If You Want to Obey God More, Retrain Your Reticular Activating System (By Grace!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- What is your "reticular activating system" (RAS)? What spiritual significance does the reticular activating system play for a Christian? And how can you biblically train your reticular activating system to be holy through Scripture? Here are 3 biblical ways to retrain your RAS with the Bible.
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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7
God bless!
Was just thinking about this today. Jesus is on time EVERY time! Thank you for being a great vessel for the Lord! ✝️
God is good!
Preach! This is really important and you spoke about it in an excellent way with clarifying examples. Thanks, Mark! I've been really big on mornings, God have showed me how amazing it is to get into His presence before anything else in the morning. It will shape how you act and react to whatever happens throughout the day and how you choose to go about your time and thoughts, because you will be wearing your Godly lens. My day doesn't go right if I don't start it with God's word & prayer but leave Him only the leftovers of my time, energy and thought capacity after the world has already filled my brain and drained my energy.
Hi Mark! This literally did come right on time. I've been struggling with handling my anxiety and anger triggered by loud unexpected noises, such as my really loud neighbors. I've been praying to God asking him to help change my heart towards my neighbors and the loud noise (stomping, dropping heavy items, vibrating my walks, being really loud). It took me a while to build up the courage to confront them and ask them to kindly make less noise, they smirked at me, closed the door in my face. Well, I wanted to get so mad but I realized at that point they're not going to change, I'm not going to move, my landlords didn't care. Praying for peace and harmony wasn't the issue, I realized I needed to ask God to change my perspective, how I internalized and thought about this noise and to redirect my emotions. So I totally agree, it took me some time to get to having a "Plan" to get with God's Plan for my life with the help of the holy spirit, but I believe its really continuing to spend more time in my Bible, praying with a pure heart and allowing and trusting God to move in me.
The Bible says “Early will I seek thee.” Lamentations 3:23 says we get new mercies in the morning
Amen sister. 😇✝️
God bless!
thank you Mark, I think this may be linked to " living intentionally", which I need to do, preplan the next days or moments activities so I will be more apt to respond in a way that 1 pleases God, 2 helps me begin meeting some goals. I do read the Bible in the am most days, but need more self disipline in other areas.
Amen!
I needed this so much. I was just telling my mom today that I was having a very hard time praying or focusing on God or reclaiming my spiritual mind after having put my relationship with God last as a result of being distracted by other things...this is my answer! I was already thinking the worst and worried that I probably couldn't get back up again spiritually and wondering if I truly love God just cause I lost the discipline to seek and commune with Him
So glad this was helpful to you Mayra!
Excellent brother. And, your timing is always impeccable. 😇
I can sincerely comprehend what you said. Times that I missed my morning reading and meditating on His word (when I was running late for example), I can most certainly see a difference in how my days go compared to the days I spend time with God before starting my day. I notice my attitude, behavior and reactions to things are different. It’s very true. God’s word is the healthiest meal we can eat and it impacts not only ourselves, but everyone around us. We are taught to be renewed in our minds by His word. Great message Mark. Thank you, and God bless.
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Amen!
Reminds me of Romans 12:2 ❤
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
I have psalms 143:8 written on my white board beside the front door and read it as I walk out the door to start my day ♥️
Amen!
BECAUSE THE MIND DOESN'T KNOW IF IT'S HAPPENING NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
OUR MIND GOD GOD HAS CREATED IS SO POWERFUL AND CREATIVE, PRAISE GOD THANKYOU FATHER FOR THIS CONFIRMATION VIDEO IN JESUS NAME AMEN!
Right on time! I was praying just hours ago about wanting to have the desire to focus on God and renewing the mind thinking on things above and not on worldly things
Amen!
Years ago when I began my journey with God I had covered my entire room with bible verses on paper, so the first thing i see when I wake up is God's word, made big difference in my life and the bible verse that inspired me to do so was Romans 12:2, makes sense now watching this video. Godbless brother awesome video and knowledge🙏✝️💯!👍
I just started having an anxiety attack. God tucked it in and listened to my prayers and this video pops up.
God is good.
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Amen, God is good!
…Keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith 🌸
If the body follows the mind, then the Bible addressed the RAS too Pastor Mark.
I’m going to “Bible-stuff” my RAS..
Amen!
Great video! The word says meditate on God’s word day and night and it’s truly key.
Amen!
I ALSO SPEND TIME IN HIS WORD AT NIGHT ALSO, BEFORE SLEEP.
This is so good, thank you for providing information about the RAS through a faith lens! It's important to have a healthy RAS & not focus on godless things! 🙏🏻
Amen!
And my middle name is Elizabeth too 🙃 it means gift of God.
Nice!
Me too 😄 and my husband lived on Elizabeth St when I met him
ONCE WE WAKE UP IN THE MORNING IS GEEAT, TO SPEND TIME IN GOD'S WORD IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP
Thank you mark for this beautiful message ☺️You’re almost at 600k!! Congratulations in advance and may you continue to grow!!
love this Mark, it is the first time I heard of RAS. It is like Jesus praying in morning and getting his word from father God. I know I am doing something right. My morning is routine to thank God in a gratitude pray and exercise, then the same in the evening. Thank you Jesus for always lead us by example, even when we don't know the science of it.
