Renewing your mind

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Rom. 12:2 NIV)

How to control your thoughts

Personalizing and confessing God’s Word in prayer is a powerful way to control your thoughts and “renew your mind”. The following is part of what I confess daily. All these statements are taken from God’s promises in the Bible. I have personalized them and say them by faith. At the end of the list are the verses they come from.

My daily positive confession

• "I am God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works which He has prepared in advance for me to do."

• "Greater things I will do because Jesus has gone to the Father."

• “All that I am and all that I do is from Him.”

• “I stand with firm confidence on His promises!”

• "I can do all things through Christ Jesus which strengthens me!”

• “My blessings are a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over and poured into my lap.”

• “Through faith, I believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, and I know Biblically that this is what pleases Him. Amen.”

(Eph. 2:10; John 14:12; Phil. 4:19; 2 Cor. 2:20: Phil. 4:13; Luke 6:38; Heb. 11:6)