The Choice Between Stimulus and Response TRANSFORMED TO THE CORE Message Three The Choice Between Stimulus and Response

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12: 2

3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10: 3-5

The people who choose to live in the circle of concern give those concerns power to control them.

"For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. "He is before all things, and in him all things hold together"    Colossians 1:16-17

Reactive People - Focus on the weakness of others - Environmental problems Their idea is always to find fault and blame others for what they see as weaknesses or problems.

To be proactive to change how you see things To be proactive to change how you see things. It’s a change that happened from the inside!

Two Great Needs 1 The need to be self aware. 2. The need to be a wise self manager.