God had originally created man to live in a perfect environment where he could do and accomplish all He wanted him to , but sin corrupted it . Paul said to the Romans that human beings did not retain the knowledge of God in their minds , and that is why they were corrupt . If our minds are full of corrupted information , that ' s the same they will give to us . And so if the source of our thoughts is not correct , our thoughts are incorrect and our conclusions and beliefs are erratic , defective and contaminated . The result is a life of error and limitations .
The quality of life you live is directly proportional to the quality of the food you feed your mind . What you input is what you output . You don ' t feed your mind with trash and expect to be productive . If you want to know who you really are and live the kind of life God created you for , you must feed your mind the right information . Realizing who you are and living to achieve your greatness means correcting what you have heard and accumulated in your mind throughout the years . Why ? Because much of what you have in your mind - that which you have heard , embraced , accommodated and accepted to be true has negatively affected your self-image and influenced your life negatively .
Your thoughts and beliefs generally come from what you internalize from your environment ; you become what you learn , listen to and take in .
This is what programs our minds and makes us think as we think of ourselves . Personal belief is a manual for operating your mind . Your belief system moulds your mind and forms the bulk of you .
For as he thinks in his heart , so is he ~ Proverbs 23:7a NKJV
You might have grown up with the wrong beliefs in your mind , which have greatly influenced your life in a negative and limiting way . And the truth is that you cannot rise above the plane of your mental conditioning . To change your life , you must change your mind .
The mind governed by the flesh is death , but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace ~ Romans 8:6
Do not conform to the pattern of this world , but be transformed by the renewing of your mind . Then you will be able to test and approve what God ’ s will is — his good , pleasing and perfect will ~ Romans 12:2
You must discover the truth , the truth of God ; because only through it will you get transformed . Truth will free us from any form of error , false information and corruption . Failure to erase , delete or replace the old information with the new ( God ' s word ), chances are you will remain on the same level and never live to fulfil God ' s plans for you . A mind that is devoid of God ' s truth is a mind full of ' death '. This means that whatever emanates from such a mind brings nothing but ' death ' into your life . So what do we need ? We need the original knowledge from God .
The real reason why Satan succeeded in deceiving Eve was because he manipulated the word of God . He gave Eve corrupted word . What God had given man was original knowledge , but the enemy manipulated it for his own selfish reasons , and he still does it today . Many of us may think that we have the right information , but we may be shocked to learn that what we have has been tampered with . We need God ' s original knowledge for us to be able to function as we were originally meant to .
Unless we receive the original knowledge from God of who we really are , we will only exist but lack real life .
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