“CHANGE!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 600

October 11, 2022

Can people change? Have you ever heard someone say, “They are just bent toward trouble, meanness, and evil”? Have you ever heard someone say or maybe have said it yourself, “They will never change”?

May I tell you those feelings and statements are not from Almighty God, Creator of the Universe. Never give up praying and believing for a change in a person!

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Jesus redeems each one who will believe, into a New Creation from the inside out!

Look with me at a few of the many in the word who were changed:

>>Saul was changed from a persecutor of believers to the Apostle Paul who was a proclaimer of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

>>Peter was changed from a fisherman to a fisher of men and later from a coward to a mighty Church Leader and Evangelists!

>>Mary Magdalene was changed from having seven demons to being a devoted Follower of Jesus and the first to see Him after the Resurrection!

>>Matthew was changed from a hated dishonest tax collector to a faithful disciple and a writer of the miracles of Jesus!

>>The men who lived in the tomb and could not be tamed by any means, was delivered, and became evangelist to the entire region!

>>Blind Bartimaeus was changed from physical blindness to both physical and spiritual sight!

2 Corinthians 4:6-7 (KJV)
⁶ For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Genesis 18:14 (KJV)
IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

The Lord is asking us that question today! Is anything too hard for our Lord? We would say no, but what do our actions show?

Do we just write people off because they are rebellious, obnoxious, see nothing wrong with their evil doing, live for pleasure and just do as they please?

Lord, forgive us for unloving statements like they are just mean, or evil, or any negative thing we might say about a person that the Lord God Loves completely and desires the best for.

May we understand that we do not see clearly, we do not know the heart or hurts of the person we are about to give up on!

God is a God of change and if we really believe that we will understand and walk in the Love of Jesus and pray fervently for those who need Him most!

Mark 10:27 (KJV)
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Our Loving Heavenly Father can change anyone into the image of Jesus Christ!

2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
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.

Pray and release those to the Lord who you just feel will never change knowing the one who made them can change them and bring forth His plans in their life. The enemy of all that is good blinds people eyes so they cannot see the truth, but prayer and the declaration of the word can pull those blinders off their Spiritual eyes, and they can see clearly to believe.

Can a person change? Absolutely! From the inside out and we can let the Spirit of God make changes in us also, on a continually basis. Press toward the mark of being like Jesus!

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Father, in Jesus’ name I come with a heart of thanksgiving that you are a God who never gives up on those who have lost their way or who are wondering blindly, following the lies of satan! Fill us with your Love that looks beyond all our faults and sees our needs! Your Love never fails. Help each one who reads this be your hand extended and change the world through your Love, even one person at a time! Mold each of us into a vessel of Honor to be used by you! Amen!

Let possible fill your hearts and minds!

Love, MeMaw