"Changed Mind" -Johnny Asevedo

Pastor Johnny shares a wellspring word on walking in a renewed mind. Enjoy!

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Welcome to the Destiny Church and Throne podcast. We pray this stirs you into a deeper relationship with Jesus and equips you to live a heaven-on-earth lifestyle daily. Enjoy. On Sundays, this should be happening in your bedroom more and more and more than what takes place here in that secret place, intimate with the Lord. Amen? All right. Something that was on my heart. It's been on my heart this week. And I actually talked to somebody. And my hope is that you retain this and it helps to change the way that you've been walking. If you've been walking like this. And then at the same time, if you've been like glory to the Lamb, God has, you know, this is not where I'm at. Then you take this and you disciple and share it with someone else. Amen. Needed and necessary. Okay. If anytime you want to give, there is a red bucket in the back to give uh to go to, keeping the lights on and everything else in this house. Praise God. Um, I feel like am I missing anything? Nothing good? All right, glory. Um thank you, Jesus. Okay, uh, I want to talk about um allowing the Lord to shift our mindset and our perspectives. Okay, can we talk about that for a second? Um, that is where I want to go today. I was talking with this pastor, and we were talking a lot about the way that we see Jesus is the way that we will live out. Okay? The way that we see him, the way that we see the word, the way that we view and see Christianity, that's the way that we're gonna live it out. Like our lies that we believe, traumas that we've held on to, that's gonna actually shift our perspective to where we believe that lies and everything else is reality. Okay? One of the things I deal with the most as a pastor and talking with people or whatever it is, counseling with people, is helping them to get over the way that they feel. Because feelings are not always reality. We understand that, right? It's not always like, well, I feel like this. Well, I know you feel like that, but that's not reality, right? Ask Cowboy fans. They feel the Cowboys are the best team. Like, you may feel like that. Who said that? Get out! No, no, get on out of this church. God bless Tony Romo. No, um uh, but but a lot of times, like we say like, like, well, I feel this, I feel this, I feel this, I feel this, I feel this, I feel this. When in reality, it's like, well, I understand that you feel that, but that's not actually the truth. And a lot of times we have to help people get over what they feel, which is usually associated with a perspective or a thought process that they believe to be true. The word tells us in Romans chapter 12, do not be conformed to this world. Now hold on to that. Do not be conformed to this world. Amen? All right, listen, listen. Then he says this. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Now, I want you to understand something uh what what he is saying right here. I want you to understand that he says, don't be like the world. He says, he says, but but I need you to be transformed. And the way that you're transformed is not by having a bigger ministry, the way that you're transformed is not by being able to recite every piece of scripture or living a great perfect life or any of the things that we associate with blessings. He says, the way that you're gonna be transformed, not looking like the world, is by your mind being renewed, your mind being changed. I was once a raging alcoholic, guys. I was addicted to drugs and all these other things. A lot of you, though those that are new here, you don't know the story. But but but the way that I dealt with things back then when I was angry or upset or anxious or whatever it may have been, I would run to the bottle, I would run to anything that I could get my hands on. But now I run to the secret place, I run to his feet, I run to Jesus. Well, what happened? My mind was renewed. My mind was changed. I no longer did or said the things that I did back then, run to the things that I ran to. When I said yes to him, my mind was renewed, and now things look different. It says, be renewed. It says that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So when your mind is renewed, there is proof of it. There is proof of a renewed mind. All right, so um a few definitions that we're gonna talk about. Um, and I actually have some statistics that I looked up that I want to share with everybody on why we need our mindsets changed. Now, now, a stronghold in our mind is something that is a lie that appears to be so true that we live out of it. A lot of times that could be the way that we see ourselves, what somebody has told us over and over and over and over again. Something that we believe to be a lie, it's from the enemy or it's from childhood trauma or whatever it may be, but it's in our mind, it's strong, and it's a reality that we live out of. Okay? That's what a stronghold is. A stronghold is a lie that you live out of. It's not just, well, I don't know if I really believe that sin is real. No, no, no, no. It is a tr it is a lie that has gripped who you are, what what the enemy says you are. It goes against everything God says that you are, and that thing, that lie, that trauma, it causes you to live out of it. Responses come from it. The way that you treat people comes from it. The way that you think of yourself and do everything in life will come from that stronghold when the lights are turned on with it. So we're gonna talk about how do we get through changing our perspective and our mindsets in accordance to what the Lord says. We're going to equip you in this. So I just want you to follow me for a moment. Um, the Bible tells us that we are called to live with the mind of Christ. That is essential in every believer's life. If you call yourself a believer, if you say, I'm a Christian, I'm a believer, Jesus is my Lord and Savior, that means you are called to live with the mind of Christ. Everybody say amen. That means so be it. That means that is me. That is what I'm called to do. I'm not called to live with my own thoughts and processes, and oh, I'm not perfect. How could I ever live like Christ? I'm gonna always mess up here and mess up there. God understands, blah, blah, blah. No, no, no, no. The Bible says you have the mind of Christ. Each and every one of us has the mind of Christ if we are believers. Um, Philippians 4 says this. Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again, rejoice. Don't worry about anything, but instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done. Listen to this. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can ever understand. And his peace will guard our hearts and our minds. Our hearts and our minds as you live in Christ Jesus. You cannot do it separate.

