Part 6: Set your minds ABOVE

Pray these words:

Dear Jesus, Thank you for the promises in your word. I praise you today because you are faithful. Please guide me to live a life honoring you. I pray that my heart will be changed by the reading of your word. In your name, Amen. 

Colossians 3:1-11 reads:

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practice and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Think About It:

What things in my life distract me from keeping my eyes set on Christ?

Pray these words:

Thank you God, that Christ died so I could live. Please show me the things in my life that are not honoring you. Give me clarity, wisdom, and boldness to put off the old self. In your name, Amen.