The Blessed Life (Part 2) -“Transformed into a Walking Blessing”

“Transformed into a Walking Blessing”

Romans 12:1-2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Your genes don’t control you. You control your genes

Our genes may determine physical characteristics but not psychological phenomena

We have natural genes and spiritual genes

I.                   WE CREATE REALITY WITH ____MINDS_.

1.      Thoughts Produce Signals

i.e. Our Thinking Produces

·         Magnetic Fields that can be measured

·         Electrical Impulses that can be tracked

·         Chemical Effects that can be seen and measured

·         Photons these can be captured on a computer screen

·         Energy Activity that can be explained

·         Vibrations in Membranes of Neurons can be picked up by instruments

·         90 to 99% of the action in our mind happens in the non-conscious metacognitive level. At this level there’re about 400 billion actions per second.

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·         The conscious cognitive level is 10% of my action. It functions at about two thousand actions per second.

·         One brain generates more (electrical impulses) in one day than all the cell phones on the planet.

2.       These ___ SIGNALS _ Start a Process

a.       Signal travels to cell chromosomes

b.      They travel to a particular strand of DNA

c.       The strand is zipped up (cocoon state)

d.      The signal causes it to open, unzip

e.       It releases a code (blueprint) determining what type of proteins to create

f.        RNA takes a photo copy

g.       Molecules in the cell create protein around that thought or memory and it is reality

h.      These proteins hold the thought/memory you just created

3.       These thoughts affect us and 4 ___ GENERATIONS _ after us

a.       Our genes are dormant until switched on by a signal. They are potential waiting to become what you want them to become.

b.      Science has shown how the thought networks pass through the ova by DNA to the next four generation

Exodus 20:5

⁵ Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

II.                WHAT KIND OF REALITY ARE WE CREATING?

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.

The proteins from negative toxic thoughts are different from others

III.             WE CAN CHANGE OUR BRAIN

1.      Neuroplasticity

When we constantly choose to bring a memory into consciousness, it becomes plastic enough to actually be changed

Our brain generates more energy (electrical impulses) in one day than all the cell phones on the planet.

2.      Conscious Change

a.       Memories become changeable when we pull them into the prefrontal cortex area of our brain

3.      This is where we must war

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. ⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, ⁵ casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

IV.              HOW DO WE WAR

1.       SLOWING   Down

Psalm 46:10

“Be still and know that I am God…”

Slowing down, introspection I’m a self-reflection, Prayer, meditation enhance and improve our brain function and our mental and physical health.

The non-conscious mind has the roots of who we are. 

Proverbs 23:7

As a man thinks in His heart so is He

When we meditate and think deep the DMN (Default mode network) becomes more effective

Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; ² But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. ³            He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.

2.      Becoming aware of ___Negative thoughts.

Psalm 4:4

Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

V.                 USING THE ___SPIRIT_ AND THE ___WORD_TO BECOME THE BLESSING

1.       Weapon one; THE WORD

Hebrews 4:12

¹² For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

                        Joshua 1:8

2.       Weapon two: ____THE SPIRIT

1 Corinthians 2:10-12

¹⁰ But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ¹¹ For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.