Xa ulwelwe kwakhona kuKristu, Uba yindalo entsha. Ube ngunyana kaThixo (oku kusebenza kuzo zombini iinkunzi nemazi) and received God’s nature. Now your mind needs to be changed. Lo nto, the transformation from the old creation into the new creation becomes visible in the natural realm and you produce the right fruit in your life. Because what do you produce in life, ubomi okanye ukufa?
How do you change your mind?
You change your mind by renewing your mind with the Word of God. As long as your mind is not renewed with the Word of God, your mind shall remain the same. If your mind remains the same, your way of speaking and acting remain the same.
When you keep speaking and acting like the old man, it will defile and eventually destroy your spirit.
Ke ngoko inyanzelekile hlaziya ingqondo yakho. Lo nto, your mind lines up with the Word and will of God. Emveni kwakho konke, you are the person, who you think you are in your mind and heart. Because as a man thinks in his heart, unjalo (IMizekeliso 23:7).
What’s in your heart determines what you produce in life
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit (IMizekeliso 15:4)
Your mind and heart determine your speech and your actions. From your heart, you will speak words of life or words of death.
When your mind is renewed and your heart is filled with the Word of God, you will produce life. But as long as your mind remains carnal and your heart is filled with (izinto ze ) Umhlaba, you produce death.
Only when you renew your mind with the Word of God, your mind and heart will change. If your mind and heart change, your life will change.
We live in a very negative world. I mean, go to lunch with your colleagues and in almost every conversation, negative stories or gossip will be told. Or watch the news broadcast on umabonwakude or read the newspaper, it’s all negative.
The world is full of negativity. But do you, njengomKrestu ozelwe ngokutsha, need to be dragged into this negativity and the way the world thinks?
Hayi, ngokupheleleyo akunjalo!
You are not like the world anymore, but you have been set apart. You became a new creation when you accepted Jesus Christ, uNyana kaThixo, as your Saviour and Lord and through regeneration received the Holy Spirit (Funda kwakhona: Zeziphi izinto ezintathu ezifunekayo ukuze kuzelwe kwakhona?).
Hlaziya ingqondo yakho ngeLizwi likaThixo
When you read and study the Bible and meditate on His Word, you will get to know the truth and will of God and the words of God shall be established in your heart. Your eyes will be opened to the truth. Nje ngeziphumo, you shall no longer live in a lie, but in the truth.
NgeLizwi nangoMoya oyiNgcwele, you will discern the two kingdoms; uBukumkani bamazulu (UBukumkani bukaThixo, apho uYesu Kristu nguKumkani) and the kingdom of the world (ubumnyama, where the ruler is the devil).
You shall take the pure Word of God and speak the words of God and walk therein. You shall be a doer of the Word and not a hearer only.
Because you are a doer of the Word, you’ll change into the image of Jesus Christ, ILizwi eliphilayo.
You shall walk like Jesus in obedience to the Father in His will, and preach and bring the Kingdom of God to the people and call the people to repentance. (Funda kwakhona: ‘Abaphulaphuli vs abenzi‘).
Children of God speak boldly the words of their Father
As a child of the most High God, you shall not walk in Ukuthobeka kobuxoki. But you shall walk by faith and speak boldly the words of God, ezinguMoya nobomi.
Your behavior and words are not always appreciated by people, who are carnal and/or belong to the world. They shall consider your words hurtful, offensive and judgmental. Because they testify that the works of the flesh are evil and call the people to repentance and obedience to God and His Word. Not everyone likes that.
But if you love Jesus wholeheartedly, you willl stay faithful to Him and don’t care about the words and opinions of people.
You’ll keep speaking His words, which represent God’s will and possess life, to people and over situations, iingxaki, ubunzima, njl.
Ngoko ke, it’s important that the words of God and principles of God’s Kingdom rule in your mind and heart.
If a thought enters your mind that contradicts the Word of God or sows doubt and unbelief and you want to speak that thought, you will be stopped. Kungenxa yokuba uMoya oyiNgcwele, shall bring the Word into your mind, that abides in you.
Ngalo mzuzu, you have a choice to obey the Word and close your mouth or reject the Word and sow death and destruction with your mouth.
Death and life are in the power of your tongue
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit (iMizekeliso 18:21)
When you restrain from evil words that contradict the Word of God and deny the truth of God and you speak the words of God, ezingokwentando yakhe, you produce life.
You have given power to produce life or death. Ukhetho lolwakho, what you sow and reap (Funda kwakhona: Oko ukuhlwayeleyo wovuna).
Uvelisa ntoni, ubomi okanye ukufa?
I would like to encourage you to study the Word of God. Read and write down Bible verses, camngca ngamazwi kaThixo (in the right context), and speak and act according to them.
Amazwi kaThixo, the seeds, will grow into a tree of life. When you become a tree of life, you will share the life of God instead of death.
You will bear the fruit of life and give them to those, who need them. Ayiyonto intle leyo!
“Yibani yityuwa yehlabathi”
