What kind of impulse reactions do I have?  If I am asked something is my initial response one of selfishness?   Do I occasionally revert back, when under pressure, to something I would have done when I wasn't living for the Lord? 

I know that God tells me that I need to renew my mind.  Freedom can come when I am renewing my mind.  (Rom. 12:1-2; 2 Cor. 10:3-5; Eph. 4:23)  I have been working on this for many years but especially in the last 1.5 years.  I can see how I am changing when I can think through how I should do something.  In other words, when I have the time to stop my initial reaction and think through how I should be reacting I can do okay, at times.

It is much harder to stop the impulse reactions.  My dh asks me to do something and I say, "no way."  I can retract those words but how much more pleasant would it be for the entire family if my impulse reaction was to say yes first.

Beth Moore says in the study I did this morning:

I decided that I not only needed my conscious mind renewed, I needed my subconscious mind renewed.  In fact, I began to pray, "God, invade my dream life, my thoughts when I sleep, and every closet in my brain!  Put Your truth in the innermost places of my mind, even those I don't know exist."

 

"God, fill me so completely with your Holy Spirit that even my reactions and sudden impulses are godly."

 

What if through the power of the Holy Spirit we developed godly reactions and not just responses?  Impossible?  No.  Challenging? Yes!  Perfection is out of our earthly reach, but "through and through" sanctification is not. (I Thess. 5:23)

What a challenge yet I want to make that my prayer. 

I am reminded again that I need to have a prayer journal in use so I can add prayers like this that I want to pray for.  I wish I didn't get so hung-up on how to format it and how often I am using it.