Holy Thoughts Romans 12 2 Do not conform

Holy Thoughts

Romans 12: 2 – Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

2 Cor. 10: 5 – We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Phil. 4: 8 – Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.

We can set our thoughts apart by having an everincreasing awareness of them and choosing to focus them on God.

Holy Action

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ” A. W. Tozer

Romans 7: 6 – But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Matt. 22: 37 -38 – Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as

Romans 12: 1 -2 – Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed

Romans 6: 1 -2 – What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

Romans 6: 19 b – Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever -increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.

We can set our actions apart by striving every day to surrender my freedom and instead, listen to God and do his will.

Holy Worship

John 4: 24 – “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. ”

John 1: 12 -13 – Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become the children of God – children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a

2 Cor. 5: 10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

Romans 5: 8 – But God demonstrates his love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

We can set our worship apart by having a deep reverence for God based on true understanding of who he is and what he’s done for us.