Change your mentality

Romans 12:2A

‘’And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.’’ {KJV}

Dearly beloved, I come to remind you once again that the Christian life though full of trials, is nevertheless progressive; it is from grace to grace and from glory to glory. You must walk with the mentality that God did not call you to shame or embarrassment. He called you to a life of glory and virtue.

Beloved, like I would always say, refuse to look at what is happening around you and rather fix your heart on God’s word. His word to you is that this is your Year of ‘New Things’. Begin to walk, talk, act and think like one who has taken delivery of something new. When God speaks of something new in your life, He is not talking about refurbishment. No, He means something novel, original, fresh, unique, brand new and occurring for the first time. That means you should not expect negative things to happen to you like it used to in time past. Remember that as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Wake up in the morning and expect only good to happen to you. One way to change your mentality is to create your day with your mouth. Don’t allow the devil create your day. Speak what you want to see and it will come to pass. Refuse whatever tag or label of failure the world wants to put on you. They may have tagged you a failure in time past, refuse it because God says only new things are permitted to happen in your life. Expect your health to be renewed, expect new opportunities and new vistas in business. Trust God for fresh ideas and creativity that will catapult you to a new dimension in life. Refuse to settle for the mundane. Refuse to cancel yourself in-spite of the manipulations of the adversary. 

The Apostle Paul puts it this way: ’’For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day’’. {2 Corinthians 4: 16 KJV}.  He goes on to say in verses 17-18, ‘’for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.’’ Beloved, God’s word is not void of power, the truth is that there is a glory that God has prepared for you and I declare that you will partake of it in Jesus name.

The last time I checked the scriptures, I saw that Esther though a slave girl rose to the position of being a queen in a foreign country. Think about it! Though she was a slave, she refused to wear the toga of slavery. Her mentality was that of a Queen. The scriptures also tell us that Joseph, though mocked by his brothers as a mere dreamer eventually got to the position of leadership in a strange land. The opposition against him did not stop the manifestation of his dreams. They all came to pass.

Beloved, don’t ever forget that what God has done for one is an evidence of what He will do for another. You will not be denied. I cancel every delay in your life. My God will grant you speed. He will compress time for you. I bless you.

Maranatha!

In His Royal Service

Dr. Mike Okonkwo

The Presiding Bishop