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Managing Me

Manage Your Mind

Bishop Terry L. Hill, Jr.Sunday, October 4, 20269am
📖 Philippians 2:1-8
We were called to deeper stewardship by learning to manage ourselves before we try to manage what God places in our hands. From Philippians 2:1–8, we embraced that our minds function like an operating system—shaping our attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, intentions, and behaviors—and that faithful living requires a renewed way of thinking that matches God’s ownership of our lives. Philippians 2 shows Jesus as our template for a well-managed mind. We were challenged to think like Christ by reject…
Key Points
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Biblical stewardship means managing well what God puts in our lives, and that starts with managing ourselves—not acting like owners.
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A renewed mind is required to live for God; we cannot live a new life with an old mindset.
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The mind of Christ rejects entitlement and chooses humility that values others over self.
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Managing our mind includes necessary emptiness—releasing ego, the need to be right, and the need for recognition so God can use us.
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A well-managed mind produces obedience to God’s will, even when it costs comfort, reputation, or more than we want to pay.
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When we stop protecting our image and submit to God’s ownership, we can live with the victory that comes from thinking like Jesus.

From the Series

Managing Me

📖 Philippians 2:1-8
[1] If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, [2] Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. [3] Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. [4] Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. [5] Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [6] Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Sermon Summary

We were called to deeper stewardship by learning to manage ourselves before we try to manage what God places in our hands. From Philippians 2:1–8, we embraced that our minds function like an operating system—shaping our attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, intentions, and behaviors—and that faithful living requires a renewed way of thinking that matches God’s ownership of our lives.

Philippians 2 shows Jesus as our template for a well-managed mind. We were challenged to think like Christ by rejecting entitlement, embracing the necessary emptying of ourselves, and letting our mindset produce real obedience—even when obedience is costly and humbling. This message invited us to stop being driven by personal privilege, comfort, or public opinion and instead live with the mind of Christ so our lives can be managed in the way the Lord desires.

Editorial note: “Manage Your Mind” is a descriptive title for this October 4, 2026 message. The source broadcast is titled “Sunday Morning Worship: 9AM”; a formal sermon title was not confirmed in the available captions.

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