How to Love God With All Your Mind

Yesterday we briefly covered what it means to love God with all of our hearts, now lets explore what it means to love God with our MINDS. Loving God with our mind (the second dimension): Basically, its filling our mind with what inspires love for God instead of that which diminishes it. What you do with your mind greatly affects your capacity to love. If you fill your mind with the right things, your capacity to love Jesus increases; if you fill your mind with wrong things, your capacity to love Jesus diminishes. Your mind is the doorway to your inner man and greatly influences your capacity to love. Much of your life happens in your mind. The language of the human spirit is images or pictures. Your mind is an internal movie screen that continually shows you pictures. It is like a camera that stores your memories. You are the producer, leading actor, and consumer in your internal movies. You produce it, act in it, and watch it. You are both the hero and the villain. Our mind is a vast universe within us that will never, ever be turned off. We cannot shut down the images in our mind, but we can redirect them. We can replace dark thoughts with new ones. Yes, we can rewrite the script of the movie that we continually watch within by reading and meditating on, or praying over, Gods Word on a regular basis. Our mind has such glorious potential and vast power, yet many of us are so casual about what we do with our minds. We often fill our minds with entertainment or daydreaming about vanity, when we have the Holy Spirit and the Bible. You can love God with your mind by taking the time to fill your mind with the Word, so that you come into agreement with the truth about Him. This involves refusing lies about His heart as a

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tender Father and passionate Bridegroom King, as you take time to meditate on Gods Word. For example, Jesus exposed how the spirit of immorality operates. It is rooted first in the mind (sexual imaginations) and is fueled by sight or looking with lust (actual person or internet images). The progression of adultery: eye adultery leads to heart adultery which leads to circumstances that lead to physical adultery. Listen to Jesus in Mt. 5:28. Whoever looks at a woman to lusthas already committed adulteryin his heart

Principle: sexual purity and control is established first in the area of the eyes. Jesus wants us to understand the role of the eye gate as the primary battlefront for stopping the operation of the spirit of immorality. It is easier to close the eye gate (internal imaginations and external gazing) than to put out the fires of immoral passions. Job understood the power of eye adultery, heres what he said: I have made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a young woman? 9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbors door (Job 31:1, 9)

Will you be able to love God with all your mind? Yes you will. One thought at a time. When you fail, return to the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit for grace to walk in holiness (which is grace to love Him with all your mind).

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