LIFE CHANGING

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.

We sometimes hear of people who have life changing experiences where they maybe had an accident, or an illness occurred, and their lives changed. But when we read the gospels we meet Jesus who changed peoples’ lives wherever He went, for the better.😊

The people who came to Him and the ones He sought out, the ones who were sceptical at first, and those who fell in worship at His feet, once they encountered Jesus one on one, their lives were never the same again. It’s the same for us today, knowing Jesus changes our past, our present and our destiny.

He is the central figure in all of history and if we have given our lives to Jesus, if we’re spending time with Him, remembering His goodness, His faithfulness, lifting our eyes off your circumstances and looking at how great our God is, we will be changing all the time, from one degree of glory to another, to become more like Him.😊 

God wants us to have an encounter with Him on a daily moment by moment basis because of His great love for us. His plan hasn’t changed. He wants us to know Him intimately, to have ongoing revelation of who He is, how He thinks and what He wants to do for us and in us, so we can be changed for the better and reach others with His love, so we can experience the plans He has for us.

Hebrews tells us God rewards those who diligently seek Him, whose hearts are turned towards Him and He is inviting us to stop and seek Him today and allow His love to flow into us and receive His mercy and grace to change our lives for the better throughout each day, moment by moment, as we navigate our new week.😊 Amen.

ASKING FOR MORE

James 4:2 NKJV …Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

There is a famous quote from Charles Dickens’ novel, where the boy Oliver asks for more and as I sat the other morning I felt the Lord say, “You can always ask for more!” I’m already asking for a lot but He said ask for more!😊 Whatever it is you need, whether it’s more grace, more strength, family to be saved, more money, a better job, more wisdom, more health, for your marriage to be sweeter, for a spouse, whatever you need, God says we can ask for more!

I hope that encourages you to get your faith out today, to brush it off and look at what you’ve been asking God for so far. The bible tells us repeatedly to ask God for things, so He means what He says and wants to grab our attention! 

How is your asking lately? Have you been asking for anything at all or has your asking been too small? What vision/dream have you written down for your life? Remember, where there is no vision the people perish!😊

God wants our ‘ask’ to grow with our faith, to believe He can do the impossible. To not just ask for the possible but to stretch our faith and ask for the impossible.😊 Stretch our faith to see ourselves doing whatever is in our heart, no matter how far out of reach it is at the minute. Stretch our faith to see ourselves going to the places God has given us a desire to go, to see ourselves growing in our relationship with God where we know Him more deeply.

God is not fazed by how big our ‘Ask’ is!  The command is to ask, and God said to David at one point, ‘I would have given you more if you had asked!’ Are we asking? See it in your mind and ask for it!

God wants us to know Him, to trust Him and to believe Him for great things. We may be praying for a family member to be saved, God says He will give us nations! You may be praying for money to pay the rent or the monthly mortgage. God says to ask for it to be paid off in full! God wants us to expand our thinking, expand our asking, but also to expand our receiving.

We may have a choke hold on so that it’s hard to receive because we don’t feel we deserve it, or we have false humility, or small thinking. God says to take the choke hold off!

Let His Spirit do what He wants to do for you, and in you, and simply ‘Ask for more!”, ask for something that only He can do, that let’s others see our God is awesome!😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