Dimensions

of

Mentality Breakthrough

A  SPIRIT  LIFE  TRAINING  SUPPLEMENT

TIMOTHY JORGENSEN

How to use this e-book:

This e-book is structured so it can be functional for the reader.

The title is given as a concise phrase concerning what to believe for, so that aspect of Mentality Breakthrough will become operational in your life. (Matt8:13)

The scriptures are given as a Word-base for why we have the right to believe for this to come to pass in our life. By these precious promises we become partakers of the divine nature. (2 Pet.1:4)

The ‘What This Means’ portion goes into more depth of what this aspect of Mentality Breakthrough will look like in our lives. This is important as it activates the imagination and intellect to be able to more fully participate in your planned adventures in this life of the spirit. However, what has been meditated and written out for you is not complete, but it is a blueprint and a platform for you to take it to another level of practicality for your life.

Breakthroughs do not come by desire alone, but by taking personal responsibility to diligently apply principles in your everyday environment.

For this reason, after each section, there are practical questions to challenge you to release and experience these dimensions of Mentality Breakthrough. Do not gloss over each one and the Holy Spirit will help you to make everything personal to your unique situations. The wonderful thing is this: as your situations change from month to month, or year to year, these tools will once again become fresh as they can be applied in dynamic new ways for you. As you transform, your tests and challenges morph accordingly, and become new stepping-stones to a greater revealing of the Christ in you. The Holy Spirit will then help you see how these areas of breakthrough can be applied in a new way for that stage of your transformation. This e-book will be useful for many years to come!

LET’S BEGIN!

TABLE  OF  CONTENTS

1.       ABLE TO RECEIVE AND THINK GOD THOUGHTS

2.      NO ARGUING WITH THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT;

COOPERATION WITH HIS DIRECTION WITHOUT RESISTING

3.      MENTALITY MORE IN LINE WITH PRESENT TRUTH- NOT PRESENT FACTS

4.     THOUGHT PATTERNS BECOME MORE SCRIPTURAL;

FIGHTING NEGATIVE THOUGHTS IMMEDIATELY

5.      MIND IS USED TO AID THE MOVES OF THE SPIRIT- IMAGINATION IS ENERGIZED

6.      EXCELLENT MEMORY

7.      FAST ABILITY TO CHANGE WAYS OF THINKING AND LIFESTYLE WHEN REQUIRED

8.      DECISIONS FORMING FROM THE INSIDE-OUT, NOT THE OUTSIDE-IN;

ALWAYS HAVING A ‘CAN-DO’ ATTITUDE AND MINDSET

Able to receive and think God thoughts

“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.”

(1Cor.2:12)

What This Means:

This has two aspects, the ability to RECEIVE and THINK God’s thoughts. What an amazing capacity- to have our minds be able to think in line with the Creator of the universe! There are things He already has put into our lives, but the potential lies dormant until we can know what we have been freely given. To help with this, we have been given the Holy Spirit, and our recreated spirit. What most don’t realize, is that the spirit does not give us things from God, the spirit reveals the things we already HAVE been given.

This understanding is so important. For this reason we should not be chasing things, but THOUGHTS from the inside that reveal what things He has already made available. In this first aspect of a mentality breakthrough, we develop our capacity to receive God’s thoughts, and then meditate on them.

First, we must believe that God is continually speaking to us about what He has made available to us.

Even the fact that we have the capacity to believe this is a breakthrough in and of itself! It is paramount that we believe this process is occurring, because what we believe will position us to receive it.

Everything God has done for us and in us, in the New Creation is the foundation for this possibility. Faith in the finished work of Christ is why we can believe we will receive the thoughts of God. When we deny that we can receive the thoughts of God, we deny the veracity of God’s intent for the New Creation. He has done everything legally necessary for this reception technology to be installed in our lives. This is why we must believe God is speaking to us about what He has made available to us. Doubt, fear, insecurity and religious tradition cause static and interference in our reception ability. We must get those feelings and thoughts silenced the moment they try to arise.

Second, after we believe the above fact, the thoughts of God will be able to freely flow into our mind. We will recognize the authority, clarity and life that those God thoughts have. The peace of God will start to guard our mind, and the wrong thoughts will be pushed out.

