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Praying for The Mind of Christ

I hope that as you prayed last week for your child or children’s mother you are rejuvenated and ready to start pushing again.  When I think of the word PUSH, I cannot help but think of other words like Effort, Energy, Posture, Excitement, Joy, Tiredness, and Pain.  I realize that it takes some effort to push something, I also realize that the amount of push that I will be able to do will be equivalent to how much energy that I have.  It is also true that I need to maintain the right posture to be as effective as possible, without hurting myself, especially when what I am pushing is large or heavy.  When I realize that I am getting somewhere, with what I am pushing I feel a sense of excitement and Joy.  After a hard day or week of work I do tend to feel tired and sometimes a bit of pain as my hands and knees may have gotten bruised and calloused along the way.  However, because I need to get somewhere, I keep going, I keep pushing until something happens!  So come on Let’s Pray Until Something Happens.

For this week, I would like to suggest that we pray for our children to have the mind of Christ.  We prayed initially for our children’s Salvation, then for them to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ and as they do that we pray that they will manifest the mind of Christ.

You may be wondering if this is at all possible.  Let us look at I Cor. 2:16 confirm that not only we can but that we have.  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?  But we have the mind of Christ.

In Phil 2:5:  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.  Paul is essentially telling us to choose to have the kind of mind that Jesus Christ had.  What was the mind of Christ?  Let me suggest that the mind of Christ was one of humility, servitude and obedience to his Father.  Humility in that he left heaven and all its glory and became a man in obedience to his Father to die on the cross for our sins. Paul was not asking us to admire Christ but to imitate Him, follow or copy what he did and does.  When we have the mind of Christ we act like he does, we make righteous decisions and we frequently ask ourselves What Would Jesus Do?  We are not having the mind of God to become God, but we are changing our thinking so that we can become like Him.  We do not want our children to be unstable in their thinking, we want them to set the standard rather than follow every standard that people set for them, we want them to be leaders, not followers, we want them to walk in humility, knowing full well who they are in Christ.  We want this mind to transcend their relationships, their careers, and their education.  So many mistakes could be avoided in life, so many hurts could be averted, and so many more people would find comfort, if we would only exhibit the mind of Christ.

Let us pray:
Father, I thank you for my children, I thank you for their Salvation and their interest in growing in grace and knowledge of you.  Father I pray that as they continue to learn about you they will in turn exhibit the mind of Christ.  I pray that with this mind they will become obedient to what you are asking them to do.  I pray that they will think before they speak or before they act and ask themselves what would you do?  Father when they have your mind they will make right choices, they will influence and not be influenced, and they will not compromise, to be people pleasers, but instead will strive to please you.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.

In His Service,

Vilma

 Here is a good resource to use.  http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.

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