Think!

For Thursday, September 7, 2023:

Romans 8:5 NLT: “Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.”

God has given us better topics to fill our minds. His agenda is fed to us by the Holy Spirit! If we need to clean out our minds, it’s not easy. But I believe there’s a limit to the number of things we can keep top-of-mind. Therefore begin filling your mind with the good stuff, Godly stuff. Read your Bibles daily. Serve others and put their needs on your hearts. Hang out with “church people.” If we immerse ourselves in goodness, the bad stuff will fall by the wayside!

Ask yourself, “What do I think?”

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship

Changed by God!

For Wednesday, January 18, 2023:

Romans 12:2 NIV: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

A lot of popular culture is rebellion against God. As humans, we want to fit in, we want to be a part of things, but the writer is urging caution. It is far better to fit in with God than to fit in with the world.

God will willingly transform your mind and your thinking. God will renew your mind to his specifications, to his way. There are immense benefits to this huge change, this radical transformation, this metamorphosis. Just as a beautiful butterfly emerges from a cocoon a totally transformed being from the one that built the cocoon, so is the Christian a changed person, no longer recognizable as the one who previously conformed to the world.

With your spiritual eyes opened, you can see, test and approve of God’s purpose for you. God’s plan for you is always good and pleasing, so rejoice! If you ask for bread, do you think your Father would bring you a stone? He will not!

You’ll find God’s will for you is always perfect!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship

Think!

For Saturday, August 20, 2022:

Luke 10:27 NLT: “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind - and love your neighbor as yourself.”

God gave every human a brain, to think, to reason and to figure things out. When we enter church, we shouldn’t check our brains at the door! Don’t merely listen to God’s Word. We should use our minds to think about what is being read and come to fully understand it. Then we should make a personal plan to put God’s instructions to work in our lives.

Ask yourself, if I truly love the Lord, how can I show that? If I truly love my neighbor, how can I put that in motion? Use your mind – figure out the best way to personally fulfill God’s commands. We do these things because that’s what Jesus did!

When Jesus said, “Do this and you will live,” he was speaking of eternal life!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406