The exercise concerning praying in tongues and interpreting is a powerful catalyst for this becoming a free flow in our lives. (see Spirit Life Training- Building a strong spirit, exercise #4) The same way the interpretation comes, God’s thoughts will come and rise up within you. Once the ability to interpret becomes more fluent within you, it becomes easier and easier to receive these thoughts as a common occurrence. Our minds become tuned to this frequency to receive and think His thoughts, similar to how a radio or a TV station is tuned. A good illustration of this is demonstrated in the story of Elijah on Mount Horeb. There were earthquakes, storms, fires, but he was able to discern that God’s frequency was not broadcasting in the midst of all those distractions. But afterwards, he was able to pick up the genuine voice of God. When we get fluent in locking onto the way the interpretation and thoughts of God come, no matter what interference is on the outside, His thoughts still have a clear channel into our mind. For this reason, we must learn to value both His thoughts, as well as the path by which they come to us. This internal sensitivity must be protected- it is the proverbial ‘goose that lays the golden egg!’

Challenge Questions:

In believing and expecting this mentality breakthrough dimension of Receiving and Thinking God thoughts, do the following exercises:

Spend some time meditating and speaking out this fact: “God is continually speaking to me about what He is making available to me.”  Alternate speaking in tongues and speaking out/meditating on this truth for at least 5 minutes. Write down your results below.              ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What fears, doubts and insecurities arose that needed to be silenced?

Are you confident you have reached a place of peace and confidence in receiving His thoughts?

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Spend some time praying in tongues, expecting and speaking the interpretation.

Develop discernment in how the interpretation comes, and in so doing, develop your prophetic receptivity- to both receive and speak His words. If you haven’t already- start a prayer journal to record what He says to and through you.

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No arguing with the Voice of the Holy Spirit, cooperation with His direction without resisting

“Today, if you will hear His Voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion…”

(Heb.3:15)

“Then the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” and Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.”

(1Sam.3:10)

What This Means:

Once the ability to receive God’s voice becomes a free flow, there is a danger that presents itself. It is as simple as the law of supply and demand. When there is small supply, there is great demand and a great value is placed upon what is available. But when there is a great supply, many times we devalue what is available because of its abundance. But God’s thoughts are exceedingly valuable, and no matter how abundant they are, their value and usefulness will never diminish. At times they are brilliant and transformational to the way we see things. At these times, these thoughts may cut across old unrenewed thought patterns- and this can be painful at times! This collision between God’s thoughts and our unrenewed mindsets presents a choice- transformation… or rebellion. God is gracious in His steadfast persistence and commitment to our transformation. But if we continually shut the thoughts of God down in a particular area a ‘hardening of heart’ can occur where our frequency of thinking no longer connects with these valuable thoughts and Voice of God.

In this dimension of Mentality Breakthrough, we have made the choice to allow the Voice and thoughts of God to transform us no matter how painful they might seem at first. We have set our frequency to let God’s thoughts and Voice to have the pre-eminence and trust His direction for our actions. We realize like young Samuel, the ability to keep the flow of the Voice of God flowing, is contingent upon our continual attitude to request and receive God’s voice. In this breakthrough, the pain no longer seems painful because of our continual addiction to His thoughts and His voice. It is truly as Jesus said- man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. The pain has in fact disappeared as we have now come to a place where our desire for transformation has actually morphed our attitude so that changes introduced by His thoughts no longer seem painful to consider.

Challenge Questions:

In believing and expecting this mentality breakthrough dimension of not arguing with the Voice of the Holy Spirit, do the following exercises:

First- take the time to take a COMPLETE inventory of the different areas of your life. We are looking to see if we are open to hear the voice of God in each of these areas.

How? This will take some time (maybe a week or more) but make a conscious choice to stop and ask Him- “What are you saying regarding this area of my life?” and record the answer. Even if it seems like you are inviting God to micro-manage every moment of your day, stretch yourself to believe that He has a thought about it. (Ps.139:17-18) Write those areas down below, and a note about what He says.

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(you may use a prayer journal etc if/when you go beyond this list)

Again did you note any apprehensions, fears, doubts and/or insecurities rose up when you chose to focus on listening to Him in a particular area? Write those areas down below or on another sheet of paper.

