The power of a renewed mind

Yesterday we have had such an amazing time in His presence, hearing what the Spirit has to say to us as a group.

Personally, God has taught me so much about the power of the mind and my thoughts.
When God forbade Adam to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it was as if God did not want him to be able to think and to judge what is good and evil. It was as if God did not want Adam's mind to be opened.

However, after reading the scripture again and again, I believe that this was not His original intention. There was a tree of life and a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God said he can eat from any tree except the latter. This means that God wants Adam to continue to have eternal life, to eat from the tree of life which is the Spirit of God. To know God's presence and to know the life of the Spirit.

I believe that God did not want Adam to eat from the tree because it was not the time for his mind to be opened yet. Adam was innocent but he was also immature. He was still growing in the presence of God and he was not yet the son of God. He did not have an identity as a son. He did not know the will of the Father and this is what God wants Adam to come into before having his mind to be opened prematurely.

God gives us free will from the very beginning. There is always an option to life or death. The first man has chosen the latter and therefore cause the entire human race to disobey God and to have the inclination to run their own lives in their own ways. They were proud in the minds, they were selfish and evil as their minds were darkened and alienated from the knowledge of God who gives the actual breath of life to them.

Before I became a Christian, there were so many wrong mindsets which led me to destruction. I was on my way to eternal death and God in His amazing grace and mercy caught hold of me and since then, I was never the same again!

There are still so many things for me to learn. So many things to unlearn. We all grew up in different background, cultures and upbringing. Many of us have mindset which are so deeply engrained in us that we thought was the truth but when the Holy Spirit revealed to us, I realised there were all pride, selfishness, superstition and fear.

God is so good. He does not give up on us. His original and ultimate intention for us to attain and come into our Sonship, through the power of the Holy Spirit - daily. We are to be transformed through the renewal of our minds. We need to humble ourselves and to have a teachable spirit so that God can continue to complete the good work that He has started in us! Glory to the King!