How to CHANGE ANY BEHAVIOR You Want (Starting TODAY) Part 2

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 

Romans 12:2a

You hear self help authors say this all of the time: 

Change the way you think!

You know there is some truth to it, and that the truth will set you free, as Jesus said.  But you don’t know how.  Not really.

Here’s how.

First, as I said in the last blog, you must be reborn.  Apart from this crucial change, no other change will happen.  You must become a new creation, a new person:  One of God’s children.  This must be the new definition of who you are as a person.  It happens by accepting who Jesus is and what He did.  He is God in the flesh who died for your sins and rose so you can start again.  Accept that, and you are literally a new person, as it is written,

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!  2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT

You are born of the Spirit.  Now you must life in union with the Spirit.  This union is the supreme ultimate change in every behavior!  It happens by choosing to focus on what the Spirit desires, and not on what you desire:

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.  Romans 8:5-6 NIV

Let’s apply this to the mini map formula we learned in the last blog:

1.       If you set your mind on what the Spirit desires, you will live in union with the Spirit AND experience life and peace! 

2.       Can you do it?  YES!  You determine what you set your mind on!

3.       Is it worth it!  ABSOLUTELY!  What’s better than being one with God’s Spirit, and experiencing true life and peace from God Himself!?

After being spiritually reborn, or born of the Spirit, you must change your mindset from focus on the physical to focus on the spiritual--what the Spirit desires!  This change is THE change!  Let’s apply this to a specific behavior…in the NEXT POST!  (CLICK HERE!)