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These are the areas that you need to concentrate on more- not just for transformation in those areas, but for an overall habit of opening of the channels of communication where His Voice can break into any arena of your life and bring light. What actionable steps is He giving you?

Write them down- Follow through- and don’t let your heart get hard.

Mentality more in line with present truth

(not present facts)

“…while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

(2Cor.4:18)

“…and not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead…He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.”

(Rom.4:19-21)

What This Means:

A ‘mentality’ is a prevailing system of thoughts that causes you to process new information in line with that thought system. Fresh information is like a leaf dropped onto a surface of a swiftly moving river. That fact does not have any other option but to go with the flow, and conform to the direction the mentality dictates.

In this breakthrough, our mentality is calibrated to eternal New Testament redemption truth. We understand clearly that facts are thrown at us every day, but our mentality already filters them in light of God’s truth in Christ. This aspect of mentality breakthrough requires a unique mental ‘disconnect’. You can see the facts with your physical eye, and understand their implications. And yet, your mind is anchored on a spiritual reality found in the Word of God. This spiritual reality anchoring is what you respond to rather than the physical facts. This immediately causes you to be a leader, rather than a follower because your actions are not dictated by physical circumstances but by invisible principles. When sickness is seen, you do not react to its effects, but you act according to your stronger revelation of the reality of your healing. When poverty is experienced, you do not fear its power over your circumstances, but you see your hands and mind as extensions of the reality of creating prosperous actions through the potential of your spirit to solve problems. When threats come, the reality of your protection puts a confident peace in your mind and a smile on your face. When weakness seem to drain you, you instantly remember the reality of the strength of God available in you, and that reservoir refreshes you once again.

No matter the issue, there is a reality that causes you not to waver in unbelief, but your faith is strong enough to cause you to rise up and give glory to God- because you are FULLY CONVINCED that God will confirm that reality in your life. At first, it might have been tough to make this choice between the present fact, and the eternal truth, but through consistent choices your reaction to truth becomes more and more instinctive.

Challenge Questions:

In believing and expecting this mentality breakthrough dimension of aligning your mentality with present truth, do the following exercises:

A very simple exercise is to challenge yourself each time you encounter a situation with the question “What does the Word of God say about this type of situation?” Specifically, note how that situation relates to the New Creation (which you are in Christ) and what benefits the New Testament records are available to the believer. Record some of your experiences when you took the time to do this. What was surprising to you? What did you realize? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Take note of what causes a reaction from you, or in you. Dig a bit deeper and discover what is the root of that reaction. Is there any self-interest involved? If so, ask yourself how you can redirect that energy to what the Word of God says about that situation. Write an experience or two down below.

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Is there a situation that you are facing that has not yet aligned itself with the Word of God? How are your emotions and actions aligning internally with that Word over the long term? How can you apply Romans 4:19-21 to those emotions and actions?

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Thought patterns become more scriptural; Fighting negative thoughts immediately

“As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said unto the ruler of the synagogue, “Be not afraid, Only believe.”

(Mark 5:36)

“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…”

(2Cor.10:5)

What This Means:

We often think of a renewed mind as a mind governed by the peace of God. This is true- but we must remember that peace does not equal passivity! A renewed mind is also a mind ready to fight. Sometimes what we call peace is instead fear disguised as mental paralysis! Peace is a state where the mind is in order, full of life and creativity. In this aspect of a mentality breakthrough, one’s mind knows how to keep the mind in that position of order, creativity and life.

In the dramatic story of Mark 5 concerning Jarius and his family, Jarius’ struggle was a mental one. Mentally he resisted coming to Jesus until the last minute. He was the ruler of the synagogue and could not be seen asking Jesus for help. But desperation in the heart will often override fear and pride in order to get a solution. When Jarius asked, Jesus was willing to help and heal his daughter. But along the way, the consequences of his fear and pride seemingly caught up with him as his friends told him that his daughter had died. Jesus then saw that the battle of the mind arise once more in Jarius, and Jarius started to waver in his confidence. But the same struggles that Jarius had, Jesus had none of. He saw His choice as simple. Be afraid or believe. He immediately chose to only believe, and told Jarius to do the same. Jesus went to Jarius’ home and raised the girl up- without wavering one time in His belief.

