There is a natural mindset, and there is a spiritual mindset. To live victoriously, you must develop a spiritual mindset. The Bible says: \u2018The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God\u2026 and cannot understand them because they are [spiritually] discerned\u2026 But we have the mind of Christ.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Corinthians\u00a02:14\u201316\u00a0NIV) As you programme your life in accordance with God\u2019s Word and consciously submit yourself to do His will every day, He will plant His thoughts in your mind. What an advantage! <\/p>\n
For example, someone criticises you and your feelings get hurt. In that moment the Lord speaks to you and says, \u2018Yes, your feelings are hurt, but part of it is just wounded vanity and we can deal with that. I love you despite all your baggage. Your standing with Me isn\u2019t at risk. The person who criticised you may see a flaw. But nobody thinks you\u2019re perfect anyway, and it\u2019s better not to pretend. Here is a chance to grow. Use it!\u2019 <\/p>\n
Even though there are elements of pain in these kinds of thoughts, instead of paralysing you, they energise you. They\u2019re true, they give you ground to stand on, and you realise that if you can keep your mind centred on them, the right feelings and actions are more likely to flow from them. Now you\u2019re starting to live out the promise, \u2018You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah\u00a026:3\u00a0NKJV) Instead of focusing on your critics, focus on God, on your spiritual growth, and on what you can learn from the experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is a natural mindset, and there is a spiritual mindset. To live victoriously, you must develop a spiritual mindset. The Bible says: \u2018The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God\u2026 and cannot understand them because they are [spiritually] discerned\u2026 But we have the mind of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}