I'm Leanne Freisman and this is Restoring Word.
It's a short devotional just designed to speak life and health into you today.
I'm talking about renewing the mind.
Now when I say the word renewing, it isn't something that you get to do just once.
In fact, I found for me that in most cases, honestly, it's a perpetual process.
It's a daily decision that I have to make to focus on God and His words.
And you know, with everything flying around us with our jobs and our families and our
home, our responsibilities, the bills, everything that we've got to do, sometimes that is a
real challenge.
But you know, in the middle of the busyness, when you invite Him into it, when you invite
Him into walking the aisles and buying groceries or folding the laundry, when you make a decision
to put something that's on your Facebook feed or your YouTube feed that's healthy and
encouraging, instead of something that maybe might make you depressed or fearful, that's
all part of that process of renewing your mind.
You see, the word of God comes alive when it's put in your heart and when you begin
to meditate on it.
And when you focus on that scripture, and generally for me, sometimes it could be just
one scripture at a time.
Maybe it's a decision to listen to a great speaker speak life into me when I'm exhausted
and weary and wondering, how am I going to get all of this done?
Preparing the mind is when you invite God into your thought life, into your thinking,
into your processing, into your preparing, and you will feel a peace that passes all
understanding.
It will keep your heart and it will keep your mind in the knowledge of Him.
So that even if you don't have the ability in the natural to do what someone is asking
you to do, if you will step out and trust Him, He will give you the grace and the supernatural
ability to do it.
You know, it's so wonderful to know that I don't have to carry it.
I don't have to make it happen.
I don't have to force something.
If God is leading me to do something, then He's going to anoint my hands.
He's going to anoint my thoughts.
He's going to operate through my computer and my laptop and all the other things that
I put my hands to.
He's going to enable me to do the things that I need to do because He has given me the grace
and the anointing and the empowerment to do it and I don't have to do it myself.
I'm so thankful.
I honestly believe that the things that God has done through me at times have been the
things when I have been the most tired or the most stressed out or maybe I just didn't
feel good, but I was able to say, God, you're bigger than my feelings and you're bigger
than the negative thoughts that are coming my way.
I'm going to stand on your word.
I'm going to stand on your promises and I know that what I do in you, I can be victorious
because you died for me and your spirit now dwells within me and I can walk on this faith
journey with you.
I hope that helped you today.
Have a great week.
I'm thankful for you, for all the new listeners who've recently joined Restoring Word and
you're listening to my little encouraging thoughts.
I'm humbled and I'm so thankful that you've taken a moment just to spend a few minutes
with me.
I hope you have a great week.
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