True freedom comes when you focus your mind on God’s truth. But how do you focus your mind on the right things so you can experience freedom? Here are three things you can do that will make the biggest difference in managing your mind.

“I am not really alone, because the Father is with me.” John 16:32 (GNT)
Having the mind of Christ means always being aware that God is with you.

“Be careful how you live. Don't live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.” Ephesians 5:15-16 (NLT)

Success means just being who God made you to be. Knowing this should give you enormous confidence. But you might admit that you’re not very confident most of the time. Maybe you’re just flat out insecure. You may act like you’re confident, but some things about you even you don’t like.

“It is wonderful to be grateful and to sing your praises, LORD Most High! It is wonderful each morning to tell about your love and at night to announce how faithful you are.” Psalm 92:1-2 (CEV)

God loves to give second chances. Consider Jonah. God gave him a mission to tell the people of Nineveh to repent. But Jonah didn’t like Nineveh and wanted the people to experience God’s judgment.

So Jonah ran away from God and ended up in the belly of a fish.

In the Old Testament, priests did two things: They had the right, privilege, and responsibility to go directly to God. They had the privilege and responsibility of representing God to the people and ministering to the needs of other people.

When you are seeking God’s will for your life, you need to understand one very important thing—God is not obligated to reveal Step 2 until you’ve done Step 1.

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The events of recent days have troubled us all on numerous levels. Racism, ethnocentricity, and violence are all reflections of deep-seated injustice. If humanism, secularism, and godless societies could have addressed the human predicament we would not be facing the challenges we face today. The evidence of their impotence is obvious.