LORD, Change Me

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“But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” James 4:6-10

NEVER enthrone your own study or supposed knowledge of God. Subjective. Pride. You know nothing outside of Christ! Becoming and remaining humble, teachable, pliable, and correctible are proof you are known of God (Matthew 18:3-4; Ecclesiastes 4:13).

“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Ecclesiastes 12:12

“And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;” 1 Thessalonians 4:11

One of the ways we all learn is when we are being corrected for the wrongs, the faults we have or the sins we’ve committed. This is a demonstration of God’s love for us (Proverbs 3:12; Hebrews 12:5-11; Revelation 3:19). The key is humble repentance and amending our ways as we allow the LORD Jesus, through the daily cross life, to conform us to His holy image (Luke 9:23-24; Romans 8:29, etc.).

May our LORD pour His fresh oil from Heaven upon our hearts today, causing us to be humble, repentant, teachable, and pliable, in the name of Jesus Christ.

IF you are filled with pride and therefore not teachable, you cannot and will not learn of the LORD! (Proverbs 1:5; 15:32; James 4:6-10)

“The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. 32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. 33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.” Proverbs 15:31-33

“Heavenly Father, here I am. I am Yours. You created me for Your purpose and glory in Christ Jesus my LORD. Please give me all I need to not only accomplish Your will with joy, but also to be most satisfied with only You than with anything and anyone else. In the name of Jesus I ask!” David Taylor

Beloved of God, IF GOD is doing a work in you, and you are acquiescing, it cannot and will not be stopped!!! “Abide” in Him! (John 15:1-6)

“Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:24

Not long after I was found and saved by our LORD, a caring friend gave me a small paperback book titled LORD Change Me by Evelyn Christensen. The Bible-based message conveyed in this writing was to alter the rest of my life and eternity.

Summed up, the message of this writing titled LORD Change Me, was that I should seek to change the one person God gave me to change – myself, and cease from the preoccupation of thoughts about who else around me needed change. That is their Maker’s place, not mine.

The root cause of being unteachable is pride.

“Too many flying at the mouth and forsaking the place of prayer. Spiritual pride is real. Everyone wants to think they know… I’m learning that I’m an idiot when compared to God. God is all-wise. He’s all I need and all I want and I don’t mind being dumb until he opens my mouth with HIS spirit. God can tell me to sit down and shut up or block my path or dry up my rivers… Just let me be submitted to Him and be found submitted to Him when I die or else I’m a fool.” J.

Being preoccupied with the need we personally have to be changed is all-important. God has preordained us to be changed, transformed into His image (Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18). Being focused on the person who needs the most change – ourselves, will allow for, will facilitate such as we seek the LORD (1 Chronicles 16:11). Only then can our LORD begin to use us to help others (Gal. 6:1-2; 2 Tim. 2:21, etc.).

“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8:29

Change and being conformed into the image of Christ requires a broken and constantly repenting heart and is an essential component for the wise-virgin believer in readiness for the return of the Bridegroom for those who are being washed/purified by His blood and Word (Matt. 25:1-13; Eph. 5:25-27; 1 Jn. 1:7; Rev. 12:11).

Pride, stubbornness and an unteachable heart are the antithesis (total enemy and hindrance) to a healthy and growing life with the LORD.

The pliable heart that has no idols but only desires more of God, is that which facilitates unhindered growth and blessing of life from above.

This message is repeated four times in Scripture; “To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” (Heb. 4:7)

May God grant us now a pliable heart of flesh and take away the stony places in our hearts. (Ezek. 36:26) Help us LORD.

“O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.” Jeremiah 18:6

Natural clay cannot be molded until it is wet. The human heart cannot be made pliable until it is wet with the presence of God the Holy Spirit who will only inhabit the heart postured in humility. (James 4:6-10, etc.)

The LORD promises on numerous occasions that those who hide their sins, instead of relinquishing them, have ceased from growing in the life of God and are in grave danger:

“He that covereth (hides) his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13

The life of repenting (turning) from what we currently are and toward the LORD is essential to having God’s glory in us – the glory that transforms our lives into His image (2 Cor. 3:18).

