~Transformation does not come by prayer alone!
-(Isa. 55:8-12 NIV)
-(1 Pet. 1:23 AMPC)
-(ref. Matt. 13, Mark 4, Luke 8 – parable of the Sower and the Seed)
~All transformation comes as a result of the mind renewal process.
-(ref. Prov. 23:7)
~(Josh. 1:8)
-(John 8:31-32)
-(John 17:17)
~(Prov. 4:20-24)
d. that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
~This is the result!
[Pastor Lee Stokes]