Nov. 26, 2025

Renewing Your Life in the End Times

Renewing Your Life in the End Times

Send us a text What if your life is simply following your strongest thoughts? We open with an unfiltered look at the real you—beyond the cleaned-up version—and show how a renewed mind becomes the engine of lasting change. With Scripture as our anchor, we unpack why God starts with your thinking, how your eyes and ears act as gates to your soul, and why daily truth is not a garnish but the foundation of sanity. This is a practical, heart-level roadmap for people who are tired of drift and hung...

Send us a text

What if your life is simply following your strongest thoughts? We open with an unfiltered look at the real you—beyond the cleaned-up version—and show how a renewed mind becomes the engine of lasting change. With Scripture as our anchor, we unpack why God starts with your thinking, how your eyes and ears act as gates to your soul, and why daily truth is not a garnish but the foundation of sanity. This is a practical, heart-level roadmap for people who are tired of drift and hungry for direction.

We move from mindset to embodiment, confronting the gap between insight and action. Your body is a temple, not a trash can for late nights, numbing habits, or reckless choices. You’ll hear clear inventory questions to spot mistreatment, name harmful rhythms, and build habits that protect your mission: rest, restraint, and purpose. Then we step into the places that often hurt most—family and church. We ask the hard questions about resentment, confession, and making amends, and we challenge the passive stance toward community. Faithfulness is showing up, serving, giving, praying, and helping others grow; criticism without involvement is just spiritual laziness.

Throughout, we offer four catalytic prompts to start transformation now: the thought God is highlighting, one guardrail for your mind this week, the specific area that needs healing, and the surrender that unlocks change. If you’ve felt spiritually dehydrated or emotionally stuck, this conversation gives you a focused plan to renew your mind, honor your body, repair family fractures, and reengage your church with purpose. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a reset, and leave a review with the one change you’ll make this week—we’d love to cheer you on.

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Be An Encourager...Not A Discourager!

Chapters

01:27 - Why the Mind Matters

02:48 - Marker 4

03:32 - Questions for Mindset Personal Inventory

06:14 - God's Invitation to a Renewed Mindset

07:19 - Your Body:God's Temple

08:17 - Renewed Body Inventory Questions

10:34 - Your Family:God's First Community

13:10 - Your Spiritual Family: The Church

16:01 - God Cleans the Deepest Stains

17:10 - Closing Questions

Transcript
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Let me ask you something real.

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When was the last time you slowed down long enough to actually look at your life?

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Not the cleaned up version, not the version you show your friends, but the real you, the parts you avoid, the places you hide, the thoughts you don't want to claim as your own.

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See, you can learn a lot about your spiritual condition by paying attention to your mental condition, because your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts.

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If your thinking is sick, your life will be sick.

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If your thoughts are shaped by God's truth, your life will begin to heal from the inside out.

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Yeah.

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This is not an episode of condemnation.

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This is an episode of transformation.

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Let's go, boys.

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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets.

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I'm Rick, and I'm so glad you're here.

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Now let's just start off with scripture today.

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Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

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Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

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Your mind is where the battle begins.

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God doesn't start with your behavior, He starts with your thinking.

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Because straight living cannot come out of crooked thinking.

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You can't live right if you think wrong.

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Now here are truths that every believer needs to grab a hold of today.

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One, two thoughts cannot occupy your mind at the same time.

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They can't.

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You have to decide which one stays, whether it's truth or lies, faith or fear, God's word or the world's noise, or I could say the world's nonsense.

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Two, your eyes and ears are gateways to your mind and soul.

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What you watch, what you read, what you listen to, it shapes your spiritual appetite.

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It changes your cravings.

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Proverbs 15, 14 says, a wise person is hungry for knowledge while the fool feeds on trash.

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That's the Bible's way.

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That's God's way of saying garbage in, garbage out.

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Now let's be honest.

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Most people live mentally malnourished and spiritually dehydrated.

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They're feeding on the world's trash and wondering why their life feels empty.

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The next thing is that a renewed mind takes intention.

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It's not going to happen accidentally.

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It's not going to happen casually.

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And it won't happen because you hope it will happen.

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You have to choose it.

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So throughout this episode, we're going to be talking about a personal inventory.

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It's something that you need to do on your own.

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You may need to listen to it a second time or write down, take notes this first time.

