Renewing Your Mind 4
- Melba Viegas
- Aug 20
- 2 min read
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Why we need to renew our mind
What is the root cause of all our struggles? It all stems from these 7 places.
In the society we live in has 7 strongholds.
Every human being operated from these 7 strong points of his life.
Stronghold and imaginations comes from 7 places.
We are the result of these 7 things.
We are an intellectual mix of these 7 things.
Culture
We all are born in a culture.
It comes from environment.
Culture a negative mindset.
Some love culture more than the Kingdom of God.
Your culture does not define you.
Culture is a Negative environment
Religion
All Religions are the same at the core but are different in the periphery.
Religions rule millions of people with an iron hand.
People suffocate under religion but are not willing to admit it.
In fact people have a negative and wrong understanding of God.
Religions bring inequality and oppression.
Religion rules people because people are afraid of God.
Every religion is a set of superstitions.
Media
Today Media is controlled by the people who want to push their agenda.
The Enemy imparts the spirit of this age through the media.
We are thinking as the media taught us.
Our desire for many things is because the media has pushed it into us.
Tradition
There are many things we do in our lives.
We do things we don’t know why.
When you do something and you do not know why, then you are starting a tradition
Education
We all need education but education is not God.
Education is not the last word.
Faith determines the last word.
Modern Education had removed God from it.
Science does not determine reality but Faith determines reality
We need to be highly educated to overcome many struggles.
Home and family
We are all born in our families that had imparted all our attitudes, behavior and reactions into us.
Every one of us is what we are imparted during our early years.
There are some spiritual forces in our families which determines the way we behave and react.
Our mind pictures are formed as per our parents and teachers told us.
Abuse
There are 3 kinds of abuse that plays a vital role in our lives.
Sexual, emotional and mental.
Once abused ever abused.
Many are permanently changed in their lives based on these abuses.
We as children of God should not be a product of our past but a product of the Cross.
We are the result of these 7 things. You are an intellectual mix of these 7 things.
All your philosophies, intellectualism, Humanism, Doubts, fears, questionings, reasoning, arguments come into your mind from these 7 sources.