Removing All Behavioural Layers
Scripture: Romans 12:1-2
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy
sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed
to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the
will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Rom 12:1-2). God does the
transforming (and the non-conforming). We just have to give Him our lives. We present
ourselves daily as a living sacrifice, and ask Him to remove all behavioural layers built up
through:
Trauma (difficulties in our lifetime) – experiential programming
Nurture (upbringing at home and abroad) – environmental programming
Nature (genetic inheritance from bloodline) – genetic DNA cell memory programming. I
use the word “programming” because I believe if Jesus were here today, he will use the
computer language to bring meaning. Search me thoroughly, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me And
lead me in the everlasting way (Psalm 139:23-24). We must learn to step into the place of
His presence and ask Him to search, to examine and show us:
Our sin and behaviours
Family sin and behaviours
Seed line sin and behaviours
Our heart motives
What influences and directs our daily choices. It may become very uncomfortable as He
starts to show us these things, but it is all part of the process of growth. The Bible describes our
lives as trees: oaks of righteousness (Isa 61), trees planted by the river of life (Ps 1). What kind
of fruit is on our tree? Is it the fruit of righteousness, or the fruit of rejection, fear, anxiety, worry,
depression, addictions and so on? All those negative things are just fruit, and certainly God wants
to address them. But if we are to be free of that fruit, we need first to deal with the roots which
produce it in our lives. There may even be a taproot in our generational line which goes deeper
still.
Pray Search me thoroughly, O God, and know my heart
Pray Try me and know my anxious thoughts.
Pray and say see if there be any hurtful way in me. And lead me in the everlasting way.
Pray and command every taproot God shows you to be uprooted.
Lord take me by the hand and lead me into new dimensions of glory