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Try harder. Don’t do that. Act better. These are the solutions often prescribed when confronted by our shortcomings. Yet this “prescription” often ends in defeat and leaves us feeling more helpless than when we started. We are in a spiritual war where our enemy is continually fighting to lead us into thinking his thoughts about God, ourselves, and the world around us. For this reason, we cannot just focus on our actions and be passive when it comes to our thought life.

Instead, we must intentionally work toward renewing our minds by uprooting any beliefs that are rooted in lies and replacing them with God’s truth. When we do this, we’ll step into freedom and find our actions lining up with God’s best for our lives.

Renew your mind by uprooting any lies and replacing them with God’s truth.

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Welcome

God wasn’t content to just save you for heaven. He wants to put heaven inside you, turning you into a son or daughter who reveals heaven’s reality in this world. This is the process or journey of sanctification. There’s nothing we can do to make ourselves “more saved.” But there is a process we can engage that will position us to experience more of God’s saving power today.

01. Inside Out

Our circumstances and beliefs lead to our thoughts, which create our emotions, which determine our actions. We don’t always have control over our circumstances, but we have been given charge of our thoughts, emotions, actions, and beliefs. Understanding how these elements of being work together will give you the power to isolate wrong beliefs that are leading to painful or destructive thoughts, emotions, and actions.

02. Lead Your Emotions

Scripture says we are transformed by renewing our minds. In other words, changing the way we think is the key to living the transformed life we are called to live in Christ. Oftentimes, we develop destructive beliefs and strongholds over time that profoundly affect how we process information. But there is a simple yet profound way to tear down these strongholds and replace them with the truths found in Scripture.

03. Renewing Your Mind

So many of us struggle with the lie that our value comes from what we do, the money we make, or the things we own. By believing this lie, we are subjecting ourselves to a form of evaluation that is not of God. We see from Scripture that the value of the whole world is not as great as a single life. Even more than this, God declares that He considers our life—every individual life, not all of us together—as more valuable than His own.

04. Lie: What I Do Determines My Value

Not every fear is bad, but living in fear is. Everything that God created you for is on the other side of fear. Fear will tell you all the things you can’t do, and people will tend to agree about what you can’t do, but God won’t. When we listen to God’s promises more than we listen to our fears, it gives us courage to become all God created us to be.

05. Lie: I Have to Live in Fear and Anxiety

Let’s face it, human love isn’t perfect. It’s easy to feel like we need to perform a certain way to earn love, even from God. But if we believe this lie, nothing we ever do will be enough to make us feel accepted by God. None of us are able to earn God’s love but thankfully, He chose us in love long before we were even born. Because of this truth, all of us can simply and freely receive God’s love.

06.  Lie: God's Love is Conditional

The world has a way of teaching us that we aren’t enough. This causes us to believe we need to earn any good thing in our lives to prove ourselves worthy. The problem with this is that when we work to earn these things in our own strength, we are relying on ourselves instead of God.

The truth is, God made us wonderfully and destined us for a purpose beyond our natural ability. When we believe God’s truth, it establishes us in confidence to begin doing things we could never do if we still thought we had to prove ourselves.

07.  Lie: Any Good Thing Must Be Earned

Emotional health is an important thing to have. It enables us to thrive in our work and enjoy the relationships God’s given to us. But too often we intentionally or unintentionally make someone else responsible for our emotional health. This decision has severe consequences and will end up compromising our relationships.

08.  Lie: My Emotional Health Is Controlled by Other People

The devil is an accuser, always trying to label us with the mistakes we’ve made so we’ll take them as our identity. We do this when we think, “I failed, so I am a failure,” or other similar thoughts. When we think this way, it’s very easy to start believing that God condemns us, only seeing our mistakes when He looks at us. The truth, however, is that God brings conviction to set us free from our mistakes without ever condemning us. Then it’s up to us to choose to believe Him and step into freedom.

09.  Lie: God Is Condemning Me

When you’re depressed, you don’t want to do anything. It feels like nothing can change the hopelessness of your situation—so why even bother? But there are practical and powerful things you can do to change your outlook on life. In these seasons of darkness, we can find light, but we have to first know where to look.

