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Transform: Mindset Is What You Believe & WHAT YOU BELIEVE MATTERS!

Transform: Mindset Is What You Believe & WHAT YOU BELIEVE MATTERS!

Last updated on: October 8, 2015 at 9:30 am by Christian Podcast Central

Transform: Mindset Is What You Believe & WHAT YOU BELIEVE MATTERS! 2015-10-07T12:46:37-08:00 Christian Podcast Central

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(The following was originally published at www.CareyGreen.com.)

The Daily Mindset Reset for today is all about what you believe…

Because what you believe is what makes up your mindset. This governs and radically effects the way you live in every aspect of life.

So, the key is taking control of your mindset.

Think of it like the software you’ve installed to help you make sense of yourself, the world, God, and circumstances.

But just because you’ve installed it doesn’t mean it’s true. You may believe things about those and many other topics that are untrue, which will give you a “wrong” mindset (yes, I do believe in right and wrong).

How do you know if your mindset is wrong?
How do you know where to find truth upon which to base your mindset?

Imagine the type of guy who believes that he is “God’s gift to women” (but is actually far from it). He’s boastful, a player, delusional… there’s something that we can easily see that isn’t connecting in his mind that prevents him from seeing himself accurately.

Now imagine someone who believes that he is Napoleon… not having a Napoleon Complex, but truly believes he is the French leader incarnate. If you saw someone like this, walking around in 18th century French military garb with his hand stuffed into his coat, you’d think he’s crazy!

These are a couple of examples of how what someone believes affects how they live. The player thinks that he is smooth, when in actuality all his social interactions are awkward at best. The “Napoleon-wannabe” has simply checked out of real life and has stopped connecting with reality.

As we can see, it’s vital that what we believe – what our mindsets are centered around – is true! If you base your mindset on truth, then your life will be consistent with reality. This truth needs to span across what we think about God, ourselves, other people, and the world we live in.

If our mindset is centered around something that is not true, we are doomed to a life of struggle, frustration, and ultimately misery.

You can, as I do, turn to the Bible to discover the most accurate truth. It’s powerful. Effective. It penetrates to our heart to reveal our motives, as well as establishing a proper mindset.

My daughter recently revealed what it means to keep a Biblical mindset, even when faced with plenty opportunities to go the other way. While diving off a cliff this summer, she broke one of the vertebrae in her back. This required extensive surgery with rods and pins inserted in her spine. It was incredibly tragic and painful for her. Yet, instead of wallowing in self-pity and despair, she turned to the truth written within the pages of God’s word. God’s truth helped her maintain her proper mindset.

One day, she even smiled and told us:

“I’m glad that God allowed me to break my back because I know that He is doing something good, even through this!”

It blew me away!

Talk about a proper way to look at life! She knows that God is good all the time, in all that He does… even when it doesn’t make sense or feel good at the moment. Even when it might cost me greatly, He is still working things for good!

So, here’s my question for you:

What is the struggle that you are facing right now, where you need to get your mindset right?
In response to this struggle, what are the truths that you need to discover to help you get through this time of struggle?

Keep in mind that I’m not talking about making up something, or wishful thinking that will make you feel better for a moment. I’m talking about truth.

As you discover these answers to base your mindset on, write them down and apply them to developing a proper mindset each and every day!

Join me Monday-Friday on Periscope at 8AM mountain time for more encouraging discussions!

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