And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have you said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
O Lord, you has searched me, and known me. You know my downsitting and mine uprising, you understand my thought afar off. You compasses my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, you know it altogether.
Has you not known? has you not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Neither shalt you swear by your head, because you can not make one hair white or black.
But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you has shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which see in secret shall reward you openly. But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not you therefore like unto them: for your Father know what things you have need of, before you ask him.
Rom. 12:2;Ezek 11:5;Eph. 4:23;Psa. 139:1-4;Isa. 40:28;Matt. 5:36;Matt. 6:6-8
Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searches the hearts know what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord...Amen.
Perfect love cast out fear, because fear has torment. We love God because He first loved us; thinking differently is what renewing your mind is all about...Amen.
