The second directive for the year 2009 is…Change your way of thinking.

Romans 12:2 (AMP)  Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

Look at the Message translation of this verse: (msg) Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Don’t agree with the world because Matthew 18 (power of agreement) works for the negative as well as the positive. If you agree with the negativity of the world it will come to pass in your life. So renew your mind with the Word of God so that you can think like God in order that the will of God can be accomplished in your life.

You are responsible to renew your mind until your thinking is changed. Get in the Word everyday and let it wash the stinking thinking away for good! Be transformed.