Choices are for the Living
2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
Have you ever wondered how the old is gone, and the new is here? I believe the answer can be found in Romans12:2(a) “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." The only way the old can leave is by renewing the mind with the new.
As I was getting ready for my day last week the Lord spoke these words into my spirit, “Find out who you are in Christ or you will become someone you’re not.” Wow! As I stood there pondering His words I quickly realized His people are truly perishing because of lack of knowledge. (Hosea 4:6)
The numbers would probably be astonishing on the amount of people who don’t know who they are in Christ. I can’t tell you how many times I hear these words, “It runs in my family.” I believe blood bought believers repeated Romans 10:9, “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. But many of those believers stopped reading right there, what if we would continued reading through Romans 9:10, “For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess you are saved.”
Readers, here is a very important truth, it is with your heart that you believe, and what you believe in your heart will come out of your mouth according to Matthew 12:34(b), “For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” What are you speaking, what is your confession? In our family if someone confesses a lie, contrary to the Word of God we say, “If that is your confession.” It makes you stop and think about what you believe, what you’re accepting as your truth, what you have chosen to believe in your heart and confess with your mouth. Satan has but one job on this earth, and that is to change your confession. How does he do it? By using the very thing God told us to use for our salvation, “our mouth.” Here is how I think it works; Satan knows the scriptures better than most, remember he was an archangel fallen from Heaven. He plants seeds of doubt, delay, discouragement, defeat, and diversion in the mind of the believer, but you make them grow with the power of your words. Listen Readers, Satan does not have the power to make the seeds grow only you do, by what you confess. A person who is always speaking a negative confession over themselves is like a deadly disease which rapidly spreads through the body. You have allowed yourself to become dehydrated from the water of the Word. Many of you feed yourself a diet made up of nothing but the seeds of Satan. Words have become your addition of choice, just like a person who has a food addition feeds their selves the food of their choice, most of it being junk food. The only cure is allowing a transformation of the mind. Romans 12:2(a), "do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Some of you have let the pattern of this world conform who you are. As I was writing I had a vision of a seamstress who was making a dress, the seamstress already had the fabric, the sewing machine, the thread, and the needles; all she needed now was the pattern. As the seamstress fumbled through all the different types of patterns she had made over the years she pulled out the one that was most familiar, the one she is most comfortable making, and begins to sew. Although the seamstress has new fabric she is still using an old pattern. Readers, this is what many of us do after we become believers, we are new creations in Christ we have been cut from a new piece of fabric, but we tend to want use an old pattern, (the world) to resort back to what was comfortable, what was familiar, what was an old habit, instead of the pattern of God’s Word. Choices are for the living….Find out who you are in Christ or you will become someone you’re not. Meditate on these scriptures this week…Eph.2:8, Romans 1:7,Ps.91:10,11,,Phil 4:13,Gal 2:20 1Peter 2:24,Col.2:7, 1John 5:18, 2Cor.4:18, 2 Cor. 10:4,5 2 Cor. 5:21, Gen 1:31. I will give you more next week.
Casting my net for Jesus….Michele Davenport
To order my books, one being a true story about my life called “Ripened on the Vine”, or my Devotional called, “From My Heart to Yours”, go to our web page fbministries.comListen Readers, I had an awesome opportunity to serve in my community Friday afternoon and I wanted to share my amazing experience with you. I went to the Shepherd’s Staff Food Pantry located at 1311 Sanders in Harrisonville and helped distribute over 15,000 pounds of food to over 300 families it was truly a blessing to work a long side of these wonderful people who were accurately living it out for the Glory of God, they are living God’s Word not just discussing it. If you live in Cass County and are interested in volunteering for this worthy cause please contact Delbert (816-769-4988) at Shepherd’s Food Pantry they need volunteers every Friday from 2-6pm. “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40) Choices are for the Living…Make a difference, volunteer. Any and all donations are welcomed…. See you there.
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