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God’s Word For Today: Embracing Repentance

by Lily Benson June 15, 2023

written by Lily Benson

Embracing Repentance. Through repentance, you can unlock the doorway to God’s forgiveness and experience His transformative grace.

What Does the Bible Say?

“Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.” Luke 3:8

Within the depths of your soul, there exists a longing for true transformation and renewal. Like many you may yearn for a fresh start, a cleansing of your heart, and a return to the fullness of life that God intended for you. In your pursuit of this profound transformation, you will encounter a pivotal step: repentance.

Repentance invites you to confront the brokenness within and acknowledge the areas where you may have strayed from God’s perfect plan. It requires humility, honesty, and a willingness to lay your sins before the feet of your merciful Savior. In 1 John 1:9, you can find the assurance that accompanies true repentance: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Through repentance, you can unlock the doorway to God’s forgiveness and experience His transformative grace.

Repentance requires perseverance and a commitment to daily surrender to God’s refining work in our lives. Romans 12:2 urges us, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” The transformative power of repentance reshapes our thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors, enabling us to walk in alignment with God’s purposes.

Friend, as you embark on the transformative journey of repentance, remember that God’s arms are always open wide, eagerly waiting for your return. He longs to restore and renew your spirit, to fill your life with His overflowing love and grace. Embrace the power of repentance, for it holds the key to unlocking the abundant life that God has prepared for you.

Do not allow the weight of past mistakes or the entanglements of sin to hold you captive any longer. Turn to the One who is faithful and just, the One who forgives and restores. Experience the freedom that comes through true repentance and surrender.

Transform Your Mind

by GOD TV April 11, 2022

written by GOD TV

Romans 12:1-2 are such life-giving verses; let me read them to you. It says, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God– this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not be conformed any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good pleasing and perfect will.”

So let’s break that down, because there are beautiful steps to follow in there. So, first of all, He says, “in light of your mercy;” this is such a beautiful heart posture to come from with God, to realize that we’re asking these requests of God, and He’s going to see us transformed by the renewing of our mind, because He’s merciful to us. That shows us that He wants to help us be transformed. He wants to help us go from glory to glory, and it gives us great encouragement that we’re doing this from a place of His love.

Then second of all, we get to look at this and say, because God has been so merciful to me, I’m going to offer myself as a living sacrifice. And literally what that means is going, “You know what? God, today, I’m not going to lean only on what I can think. I’m not going to be conformed to the world. I’m going to trust in you, and I’m going to offer my life to you today.”

And then the third step is it says, “don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” That means that the things that others think, like money is the thing that will help us get to the end of the month or, disciplining a child this way is the way you should do it. Those kinds of things that society says are norms, we get to go, “You know what? Lord what do you think about money? Lord, what do you think about how to raise our families? What do you think about relationships?” And because it comes from this place of knowing God’s mercy, He gets to show us beautiful truths from heaven.

And then the last piece of that verse says, “and then you will know what God’s good and perfect will is.” We often start with that first, right? “God, what do you want me to do? What is your will in this situation?” And He’s going, “Hold on, hold on, start from I’m being merciful to you, then offer yourself as a living sacrifice and go,” “God, I want to know what you’re thinking. ” Then the promise is that, “As you don’t listen to the world around you and just go that normal way, but ask Me what I’m thinking, I will show you what my will is.” Isn’t that the most beautiful thing? That God promises that He’ll show us and help our minds to be transformed, to think a new way, to think heaven’s way and to really see the fruit of heaven and the results of heaven come to pass in our circumstances that this is the way to do it.

So an example of what this looked like in my life was realizing that, the account balance in my bank isn’t what dictates my life. But that’s how the world runs. Like if you have a lot of money, then you can have this, this and this. If you don’t have a lot of money, then this, this, and this is going to happen to you. And the Lord said to me, one day, “You know what, Lisa? If you will release your hold on what your bank account balance is, that you feel bad if it’s low, and you feel good if it’s high, and you’ll let me show you what money looks like, you will begin to know what my will is and your mind will be transformed.” And so that’s the same promise for you, my friend; is that as you follow these steps in this beautiful pathway in Romans 12:1-2, whatever you’re struggling with now does not have to be what you continue struggling with. As God shows you, what His will is, His beautiful and pleasing and perfect will in your life.

