Hey girl, we’re your hosts Iz,
And Zi.
And welcome or welcome back to the Forever GodGirl podcast.
In today's episode, we will talk about how to keep a clean mind.
Firstly, we have to talk about why it's important to keep your mind pure and close to God.
Well, it keeps us focused on Jesus for us to remain pure and holy.
Because God is holy and it strengthens our relationship with Him.
Yep, it helps us become more like Jesus every single day.
Our thoughts influence our actions after all.
It starts from the spirit which influences the mind and emotions which influences the
actions.
So we have to be careful what we allow to get in our spirits.
Because we are now His royal, holy and chosen people through Jesus Christ.
And most importantly, if we have a dirty mind and we say that we are for Christ, that actually
contradicts the word of God.
God says we are the righteousness of God.
He also says in His word that if we draw closer to Him, He will draw closer to us.
So what is in our minds, what we think about actually represents how close we are to Jesus.
And not to mention, we don't want to be one of those followers of Christ who straddle
the fence because we cannot serve two masters.
So we either will choose the world, sin, Satan or Christ.
In Philippians 4 verse 8 it says, Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable,
whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there
is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
So we looked at why it's important to keep a clean mind, but we have to look at how to
renew our minds, how to renew our minds solely through Christ.
Because Jesus died for our sins so that we can have a personal relationship with Him.
Zero barriers.
The first step, like Zi said, is salvation.
Secondly, when we are saved, the second step is sanctification.
We can change our thoughts through Christ and by making the effort to replace ungodly
thoughts with good ones, with godly thoughts.
See when it comes to changing anything in our lives, we also have to make a choice.
For the scripture says, Do not be transformed by this world, but by the renewal of your
mind.
That means we deep dive into the Bible.
By cutting out things that aren't meaningful, music that has bad words or just doesn't have
meaning, books that don't point your mind to Christ.
And we need to make sure that we spend more time with God doing godly things, reading
our word, listening to worship music than we do doing earthly things.
God wants us to enjoy ourselves on this earth, but He wants us to do it the right way.
The godly way.
Because do you actually think that by listening to foul language, God is going to condone
that?
No.
Also, when we listen to something for so long, it gets down into our mind.
It gets down into our spirit.
And then we become what we listen to.
Ever heard the phrase, you are what you eat?
Well, you can be consuming things that aren't good at all.
And you become the things that aren't good at all.
Most importantly, we should always remember this.
When we are navigating our Christian walk with Christ, we have to do it in a way where
we are being guided by the Holy Spirit so that we can be in tune to what He's telling
us.
The Holy Spirit will help us discern whether a thought is pure and holy or it's a dirty,
not so nice thought.
Colossians 3 verse 2 says, Think of the things of heaven, not on the things of earth.
Now it's time for our special segment with Iz and Zi.
Who told Mary that she would give birth to Jesus?
Gabriel the angel, Joseph her fiance, or her mom?
Her mom, right?
Um, it was actually Gabriel the angel.
I knew that.
Gabriel the angel.
Yeah, good job, Zi.
You got it correct.
Thanks.
Anyways, that was a pretty cool special segment, right Zi?
Well, now it's time to get into something a little bit more serious, salvation.
This podcast is great and all, but it won't help you if you don't have salvation.
So to give your life to the Lord today, go to Romans 10, 9 through 10.
It says that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that
God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
If you said this prayer with sincerity, you are saved and now have eternal life with Jesus.
You are saved from all your sins, past, present, and future sins you may commit.
This truth is not a free pass to sin anytime.
Instead, Jesus gives you power over all wrong choices and empowers you to spread the gospel
to others.
You are saved forever and your name is written in the book of life.
Did you just give your life to the Lord?
If you did, give yourself a pat on the back.
We are all so proud of you.
Anyways, thank you so much for listening to this podcast episode.
We hope it helped you and we hope that you learned something.
And remember, a clean mind makes the heart kind.
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