GOD'S PLAN FOR EXPERIENCING THE TRANSFORMED LIFE

A Teaching by Pastor's Thom and Penny Cooper

1. Renewing the Mind
Romans 12:2 AMP - Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

2. Confessing unto Salvation
Romans 10:10 AMP - For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.

3. Framing our World
Hebrews 11:3 AMP - By faith we understand that the worlds [during the successive ages] were framed (fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose) by the word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.

4. The Power of the Tongue
Proverbs 18:21 AMP - Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]

5. The Importance of the Heart
Proverbs 4:23 AMP - Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.
Acts 20:32 AMP - And now [brethren], I commit you to God [I deposit you in His charge, entrusting you to His protection and care]. And I commend you to the Word of His grace [to the commands and counsels and promises of His unmerited favor]. It is able to build you up and to give you [your rightful] inheritance among all God's set apart one's (those consecrated, purified, and transformed of soul).

6. Establishing the Heart
Hebrews 13:9 AMP - Do not be carried about by different and varied and alien teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established and ennobled and strengthened by means of grace (God's favor and spiritual blessing) and not [to be devoted to] foods [rules of diet and ritualistic meals], which bring no [spiritual] benefit or profit to those who observe them.

A. The three "P's" of the Bible confession -
" Make it personal
" Present Tense
" Positive
B. Engage your Emotions
What we attach our emotions to become more real, more quickly.

C. Cultivate an attitude of worship
Psalm 34:10 AMP - The young lions lack food and suffer hunger, but they who seek (inquire of and require) the Lord [by right of their need and on the authority of His Word], none of them shall lack any beneficial thing.

6. Do it! Do it! Do it!
It's not what we do occasionally that makes a difference in our lives but what we do on a regular and consistent basis.

7. Settle the most essential issues first:
A. God's unconditional love for you
(Romans 5:8-10; 1 John 4:8, 19; Ephesians 3:14-19, etc)
B. The Role of the Holy Spirit
(Romans 5:5; John 16:13)
C. The Finished Work of Jesus
(Isaiah 53 and 54)
D. Your identity in Christ
(2 Corinthians 3:18)

Assignment: Read through the Book of Ephesians and make a list of every verse, which says something about your identity in Christ. Create a confession with that Truth. Example: "I am holy and blameless in the sight of God. Thank you, Father, for choosing me from the foundation of the world to be holy and without blame in Your sight."
(Eph 1:4)

PRAYER FOR CONQUERING THE THOUGHT LIFE

In the name of Jesus, I take authority over my thought life. Even though I walk (live) in the flesh, I am not carrying on my warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. For the weapons of my warfare are not physical (weapons of flesh and blood), but they are might before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds. I refute arguments and theories and reasoning's and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the (true) knowledge of God; and I lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One.

With my soul I will bless the Lord with every thought and purpose in life. My mind will not wander out of the presence of God. My life shall glorify the Father, spirit, soul, and body. I take no account of the evil done to me - I pay not attention to a suffered wrong. It holds no place in my thought life. I am ever ready to believe the best of every person. I gird up the loins of my mind, and I set my mind and keep it set on what is above - the higher things - not on the things that are on the earth.

Whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is any-thing worthy of praise, I will think on and weigh and take account of these things- I will fix my mind on them.

The carnal mind is no longer operative for I have the mind of Christ, the Messiah, and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart. In the name of Jesus, I will practice what I have learned and received and heard and seen in Christ, and model my way of living on it, and the God of peace - of untroubled, un-disturbed well being - will be with me.

In Jesus name, Amen.

Scripture References AMP
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Psalm 103:1
I Corinthians 6:20
I Corinthians 13:5b, 7a
I Peter1:13
Colossians 3:2
Philippians 4:8
I Corinthians 2:16
Philippians 4:9

(Prayer is from "Prayers That Avail Much" by Germaine Copeland)

THE TRUTH TO RENEW YOUR MIND BY
Romans - Chapters 1-11
The righteousness of God is revealed to me in the Gospel of Christ.

The goodness of God leads me to repentance (change of mind).

I cannot be justified (made righteous) by the law.

I am justified (made righteous) freely by God's grace.

Justified by faith, I have peace with God through Jesus.

I have access by faith into the grace of God.

The love of God is poured out in my heart by the Holy Spirit.
God's love for me was demonstrated in that while I was a sinner Christ died for me.

I will reign in life because I have received an abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness through the One Jesus Christ.

God's grace (His ability working in me to do those things I cannot do in my ability) is always available to me because grace "reigns through righteousness."

I was buried with Christ and was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father to walk in newness of life.

Sin does not have dominion over me because I am not under the law, but under grace.

I have been set free from sin.

There is now no condemnation in Christ and I am IN Christ.

The law of the Spirit of Life has set me free from the law of sin and death.

The Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in me and gives life to my mortal body.

The Holy Spirit confirms who I am - a child and heir of God, a joint heir with Jesus.

The Holy Spirit prays for me when I don't know how or what to pray.

I am more than a conqueror through Christ.

Nothing can separate me from the love of God.

If I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead, I will be saved.