Not everyone realizes the necessity of fighting mental negativity immediately. They may realize that negativity is bad, but not everyone develops the ability to immediately fight, win, and keep the victory of a confident focused mind. This breakthrough is not realizing the difference between what is positive and negative, but in obtaining the response-ability to fight the negative to obtain or retain the positive. Miracles depend upon it!

Challenge Questions:

In believing and expecting this mentality breakthrough dimension of bringing your thoughts to a more scriptural alignment and with the ability to fight negative thoughts immediately, do the following exercises:

Recognize the times where you feel at peace, or at a mental place of relaxation. Do you still have a sense of creativity, life and positivity? Or is there an underlying nervousness about decisions you need to make, the future, the stress of your current situations? Find some scriptures that address those thoughts, and get your mentality filled with faith once more. Write the thoughts and the verses down below.  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

(1 Pet.1:13 NASB) It is time to train your mind to be ready to fight. You can use the situations above to train yourself each time the negative thoughts or feelings pop up, or any other random situation that may occur which arouses negative thoughts or feelings. There may be battles you are choosing to ignore rather than address. In fact there almost ALWAYS is. Look for FIVE of them and treat those negative situations as a mental battle. Pick a mental fight if you have to! Bring those thoughts into captivity to thoughts of faith, until you have life and peace within and you can act in confidence on the outside proactively. Write down at least five battles below. Our goal is to be ready to fight negativity anytime and anywhere!

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Mind is used to aid the moves of the spirit-imagination is energized!

“Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.”

(Col.3:2)

“Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

(Gen.15:5)

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.”

(1Cor.2:9-10)

What This Means:

Our mind has been given to us- not to be a prison, but to be a womb that will develop the impressions given to us by the Spirit of God to our spirit. Natural pregnancy is an amazing and yet fragile time. The woman’s body goes through changes that will both accommodate and facilitate a healthy child. It is at this time the woman will regularly see an obstetrician in order to make sure that the woman and the environment that she is providing will keep the child healthy. She will make sure to take prenatal vitamins, as well as shun alcohol and other harmful drugs. In fact, it is very common to look upon the labels of many foods and activities and see special warnings or considerations for pregnant women. It is a very real danger that the new life within can be damaged or lost because of wrong emotions, activities or substances ingested by the host.

The Word of God is a seed- a powerful seed. But Jesus told the parable of the sower (Matt 13, Mark 4, Luke 8) to remind us that it doesn’t matter how much potential the seed has, it still ONLY grows in the right environments. It can be aborted, it can wither, and its growth can be stunted- a sad reality. For the move of the Spirit to happen, it must be powered and guided by the framework of the Word. That framework was originally designed and developed from a higher realm in heaven. It is only as we look up, beyond the way the world does and thinks on this plane, do we see a higher order and miraculous potential. It only as we look up, do we and the Word grow up. Our imagination is captivated by this Word, we commit ourselves to its fulfillment, and we don’t lose focus until we see it built and multiplied into our circumstances. But without the imagination beyond the ‘earth’, we will not see the value of planting something into the earth to change it! Our imagination has to be energized and connected with how Heaven sees that Word can come to pass. 1 Cor 9:10 says that we ‘plow in hope.’ With the Word, what exactly gets plowed? Our mind gets plowed. Grooves are created so that our imagination more effectively lines up with that Word.

Sometimes we need help. Sometimes the Word is so incredible that we cannot ‘see it’ like we need to. This was Abraham’s situation. And in this situation God took something that was familiar and redefined it so Abraham’s imagination could not help but be captivated by it. “Look at the stars… look at the sand… so shall your descendants be.” And that imagination birthed a faith that changed the world. We don’t set our mind on things on the earth, but when our imagination starts being activated- it doesn’t matter WHAT we look at on earth- we can’t help but see God bringing His Word to pass!

God will reveal these Word pictures to us, for us, by His Spirit. It is His Spirit that knows how we need to see things- and He will set our mind free from the confines of doubt and small mindedness. Get ready- what He will reveal to you will require your imagination to be ready to run with it! He will help you!

