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ACCESS
YOUR GENIUS CAPACITY
3 Reasons To Renew Your Mind With Scripture
Dr. Lance Wallnau
You have access to the mind of Christ! Think about that.
Your limited understanding can expand to the
point where God mingles His thoughts with yours.
The gifts of revelation, prophecy, discerning
of spirits, and words of knowledge are all accessible to you!
BUT…
Jesus told the disciples, “I
have many things to say to you, but you can’t bear them now.”
Can’t bear it now? Think.
What would Jesus love to tell you that He
can’t tell you because you simply can’t handle the conversation?
The disciples would not remain in this
condition for long however, and neither will you if you follow this closely.
Jesus went on to explain how He would get them
ready for more, and deeper, understanding.
To paraphrase, in John 16 He
said, “The Holy Spirit is not only going to reveal to you everything that I
am saying, He will reveal your future and things to come. He will teach you
from the inside out. He is the spirit of truth.”
The key is this — your mind interacting
intentionally with God’s Spirit of truth!
1.
Renew
your mind to walk in ALL truth: It is possible to have a day by day walk with the supernatural
mind of Christ and this is made possible through the Holy Spirit.
Remember, “Man does not live by bread alone
but by EVERY word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Deuteronomy 8:3).
Don’t just feed one or two familiar themes,
explore the whole Bible — every word!
I want to be able to walk in all truth.
Derek Prince once said, “Your
relationship with the Word of God reveals your relationship with God.”
Sad to say, most of us look at Bible study as
if it were boring school work. Truth is, the Word of God is a spiritual book
that feeds your revelation capacity.
Your soul feeds on whatever stimulates your
mind and emotions. Your body feeds on physical food.
Your spirit feeds on communion with God and
His Word.
2. The words of Jesus are
powerful: Jesus said, “My words are spirit and they are life” (John 6:63).
They contain within them the thought
structures of how God thinks.
Remember in the movie The Matrix when
Neo gets a download from the Matrix into his memory and is instantly
transformed into a Kung Fu master?
Well, when you plug yourself into the Word of
God you literally, intravenously, tap into the mind of God Himself.
God begins by the Holy Spirit to renew your
thought structures, to breathe into the very membranes of the way that you
think.
He starts to infuse His truth into you — in
the same way the tree feeds the branches that bear fruit.
Suddenly your soul and your body and your
circumstances start to fall under the authority of the very Word of God.
3.
Commit
scripture to memory and you tap into God’s heart: When you memorize chunks of scripture
it’s like taking a cosmic antioxidant into your brain that eats up all
the corrosion and junk that you don’t even realize you have accumulated over a
lifetime of exposure to demonic, carnal, and soulish thought structures.
As the Word of God takes root in your heart,
it sets off like a time capsule and it comes back to you in the moment you need
it in ways and in layers that you can hardly imagine.
As a final note of encouragement, ponder this:
Jesus defeated the devil after 40 days of fasting by quoting just one
book of the Bible.
He didn’t fly all over the Old Testament
scripture. Three times He quoted Deuteronomy in response to Satan.
Imagine, one book of the Bible is all you need
to defeat the most powerful temptations and attacks of the devil if you
have it memorized, internalized, and ready to fire back at the moment of
temptation.
Question: What changes can you
make today to begin to implement scripture memorization into your daily
routine?
Tell me about it below!
As One!
Dr. Lance Wallnau is a strategist, futurist and compelling communicator
who has shared platforms with Ben Carson, Mike Pompeo and best-selling authors
Ken Blanchard and John Maxwell. He has conducted training for the United
Nations and spoken at Harvard, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and
London School of Theology. With a thirty-year background consulting
business and non-profits, Lance’s students represent a global tapestry spanning
governments, CEO’s, entertainers and entrepreneurs.
He currently directs the Lance
Learning Group, a strategic teaching and consulting company based in Dallas,
Texas.
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