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Pastor Chito's Blog
BE SPIRITUALLY-MINDED!The Christian life isn’t a process of “getting from God”; it’s a process of renewing the mind and learning to release what you’ve already received. Do you really believe that God’s Word was communicated by God and not just man’s idea. If you don’t believe that it is really God speaking to us in an infallible way, this will lead to wrong assumptions and we will end up not being really accountable to God. If we were created by God, that means we were created with an image to live a certain way. Any time we violate His standards, it causes turmoil. For example in today’s scenario of economic and political instability, You can choose to think of your problems instead of think of who you are in Christ. This means that you are carnally-minded. You choose to think of what people are thinking of. The Bible says: The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They operate on the spiritual realm. We have to make our minds think according to God’s Word. Isaiah 26: 3 You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You (NKJV) OUR PEACE IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO WHAT OUR MINDS IS FOCUSSED ON. If your minds is focused on the natural realm, you’re going to have problems. You will be discouraged. You will be brought down by hopelessness and despair. You will be depressed. The truth is, you’ve been redeemed. And that you’ve got a new spirit. And that the Bible has promised new life, I won’t be discouraged, and I won’t be defeated because there’s a spiritual realm that balances and so supercedes the problems that we have in the physical realm. Are we going by what we feel? Are we approaching things exactly as the world does? That’s the reason why we’re getting the same results. The Bible says we have weapons that can bring every thought in obedience to Jesus Christ. If we’re saying that we still have to be discouraged then we’re saying that the word of God isn’t true. If all we did was focus on the physical realm, our thoughts would focus on our mortality and our limitations. If you don’t think spiritually, there’s ample reason to be depressed. I suspect there are many people going through what we call living lives of quiet desperation. They don’t know their way out of this present predicament. The more you watch or listen to the news, the more it reminds us of our grim reality. Are you terrified or depressed to the max? If you are not depressed, chances are you’ve chosen to be spiritually-minded! All of us have big problems to deal with it. We have problems but we’re not focusing on it. Whatever our problems may be, we have promises greater than our problems! God’s provision is greater than your need. In fact the provision was already there before the problem ever was. Hallelujah! BRO. CHITO JOIN US FOR SPIRIT-FILLED WORSHIP! WIN LA 2/F 530 Benton Way LA CA 90057 (Free and Secured Parking at Athena Parking, Coronado and Wilshire Blvd. beside The Hayworth Theater) |