Challenge Questions:

In believing and expecting this mentality breakthrough dimension of activating your mind to the Spirit, and energizing your imagination, do the following exercise:

What scriptural promises are you believing for? Once you are clear in what the Word says you are promised, start using your imagination along those lines. For example- if you are believing for a job (Eph. 4:28, 2 Thess.3:9-11) and it starts to rain, you immediately start thinking that just as God provides rain that nourishes the seeds in the earth, so He will provide a job that awakens the skills you possess to nourish your surroundings. Anything you see becomes a parable or ‘object lesson’ of how that promise can be fulfilled as you move in the direction of confidently obtaining that job. It may seem a bit silly, flakey or uncomfortable to cultivate your imagination along these lines, but if you are open for it, God can use all creation to speak to you. (For more information about training the imagination see the imagination chapter in ‘Spirit Life Training’) Write some of these energized imaginations down below.

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Excellent memory

“My son, keep your father’s command… Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck. When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; and when you awake, they will speak with you.”

(Prov.6:20-22)

“…and these words which I command you today shall be in your heart…”

(Deut.6:6)

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”

(John 14:26)

What This Means:

In our day and age, there are few mentality breakthroughs we need more than this one.

Information is ramping up speed and being pushed at us like never before. It is changing so rapidly and our minds are steadily being trained to consume and discard information on a daily basis. We must know how truth, information and belief work together. Truth is the invisible bedrock of reality rooted in the spirit. Belief is how we react and build our lives around this truth. Information however, is not always based on truth. It is often a mixture of lies, and emotional perspectives- and therefore shifts very fast from day to day. It can be used, but only through the filter and directives of truth. When our belief keeps shifting from building on information, and then changing to build on truth, and then back again, our minds become very unstable, and spiritual impact and progression is stifled. How do we become mentally conformed to this spiritual instability? Increasing memory deficiency. When the memory loses its ability to firmly hold onto truth- our lives begin to fade into insignificance.

Truth is eternal. Our memory of truth has to match that frequency as much as possible. When God speaks, we must understand it is not for a few seconds of momentary information, but it is based on how His truth will impact eternity. Two hundred years ago is just as clear to Him as the moment you are reading this. He doesn’t forget truth. When He speaks it, He has an unrelenting demand that we engrave it upon our memories like He does on His. What He told you twenty years ago, He wants you to remember it like it was yesterday. Everyday.

This is sobering. There are no other words that can demand this kind of commitment.

If we do not have this kind of breakthrough in memory capacity, this is what will happen: We will rarely- if ever- differentiate His Voice and His Word from the random information that is increasingly flooding our lives. If we do happen to recognize His Voice and that it is His Word, it would almost be better if we hadn’t heard it at all, because it will have no lasting benefit to us. This will ultimately lead to a false reputation for the true impact that the Word and Voice of God will have over a lifetime (and beyond).

To put it another way, building quality memories like building a house, and to let those memories drift away (Heb.2:1) is like finishing the roof, and deciding that the foundation or the walls are no longer necessary or important. When the memory becomes weak, the very integrity of our being begins to unravel! There is a direct correlation between a blessed memory and a blessed life- along with a weak memory and a cursed life. (James 1:23-25)

Conversely, if we possess this excellent memory aspect of a mentality breakthrough, the good news is this: all the promises of being unshakable and steadily victorious will be realized in our life. Truth is destined to be uncovered, and stand when all else fades. Our excellent memory forged into this Truth will cause us to endure and be victorious with it. At the same time, our memory will give us the hook-up for a continual life stream from the Holy Spirit by which He can refresh His Words to us at the moment we need it. Remember- His Words are Spirit and Life. Every time they are re-minded to us, the eternal creative power of God energizes and activates our spirits. As we have learned in Spirit Life Training, for our spirit to be released, we need our mind to be aligned to the nature of New Creation within- which is always in line with the Truth. A strong memory will enable a consistently operational spirit. We constantly are reminded of who we really ARE and what we can DO- along with Who He IS, has DONE and WILL DO also!

Truly, this is an aspect of mentality breakthrough that must take highest priority.