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But a spiritual inventory is a fearless examination of what shapes your mind.

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God doesn't expose you to embarrass you, He exposes you to transform you.

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So the first question is how have you guarded your mind in the past?

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Now sometimes we protect ourselves by denying our pain.

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We shove it down, we bury it, but denial never heals.

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Denial simply delays the freedom that God wants to give you.

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Ask yourself, why is it easier to deny painful thoughts than to face them?

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Be truthful to yourself when you answer that one.

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Second inventory question for renewing your mind.

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What are you filling your mind with right now?

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You're always feeding your mind something.

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If you don't choose the diet, the world is going to choose it for you.

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Are you consuming harmful media?

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Movies, music, books, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat?

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I could go on and on and on.

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Are you listening to destructive voices?

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Are you living in environments that pull you away from God?

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Are you hanging out in places that pull you away from God?

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Be honest with yourself.

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Third question: Have you failed to focus on the positive truths of Scripture?

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Now listen, most believers are spiritually weak because they're spiritually underfed.

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The word of God is not optional.

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It's your daily bread.

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Just like we eat physical food, we must have God's word every day.

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Lamentations 340.

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Instead, let us test and examine our ways.

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Let us turn back to the Lord.

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The word of God is not optional.

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It's not optional.

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It's not something that you sprinkle on your day.

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It's the foundation of your sanity.

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It's the anchor of your thoughts.

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Test me and know my anxious thoughts.

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Point out anything in me that offends you and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

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God already knows your thoughts.

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He's not shocked by your struggles.

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He's not surprised by your battles.

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He's not surprised at what you do behind closed doors.

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He reveals what's wrong so he can make it right.

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He exposes wounds so that he can heal them.

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He lifts things to the surface so they don't keep sinking you, right?

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Your mind is not going to renew itself.

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It's not.

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Renewal requires honesty and surrender, an examination of yourself, and a willingness to hear God's truth.

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Because when your mind changes, your life changes.

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All right, we've talked about renewing our mind.

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Now we're renewing our body.

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First Corinthians 6, 19 and 20 says, Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?

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You do not belong to yourself.

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Honor God with your body.

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Well, let's get real.

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Most of us are in the place that we are in life because we've treated our body like it belonged to us.

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Like it was ours to abuse.

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Like consequences don't apply.

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God cares deeply about our physical health.

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Your body is not your own.

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Your body is his temple.

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I'll say it straight.

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If your mind changes, but your behavior stays the same, nothing changes.

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Nothing changes.

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Just like for renewing your mind, I have inventory questions for renewing your body.

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And if you'll look in the chapters, if you want to go back and write these down, um, the chapters for the podcast, I put inventory questions as the chapter name so you can go directly to it.

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Or you can read the transcript because it's in there.

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So first inventory question.

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Pardon my huff there.

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It's late.

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It's late, and tomorrow is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

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Why am I just talking to you?

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I don't know.

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We don't talk enough.

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You listen to me talk, but I never really say anything personal.

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So I love you.

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Thanks for listening.

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Let's move on.

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First inventory question.

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How have you mistreated your body?

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Now mistreatment of your body includes alcohol abuse, drug use, overeating, starving yourself, sexual sin, um, ignoring rest.

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That's a big one.

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Staying up all night playing video games, and then trying to get up and work to the glory of God, and you're tired and you can't.

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That's that's mistreating your body.

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Trust me, you will grow old without sleep.

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Living recklessly.

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You know what the problem with all those are?

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Sin is fun.

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It's fun until it's not.

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Sin is destructive, but it's pleasant.

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But that's the devil's game.

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Destruction always comes with a bill and it always gets paid.

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Next inventory question: What habits have harmed your health?

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Psalm 139 reminds us that God knit you together intentionally.

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You were not designed for self-destruction.

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You were designed for a purpose.

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Self-harm is not freedom, it becomes bondage.

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It's a problem.

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So once you renew your mind and renew your body, you can start focusing on the other aspects of your life.

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We're going to talk about family now, your family.

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Joshua 24, 15 says, As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.

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Families were created to be safe places.

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For a lot of us, they're not.

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For a lot of people, that's where our fear comes from.

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The sin that started in the family gets twisted to where the family unit is a place of pain.

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So our first inventory question for that is have you mistreated anyone in your family?

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Mistreatment?