“Refreshing” with the water of His Spirit is promised to those who repent (Acts 3:19). What are we waiting for?! A life with the Savior is one of constant change and transformation which is made possible by regular repentance before the LORD of life. Let’s get used to it saints!

Remember with me that we were created/made in His image, right? (Gen. 1:26-27) And, after the fall of man into sin we are saved through Jesus Christ, and now after being bought back (redeemed), are predestined to be conformed into His image.

“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8:29

Change can be painful at times, but yields life:

“Now no chastening (corrective change) for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” Hebrews 12:11

“It is because He loves that He does not hesitate to chasten.” FB Meyer

As I read the book LORD Change Me, the Holy Spirit began to change and reconstruct my heart and thought life. The patterns of my heart and mind began to be transformed to realize how utterly in need I truly was (and am). The Holy Ghost and the Biblical message on change began the work of posturing my life for what is important and essential – God and His perpetual change made in my life. We should expect change. We should cry out to the LORD for change – Because it is the will of our God and so needed due to the fact that we are all imperfect and in need of Him who is “the life” (Jer. 17:9; John 14:6).

For the record; Is God changing?

“For I am the LORD, I change not.” Malachi 3:6

He’s perfect already.

HERE’S how God works. Is Jesus digging up and cleaning things from the root out of your life? If so, you know you are right in the center of HIS will!!!!! \ o /

GOD will never change. He’s working to change YOU today. Are you complying?

Pour prayerfully over Jeremiah 1:10 and notice the 6 things God does when He’s working in your life! Oh, and notice the order of those things…..

“See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.” Jeremiah 1:10

This is His process in the lives of those who are crying out to Him, right? Amazing. Psalms 51, etc…. It seems that Jesus first de-structs or destroys and removes the evil things in our hearts, minds, lives, and then He con-structs His truth and fruit and character in the place evil once held the ground, right? Love it!

Are those who are truly seeking Him and love Him changing?

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 3:18

Note here that those who “behold…the glory of the LORD” are “changed” into His “image…from glory to glory.” This informs us that there are levels and stages of change and growth all the way through our walk with the LORD on earth and that these occur as we “behold…the LORD”. Your life is at one place of glory now and there is another one awaiting your being conformed to His image as you seek His face.

A life of repenting of our sins and wrong beliefs is essential to growing in the LORD and into His perfect image. This occurs by the in-depth study of His Word and the Holy Spirit, the Author of the Word. We must behold His face in order to grow and go from one place of glory with Him to the next. “But we all, with open face (transparency) beholding…the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (2 Cor. 3:18)

Okay, notice also that the Holy Spirit is the One who does the changing and work that only He can do, as we behold the face of Jesus Christ and seek His change. Note the phrase “as by the Spirit of the Lord” in 2 Corinthians 3:18. Also, see Romans 8:13.

We are “predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son.” (Rom. 8:29) Work is involved in this process – ours and His.

We should seek and expect change and when praying for others, know that this is His will for all of us. No need to wonder what to pray for ourselves and humbly hope for others. The Word tells us the He wants to conform all of His children to His holy image and this can only be accomplished when we are broken, humble and anticipating His glorious change!

Prayer: Holy Father, I beg You to grant me a teachable and pliable heart! Change me Jesus! Conform me to your precious image and make me an instrument in Your holy hands to bring blessings into the lives of others. I love You Jesus. Thank You for dying on that cross for my sins and thank You Father for raising Your only Begotten Son from the dead! In the name of Jesus I pray and thank You now for changing me now, from the inside out, and for conforming this life to the image of Your Son Father!!! In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.” Galatians 5:6

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” Matthew 5:44

“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” Romans 13:10

“For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.” James 2:13

“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.” Colossians 3:14

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-8

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Breakdown of Jesus’ Teaching in Matthew 6

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How to Pray.
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The Importance of Laying up Treasure in Heaven.

Matthew 6

Giving to the Needy

“1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.”

The Disciple’s Prayer

“5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

Fasting

“16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.”

Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

“19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

Fear Not

“25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

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“Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.” 2 Peter 3:17

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