Romans 12:2 ‘And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.’
DAILY READING Galatians 4:21-31; Lamentations 3-4; Psalm 146
Dr. Lilian B. Yeomans was a well-known surgeon in the late 19th century who practiced in one of New York City’s largest hospitals. Due to her heavy work schedule at the hospital, she began to take small amounts of dope to steady her nerves and to help her sleep when she felt exhausted from overwork. Eventually she became so dependent on drugs— especially morphine—that she became an addict. She daily took 50 times the dose of morphine normally prescribed for an adult male.
Although Dr. Yeomans desperately tried to stop her addiction, she steadily grew worse. If she managed to go twenty-four hours without the drugs, she would go into withdrawal where she had heart palpitations, mental delusions and an inability to even stand. She made at least 57 attempts to break free of her addiction, but to no avail. She sought medical help and attempted medical cures but none of these made any difference. Dr. Yeomans came to the point where she was bedridden. Her doctors would not take away the drugs for fear that she would just die.
She had been born again and backslid, but now at death’s door, she began to seek God earnestly and began to read the Bible. As God began to speak to her through the pages of the Bible, her mind began to be renewed. Soon she came to the understanding that the Word of God had power to heal her. And indeed through God’s Word, she got healed of the terrible drug habit that had almost claimed her life. Her craving for drugs suddenly disappeared and her health returned. She never again took those drugs. Dr. Yeomans spent the rest of her life spreading the Gospel and teaching and writing about the transforming power of God’s Word.
There is indeed power in God’s Word to break any addiction and deliver from every affliction. But for that to happen our minds must be renewed. The truth is that our life is going to go in the direction of our most prominent and dominant thoughts. The Scriptures tell us “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”
Whatever we want to experience we must first see it in God’s Word and align our thoughts to it, before it can become our reality. When you begin to think divine healing, you will experience divine healing. When you begin to think prosperity , you will experience prosperity.
To experience the redemptive benefits of the new life in Christ, our minds must be renewed and our thinking needs to change. All things indeed are possible, but our minds need to be upgraded to be able to grasp them. It is only as far as your eyes can see that will be given to you. We can’t keep thinking the old way and have the new and mighty things God has in store for us.
If we want to experience God’s yoke-breaking power, then we must start filling our hearts with God’s Word. God has given us His Word and the power to break every stronghold and live victorious lives.
2 Corinthians 3:18 says ‘But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord’
There is transformational power in God’s Word. Renewing our minds through God’s Word will revolutionize our lives and destroy every yoke of addiction and affliction. Indeed the more we look into the Word, the more our lives will keep going from glory to greater levels of glory.
PRAYER: Lord, by the power from Your Word let there be a forceful turnaround in my life. Let every affliction be destroyed. Today, let Your Word bring about a definite, positive change of story in my life in Jesus Name.
QUOTE
It is only when you can see God in the light of who He truly is that you can begin to walk in the overflow of His blessings. – WORDBITE 222.