Awesome! 💗💗💗 I was watching something like this yesterday that gave similar tips but through a non Christian lens. Thank you Mark and thank you holy spirit!!
Please link the articles that featured in your video on the RAS somewhere or to the comment section. It’s often hard to find good reference material for research so it helps a lot if you could share the references. I’m sure there are a number of people including me who will appreciate the effort and be able to share this useful knowledge and progress research as a result.
Thank you Mark for your insightful and impactful messages. God bless 🙏🏽❤️
I appreciate you mentioning RAS in order to manually program and consciously meditate on the word of God to lead a successful and prosperous life.
WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN WE VISUALIZE OUR DAY OF SUCCESS WITH GOD, OUR BODY WILL EXPERIENCE THAT IN THE PHYSICAL REALM HERE ON EARTH
Starting the day with God’s word
Wow, just wow. This is such a blessing to hear. I’m kind of blown away to be quite honest. I came to the library today to study for an anatomy test. And we are studying parts of the nervous system, and when reading about the RAS, it was mentioned how positive thoughts really can affect the choices we make. And so I’m thinking to myself, this has to be deeper than just positive thoughts. (I’m blown away already just learning about how complex our body is in general- and how it’s a miracle in itself how we are formed) but I was thinking there’s a reason the Lord has given us our RAS. And I just want to thank you for breaking this down and the way you applied it in relation to the Lord. This is very encouraging for me and know it will be for others as well. Thank you
Also it was so necessary and good for
Me to hear about choices involving entertainment and what is pleasing to the Lord. And why it is so important in what we choose
Super great video as always! Going to save so I can listen again. Those other comments were from folks that didn't bother to watch the video.
Amen!
Thanks for doing a more psychology based video, Mark. Great topic.
Paul may have been talking about the reticular activating system in Romans 12:2
"Be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes]".
Rather than letting things become too big or small by focusing on/ignoring their reality we should instead allow for our recognition of things to bring us increased detail and clarity so the truth that we see can set us free. Rumination is an easy trap to fall into so be filled with the Holy Spirit to avoid wandering in the flesh.
Amen Matthew!
I'm so excited to see your channel get to 600k subscribers and grow even more!
Amen! All glory to God!
This is so good! I was praying about this a couple of months ago and recently I started working in renewing my mind… learning about the subconscious (our heart) and the conscious (our minds). Meditate on the scripture and bury deep in our hearts (subconscious) and minds (conscience). So good! Thank you Mark and God bless you and your family! 🙏🏾😊💗
Amen Niya! Keep staying in the word!
God created us perfectly in his image (Genesis 1:27). Although we have fallen away from our original design, he has gifted us with helpers such as the Holy Spirit and our Reticular Activating System so that we may be more like him.
Romans 12:1-2!
So happy for you and your channel growth!!! We need a biblical perspective on EVERY SINGLE ARENA THE WORLD HAS SET UP!!
Our minds can be a playground for the enemy and this is a great key to keep our minds under subjection. Prophetically I really need information like this because my mind is constantly picking up every single thing concerning people, and places around me.
Thank you for this information! Is 3am in the morning??
Thank you so much for sharing! I definitely need to retrain my RAS on a number of different subject matter linked to the Word of God! This is powerful information! I am going to incorporate this more into my daily routine! God bless you, Mark and family!
I can't remember where I read it but the Bible says that as a man thinks, so is he. (I was paraphrasing) I have noticed that when we experience something, we see it repeating in our lives. In my psychology courses in college, we learned about self-fulfilling prophecies. People are influenced by what we and others think of us. If you have people who criticize you and if they are important in your eyes you will think negatively about yourself. I think it is important for us to lift each other up in prayer and expectations. Words of encouragement are, as Solomon put it, "Like apples of gold in pictures of silver."
Romans 12:1-2 is always relevant about this topic :)
That is So True, I Will Try to do This With Reading the Bible in the Morning 🙏
Thank you so much Mark & God bless, I think this confirms everything I’ve been studying that points towards this concept lately, I had prayed asking for guidance to make sure I wasn’t getting into a false teaching or something ungodly and now I feel I have been granted the green light to carry on.
Yes, just stay away from stuff about manifesting your destiny and all that. A lot of people try to twist this info into that teaching. But there's a difference between trying to manifest something compared to just recognizing good opportunities God is sending you :)
I always read my Bible at night. And I have a 365 day devotional called Jesus in red by Ray comfort so if I can’t have enough time to read at least one chapter in my Bible I read the devotional in the more. And it’s good to because it has a quote by Jesus
God bless you, your family and your ministry!
Thank you and God bless you too!
Amen! Thank you, last year I had the RAS working so fast that it gave me vertigo it was so uncomfortable I knew it was the perception but didn't know it was also the RAS. Thanks for this content it is beneficial. God bless
God bless!