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We can't ask him to guard our mind and our hearts and live outside of him. We must live in him, meaning walking in obedience, walking in the fear of the Lord, knowing who he is, spending that time with him, being in his word, living in truth. We've got to live in him. And it says, and now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing: fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. It tells us here in Scripture what we need to fix our thoughts on. Colossians says it like this set your sights on the realities of heaven, not the realities of this earth. How many have been guilty of, even though you love Jesus, setting your sights on everything that is on this earth? Worrying about bills, worrying about this, worrying about family, worrying about all these other things. You're fearful of this, you're not saying yes here, you're giving God your time and stuff elsewhere. Your sights have been set on the realities of the earth. Right? We've all been in that place. Some are in that place deeper than others. But it's what we talk about. Let me say this as a side note, it's what we talk about. It's the beauty of church. As everybody walks in through that door and we're all at different places with the Lord. I can't expect little baby Maggie in the nursery to be walking where Ben's walking right now. I can't expect Dana, who I just met, to be walking where Nicole is right now.

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When we walk in through that door, we're all at different levels. That's the beauty of church. That's the beauty of when we come. Nobody is like, you need to live up to the standard than which that I'm living up to. No, no, no. But we've all been in this place to where our thoughts have been fixed on things of the earth. I want to just briefly, just briefly, when your mindset, your perspective, even as a believer, right? Well, I love Jesus, but I'm just getting attacked, and I keep getting attacked. I keep getting in this cycle in these cycles over and over and over. You know that that same old, same old is not a season God is putting you through. Like, like it's not like, well, this cycle and this cycle, like that's not a season God is putting you through. Listen to these are some statistics. This is this is from they have medical sources. Just listen to this for a moment. Dealing with keeping your thoughts on things that cause you to be anxious or or or or fearful or anything that is that is from the earthly realm outside of Christ. Research shows that studies on negative thinking is linked to increased inflammation in the body. That's the number one thing. This is so wild to me. This is in this is insane. One of the number one things that negative thinking, stressful and wrongful thoughts, contributes to is inflammation in your body. Studies show that this can increase your heart rate, your blood pressure, and your hormone cortisol stress levels. It is associated with the diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and mainly depression. When you set your thoughts on negative things away from what the Lord is calling, because the mindset of Christ is not on a mindset of negative things. Right? I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't care who was in the office. Biden, Trump, uh uh uh uh whoever the other ones were, don't matter to me. It don't matter. They are not affecting my walk with him. I will pray for anybody that's there. I don't care who it is. I'm not gonna allow myself to be worried or stressed from things I see on the TV. I'm not gonna allow myself to be worried and stressed by what I see in the bank account. I'm not gonna allow myself to be worried and stressed by what I think I should be living in, but I'm not. Because that's what brings in worry, that's what brings in fear, that's what brings in doubt. And what the enemy wants to do is he understands and knows. He's been around for a very long time. He wants to bring about stress to your life by the way that you think. That's why the Bible tells us your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. It's crazy to read about what stress-related uh health problems and health issues bring to the human body that comes from a direct result of negative thinking and worries. It's it's sleep troubles. Like it goes on and on and on. Memory and concentration issues that all comes from negative thinking, worryful, worrisome and fearful thinking. It's crazy to me. That's why it says, always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again, always rejoice. Isaiah 26, 3 says that God will keep in perfect peace those who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you. When you fix your thoughts on something, you are establishing your thoughts on something, meaning they cannot be shaken. If your thoughts are not fixed on God, the moment a storm comes and you blow down, that means that your thoughts were not fixed on him. When your thoughts are fixed on him, when the waves come, when the storms come, you stay immovable, unshakable in him. Because your thoughts are fixed on him. You know who he is. That's why we often say, like, like you know, there there's there's no uh this up and down life as a Christian. We think that, you know, if I'm on fire one day, I'm not, I'm on, you know, like no, like in the Old Testament, the priests were responsible for keeping the fire burning day in and day out. There's a responsibility to keep burning for Jesus every day of our life, no matter how we wake up and no matter how we went to sleep. Amen? Again, Romans 12, 2. Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind. The way that you look different from the world is the way that you think. Catch that? How do you think about your neighbor that just stabbed you in the back? How do you think about that person that just said this to you or said that to you? When the world says, push them away, let go of them. I gotta think about Jesus. Jesus never did anything of what people say that Christians should do when someone stabs them in the back. It's it's it's it's the word tells us here the way that we think, the way that you treat that person, they're like, wait a second. I stabbed you in the back last week, and now you're giving me a hot meal. The mind of Christ. Didn't Jesus feed a bunch of people, thousands of people, that he knew would betray him? Didn't Jesus sit constantly with his disciples, pouring into them day in and day out, knowing one of them was going to betray him with an intimate kiss? The mind of Christ. The mind of Christ is not like our mind. Uh it's not like, oh, you need to back up. You said bad things to me. Get away from me. Right? Like the mind of Christ says, I understand that I was once a sinner who is now forgiven. And that's what transforms us and makes us look different from the world is the way that we think, the way that we see people, the way that we treat people, the way that we love people. I had the absolute honor of doing Miss Dawn's funeral this past weekend. And one of the things that I love to be able to say about Dawn is anytime anybody came to serve at the orange table or came to eat, no matter what, she would walk home with open arms. In fact, there was times, and I and I mentioned this at the funeral, there was times Dawn didn't even feel good. She woke up that day not feeling well, being attacked in her body. But she still came to serve. Because she said, I knew that's what the Lord is wanting me to do. Most people are like, I gotta stay home from church today. I got a little bit of my head hurts just a little bit. And she's like, I know that God wanted me to do this, even though I'm battling all these ailments, the mind of Christ. To serve. And the scriptures go on and on telling us, don't copy the customs and the behaviors of the world, but your mind should be renewed. And it looks different in many different areas or capacities that you were in. But I'm telling you this: people should be, if you if you say you are a believer, they should be seeing it in you no matter where you are. They should never be like, well, they are, you know, yeah, I know they go to church, but this or that or this or that. Like, no, no, no, no. Like they should see you and know that you burn for Him. Set apart from the world by the way that you think. Um, now I want to shift everything to talk about perspective. I'm gonna break down what the word perspective means. It's a specific point of view or a way of thinking about something that is heavily influenced by your personal experiences. Your perspective, if it is outside of Scripture and the truth, can skew and mess up relationships, it can mess up your life, it can mess up those that are close to you because your perspective, what you think to be true, comes from your personal experiences. Well, why don't you get close to somebody? Well, in my personal experience, anytime I get close to somebody, they betray me, or this or that, or so. I'd like to keep my distance. You ever heard of that? You ever been in that place? You you you live out of your perspective. Well, I've I've seen this or this happened in my experience, or my experience is I've been here, or I've been there, or in my experience is if you go to church, people are gonna judge you and this, that, and that. You went to one church. You know what I mean? Like, I love when people label most Christians. They're like, well, most Christians, blah, blah, blah. I was like, dude, most Christians is one person that disagrees with you on Facebook. Stop. That's not most Christians, right? That's one person that doesn't even have a profile picture. Like, you know what I mean? Like, come on, man. But people live out of perspectives on what they've gone through and their personal experiences rather than submitting it to the Lord. When I was in the world, I treated people a lot different than I treat them now. I was not always a happy-go-lucky, help everybody, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do whatever God, what do you want to do here? What do you want to do there? That was not who I was. Not even close to who I was. But my mindset has changed. And why did it change? Not to become a better person, because I want to be like Jesus. I'm called to be like him. You're called to be like Jesus. That's why you have the mind of Christ. You're not called to be a believer that sometimes looks like Jesus. You are called to be Him to the world. You're an ambassador of the heavens. What good is being an ambassador of the heaven, calling yourself a believer, but you're getting high and drunk and everything else with people that you're trying to preach the gospel to. What good is it calling yourself a believer