So Jesus, thank you that you are with this person that’s watching. You’re with each one of us and you don’t leave us where our thinking was, but you beautifully show us what heaven feels instead, and we get to go from glory to glory, and understand how you want to walk through life with us, seeing us as transformed into your image. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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Embrace Transformation in all you do this Year!

by Jeanet Elisa January 30, 2018

written by Jeanet Elisa

Embrace Transformation in all you do in 2018

Transformation is a Kingdom word that is key to all God wants to accomplish through our lives this year. However to fully embrace all God has ahead of us in 2018, we must understand the transformation 2017 brought.

At the beginning of last year, the Lord spoke the word ‘Reset’ to me, based on Romans 12:2. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may know the acceptable, perfect and pleasing will of God.” I realised that transformation describes the process of metamorphosis. That being transformed means the changing of the form or nature of a thing or person, into a completely different one.

It is impossible to enter transformational change, with preconceived ideas about what life will be like on the other side? The truth is, we will not be the same on the other side and therefore, our approach to life, our goals, mindsets, and desires for the future, will all be viewed through the grace of a new lens. This is the power of effective internal change but it is also it’s greatest challenge because old internal regimes are often resistant to change and redundant mind-sets hate to be dethroned.

Reset your life to experience transformation

2017 gave birth to right alignments and transformational change. I liken it to the moment when the manufacturer of your internet device, asks you to hand it over for a manufacturer reset. Having done all that you can to stop the throwbacks of its dysfunctional activity happening in your world, all that there is to do is hand it over to a manufacturer’s reset. When it is returned to you, it has no memory of its dysfunctional past and it re-recognizes its mandate. It is set on go and ready to fulfill its true purpose. A complete programming erase has actually restored it to full functional capacity and it can now operate according to its authentic design.

Last year, we watched the governmental resetting of the nations. Courageous reformers rose to bring national and international, political realignments, to things that were out of line with their nation’s true mandates. We saw policy change, internal change, rhetoric change, industrial change, and a huge change in political relational alignments. All of this taking place under the fierce opposition of old ruling regimes, voices, mindsets, and systems of belief. Yet still, we saw in 2017, the resetting of the future which demanded a renovation and restoration, to that which is right before God and pleasing in His sight. We also saw that in order to attain these deep internal changes, some in the political arenas had to literally push through an army of destructive forces.

A realignment to God’s path

It is not insignificant that all four of the Gospels contain the call of John the Baptist to: “Prepare the way of the Lord and make his paths straight.” The word straight is directly linked to the ways of God. Our relationship to His ways, are the determining factor of the direction that our lives and nations will take.

John’s call is to take our ways, beliefs, mindsets, natural reasoning or directional pathways and line them up with the straight paths of the Spirit of God. All His paths are straight and in 2017, we saw the realigning, shaking, stripping, dismantling and pressing requirements, that are all a part of the process which enforces the demands of metamorphosis and draws us closer to the image of Christ.

The price of surrender is often great and transformation is always on purpose. For some 2017 meant the end of toxic relationships which have hindered their walk with God. Others who were running in the wrong direction, or had fallen into the trap of striving in order to attain, were brought to the end of themselves at the foot of the Cross.

Some bound to the comfort zones of religious living, felt a new breath of divine realignment in their hearts, as they came to the realization, that in order to attain the true life of the Spirit; like Abraham they were being called to take a journey that they have not made before. Leaving behind the comforts of a self-satisfied, purely soul-led life.

Others faced giants they thought they would never defeat, in the knowledge that the call to divine life, brings with it the call to a higher life and the relinquishment of all that is beneath its glory. All of these and more, so often in the midst of a relentless opposition from lower life living, surrendered their lives to the upward call of the Spirit in 2017.

Jesus is always ahead of the game and as you run forwards this year, may you run encouraged and in the knowledge that the transformation you embraced in 2017, has empowered you to rise in the acceptable, perfect and pleasing will of God for 2018. Far above and beyond all that you could ever ask, think or imagine. So, keep moving forward!

This article was written by Jeanet Elisa of Chosen Ministries. Jeanet is a visionary, teacher, missionary and mother. She worked on staff at Kensington Temple, London and has served as a missionary in Malaysia, Borneo and Nepal.

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