Tapping Into the Mind of Christ! by Todd Bentley
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By Todd Bentley
We have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16) what and where is the mind of Christ our what does it mean to have your EYES open! An interesting verse about hearing God is found in (Psalm 16:7). The word for mind here also describes heart, and the inmost being. They are used interchangeably in three different bible translations: "I will bless the LORD who has counseled me; indeed, my mind instructs me in the night" (NAS). "I will bless the LORD Who has given me counsel; yes my heart instructs me in the night seasons" (Amplified Bible). In the Complete Jewish Bible, the Hebrew translates mind and heart as inmost being: "I bless ADONAI, my counselor; at night my inmost being instructs me." The promise is that even as you sleep there will be revelation.
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We have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16) what and where is the mind of Christ our what does it mean to have your EYES open! An interesting verse about hearing God is found in (Psalm 16:7). The word for mind here also describes heart, and the inmost being. They are used interchangeably in three different bible translations: "I will bless the LORD who has counseled me; indeed, my mind instructs me in the night" (NAS). "I will bless the LORD Who has given me counsel; yes my heart instructs me in the night seasons" (Amplified Bible). In the Complete Jewish Bible, the Hebrew translates mind and heart as inmost being: "I bless ADONAI, my counselor; at night my inmost being instructs me." The promise is that even as you sleep there will be revelation.
How many of you would like to have access to that realm, with your mind, heart and inmost being operating? After all, we are instructed to set our mind and our affections on things above, not on things on earth (Col. 3:2 NKJV; KJV).
You see, only when our affections, our emotions, our mind, and our thoughts are set on things above can the peace of God truly come; and it's a guard. Remember last week I said that we need to let the peace of God rule; it guards our hearts and minds. Then the door of the spirit realm opens up and we begin to live in the supernatural realm because there is a direct connection between peace, the mind, and having our hearts set on entering into the realm of the Spirit. Set your affections on things above (Col. 3:2).
Yet also let's not forget that the heart or the inner person needs to be clean - "God create in me a clean heart, let my thought realm and my affection emotion realm come under Your control. I want to have pure thoughts and pure desires."
A True Supernatural Lifestyle Requires Purity
Our purity of heart will always eventually come to a crucial testing point. We may want the eyes of our understanding opened, but there is a price to pay in the area of purity if we want to live a holy, true supernatural lifestyle.
Having said that, sometimes after God tests the quality of the purity in our hearts, depending on what He finds, He will allow a blindness to come over the prophets and seers, which manifests like a covering or a hood that comes over their heads. "For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, namely, the seers" (Is. 29:10). Could it be that one of the reasons for this action is because of some kind of sin? (See Isaiah 29:13-15)
I saw one time that witchcraft, mind control, and demonic assignments come against the mind of Christ in the church so that we can't receive what God has for us. The fact is sin opens the door for the enemy; but we can close that door.
At times I've seen in the spirit (in our meetings) that some of the people there actually have a hood over their head that acts like a cover, just as the above scripture verse explains. Perhaps that's you, and your prophetic seer gifting is not functioning. Therefore, before closing this teaching series we'll have a time of prayer and repentance to deal with this because I want you to receive and to see everything that God has for you.
Todd Bentley
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My prayer for you is that you would receive a "holy hunger" for intimacy with God. I believe God is going to pour out this gift according to your measure of hunger, according to your desperation. Holy hunger goes hand-in-hand with God's desire to help you stir up and awaken your passion for Him. God deserves our love more than anything in this world. He is worthy. Listen, at his very moment, Jesus Christ is preparing a place for use in our Father's house. We're going to be with Him forever (John 14:2,3). Therefore, it's time to make ourselves ready, even as a bride would get ready for her wedding day and her husband-to-be.
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What are you going to do when all the wells are stopped up? What are you going to do when all the wells run dry? If you're a well, if you're a source, you don't have to worry about it. You've got to be able to be deep enough that when the wells dry up, when there's no dew, when there's no rain, when there's no fountain, when there's famine in the land, when there's drought—you've got to learn how to be close enough to God. For those that are close enough to Him even in the time of famine, He's got a brook. In the midst of the famine, if you're close enough to God and you know how to be deep with God, He'll bring you to your own brook and He'll feed you.
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You can either be a well for God or you can drink from the fountain. God is saying, "I want to make you a well." God has many different kinds of wells, and He wants you to be a well. I had a vision of a prophetic word that was given to me just a couple of weeks ago when I was in Mission. I was so filled with the wine of the Holy Spirit, and I was talking about dignity. I said, "Would you lose your dignity for the presence of God?" Then right in the middle of my message, I made this statement, "I don't just want to put my face in the well of God. I don't just want to drink from the well of God. In fact, I am getting so hungry and desperate for Jesus, I want to fall in the well. Then when I fall in the well, I want to swim down to the bottom of the well, and that's where I want to live. I want to be like Gideon in the winepress. I want to be at the bottom of the winepress."