10.  Lie: I Can't Help Being Depressed

For the most part, women want to be smaller and men want to be bigger. That is the trend right now when it comes to physical appearance, and so many of us have struggled with this. To fight the lies we face about our bodies, we need to know three truths. If we let these truths shape our thoughts about our appearance, we will begin seeing the value God declares over us, no matter what body we have.

11.  Lie: My Appearance Determines My Worth

One of the most common tricks of the enemy is to get us believing that our joy is based on our circumstances instead of on God’s goodness. If we think our joy is based on our experiences, then we’ll often find ourselves chasing a phantom joy.

12.  Lie: I’m Not a Joyful Person

Many believers go through seasons where they feel God is distant or that they can’t hear His voice. Some people feel like they never get out of this season. It’s so important for us to know two simple truths about God’s presence to help us through these trying times. If we understand God’s purpose in these difficult seasons, we can partner with Him to reap their full benefit.

13.  Lie: God Is Distant

Everyone will go through times that test our strength, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally. The good news is, God doesn’t expect us—or want us—to go through these times on our own, but delights in giving us His strength during both good and bad times. As we surrender to God’s power working through our weaknesses, we will see God work through us beyond anything we could have imagined.

14.  Lie: I Don’t Have Enough Strength

Oftentimes, Christians take up a form of superstition when it comes to how they live, believing that if they don’t do everything exactly a certain way, then God will be against them—causing bad things to happen. To combat this paralyzing belief, we can grab hold of three truths that will help us realize that God isn’t against us, positioning us to make decisions with confidence and wisdom.

15.  Lie: God is Against Me

The journey of renewing our minds is a lifelong process. Along the way, we will discover new false beliefs, and there will likely be times when we have to reprocess old false beliefs. This isn’t a sign of defeat. Rather, it’s God deepening His work, leading to greater freedom and wholeness.

16. The Charge

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Marked with boldness and passion, John Bevere is the author of such bestsellers as *Extraordinary, The Bait of Satan, The Fear of the Lord, Under Cover,* and *Driven by Eternity*. His books have been translated into over 100 languages, and his weekly television program, The Messenger, is broadcast around the world. John is a popular speaker at conferences and churches, and his ministry offers life-transforming resources to those who want to understand and apply God’s principles. John lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife, Lisa, also a bestselling author and speaker.

John Bevere

Passionate. Edgy. Relatable. Powerful. Funny. These words describe Lisa Bevere—international speaker, best-selling author, and co-host of The Messenger television program, which broadcasts in more than 200 countries. In her transparent style, Lisa shares God’s Word woven with personal experiences to empower lives with freedom and transformation. As an advocate for justice, she rallies others to be an answer to desperate problems near and far. She enjoys spending time with the love of her life, husband John Bevere, and their four sons, stunning daughter-in-law, and adorable grandbabies.

Lisa Bevere

The man at the helm of our day-to-day operations, Addison is a true friend and leader to the Messenger family. Unassuming and wise beyond his years, our COO loves life with his four gorgeous children and stunning wife. If you asked Addison what he’s passionate about, his answer would be something along the lines of helping others work out what it means to follow Jesus in what many are calling a “post-Christian” world. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out his book Saints: Becoming More Than “Christians.”

Addison Bevere

Austin Bevere is the second-born son of John and Lisa Bevere. Being highly analytical, Austin is constantly looking for ways to uncover practical principles and truths to help others live a successful and godly life. One of the greatest discoveries he’s had is that Christians can practically renew their minds and lead their emotions with the truths found in Scripture. Austin and his wife Jessica live in Colorado. 

Austin Bevere

Arden Bevere is the youngest son of John and Lisa Bevere and the cofounder of Sons & Daughters, a movement committed to raise up a generation of uncompromising follower of Christ who will transform our world. He has a passion to see his generation go further than any that came before it, fully alive in this God-adventure.

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Messenger’s speaking team consists of a variety of trusted voices who appear on several of our courses, videos, and podcasts. We know you’ll love them just as much as we do!

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