001 The Process of Renewing the Mind

We receive requests for prayer regularly; some are for the believers requesting and  some are for people or situations the requester knows. We call the latter “third-party” prayers. 

We have seen a very small percentage of people healed from third-party prayers. A  high percentage of healings have taken place when the person needing the healing  comes into agreement with the Gospel, submitting to the Cross of Christ and its effects:  “by his stripes we are healed.”

But how do we grow in acceptance and submitting to  the Cross of Christ? This is between you and the heavenly Father, God. Basically, two  things are vying for the allegiance of our hearts: the affairs and circumstances of this  life and God and his Word. Our minds are designed by the Creator, God to adapt to  their environment. We have repeatedly learned that changing our mental diet more and  more to God’s message of the Cross has furthered our adaptation to it and its intended  benefits, including good health.

The message of the Cross is the most powerful cleanser  of everything contrary to pure health. Feeding on the thoughts of God’s Gospel works  like a magnet: repelling things contrary to the wholeness of God and attracting our  well-being. Reading and reading and rereading Romans 3:21 to the end of chapter 8  will greatly assist in correcting our mental diet. In addition, memorizing a few key  verses associated with the Cross of Christ that God leads you to focus on, then bringing  those verses to mind whenever you have contrary or dark thoughts will accelerate our  adaptation.

Also, teachings on the Gospel can be very useful: but be careful not to be  feeding on supposed Gospel teachings because the purer the cleanser, the quicker the  job gets done!

Also. What I'm getting at is your mental diet adjusting to what God says  regarding the Cross of Christ will not only eradicate problems your currently recognize in your life, but all things contrary to your well-being. Of course, this is going to take  time in tandem with your efforts for new, wholesome mental patterns to develop. But  this is God's way for us to not just get healed of something we're dealing with, but for  health to be maintained and expected.