Renewing your mind. Austin & I demystify what it means to renew your mind and give you practical ways to walk through that process. We hear Romans 12:2, but we don’t know how to practically take part in this transformation. This is why we want to touch on this topic with you today! Watch my full Course for free on our MessengerX app: https://3szn.short.gy/ASxJVL
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and that’s something I had to realize is
if God’s not punishing me I shouldn’t
punish myself and often times you will
punish yourself for a while and you’ll
make bad decisions because you’ll hold
on and feel like I need to punish
myself welcome to session two of the
three keys of getting unstuck I’m Lisa
bav and I have with me my second born
son Austin Michael and I’m super excited
you know at the last video we were able
to talk to them about leading your
emotions you know emotions are not just
random things that happen I know
sometimes I feel like they are I feel
like my emotions are happening to me but
I found I can lead them yes and emotions
are the product of our circumstances and
the product of our beliefs and really
what we do is we can reset our belief
system and when we reset our belief
systems we can reset our emotions so
that we are leading them rather than
them leading us but in this video we’re
going to look at how we can practice
practically renew our mind and Austin I
am so excited about you sharing this
process excited it tell us how did you
stumble upon this method of renewing
your mind okay so around the time where
when I was realizing I need to lead my
emotions a lot of people and I think you
were one of them were like Austin you
need to renew your mind I remember
thinking that’s not very helpful well no
yeah I remember thinking like okay I
know that’s in the Bible somewhere and I
know as Christians were’re told to renew
our minds but like how do you
practically renew your mind and I was
like there’s got to be a way to do this
and I remember one day I was just
sitting uh in my garage in my car and I
just I was like holy spirit I don’t I
don’t know how to renew my mind I don’t
know how to do this but I know I really
need to do it um and everybody’s telling
me to and and I want to be able to align
my thoughts and my beliefs with your
word and uh the Holy Spirit was just so
kind about it he’s like Austin um who do
I say I am what do I say in my word and
uh I immediately he brought a verse to
my mind uh which is in John 14 and this
is what it says it says but the helper
the comforter Advocate intercessor
counselor strengthener and standby and
when I saw that word counselor it really
it jumped out to me and before this
there were times where I felt like the
Holy Spirit was someone who would almost
and this was completely wrong forc me to
do things I didn’t want to do or just i
s I felt like I saw him in a very weird
way and remember that stage yeah it was
it was a terrible stage and like I don’t
feel like that’s the Holy Spirit yeah I
would I would have to like go to my
parents be like hey do do you feel like
this is what the Holy Spirit would be
telling me to say and thankfully they’re
like no that’s that’s definitely not the
Holy Spirit that’s just you being weird
but but you know what but here’s the
gauge is the word right exactly the holy
spirit will never contradict the word of
God yes and that and that was definitely
an us yeah and so I I began to shift my
perspective of hey the holy spirit is my
Advocate he’s my counselor and he want
wants to help me through these things
I’m struggling with and it goes on to
say the Holy Spirit whom the father will
send in my name he will teach you all
things and he will help you remember
everything that I have told you and the
Holy Spirit really highlighted that last
part of I will teach you everything that
I have told you I will remind you what
I’ve told you and so I just felt this
invitation from the Holy Spirit of
Austin let’s do this together let’s go
through my word let’s figure out what I
say about you let’s figure out what the
truth is about me and and let’s move
forward together in this and it was it
was an exciting invitation and so what’s
what’s a popular scripture that we all
know and if you want to share about it
what’s a popular scripture on renewing
the Mind well Romans 12:2 is an
incredibly I mean it’s like hey do not
be conformed to this world and we have
to understand conformed means to be
contract or take the shape of do not be
conformed to this world but be
transformed transformed I think
everybody again it goes back to what we
were talking about in that first video
everybody wants to be transformed they
do not want to be conformed they do not
want to be limited they do not want to
be put in a box or shaped they want to
be transformed but you can’t just be
like oh I just want to be transformed it
says by the renewing of your mind going
all the way back again the
transformation happens as you renew your
mind that you may that you may not that
I prove it but that you may prove what
is good and acceptable and the perfect
will of God wait a minute is this saying
that when we renew our mind we can
actually have a revelation of clarity
and God’s will for your life who doesn’t
want to know not just will but perfect
will for you and God’s perfect will for
us is never for us to be perfect but for
us to be perfected and so God’s word
comes and and does this so Romans 122
that was the new King James versions for
you because they’re Classics but the
world let’s talk about what it means to
be conformed to the world because people
are like what what does that even mean
well it talks about the lust of the
flesh the lust of the of the eyes and
