Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

The apostle Paul encourages every believer that once they accept Jesus as their saviour and king they must go through the process of transformation so that they can become like Jesus. This transformation will never occur until the mind of the individual is renewed. He write that; “we must be transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2).” The question we must ask ourselves is how do we renew our minds, and how does the transformation occur?

Firstly, let me say that our minds are the battleground of our spiritual warfare. And we are in a battle when we put our faith and hope in Jesus Christ. Again we are told by the apostle Paul that we do not wage war against flesh and blood, viz; “For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds,  [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One), Being in readiness to punish every [insubordinate for his] disobedience, when your own submission and obedience [as a church] are fully secured and complete”, (2Cor 10:4-6 Amplified). Once we know where our battleground is, it is up to us to know how to fight our enemies and how to renew our minds.

Secondly, we must know how to fight. The renewal of the mind dictates that we allow the Lord to fight our battles whilst we fight the good fight of faith by being in Christ Jesus. We renew our minds by reading copiously the word of God. The psalmist says ‘the entrance of your word brings light, it impart understanding to the simple’, Psalm 119:130. Light comes when we gain understanding from the word that we read. This in turn enables us to act in a way that brings glory to God and transformation to our character. Our way of thinking changes, our habits are upgrades and our character [who we are] is being transformed to be more like Jesus. And so wholeness becomes more and more viable!