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  • A Prayer about Transformation

    THE PRAYER OF TRANSFORMATION

    Lord Jesus, teach us to pray.

    I receive your righteousness and release my sinfulness.
    I receive your wholeness and release my brokenness.
    I receive your fullness and release my emptiness.
    I receive your peace and release my anxiety.
    I receive your joy and release my despair.
    I receive your healing and release my sickness.
    I receive your love and release my selfishness.

    Come, Holy Spirit, transform my heart, mind, soul, and strength so that my consecration becomes your demonstration; that our lives become your sanctuary. For the glory of God our Father, amen.

    – (From a website Seed Bed .com)

  • Don’t be discouraged when people struggle to recognize the growth God has produced in YOU

    “Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself.”

    Sometimes the greatest obstacle to your next season is people who only know the previous version of you.

    In Matthew 13:53-58, Jesus returned to His hometown, but instead of honoring who He had become, the people reduced Him to who He used to be.

    “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?”

    They were so familiar with His past that they missed His purpose.

    Don’t be discouraged when people struggle to recognize the growth God has produced in you. Familiarity often blinds people to transformation.

    There are moments in life when God doesn’t change your assignment—He changes your audience.

    So if you’ve grown…
    If you’ve healed…
    If you’ve matured…
    If God has elevated your thinking, your character, and your calling…

    Allow me to reintroduce myself.

    Not because I’m trying to impress anyone—but because I’m no longer the person you once knew.

    God has done a new work in me.

    Stop apologizing for your evolution. The people who are assigned to your future will recognize what those attached to your past overlooked.

    Don’t let someone else’s familiarity keep you from embracing God’s transformation.

    📖 “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.” — Matthew 13:57

    – From Pastor Pierre Jones of PL Jones Ministries (Danville, Virginia)

  • Love God With All You’ve Got

    “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.“

    – Mark 12:30

  • The Prayer of a Righteous Man

    Therefore confess your sins to each other and Pray for each other so that you may be healed. The Prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

    – James 5:16

  • Pray and Live Peaceful

    “I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.”

    – I Timothy 2:1-4

  • Christians Can Experience a Cushion of Peace

    I remember reading about what is called “the cushion of the sea.” The ocean surface is often greatly agitated, but as you descend, the water becomes increasingly calm. At its greatest depths the ocean is virtually still. Oceanographers dredging ocean bottoms have found animal and plant remains that appear to have been undisturbed for hundreds of years.

    Similarly, Christians can experience a cushion of peace in their souls regardless of their troubled surroundings. That’s because they belong to God, who is the source of peace; serve Christ, who is the Prince of Peace; and are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, who is the agent of peace. Galatians 5:22 says, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, [and] peace.” When you become a Christian, God grants you the gift of peace.

    – From John MacArthur’s daily devotional via a good friend and Brother in Christ