7 Ways to Renew Your MindSample

Seventh Step

Expect miracles.

Expecting something good to happen is a choice. It is an act of our faith. A person with a renewed mind has positive expectations in the forefront of their mind. Do not let your imagination create an image in which things will go bad for you, such as sickness worsening, relationship breaking, business failing, etc. Replace those negative imaginations with promises from God's Word.

There is a funny story of a young couple who got married and the wife kept getting this feeling that someone was in the house trying to rob them. She would ask her husband to go and check on the house. He would check the house and find no one there. This continued week after week for a long time, until he got tired of getting up and checking on the house, only to find it safe and secure. But out of respect for his wife, he would still go and check on the house. One time during a nightly routine check at the request of his wife, he was surprised to see a thief in the house. The robber told him not to make any noise and to give him all the valuables. After the husband gave him what he demanded before the thief would leave, he asked the robber not to leave so soon, but to meet his wife, since she had been expecting him for all those years.

Expectations are a breeding place for miracles. Some people wake up in the morning with a feeling that something bad is going to happen to them that day. If that happens to you, it is from the Devil. Go back to bed and wake up again until you have a positive feeling that God is good and He plans good things.

If you keep getting bad thoughts that something will happen and they do, you are releasing your faith for your own trouble. I choose to trust in God and expect His grace and mercy, not accidents, tickets, or all hell breaks loose.

Does that mean we will never have bad days? No! But we will not live expecting them.

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