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• God’s love for us will never change. Yes, God is going to love us regardless of our actions. But we can’t use that as an excuse not to change (What Affections Are We Talking About?).
• We are to consistently read God’s Word so that the connection formed with Him will help us corral our thoughts. We need to prayerfully read the Scriptures, asking God to increase our knowledge and submissiveness. We can’t read a couple of verses and think God is pleased with our devotional efforts. We can’t think we are going to learn all about God and Jesus with a five-minute read. We have to consistently study God’s Word and meditate on what we have read (How Else Do We Set Our Thoughts Above?).
• There are a lot of things about God that we don’t understand. He has revealed only some to us in His Word (Renewing Our Inner Person by Being Sober).
• Our relationships with God happen in our minds and in our hearts. That means the relationships are greatly impacted by our thoughts. We have to structure our thoughts so they grow our relationships with God, not hinder them. He wants us to be thoughtful about what pleases Him. We have to put the focus on Him (How Else Do We Set Our Thoughts Above?; Renewing Our Inner Person by Being Sober).
• It may be called renewing your mind, but it is the renewing of the spirit of the mind. God is working on our hearts (Growing Our Souls; How Do We Go from Milk Baby to Steak Adult?).
• Yes, we can question God. We cannot doubt Him. We have to always give Him the glory and honor He is due (How Else Do We Set Our Thoughts Above?).
• God renews us daily, so we can’t quit trying. If we give up, Satan has won this battle. We know he won’t win the war against God. We can’t let him capture our baggage-wagons, so that we take our eyes off God (Renewing the Inward Person).
• Because we are His, we will have to be ready to fight whatever Satan throws our way (Renewing Our Inner Person by Being Sober).
• We keep our focus on God by remaining in communication with Him. How are we supposed to combat our anxiety? By prayer, supplication, and thanksgiving. We can’t do it by ourselves. We can’t do it with worldly methods. We can’t depend on a significant other or family member. We need to go to the Source (Renewing Our Inner Person from Anxiety).
• We do have to ask in His Will. Our petitions have to be genuine. They have to recognize God as our Creator and Ruler (Renewing Our Inner Person from Anxiety).
• Instead of being fearful, we should be thankful. Even when our anxiety is at its peak, we should be thankful (Renewing Our Inner Person from Anxiety).
• We have to seek God because He is Sovereign God and loves us. We are to seek God’s righteousness because then we are truly seeking God. We have to seek God completely. It should be our strongest desire to be more like Him. We should seek what God values. He values our salvation and obedience. When we seek God, we will find Him (How Do We Set Our Affections Above?).
• We are to put nothing before God. God has to rank first above “… father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters — yes, and even his own life …” (Lk. 14: 26 CSB) (Prioritizing Things Above).
• It isn’t that we just do things that Jesus calls us to do. We have to also lessen the pull this world has on us (Prioritizing Things Above).
• True disciples produce evidence of their conversion (John the Baptist’s Tough Message).
• When we know Jesus and consider what He has done for us, we value what He has done (Prioritizing Things Above).
• We are to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. Are we acknowledging that He is the Savior, the only way we could gain salvation? We are to examine our hearts and lives. Are we navigating the Sanctification Road as we should? Have we gotten our redo for godliness to the heart level? (How Else Do We Set Our Thoughts Above?).
• We are to come acknowledging our need for Him rather than kicking ourselves that we don’t meet the standard (How Else Do We Set Our Thoughts Above?).
• Because grace and faith are gifts from God, we should be humble. It is all about coming humbly and reverently. It is about setting our thoughts on Him and acknowledging we would be nothing without Him (Transformed to Humility through Grace; How Else Do We Set Our Thoughts Above?).
• Our motives must be based on serving Christ until we are called home (How Do We Set Our Love, Desire, Hope, and Joy Above?).
• When we do choose to be a living sacrifice, it has to be a daily submission (Transformed to Perfection).
• We have to control our thoughts and allow God’s call to come through (Transformed to Humility through Grace).
• Part of the think sensibly is the ability for us to evaluate ourselves and our relationship with God (Transformed to Humility through Grace).
• We have to particularly watch when we evaluate ourselves by comparing ourselves to others. We can also make up, magnify, and misrepresent their qualities (Transformed to Humility through Grace).

Father God. We want to have Your character. We want this not just to reap the benefits of doing so and miss the consequences of not doing so. We want Your character because of the attributes that You possess: loving, merciful, faithful, caring, forgiving, gracious, compassionate, and good. Amen.