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It includes yelling, belittling, emotional neglect, ignoring needs, indifference, controlling behavior.

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Do you see yourself in any of that?

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Why is it so hard to face the hurt that we caused?

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Because guilt is heavy.

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Because humility is painful.

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And confession requires courage.

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Got another inventory question.

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Who do you hold on resentment toward?

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Resentment, especially in a family unit, is poison that never stays in one room.

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And it leaks into your relationships, into your mind, into all the decisions you make.

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And ignoring it doesn't make it go away, it just makes it stronger.

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Another inventory question is about amends, making amends.

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Whom do you owe amends?

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Now, amends are not about fixing everything immediately.

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That's not gonna happen.

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But they are about owning the damage.

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And once you take that step, you can start working towards the future.

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Another inventory question What family secret have you been denying?

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Jeremiah 6 14 says, They offer superficial treatments for my people's mortal wound.

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You can't heal what you refuse to acknowledge.

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Every family has things that nobody wants to talk about.

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But God brings healing through honesty, not hiding.

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And God has a great option for people who can't get the peace that they need from their physical family.

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It's called church.

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Hebrews 10, 25 says, and let us not neglect our meeting together, but encourage one another.

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You know what that means?

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Do you know what that means?

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It means that God, it means that the Bible, God's word, says, go to church.

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All you people that say, I don't have to go to church, I can worship on my own.

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Well, guess what?

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You're wrong.

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You're wrong, and you're lazy, and you're just looking for an excuse to not go to church.

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So you try to convince yourself and others that going fishing on Sunday morning instead of going to worship is you worshiping God.

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Well, I'm calling out your bull crap because that's not it.

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You're not worshiping God during that time.

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God created the church as a support system, it's a place to grow.

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It's a place to be sharpened, it's a place to be loved and held accountable.

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Your first inventory question about that is have you been faithful to your church?

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Now let me give you these.

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Faithfulness includes showing up, not just on Sunday morning, but every time the doors open.

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Faithfulness includes serving others.

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It includes giving.

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It includes praying.

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It includes helping others grow.

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Most of us come to church and take and take and take.

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But church is about giving.

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Giving what you have so somebody else can benefit from it.

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Being part of a fellowship.

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Being faithful to church, being faithful to your church includes all of those.

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Another inventory question: Have you been critical instead of active?

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Criticism without involvement is just spiritual laziness.

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It's easier to point out the problem than become part of the solution.

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If you want a strong church, you have to build one.

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And those of you that left a church because you're not being fed, what did you do to make it better?

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Probably nothing.

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You were just looking for an excuse to not go to church anymore.

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Nobody's fooled by your by your words.

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Nobody's fooled by your false righteousness.

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They're not.

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Isaiah 118 says, Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them white as snow.

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You know, a spiritual inventory is not about shame.

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It's about freedom.

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God wants you honest and he wants you unburdened.

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He wants you to be free from secrets and habits and patterns that have been choking your future.

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Your list needs balance, strengths and weaknesses, failures and victories.

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And it needs accountability because isolation kills growth.

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And that's another one for you.

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I go fishing on Sunday mornings, and that's how I worship.

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Isolation kills growth.

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Yeah, you might pray when you're out there.

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Lord, please let me catch the big one.

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But you're not growing.

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You can face every part of your story because God walks with you through every part of your story, and He finishes what He starts.

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So as I wrap this up this week, I've got four questions that I want you to think about and answer as you're doing this spiritual inventory.

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First one, what part of your thought life is God highlighting right now?

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The second, what's one change you can begin this week to better guard your mind?

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The third one, where do you need healing in your body, in your family, or your church relationships?

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And the fourth and final question, and probably the biggest one What will you surrender today so transformation can begin?

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The executive producer of Renewed Mindsets is Christy McCurry.

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That's all for today, but I'll be back with more unfiltered biblical truth and undeniable prophecy.

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The time to wake up is now.

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Tell someone, please, text them a link.

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Stay renewed.

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Until next week.

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Be an encouragement.

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I love you.

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See ya.

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The intro and outro music with a written mindset podcast is Are You Ready?

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Like Bloodgate.

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From the album, Are You Ready?

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Copyright 2002, Puppy Ministries Incorporated.

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Bloodgate can be found on Apple Music and iTunes.

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Music used with permission.