and an ambassador of heaven when you're gossiping with people at work and you're cussing with foul language just like they are? You feel me? Like, what is that? What is that? But yet we're like, well, you know, uh, nobody's perfect. And like that gives us a pass to live outside of the scripture or outside of a renewed mind with Christ when we say, not everybody's perfect. Right? That's not a pass for us to treat people like garbage or to live the way that we want to live, but yet say, Yes, Jesus, I love you with everything I have. That's not a renewed mind. That is still a fleshly mind. Because when we were in the flesh, I don't know about you guys, but when I was in the flesh, I was all about what have you done for me lately? I was all about trying to get what I wanted more than anything. I would even make it seem like I wanted to, yeah, I'm on your side, but just wanted to get what I wanted to get. And if you still live in that mentality now as a believer, hallelujah, glory, shandada. Hey! But you still live like that, that's not that's that's not a renewed mind. That's a fleshly mind, that's a carnal mind. Your ways of thinking will build up your lifestyle or will tear it down. And I'm almost done. Just follow me here. I'm almost done. When you think wrong, you sow and you live wrong. Think about this. Most people who have children that had a traumatic upbringing, one of the first things they will say as parents is I'm gonna raise my kids different than I was raised. Right? One of the first things, those that had traumatic childhoods with traumatic relationships with their parents, when they become parents, they say, I'm not gonna be like my mom or dad. I'm gonna I'm gonna treat my kids and love my kids different. Well, why? Because there were things that was sewed into them that they came to a realization of, I don't want to sew that into the next generation. So they changed their ways of thinking, they change the way they talk, the way that they change the way they love on their kids. They start to change things because they understand what was sewed into me is something that could come out, but I'm gonna choose to change it. Let me read this last thing here. Um the word renewal means a complete change for the better. The root word of the word renewal in the original context means to cause, to grow up, or to make new. When we allow the Lord to renew our minds, when we live in a lifestyle of a renewed mind, we are saying, Jesus, Holy Spirit, completely change me for the better. Completely change me. When I got saved, the things that I love to do, the Lord baptized that in his grace. I love I love sports, I still love sports. I didn't get saved, and God's like, no more sports. You know what I mean? Like, like I have huh I I love I have a sense of humor. I love to laugh and and I love funny movies and things like that. And the Lord wasn't like, no more laughing. You know what I'm saying? Like, no, like he changed me for the better. The things that were in my heart that he sees, he changed that for the better to now it looks more like him. And there are so many in this room that look more like him as you say yes to him day in and day out. You're looking more like him, you're sounding more like him, you're living more like him, your secret place looks more like him. What you think about when no one's around looks more like him. Thank you, Jesus. Why? Because you're being renewed. The Holy Spirit, the Word of God, all these things, it's not just the Bible by itself, guys. It's the Bible being renewed. Led by the leading of the Holy Spirit. It's not just you reading words on a page, it is you being led by the Spirit of God to actually change. Think about it. You ever were about to build something for your kids? You look at the instruction, but you're like, I can figure it out. Where's the box? Let me just look at the box. You know what I'm saying? You're right, right? Like, what does a box look? What does it look like? Okay, like let me put this, oh, that looks here. But there's literally instructions that you can read, but you're like, nah, I don't need those. Let me just look at the box. And this is sometimes like in our walk, we're like, eh. As you read the scripture, you're not just reading it to read, you're reading it being led by truth by the Holy Spirit to cause a change within you. So that when you start to do something you know you're not supposed to do, that conviction, it's the Spirit of God that's coming from a renewed mind. Thank you, Jesus. Um Thank you, Lord. Second Corinthians, I'm gonna end on this. I like walking in the flesh, sin and all that, you're you're human. We do not war according to the flesh. So the flesh says an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth type thing. But it says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. I want you to see something as you read this context. This is so much all about the mind and the ways of thinking. Talk with somebody for two minutes, three minutes, five minutes. You will see where their treasures are. You will see the way that they think, you'll see their thought patterns, you'll see fruit that comes from their life. The Bible tells us that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but it's for pulling down. So when we're praying for different things in our city, we're not like pointing people out like, get