Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 1 Peter 2:1-3.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
If you want to live the abundant life I planned for you, I tell you where to set your mind, for those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. Romans 8:5-6.
Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4.
Set your mind on things above, in other words, see as I see, and not on the things that are on earth, in other words, as the ungodly that have been taken captive by the devil to do his will see. They only see as far as the flesh but not into the spirit. They are limited by and stuck in the flesh, which is for this life only, and thus are focused on death and getting all the fleshly lust satisfied they can before they perish. However, the flesh is never satisfied and will kill you if you give in to its lust. If your god is your belly you will look like your god.
But those who are walking in the spirit and not limiting themselves to the flesh, have unlimited horizons of amazing things that are forever. They have rest in fruitfulness whereas those set on the flesh do not, it is all about competition and being on top. And the fruit those walking in the spirit bear is above all the fruit of the Holy Spirit and in that fruit there is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Self-control is a wonderful thing, it keeps you in health and prosperity, it puts your spirit in charge and puts your disciplined soul in peace and never fear, torment or confusion, those are a fruit of the flesh.
Flesh also bears fruit, for if you sow to the flesh, that is, set your mind below, you will reap the deeds of the flesh. And the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. Those who make a practice of such things will not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.
Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:50-54.
Where you are setting your mind is where you are sowing and what you sow will grow.
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Galatians 6:8.
If you are setting your mind above, how do you do that? Replace the dead thoughts with living thoughts. What is a dead thought? Whatever brings darkness—hate, lust, bitterness, greed—the things that addict, drive, torment, and shame you. The things that bring death to joy, freedom, purity, and peace. Things that defile you and cover over My image in you so that you are no longer according to My likeness but according to that of the evil one.
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Hebrews 9:14.
What lies behind in your past will hold you in the flesh arena, to go forward in the spirit you must forget the sins, addictions, fears, offenses, abuses, and dead works that burdened you and press into the high calling that I have for you in Christ. Once you repent of those and make a determination to move out of them to the light, the blood of Jesus cleanses you of those and also cleanses your conscience from them so you can go forward with joy.
Stop judging others, stop the malice, the gossiping, and the finger pointing and instead put all that aside and like newborn babies long for the pure milk of My Word that you may grow thereby. Why do I say that you must become like newborn babies to grow sinless in My Word and enter the Kingdom? BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BITTER ROOTS OR OFFENSES OF THE PAST. Thy have a clean slate with nothing written or built upon it yet. Newborn babies seek the milk of the mother, the mother in whose womb they grew to birth, and I am your Shaddai, the source of all for you.
Let Me elaborate further so you understand what I am telling you to do to amend and restate your life, to tear down and demolish the works of the flesh that have run your life and put you in the regrets or shame you are in now. You can start anew to build your life and your world. Nicodemus did not understand what Jesus was telling him, he was only seeing the flesh when he asked how on earth a grown person could crawl back in his mother’s womb and get a new start in life. But Jesus was speaking in the spirit.
Like a “newborn baby” signifies your being born again by My imperishable Word from above with the seed of eternal life in you with a completely clean slate, all sin gone if it had never been done.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17.
But now you must be careful how you build. Don’t go back to the old mindset of the flesh and build with the old materials of wood, hay, stubble and straw and get into the slavery of the law of sin and death a second time when I have freed you of that. Build with the precious jewels, gold and silver of My Word.
And it all has to do with what you are feeding your mind. Replace the fleshy food with the spirit food. Stop the ungodly chatter, malice, envy, dissensions, fear, complaining, blaming, shaming, anger fits, rudeness (I could go on), in other words, your idle words, and begin building with a purpose, using your words as tools. And the tools you want to build upon and frame your life are My Words. And the food upon which you want your spirit and body to grow are My Words which are are not only Spirit and life in the spirit, but they are life and health (like medicine) to all your flesh.
You are a new creation in Christ, the old things have died with Christ on the Cross, and new things have come into your life. Grow now by My Word and no other word, begin with the pure milk, go on to the meat of My Word, and then on to the honey of My Word in understanding My Will, which is knowing Me and My plans for your life that you may walk in them. Root and ground yourself in Christ, who is My Word, drawing up all you need from Him for life and godliness. And united with other believers who are growing with you as the body of Christ, building yourselves up in love until you attain to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of Jesus, My Son, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to My fullness in you. Ephesians 4:13. Be full of all My fullness. Ephesians 3:19. When you come to know the breadth, height, length, and depth and know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, you will be filled up with that love, which is My very fullness in you.
The answer then of how you set you mind above is simple but very profound and takes diligence over your thought life and your words, it is to get filled up with all My fullness—filled with pure light and pure love. What a lovely place to be. It is then that the Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
Know that I am able to do abundantly beyond all you ask or think according to the power that I have put in you by My Spirit. I can and will, if you will join with Me in this project, make you completely new, perfect and lacking in no good thing. Let us begin with the foundation that cannot be shaken, My Word, which is Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone, and proceed living stone by living stone, jewel by jewel, with all the majesty and beauty of your born again spirit which is in My image and according to My likeness. I will give you pure milk, the finest wheat, precious oil twice refined and double pressed, new wine, solid meat, and honey from the rock. It is a land of milk and honey. And all this is what happens when you set your mind above where Christ is seated at My right hand. And I have already seated you there with Him, but you cannot come to the wedding feast improperly dressed. So let Me dress you in the garments of salvation, the robe of righteousness, and the jewels and garlands of the bride and the bridegroom. Clothed in Christ you are dressed for the wedding feast.
I love you. It is time you began anew, it is time to amend and restate your life. It is still you but the provisions, terms, and distributions are all new. Old things have passed away, I make all things new.