the pride of life the world is the way
this world looks at its system it’s our
society it’s our culture it’s where it’s
headed where it says if you want to
actually be fit able to fit in you’re
going to have to be popular but God is
actually no I’m sorry I’m going to have
to transform you so you don’t fit in but
that you actually begin to Pioneer that
you actually come into this place and it
isn’t about what you can’t do it’s about
a process of sanctification and you know
that’s an exciting thing it is well it
it doesn’t always sound exciting some
people when they hear the word
sanctification they’re like oh that
sounds like work I’m not even I I feel
like I’m barely saved and now you want
me to be Sanctified and so but no it’s
means to be set apart set apart and the
easiest way to change is your beliefs
like if you change your beliefs
everything else will trickle down and
that’s a big differentiation between us
and the world is our beliefs and it’s as
simple as that and we’re not conformed
by believing differently by renewing our
minds you know when God begins to
transform you when God begins to say I
haven’t called you to be conformed I’ve
called you to be transformed and then he
begins to seed you with the promises of
sanctification what does that even mean
it means that because God is Holy in all
he is we can be holy in what we do and
that isn’t about works because again
he’s going to renew our mind we’re going
to begin to see things differently when
God began this work in my life Austin I
began to see things differently Renewing
Your Mind promise is you’re going to
learn God’s will for you and it’s so
much bigger than you could even dream or
imagine in your life here’s here’s I
love that this is looking Renewing Your
Mind it says the process this is again
this is a practical definition defition
toen your mind Austin has woven together
the process of partnering with the Holy
Spirit in Believing by faith again that
what the Bible says about you about you
not about me not about Austin not about
your parents about you what the Bible
says about you is true the word of God
becomes your anchor and you believe it
over anything else you’ve experienced in
your past your personal thoughts your
emotions in the moment who hasn’t been
taken hostage by their emotions but
they’re just going to kidnap you you
cannot lose your identity in that moment
you need to understand that the word of
God is your anchor you do not have the
right to allow other people to say
something about you that God doesn’t say
about so what does this renewing of your
mind look like practically how do we do
it can you unpack the keys sure so I
think there’s a scripture that really
kind of paints what this would look like
and it’s found in 2 Corinthians I think
it’s 2 Corinthians 105 and it says bring
or bringing every thought into captivity
to The Obedience of Christ how do how do
you do that because thoughts can just be
like running around in your mind how do
you like grab it and put it in a cage
and be like be obedient to the the
thoughts of Christ how do you do that
that’s a great that’s a great question I
think even the end of this verse has a
secret so it says uh bringing every
thought into captivity to the ob
Obedience of Christ and Christ is the
word made flesh and so another way you
could read that is bringing every
thought captive to The Obedience of the
word of God and so we have that ability
and there’s a quote that I absolutely
love it says this if God tells us to
take every thought captive it means he
gives us the ability to choose what we
will believe and so what I began to do
is I began to actively go after that I
was like okay what are these major
beliefs that I’m thinking and how can I
change them from a lie to the truth of
what God says about me and so we’re
going to go through a few of those real
quickly these are these are core false
beliefs that many of us probably
struggle with and so what I did was I
was like you know there’s things in your
life that you almost put up with you’re
like oh I’m really hard on myself and
I’m just going to I’m just going to be
that way that’s my part of my
personality I don’t think God wants that
for you if you’re hard on yourself I
don’t think God wants you to go your
entire life being hard on yourself and
that would be how I would have described
you of all my kids a was the hardest on
himself if you’re someone who’s not
joyful don’t label yourself like when
did when did you decide or when did
someone else tell you that you are
supposed to be I don’t know like sad
your whole life that’s that’s terrible
you have the choice to to get rid of
that label off your life and so we’re
going to go through a few really key
ones so the first false belief I want to
break down is God is condemning me I’ve
alluded to this this was one that really
was really tough for me it’s a
stronghold for a lot of people it is
because things happen in life we live in
a fallen world and we make mistakes we
sometimes try to attach our identity to
that moment
and so what I did is I began to look at
scriptures and here’s what scripture
says about this false belief I am a new
creation yeah I have been reconciled to
God through Jesus’s sacrifice God is not
imputing my sins to me and if you see
this this is just like one passage of
scripture but it’s so much so much in
this one p in this one passage so I can
of get a pause there so let’s say I’m
I’m I’m a Christian I’m driving in my
car and I’ve just said something or done
something that I regret and I’m feeling
condemnation so a actual way of taking
this captive is when the enemy is saying
you shouldn’t have said that you know or
maybe it’s even the Holy Spirit saying
