I really love today's "From Faith To Faith" by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland!
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2
Inside, you're perfect—born again in the image of Jesus Himself. But outwardly do you find yourself falling frustratingly short of that perfection? Is there a solution? Yes! The secret lies in "the renewing of your mind."
Romans 12:2 tells us that, if you'll renew your mind, you can actually be "transformed." That word transformed is translated from the Greek word from which we get the term metamorphosis. It's used in Scripture in two other places.
One of those places is when Jesus was transfigured on the Mount as He spoke with Moses and Elijah. The other is found in 2 Corinthians 3:18. It says, "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."
Changed, transformed, transfigured! Those are powerful, exciting words, and they describe what will happen to you as you spend time beholding the Lord in the Word and in prayer. As you spend time renewing your mind, your outer being will be transformed in much the same way as a caterpillar is changed into a butterfly. Instead of conforming to the image of the world, you'll begin to conform to the image of the reborn spirit within you which is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Take time to get away from the world and study God's Word. Meditate on it and let it change you from the inside out. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind and release the beautiful spiritual butterfly that's living in you!
All those who have received Jesus as Lord and Savior have been born again (John 3:3) Holy Spirit instantly changed our dead spirits into the image of God and we were made new creatures that never existed before! It happened immediately at the New Birth! Our bodies will be changed instantly, in a moment, at the catching away of the Church (1 Corinthians 15:52). Our souls (mind, emotion and will), however, are changed, progressively, day by day, as we spend time in His Word! I LOVE those words above: changed, transformed, transfigured. His Word is so very powerful! Dare to believe, are to receive and dare to act on what you see in the Word and allow HIM to confirm that Word in your life! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "I Surrender":Shalom in Him!
