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Old Ghost

Sometimes you sit in a sermon and it makes life appear so easy, just turn your face to Jesus. And it really is that easy almost.

This weekend marks 6 years of going to church and in those 6 years Leisha and I have pushed so hard for personal transformation as individuals, as a couple, as a family. We have experienced so much, I know a little bit about that life style now, metanoia. I just don’t think you get to where you need to be without facing your Old Ghost. In fact Leisha is in the throws of discovering and facing some Old Ghost who have hidden themselves so well she only has an inkling they are really there…  Sometimes it’s so painful for her and you have to know surely painful for me to watch from a near, from a far.  I am trying to be as good to her through this as she has been to me, its difficult, she set the bar high.

I am convinced it takes both facings, Jesus and Old Ghost, one lifts up, takes you to a place you should be, the other takes you down to a place you need to go.  If you don’t go there you probably won’t be able to hear or see where Jesus was and especially what he wants to talk about … about those Old Ghost.

Old Ghost
Haunt these halls and cross my lonely thoughts
Show up in the funny way I talk
Speak to me in records that I bought
Screamin at me for all the things I lost

Old Ghost
Lingerin by my old stompin grounds
They built them all and tore the old house down
I can’t go back and I can’t go around
The devils that live on that side of town

I believe in things that I can’t see
In my blood and in my bones
These old Ghost they all belong to me
They hurt me and they heal me
They hide and they reveal me
Remind me what I will be when I’m gone

Old Ghost
Sometimes in the Dark they hold me close
Whisper things I wish I didn’t know
About my self and every heart I’ve

I believe in things I can’t see
In my blood and in my bones
These old Ghost they all belong to me
They hurt me and they heal me
They hide and they reveal me
Remind me what I will be when I’m gone

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This is a sermon by our Senior Pastor at my church Valley Creek in Flower Mound Texas.

There is a renewing of the mind

There is a “Renewing of the Mind” such that you are controlling thoughts, memorizing bible verses’, attempting to replace thoughts with those verses’ or other good things, hoping they will sink in and finally be one with you… They get you a little further along the way…. Be-careful there is “Good Branch’s” on the same tree as the “Evil Branches”….

There is another kind of “Renewing of the Mind” that comes from experiencing God, hearing things that may not be words o…r sentences but might be those too. This occurs in the 3D media room of your mind. This is what you are looking for.

I have memorized very few Bible Verses but yet I have zero doubt my “Mind has been Renewed”.

The man I was in Leisha’s and my video is gone. He snuck out on me, I didn’t hear the door close behind him. He melted away to where I have no idea…

There is a place

There is a place where the mind is renewed. There is a journey that allows this to happen. You might need to control some of your thoughts along the way but…. thinking that you controlling your thoughts is the way and only way is not the way….

You will have to pursue changing the way you see things, view things, that is true repentance and it is a necessary part of the recipe.

Focusing on a Good and Loving Father is another part of the recipe, as is prayer, quieting you…yourself, chewing on scriptural concepts, especially on surrendering oneself and forgiveness. Worship of several kinds is one of the main ingredients. You might even have to ask for forgiveness from some others. Becoming generous is another ingredient, throw in lots of that…

Relationships, oh my, relationships with other pilgrims or seekers…. yeah that is like salt in the ingredient or spices. Can’t have a recipe without those things.

There is some experiences involved, they are mile markers along the road and good ones too because they tell you, you are in fact on the right road. Without experiences that come from outside of you, the road you are on is probably the one where its only about you doing everything. It’s the very wrong road.

When the right kind of experiences happen you might not be able to explain exactly how or what happened but….you will be in a different place forever more and you won’t feel a need to defend the process and might even feel inspired, maybe very inspired to point others in the paths you just encountered.

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The mind either wars against the King and his Kingdom or it is renewed… Being metaphorfied (metamorphosis as in a butterfly), being renewed.
The Renewed Mind is the same basic word that is used for the transforming of Jesus on the mountain in the transfiguration….
Jesus’s clothes radiated, his person is  radiating the presence of God.

I believe that is  the prophetic picture of what the renewed mind looks like, it actually radiates the reality of another world.

The renewed mind is to work in conjunction with heavenly realities so that become manifest on earth

Bill Johnson – The Renewed Mind