you shouldn’t have said it but I instead
of being convicted and saying okay you
know what I’m going to call that person
and humble myself and say I shouldn’t
have said that I’m going to start
feeling condemned man I always say those
kind of things so what I can actually do
is right away speak the word of God into
that situation and I can say I am a new
creation in Christ Jesus and
separate separate yourself from that
past mistake so as soon as confess it to
God you separate yourself from it you
say that happened that’s not my identity
though I am a new creation that’s not
the way God sees me and if we look at a
few more of these verses um I am
righteous because of Jesus’s sacrifice
so you have to always continue to remind
yourself you’re righteousness hangs on
Jesus’s sacrifice and Jesus’s Perfection
not your own uh another one is God Is
Not condemning me for my sins here’s
another one God is Not punishing me for
my past mistakes I’ve made and that’s
something I had to realize is if God’s
not punishing me I shouldn’t punish
myself and oftentimes you will punish
yourself for a while and you’ll make bad
decisions because you’ll hold on and
feel like I need to punish myself and
it’s almost saying that what Jesus did
wasn’t enough ex and that the father
isn’t just that you’re a better judge
and a better Punisher and a better
parent than he is of you and it it’s
tough I’m not saying it’s easy to make
this change but and and I had heard I’d
heard I’ve been in church my whole life
I’d heard countless sermons on this and
what I realized was if I still believe
believe this I have to go aggressively
after this false belief and so what I
what I did was I began to change like my
way of life I began to stop seeing this
as a passive thing like oh I believe it
and then walk away and completely forget
about it um something I did was I made a
recording of uh of me saying I’m
righteous because of jesus’ sacrifice
and I would listen that recording over
and over again and when I didn’t have
that recording and I was alone I would
say it to myself I’d say Austin you’re
are righteous because of Jesus’s
sacrifice and it began to change the way
I thought about myself and it began to
change even my actions because overnight
no it was not overnight I did this for
like 6 months but it was empowering
every single time I did it yes and I I
want you to hear that I want you to hear
it it was empowering every single time
he did it you there was like a there was
a stronghold in your mind that you took
down Rick by Brick every time you spoke
in scripture every time you declared
God’s truth over your life you
dismantled that stronghold so I to know
you’re like I tried that one time no you
have to actually stand on these things
and and my my like body would actually
feel better my physiology would actually
improve when I would speak the truth
over my life and uh I remember I
remember something that happened was or
it’s something I realized
was righteousness or the awareness of
your righteousness has to happen before
sanctification can happen and here’s
here’s what I mean by that if you begin
to believe that you are righteous your
actions will start to line up with that
see sanctification does not preceed
righteousness and so many Christians are
trying to do that where they’re like if
I’m perfect God will accept me but you
first have to know God accepts you and
sees you as righteous and therefore your
actions will change because you’ll line
up with who you believe you are that’s
one of the most important things for
humans is to be uh consistent and having
have alignment with who they believe
they are and your actions will you will
have the feelings and the actions that
will go along with who you believe you
are and so if you believe you are
righteous your actions will line up with
it what’s another false belief people
get hit with uh I think a a huge one
that we have here is uh God’s love is
conditional right God’s love is
conditional so it’ll come and it’ll go
sometimes God loves you sometimes he
doesn’t when you behave well he loves
you could when you go to chur Feel It
Whatever whatever it is and so what I
did is I began to look at the truth of
God’s word and what he says about this
and so here’s a few scriptures that I
found God loves me with an everlasting
love God’s love is steadfast it’s not
this it’s steadfast yeah um God
immovable it’s immovable it doesn’t just
say God so loved the world or it doesn’t
just say God loved the world it says God
so loved the world which means he so
loved you that he was willing to die for
you I am God’s beloved in whom he is
well pleased it’s amazing vers you I
just I just want to stop a second I I
hope you heard that he so loves you it’s
personal it to be because a lot of time
you’re like yeah there’s this whole
Collective people that God loves and I’m
like his least favorite no God so loves
you with an everlasting love and so and
there’s so many verses on here this is
just like a small sampling but God loves
God so loves me so much that it’s not
even fully comprehendable and that’s and
you have to be okay with that like you
will continue to unpack God’s love for
you um God loved me even when I was
still a sinner that’s amazing like if
you if you feel like how love you now
that you’re a child yeah because you
messed up you lost God’s love he loved
you before you even recognized M up um
God quiet your fears with his love
that’s a beautiful verse nothing can
separate you from the love of God and so
what I did was is for for God God loves
me this one was really based on my
feelings so I had to be very intentional
throughout the day to practice God’s
love or to realize God’s love and so I
made a playlist of like all these songs
