Transformed

In traveling to visit my parents, I pass by this vehicle two times each trip, going and returning.

 

As you can see, it no longer "lives." Instead, it stopped "moving," and soon became a planter for any wildlife, plant or animal, to make a home in. It's just a photo op, a curious reminder of days gone by.

 

How did this happen?

 

It lost its power to move forward.

 

 

Prayer in the Name of Jesus is power.  As Christ followers, we abide under the banner of His name. Charles Finney wrote, "Jesus Christ gives you the use of His name. And when you pray in the name of Christ the meaning of it is, that you can prevail just as well as He could Himself, and receive just as much as God’s well beloved Son would if He were to pray Himself for the same things.”

 

Praying mom, that is why, as Fern Nichols wrote, that we must not passively allow Satan the thief to steal, kill, & destroy our loved ones. We must respond with warfare prayers. As mothers, our fervent prayers in the Name of Jesus over our children's lives have the power to keep them moving forward.

 

Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name

He will give you.

John 16:23b (NKJV)

 

Peter wrote that God wants all to come to repentance and not be destroyed. (2 Peter 3:9b) That means, as John wrote, we can be "sure of this, that He will listen to us whenever we ask Him for anything in line with His will. And if we really know He is listening when we talk to Him and make our requests, then we can be sure that He will answer us." (1 John 5:14-15 TLB)

 

My father is a retired mechanic. In his younger days, he would take a car no longer road worthy, fix it up and sell it for a profit.

 

Our God does more than fix up the broken and rusty, He is in the business of transformation.

 

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,

are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory,

just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)

 

Don't give up, praying mom, even if your child's life appear to be overcome by "wildlife." Claim God's desire for salvation over his/her life. Keep praying His powerful living Word over him/her. And gather as many others to join you as possible.

 

Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah)

he is a new creation (a new creature altogether);

the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away.

Behold, the fresh and new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:17 (AMP)