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 Prayer Email archive:(04/06/2001) true change
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| Hello prayer warriors,
1. Prayer note: true change I've been recently talking about perspective. I've had a breakthrough in my life just by changing my perspective. God has really ministered to me through the prayer emails. If we have been looking at our lives with the wrong perspective, we need to come before God and repent. The wrong perspective will rob us of our lives and of our blessings. What is repentance? Repentance comes from the Greek word "metanoia" which means a change of mind. My pastor recently said true change is effortless. I have been pondering on what that meant. I think I've understood. There is a difference between us trying to change and us allowing God to change us. [Isaiah 30:41] But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. I used to think that renewing my strength is coming before God and letting God make me stronger, take whatever little strength that is within me and take it to another level. I just got a revelation when my pastor expounded this passage. The word renew also means to exchange. When the eagle grows older, his feathers become worn out, his beak cracks, his claws become blunt. The eagle will then fly to a high ground and fast. Slowly, the eagle will shed off his old feathers and receive brand new feathers. It was an exchange, not renewing of old feathers but an exchange. The same when I come before God and I wait upon Him. I need to surrender my strength in order to receive His. That's how true change comes about. It is yielding yourself and your will to God. If you find it difficult to forgive, you find it difficult to overcome depression, or you find it difficult to overcome a habitual sin, come before God. Decide first that you want to change (that is what repentance is ... changing our minds). Yield to Him. God cannot change us against our will. We change our minds by first saying "yes, I want to forgive, yes, I want to overcome". We confess His Words. We change our minds and cause our minds to submit to the truth of the Word of God. When that happens, we will experience the true change. It will become effortless. It is that moment in time, when our minds are yielded to God and that point in time when we repent. The reason why it is effortless is because you are no longer using your own strength, but allowing God to exchange His strength with yours. One of my friends recently gave up smoking and he told me that it was effortless. He has tried to stop smoking by smoking a little lesser each day, by using his own strength but it did not work. One day, he came before God and DECIDED that he wanted to quit and asked God to help him. It was after that point in time when he changed his mind and decided that he really wanted to stop that things changed. It was not a gradual change but an immediate change. He lost the desire to smoke. Another friend have been struggling with an emotional problem and one day, just by revelation and yielding herself to God, she said that she was able to overcome. It was a point in time, not a life-long process of using your own strength, but that point in time when you yield yourself to God, decide that you want to change your mind and asked God to help you. It starts with a decision to change our minds. Until you decide, you will never repent. Once you have decided, wait on God for God to help you and you will experience real change, not on your own strength, but with God's strength. 2. New prayer requests: i. Marriage restoration -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1772&table=prayer ii. Shining Light thru Christ -- lems http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1774&table=prayer iii. For a lady with cancer -- gmles http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1776&table=prayer iv. Pray for me -- rdaugherty http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1777&table=prayer v. Finding a new job -- bbbarber http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1778&table=prayer vi. prayer request -- rangerd http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1779&table=prayer vii. kayleigh kotze -- flo http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1780&table=prayer 3. Prayer update: i. update on sister's pregnancy -- aschnadelbach http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1783&table=prayer 4. Number of prayer warriors: 768 We welcome praisethelord2u2, jehlers44, josephbpcl, emily_horton, joe, hzchild, katie, bbbarber, flo, kabeh, forgodistand, shaunicel and ptayu into our prayer group. 1 has unsubsribed and 4 emails have become invalid. in Christ, Wai Hun |
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| Friday, April 06, 2001 10:49:34 AM waihun | |
changed on Friday, April 06, 2001 11:01:59 AM |
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