that just really talked about God’s love
and I’d encourage you to do that figure
out what works for you and I remember in
Matthew 6 it talks about God’s care for
the birds of the air and I would just
anytime I would see a bird I would say
God loves me it was a weird reminder but
it helps that mental
trigger yeah there’s a key for you out
there maybe you look at your child and
you think well I know that God loves my
little girl my little boy no he feels
exactly the same way about you so let
that be a cute yeah and so these are
just things that I did to dismantle that
false belief that God would come and go
and that his love was conditional and so
the third one that we want to kind of
break down real quick is God is distant
I feel like a lot of people feel this
one and it’s because
often times based on your feelings is
you feel like God is there and sometimes
you feel like God is completely absent
you can go through weeks or months
feeling this way and so what I began to
do is just look at the truth of what God
says and this is what his word says God
goes before me God is right beside me
God it goes behind me so if you think
about God he has you covered and I think
there’s even verses that say he’s
beneath you and above you he is all
around you uh God never leaves you nor
forsakes you and I think have a few more
God is Emmanuel I mean that’s beautiful
the name that he came to reveal was he’s
with us God With Us that was a name that
he chose to reveal when he came to Earth
uh here’s a few more God is there when I
wake up yeah he he’s not he’s not gone
there one day gone the next he’s there
when you wake up every morning uh God is
within you he put his holy spirit in you
and so he’s always with you and so what
I did for this one is I really latched
on to that Psalm 139 and every morning
when I wake up before I check social
media before I thought about the like
the several things I had to do that day
I would realize God is with me and I
also would do it the last thing before I
went to bed would realize God is with me
and so see now I I love that you’re
doing that because a lot of times people
go to the Bible to react to their
reactions like I okay I I saw this on
social media now I’m going to go to my
Bible but you actually set your heart
yes you set your heart first thing yeah
and I and I did that too like I doing
your mind means set your heart first his
thing yeah and and if you check social
media first thing in the morning you may
see a scripture and it might really
apply to you but it may also be
something that kind of trips you up and
their interpretation of it could trip
you up and so if you get some basics
down first thing in the morning one of
them being God is with me God is right
there with me it’s going to change your
day and so just throughout the day even
as you’re going throughout your work
picture God right there with you he
never leaves you he’s there throughout
the entire day and so there’s a verse in
um John 14 in the passion translation
that I absolutely love and when I read
this it really made this clear to me and
so I just want to share this with you it
says don’t worry or surrender to fear
and often times when you feel like God
isn’t there you’ll become fearful you’ll
become worried because you feel like
nobody’s got your back but God’s got
your back um for you’ve been for you’ve
believed in God now trust and believe in
me also my father’s house has many
Dwelling Places if it were otherwise I
wouldn’t tell you plainly because I go
to prepare a place for you to rest and
this is what I love right here and when
everything is ready I will come back and
take you into me so that you will be
with me where I am and when I read this
it hit me that God Not only was
preparing A Place For Us in heaven but
when he went into his passion the veil
was torn and he made a way for us to be
as close as possible to him and God’s
not trying to keep us at Arms distance
or anything like that he’s he’s doing
everything he can to draw you as close
to him as he can and when you begin to
realize that you will begin to feel
those feelings will come of his nearness
but it first begins when you believe
that that’s what he wants he doesn’t
want to keep you at distance he wants
you right there with him you know Austin
this is incredibly good news yes that we
can actually lead our emotions that we
can actually replace lies with truths
which again we’re talking about leading
our emotions with truth we’re renewing
our mind by replacing lies with truth
counteracting them exposing them for
lies and then going thing but then we
need to actually take this from okay
this is a great Theory yeah to move into
the next step of getting unstuck and and
it’s it’s it’s G I’m so sorry I’d love
to say it’s an easier thing it’s a word
that people aren’t going to like but it
is something we need to embrace because
as children of God we are disciples
which means discipline we are going to
learn to be disciplined I am very very
unorganized but I am disciplined you can
be disciplined too because that is going
to be our call to action this is going
to take it from Theory and yes I know
that I should do that to actually action
it’s going to be an action step an
action plan so in the meantime we want
to hear from you we want your feedback
we want to hear your comments we want
you to feel free to share this if maybe
you just got the second one and never
watch the first one then you need to go
back and you need to watch that first
one because we don’t want you led by
your emotions we want you to lead your
emotions so so that you can renew your
mind and then you can Embrace discipline
don’t be afraid of that it is your
friend all right let’s do
it