We are Changed

After graduating from high school, I attended community college. That first year, I'd arrive early to sit on an old couch in the hall across from the dining room, before its doors opened usually, and read my pocket New Testament prior to class.

 

That was when the Spirit impressed upon me 2 Corinthians 3:18. Paul wrote that “all of us who have had the veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord.  And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image.” (NLT—italics mine) 

 

As we seek the Lord’s face and spend time beholding Him in His Word and prayer, the patterns of our hearts and minds begin to resemble His heart and mind, “from glory to glory,” as the NKJ puts it. We are changed.

 

We are changed because God’s Word causes us to know and focus on the truth of Who He is. 

We are changed because God grows bigger and bigger every day in our mind’s eye, in our thinking. 

We are changed because through prayer we are communing with the Lover of our souls. 

We are changed as our conversations with Him increase to "without ceasing."

We are changed as we experience God’s specific answers to our specific prayer requests. 

We are changed because we grow in confidence that He cares about the little things as well as the big. 

We are changed as we discover, just like Hagar, that God SEES us and He HEARS us—all the time. 

We are changed…

 

Are you a mom feeling anxious and burdened? Are you losing hope?

 

Let the Lord God change you.

 

Take your eyes off the world and put them on your Lord. Seek the His mercy in prayer for your children and experience the life changing power of the Lord, the King of Glory. He is our "Lord, strong and mighty, invincible in battle." (Psalm 24:8 TLB)

 

Phil Wickham wrote—

Who breaks the power of sin and darkness?

 Whose love is mighty and so much stronger?

 The King of Glory, the King above all kings!

 

 Who shakes the whole earth with holy thunder?

 Who leaves us breathless in awe and wonder?

 The King of Glory, the King above all kings!

 

Who brings our chaos back into order?

 Who makes the orphan a son and daughter?

 The King of Glory, the King above all kings!

 

 Who rules the nations with truth and justice?

 Shines like the sun in all of its brilliance?

 The King of Glory, the King above all kings!

 

This Is Amazing Grace, by Phil Wickham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjXjkbODrro

 

 

And the Lord will rescue me from all evil and take me safely into his heavenly Kingdom.

To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

2 Timothy 4:18 (GNT)