them, Lord. We're praying against a principality or against what is over. We're not like like when we pray against like like Lord, heal alcoholics, like like send us to people to where we can break and see breakthrough in those that are that are bound with alcoholism. I'm not like, Lord, close the liquor store businesses. I'm not worried about dealing with that kind of stuff. I'm worried about dealing with the spirit of the principality that's over that thing. You understand that? Like it's not about praying for the address where they're selling the liquor. That's not what it's about. Because our weapons of warfare are called to pull down strongholds. The word pull down means to demolish. It means to cause to bring into extinction. The cycles and the thought processes that you are going through that are perspective driven through through what you've gone through in life or a lie that you're believing that is causing you to respond out of that, that's not truth. And if it doesn't measure up to the scripture and what the Spirit of the Lord is saying, it's not of him. Stop living in it. You're without excuse to stay in that place. I don't care where you've been or what perspective that you've or how much hurt that you've gone through. There is no excuse as a believer to live in a place where there are strongholds allowed to be there. Because the weapons of our warfare are to pull down, to cause, to bring an extinction to those strongholds. You know what extinction means? See any T-Rex lately? Gone forever. Gone forever. So these things, these strongholds, these lies, these mindsets that are within you that are causing you to live differently, you have weapons to pull and destroy those things. It says every thought, listen to this, every thought to cast down arguments. You ever had an argument in your head about the things of the Spirit? You thought you were going crazy, but really all that's happening is you're just trying to respond out of your stronghold. So you're trying to talk yourself out of faith. Every high thing that exalts itself. Again, we're talking about getting beaten up here against the knowledge of God. You ever had the enemy try to speak to you and say, God doesn't want that for you? God doesn't love you like that, God doesn't see you like that. You're a mess up, you're a failure. These are this is what we're seeing here. It's arguments that you're seeing in your head. It's anything coming against the knowledge of who he is. And then lastly, it says, bringing every thought into captivity. Every thought into captivity. Every thought. Everything that you could think that goes against who Jesus is and who he says that you are, you are capturing to deal with it. You're not just letting it just live rent-free in your head. When you think about capturing or arresting, what do you think about? A criminal. Somebody who has done something illegally. When there are illegal thoughts in your mind, meaning God says you're loved, you're called, there's grace to do this, there's mercy for this, I'm not casting you away, I'm not mad at you. When he says all these things, an illegal thought that comes in is you're not worth anything. God hates you, kill yourself. That is an illegal thought that you are called to capture and arrest and bring it to the feet of Jesus. You're not called to think and defeat or negative. I don't care what it looks like in front of you. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, it doesn't matter where you are, it doesn't matter what your trial is, there is never a time where you will have this get out of walking with Jesus free card where I just want to do what I want to do. I remember there was this one time, and I'm gonna end with this. There was this one time we were talking to some individuals. And if you feel differently about this, we can talk, and I'm not just just trust me, just walk with me on this. But they were believers, they were they were pastors, they were leaders, and the way that they unwound after a hard day was with hard liquor. And it was confronted, not in a but it was confronted in a help me understand what you get from something like this that destroys bodies and destroys lives and families that you cannot get from the secret place. There was no answer. Oh, but this is something that I do. This is just something that you know God understands. You know, this this is this is something that I do. And look, I I'm I'm not like I have my beliefs that I have my beliefs with on it. And it doesn't bring and we talked about it, but but so I'm not like if if if you know we'll talk, we can pray all that. Just hear me what I'm saying here. Don't shut off because I I brought it up. But I asked him, what what can that give you that the secret place with Jesus cannot give you? Because you're going home after a long, stressful day, you're tired, and you want to unwind, and you had a long day, and the bosses yelled at you. So you pour some quervo on the rocks. You get buzzed, you get tipsy, your kids are seeing it. You're preaching the gospel. What is what's what what you need to change that perspective and that mindset because before the Lord you had a thought process that that's what you ran to and you carried it over with you on this side of the cross. And you said that it's okay, it's okay for me to do. God's okay with this. You've okayed it in your thought