It has always been those individuals who have kept their memory sharp in the Words and works of God that have made the biggest impact in their generation and beyond.

Returning to the analogy of the seed and the Word of God- everyone likes the fruit of the Word and power of God in a situation or individual’s life. But very few value the seed within the fruit- yet we all know that without the seed, there will never be any continuation of the fruit. The MEMORY of the Word of God, or process of God, is the actual seed! Once He speaks, or reveals something, it is IMMEDIATELY in the realm of the memory. This concept is very relevant to a mentality breakthrough because every memory of the Word and works of God is a seed that, when meditated on and refreshed in the soil of our minds, will result in life breaking forth and producing a continuation of fruit, and replicated results. This is why “…He made His wonderful works to be remembered.”(Ps 111:4a) If every wonderful work was simply a random one-time occurrence, there would be no reason to remember them. But this verse says that EVEN BEFORE He did the work, He did it with the very intention that it would be remembered and those memories would result in further wonderful works.

Whenever we speak of the Word of God, we are not speaking of something future, but of something that is to be remembered. Even a future prophetic word is released into the seed form of a memory that requires activation by an excellent memory! While in Babylon with the rest of Israel, Daniel read the recorded prophecy by Jeremiah that Israel was to be released after seventy years of captivity. Daniel chose to activate this prophetic word through determined remembrance! (Dan.9:2-3) Paul told his son in the faith Timothy that it wasn’t enough that prophecies had been spoken over him… he was given a solemn charge to recall and use them as forcefully as a soldier would in the midst of intense warfare. Without this attitude and action- Paul warned him that his life could suffer shipwreck similar to others.

It is staggering to consider that our memory holds the ignition key to the manifestation of the intended Will of God. God’s highest and best will NOT happen, unless we honor His Word with the excellence of our memory toward it. Having such an attitude of honor is actually the critical ingredient to a memory of excellence that sees God’s Will happen. Memories are branded within us when there is an environment of honor. All of our senses are at a heightened state, and memories are encoded most clearly at that point. So, to make this shift to an excellent memory, requires a complete realignment in how we utilize our abilities to honor God’s Works, process, and Word spoken to us in the present and past. If we can make this honor realignment, the shift to an excellent memory will not be difficult for us.

Challenge Questions:

In believing and expecting this mentality breakthrough dimension of an excellent memory, do the following exercises:

Test your memory. Can you name three things that you know God has told you in the past? (any situation)

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To strengthen the ability to encode the proper memories- we must employ our ability to honor the acts and Word of God. What physical act(s) can you do to demonstrate honor at the moment you receive a Word or act of God? (This type of physical response is demonstrated in Deut.6:6-9) Note how your memory retention sharpens afterwards- and write some of your experiences below.

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Fast ability to change ways of thinking

and lifestyle when required.

“Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”

(Isa. 43:18-19a)

What This Means:

This aspect of a mentality breakthrough seems contradictory to the one before it, but in actuality it is very closely related.

To many people, in order to be progressive, we must let go of the past, and press forward to what is ahead. ‘You can’t move into the future by staring at the rear-view window.’ These type of statements seem to true, and there is an element of truth to them. The apostle Paul did say “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philip.3:13-14) This is a fascinating statement coming from the apostle who wrote more than anyone else about our position in Christ- being complete in Him, being seated with Him in heavenly places… But yet, there was something in Paul that knew that there was much more of Christ in and through Paul to be revealed, and that process of revealing and unveiling was what he was continually pressing towards.

It is important to take this verse in light of everything else Paul wrote concerning our position in Him. The picture we are to get from this is not a plane taking off from one destination, and traveling toward another, but it is meant to be the picture of a building being constructed- where the height of the building depends on the strength of the foundation. We do not leave the foundation of being a new creation in Christ, we build according to it! Or in terms of living things, the illustration of a tree strengthening and drawing nutrients from the roots gives the tree the ability to keep growing and bear more and more fruit. MORE of its true nature is revealed as the roots continue to grow, and the branches press upwards. The seed never seems impressive, and in order to manifest its fruitful destiny- it must discard the seed form behind. As with the human body, for every cell there is a DNA seed that is the blueprint for how that cell is to grow and multiply. We cannot prize the fact of our fascination with the DNA seed’s structure that we never allow it to be activated and build that blueprint’s reality. This obviously seems silly, because the human body automatically puts it into action. But we unfortunately get caught up with the blueprint of traditions, and never make the conscious choice to reach forward to fulfilling the destiny that God is intending to reveal.

