Change My Life

If God created the world simply by speaking I wonder if He can create a pure heart in me as I surrender to Jesus as Savior and Lord? If Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead is it possible He could raise me up to a new life of salvation from here to heaven? If the Lord parted the Red Sea can He help me part ways with old habits and sins through the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:13)? If God the Father loves sinners and forgives prodigals do you suppose there’s a chance He’ll forgive me when I confess my sins to Him? If God gave the apostle Paul and young Timothy a spirit of power, love and discipline, will He give me the same spirit as well so I don’t have to live in fear of persecution, failure and defeat?
 
Instead of listening to that snake in the grass Satan and living in fear, doubt, depression, guilt, anger, selfishness, resentment, bitterness, negativity, self-pity, complaining, etc. how about starting today we trust Jesus and His providential power in our daily lives to the greatest degree ever. How about focusing more on Jesus than all the garbage in our world so we don’t have “garbage in and garbage out” in our every thought? Then we will live close to Jesus with His Holy Spirit helping us have a spirit of joy, peace, confidence, contentment, love, kindness, gentleness, selflessness, etc. If the bible says it then we need to believe it and live it by faith. Read Romans 8:6-17(esp. v.13). Then listen to Change My Life by Ashes Remain.

Romans 8:6-17

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you are living in accord with the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

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