process, in your way of thinking. You've okayed it because you've done it for so long. But you what you need to do is if you allow the Holy Spirit, if you get in your bedroom with him, you're like, Lord, is this something that I'm needing? I know that the Lord would say, you don't need something that's going to give you cirrhosis of the liver. And so I say all that to say if you've been dealing with perspectives where you've been seeing yourself in a lie or you've been living out of a lie, go to Jesus and allow him to completely destroy it, but also understand you have weapons yourself to pull it down. You have weapons yourself to pull it down. You're not just like, oh Jesus, I'm weak and measly and help me. He's like, you have weapons to pull these things down. I've given you authority. That's what Jesus is saying. He's given you authority and he's given you weapons to pull all these things down. Stand with me, beloved. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah, you're not called to live out of a lie, y'all. And any mindset that puts itself higher than the Word of God, or any ways that you've been thinking wrongly about yourself, you need to allow the Lord to help you to renew it. That's the way that we look different from the world, is our ways of thinking. Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. Your thought processes the way you think. If you're ever having to make a big decision, a lot of times, especially in the corporate business world, they're like, don't think with your head, think with your heart. Like, what do you what do you feel in your heart? Because you're like, well, logic says no, but I just got this gut feeling. You know what I'm saying? If you play fantasy football, you're like that 24-7. I got this feeling, I gotta get, I gotta start this guy. And even in the corporate world, even in the natural world, even outside of the Lord, like like we often think to ourselves, it's because I believe that our heart becomes rooted in Jesus in such a way that our mind doesn't. Because our heart, like like, think about this, guys, think about this. Like, you wake up and you start to think about things throughout your day. Do you ever think, man, I hope my heart continues to keep pumping blood into my body? Like, no. You start thinking about your day, what to do, where to go, how to get there, all these different things. We need our mindset to line up with our renewed heart, beloved. I don't want to just have a renewed heart for the sake of saying I'm a Christian and I have a renewed heart. I want my mindset, the way I think, when no one's around. That's how I know that I'm bearing fruits of repentance. Is when no one's around, what am I thinking about? When somebody, when somebody wrongs me, what's the first thing that comes here? Maybe I think for a little while and I say something different, but what comes here? What's the first thing that comes here when somebody cuts me off on the road? What's the first thing that comes here when somebody says something to me and they're angry at me for no apparent reason or they say this or that to you? What's up here first? What kind of fruits of repentance are you bearing from a renewed mindset? So before we go anywhere, we're gonna pray and we're just gonna ask the Lord to just come. And not just here, but even when we go home, when we're when we're alone in our bedroom, in our secret place with the Lord, to ask him to just continue to help us to keep renewing our mind, and also with that, allowing the word of God to dwell within us richly. So everybody just hold your hands out like you're receiving. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, I thank you for every heart that is in this house. God, I thank you for every individual that is represented. Lovers of you, Jesus. I prophesy over every heart that is here, that they are called by you. They are anointed, they're, they are, they are individuals who are called to carry your grace, called to carry your mercy, called to carry your love. And I pray right now in the name of Jesus that we would receive a fresh understanding that we are called to live with a renewed mind. Not just a renewed heart, but a renewed mind. And so we just receive the understanding, God, that you and you alone are the one that can help us to be our to have our mind transformed. We don't want to think the way we once thought. We don't want to think and do things in ways that we did before, knowing you, Jesus. We want to be completely renewed and transformed. Thank you for your word. We just receive the truth of your word that we carry the mind of Christ. We want to receive the truth of your word that says that you are quick to forgive us of our sin and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. We want to receive the truth that we condemn ourselves more than you ever would. Because your word tells us that those who belong to Christ Jesus, there is no condemnation. So we receive a fresh perspective of truth and of the way you see us, because the way you see us is the only thing that matters. And we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Guys, I love y'all. Hug somebody's neck, tell them Jesus loves them, tell them that he's called them. There's a red bucket in the back there to give. Be blessed, guys. I love y'all so much. Live for him, keep meeting with him daily. Love y'all.