In the last section I talked about how each miracle was meant to be remembered in order to continue to propagate future miracles. This is true, but not always in the sense of cloning that exact situation in the future. The miracle is the fruit, but there is always a seed within the fruit. When Moses performed all the miracles in Egypt, it was not for the purpose of replicating them in the promised land. It was for the purpose of impregnating the people with a seed of faith based on the Word that God would deliver them and bring them into a promised land. There was always a Word of God seed at the core of every miracle. It was the people’s responsibility to reverse-engineer each miracle, and miracle testimony to get back to the catalyst of that miracle to begin with. This always works both ways- you can start with the seed of the Word and get a miracle, or you will need to reverse-engineer the miracle to get back to the Word. “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” (Ps.103:7) God is always looking for a relationship. A relationship is built on experiences, but the experiences are always intended to never be a simple moment of history, but a reflection of character for future acts. The acts are meant to be a portal into the ways of thinking and acting. We all know this instinctively, but somehow our history with God never reflects this knowledge cross-over.

A great example in Israel’s history was when Israel was complaining in the wilderness and poisonous snakes started biting and killing the people. (Num.21:4-9) The people cried out to God for help and Moses was instructed to make and put up a bronze serpent on a pole, and whoever looked at the serpent would be healed and live. Amazing! What would you have done with that statue on a pole afterwards- when everyone was healed from the serpent’s venom? Throw it away? Of course not, and neither did they. This statue was kept as a holy miraculous relic- so much so that it actually became an object of worship INSTEAD of the God who used it to heal His people. It wasn’t until almost 700 years later that the reformer king Hezekiah destroyed it in order to break the idolatrous hold it came to have over the people. (2 King 18:1-4) This kind of thing still occurs today. People venerate places, relics, and even testimonies and miss the very life and lesson that those events were meant to imprint upon our minds. Yes, we are thankful for the memories- they are important- but they are meant to lead us to greater fulfillment.

God does not go backwards. Man may be regressive at times, but God is always progressive. We are told to grow to greater levels of faith, and glory. Jesus Himself was frustrated when His own disciples could not pull out the life lessons from the major miracles He performed even a little while ago. (Matt.16:5-12) God is building line upon line, by Word and deed, and our memories must be used in order to be progressive in our faith, understanding the purpose God is intending to fulfill, based on what He has already done! God always thinks and does with the future in mind. He sees it clearly and never makes a mistake because of how clearly He sees the future.

Even in our understanding of the Word, we must be progressive. Let me explain- We may have read a passage of scripture many times over and over- but know this: God always reveals to us what we need to know for that particular time. What He uses that scripture to reveal at one time, may not be what He reveals the next time. It will not contradict what we have learned before, but there are new ways that this scripture can be applied based on what He is revealing about our current situation. We don’t forget what He taught us before, but the Holy Spirit can then say, ‘You have understood and obeyed the previous lesson, now I will teach you a new depth of what this truth can do in your life now.’ What an amazing God we have, and how many amazing levels of truth and life that the scripture contains!

It is also important to know that there are things that we ‘think’ God has taught us, but really, we just picked up a tradition that does not actually line up with scripture. This is another very important reason that we must be open to changing our ways of thinking when required. Some of these traditions have wrapped around our mind so pervasively, that we will fight to keep them at all cost it would seem. Even if it means fighting God Himself. This must not be. For this reason, we are continually open to being challenged and tested to make sure that we are in the truth. (2 Cor.13:5-8) Again, God is always faithful to reveal what we need to keep moving forward on the path of destiny- to be predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son.

