A mindset is simply a mind that is set. Our minds can be set in the past and the most important thing to understand and remember about the past is just that, it's in the past. There is nothing that we can do about yesterday. Yesterday has gone on into history with its memories, successes, and yes, even our failures.

Vince Lombardi, the former coach of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers in the late 1960's once told his team, “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”  Lombardi also told his team that “the difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

To reset our minds is a matter of our will. To reset our minds is to also refresh our minds, which means “to be made new, renewed, readjusted, changed, or turned around” in the original Greek.  In addition, to refresh is “to give intermission from labor, to give rest, to cause to cease.”

Jesus renewed, refreshed, and changed the mind (thoughts) of a man that was possessed in the town of Gadara.  The demon-possessed man went from dwelling in tombs, naked, cutting himself, and constantly crying out to sitting and clothed in his right mind (Mark 5:1-13).

This man in Mark's gospel was given rest from demonic, negative thoughts because Jesus reset His mind and clothed him with the right mind, the right way of thinking.

Does your mind need to be reset? Invite a friend or family member to join us as we continue to learn to "Think Like God Thinks" with principles and precepts from God's word in today's podcast, "A Mindset of Reset-Part 1."