SO TRUE BEAUTIFUL 🙏❤❤❤🙏💙💙💙🙏🤍🤍🤍🙏
This is so cool! Mark you're so intelligent and so enlightened you always help me in dark moments! Thank you and may God always bless you! 🙏
I do remember reading that we tend to have a negative bias so this is helpful and interesting to me. I second living intentionally as someone else mentioned. Thanks for sharing!
God bless!
His is so timely. Wow!
Praise GOD
Ty
GOD bless you & yr family 🙏🏽
NO MATTER WHAT
Mark thank you very much for making this video about ras I think this makes me focus on this I need to specially like knowing the will of god in my life and how the fact I need to go about it by discernment
So glad it was helpful!
I haven’t watched the whole video just wanted to add this. I work Night Shift so my morning is like 2 😂 in the afternoon. I normally read my word before I go to bed which is like 9/10am and then sometimes I would read my when I first wake up
THANKYOU BROTHER GOD BLESS YOU IN JESUS NAME AMEN! 🙏🤍❤
Amen this was the conversation now ik the words to pray thankyou lol
So glad it was helpful!
Very eye opening! Thank you!
Yes and the Word also says meditate on my word day and night in Psalm 1:2. And there are many scriptures when people like David says He sought God in the morning, etc.
God bless!
Such a Great video Thank you Mark 🙏❤️✨
Dude this was on time AGAIN! YUP. 😃😄👋👋👌👍🏼
So glad to hear that Maggie!
His mercies are new every morning (common paraphrase).
Amen
Thanks Mark
My pleasure!
What a great video! Never expected this type of content from you, but I love it! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one 🙂
Romans 12:1-2!
Science lesson with Mark. :)
lol! God bless!
Thank you, this really helped.
Glad it helped!
I watched your "What does it mean when you dream about someone you like" video and commented, But just in case you don't see it...
How do you interpret this dream?
A while back I had a dream that me and and my boyfriend were in I think a church, and it felt like we were getting married. Our hands were overlapping on the Bible. I looked over and saw his mom smiling and there were many other people there.
It felt like we were vowing and making a commitment to put God first in our relationship. 💭
Perhaps rewatch that video :) I think dreams like this are usually just your brain working while you sleep. You are dreaming about things that relate to your thoughts when you are awake. So I would not assume this is a message from God. So there's nothing to interpret other than that you have romantic feelings for this person and your brain created images while you slept that relate to your romantic feelings. Just my thoughts
Oh boy Mark went there😂. He DARED to disrespect the "sacred" Friends hehehe
lol, had to do it. It was a funny show but so much sinful trash there too, not healthy to watch in my opinion :)
7:33 Considering I don’t have a physical bible, it’s safe to assume i should go straight to my bible app instead first thing right?
As long as you are using a good translation, it doesn't matter if it's on screen or a page. The words themselves are where the power is :) Personally I do recommend a physical Bible though if you can get one. It's less distracting and a good reminder to have a real book there. I like the ESV. Just my thoughts :)
I feel like this is what has created my anxiety. When I started reading the Bible more and more the more I noticed the wrong and evil in the world and how other Christians are acting as they should. So this can be dangerous to.
Philippians 4 is always helpful!
Ohhhh, the Amygdala?
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God bless!
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Third Eye Blind?
What's your question? If you are asking if they are biblical or good, I don't know because I don't listen to them. Apply the Bible and make a godly choice :)
How come Christans does not follow most of the commands of God in the Bible forget about the Christians saying blasphemous words like God's son, God's son killed in the crusifx etc. The Bible says not to eat pork, not to drink alcohol, to protect virginity till marriage, (also the punishments of not being a virgin at their first marriage according to the Bible), the proper covering of the body and shape of women like the Muslims do, the Christians don't follow almost everything in the Bible and the only thing they follow are the lies in it. Sadly they even say that the bible is not progressive so they pick and choose whatever they want to, from the Commands of God, based on their own human desires they defy God's Wills in the Bible, forget about the last scripture of God.
This is why God sent the last religion with its laws from God that no man can change like the Christians and Jews do and play with the Will of God. Read Well and study well and you will find yourself becoming a Muslim. For noone follows the Laws of God as mentioned in the Bibles better than the Muslims and noone prays to God purer than the Muslims, whether use the Bible or the Quran, Islam and Muslim is the Closest to the Commands of God, the God of Ibrahim, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad peace and Blessings upon them all and upon The Final Messenger of God and to his lineage and to the Guided One from his line to bring the truth in the world once again
This is biblical?
Yep.. it's biblical. Retraining your mind to think on the things of christ, not the flesh.
I explain how the brain works and then I say read the Bible, pray, and be careful what you watch. Does that sound unbiblical to you?
Also, the channel is called "Apply God's Word" not expositionally preaching God's word. We can apply biblical truth to any topic. I don't just talk about things mentioned in the Bible. Dating is not in the Bible, for example. I take biblical principles and "apply" them to other topics.