Challenge Questions:

In believing and expecting this mentality breakthrough dimension of developing the ability to change your ways of thinking quickly, do the following exercises:

Try to remember the last time you had your beliefs (traditions) challenged, and henceforth changed. Think back on the process by how it happened. What was your attitude toward the Word in that process? That is the attitude you want to cultivate. Write your experience(s) and attitude below here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Start developing the ability to think progressively regarding miracles. Think back on some of the miracles that God has done in your life. Reverse-engineer those events back to find out the Word that those miracles were based on. Next, start asking the Holy Spirit what is the bigger lesson He is seeking to bring into your life because of that particular Word and miracle? Write some of those events, the Word, and the larger lessons below. This will start the framework to build a progressive mentality.

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Decisions forming from the inside out,

not the outside in.

Always having a ‘CAN-DO’ attitude and mindset!

“…and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.”

(2Chron.26:5b)

What This Means:

To have a mentality breakthrough, having a positive attitude is a given. Even any motivational speaker could tell you this basic fact. Romans 12 :2 says  “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” This key mentality breakthrough verse shows the direction that transformation comes from. It comes from the inside-out. The world tries to conform us from the outside in, but God-given transformation ONLY comes from the opposite direction. True, we can have temporary godly change from outside influences, but that will never last unless there is a spark within that ignites that truth to permanently change our mindset. The life of God within must be released to consume our thinking along those lines of truth. 3rd John vs 2 states that we prosper and come into health as our soul prospers. Powerful outward transformation comes from the inside-out.

How do you know when this transformation is occurring? It is rooted and revealed in our decision-making process. When we are still being conformed, we react to outward stimuli only. When we are transformed by the renewing of our mind our first considerations come from what we sense and know as life-giving truth on the inside. There is a River of Living Water that flows within us, and it is more knowledgeable and dominant than the forces outside us. That River of the Spirit of Christ is never caught off guard, and always has a direction it is headed in. The outside has to conform to its direction, not the other way around. The inside always dominates. THE INSIDE ALWAYS DOMINATES. Now you can see how we have power to transform our outer circumstances.

In the second half of 2 Chronicles 26:5 the scripture gives us this key to King Uzziah’s success. “…as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.” There is a hidden warning as well- hinging on the words ‘as long as’, giving us the solemn knowledge that the key to success is not in God’s hand, but in our seeking ability. In the Old Testament, this required the effort of holding off decisions until the prophets were consulted, the priest’s rules and regulations were followed- it was quite a process. There was great potential for impatience and frustration. But it was the drive to communicate- the drive to reach for a proper relationship with God, that ultimately transformed his life and decisions to release the dominion and blessing of God over the region… for a while. Unfortunately he allowed his outward success to blind him to the process by which the prosperity came, and in a reversal of 3rd John vs2 he no longer prospered nor was in health.  In the New Covenant we have a new and better way to use this key. We have the indwelling Spirit and have the understanding that the anointing within teaches us concerning all things. Our seeking process is more expedient and personal. This presents another problem that we need to deal with. Because the process is so simple, it can have the tendency to become familiar, and potentially forgotten. For this reason, we must be even more careful of the responsibility given to us.

Check inside- and expect Him to communicate with you.

Expect Him to bring His Word to your remembrance.

Expect Him to respond to your questions and check every aspect of your attitude and ways of thinking.

It is important that we approach this process with the understanding that in God’s mind and heart- that this is never meant to limit us, but to aim and propel us to reach our highest potential. It is much more than positive thinking, it has a determination that you can do whatever is necessary for that potential to be fulfilled. It is similar to the last aspect of a spiritual breakthrough, but the difference is that spiritual buoyancy is an undefinable spiritual source of propulsion to rise up in any circumstance, and a ‘Can-Do’ mentality finds a way to channel this spiritual propulsion into definable thought processes and creative actions. You have both the energy and the understanding that you will have all the wisdom you need to fulfill God’s Word, and transform your circumstances.

Challenge Questions:

In believing and expecting this mentality breakthrough dimension of developing a can-do attitude, and the ability to form decisions from the inside-out, do the following exercise:

This exercise will follow up on the second chapter’s exercises. When you ask God about the various areas of your life, see what actionable Word-based steps He gives you. Check your attitude when He gives you those steps. (Num.13:27-33) Guard against both discouragement as well as familiarity. Always keep that sense of awe about hearing God’s voice and thoughts! Continue to meditate on those actionable steps, and watch how He expands on His plans for you. Write a few down below.

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