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I'm Leanne Freisman and this is Restoring Word.

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It's a short devotional just designed to speak life and health into you today.

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I'm talking about renewing the mind.

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Now when I say the word renewing, it isn't something that you get to do just once.

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In fact, I found for me that in most cases, honestly, it's a perpetual process.

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It's a daily decision that I have to make to focus on God and His words.

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And you know, with everything flying around us with our jobs and our families and our

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home, our responsibilities, the bills, everything that we've got to do, sometimes that is a

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real challenge.

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But you know, in the middle of the busyness, when you invite Him into it, when you invite

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Him into walking the aisles and buying groceries or folding the laundry, when you make a decision

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to put something that's on your Facebook feed or your YouTube feed that's healthy and

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encouraging, instead of something that maybe might make you depressed or fearful, that's

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all part of that process of renewing your mind.

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You see, the word of God comes alive when it's put in your heart and when you begin

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to meditate on it.

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And when you focus on that scripture, and generally for me, sometimes it could be just

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one scripture at a time.

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Maybe it's a decision to listen to a great speaker speak life into me when I'm exhausted

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and weary and wondering, how am I going to get all of this done?

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Preparing the mind is when you invite God into your thought life, into your thinking,

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into your processing, into your preparing, and you will feel a peace that passes all

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understanding.

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It will keep your heart and it will keep your mind in the knowledge of Him.

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So that even if you don't have the ability in the natural to do what someone is asking

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you to do, if you will step out and trust Him, He will give you the grace and the supernatural

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ability to do it.

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You know, it's so wonderful to know that I don't have to carry it.

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I don't have to make it happen.

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I don't have to force something.

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If God is leading me to do something, then He's going to anoint my hands.

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He's going to anoint my thoughts.

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He's going to operate through my computer and my laptop and all the other things that

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I put my hands to.

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He's going to enable me to do the things that I need to do because He has given me the grace

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and the anointing and the empowerment to do it and I don't have to do it myself.

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I'm so thankful.

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I honestly believe that the things that God has done through me at times have been the

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things when I have been the most tired or the most stressed out or maybe I just didn't

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feel good, but I was able to say, God, you're bigger than my feelings and you're bigger

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than the negative thoughts that are coming my way.

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I'm going to stand on your word.

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I'm going to stand on your promises and I know that what I do in you, I can be victorious

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because you died for me and your spirit now dwells within me and I can walk on this faith

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journey with you.

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I hope that helped you today.

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Have a great week.

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I'm thankful for you, for all the new listeners who've recently joined Restoring Word and

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you're listening to my little encouraging thoughts.

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I'm humbled and I'm so thankful that you've taken a moment just to spend a few minutes

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with me.

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I hope you have a great week.

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Again if you know of anyone out there right now that's really struggling with anxiety and with

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fear please share this message with them and just like you heard the bell click the bell

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like the channel follow and subscribe and we'll see you next week thanks

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you