Keys to Operating in the Blessing Part 5

This is the third week of talking about the key of trusting in God in order to operate in the blessing.  Romans 12:1 and forward talks about us renewing our mind.  We can only operate based on the input into our mind, so we have to reprogram our mind to operate more in tune with God’s word.  The ideal is that we have so much input from the Word that our natural reaction is straight from the Word, like muscle memory for an athlete or musician which allows them to run on automatic.  

Hebrews 3:1 urges us to take the time and effort to fix our thoughts on Jesus, the Word.  We stumble in our faith because our faith becomes our ability to believe and receive.  The faith we need is in the fact that Jesus is inside of us and is the author and finisher of our faith.  The victory has already occurred, but we have to know that before we will see it.  Our minds and eyes will have to keep fixed on Him in order to do it.

Hebrews 11 and Hebrews 3:12 shows that us having faith instead of unbelief is key to living in the promises.  Complete confidence in God’s word will result in reactions and actions that reflect this.  Hebrews was written to Jews who had received Jesus and fallen back into their old ways of thinking and acting. 

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