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Good Morning Sunshine! Your Transformation Process Is Over, Now It’s Time For You To Emerge!

Isaiah 43:18-19 a NIV ~ “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. [19] See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”

Romans 12:2 NIV ~ “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

As you learned from yesterday the butterfly starts its journey as a caterpillar with two jobs, to eat and to grow. As a Christian, you have two jobs once you have been saved and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord, it is to feed on God’s Word and to grow in God’s Word, so that you can be used for and by God for His Glory. The growth stages that you go through are designed to propel you into the most important stage. The final stage, where you move from being a caterpillar (the old you) and emerging to the butterfly (the new you)! It is in the becoming, that the stages change, you are transformed from who you once were to who you were created to be from the beginning! God knows your end from your beginning, you just have to go through the process (stop trying to skip stages and processes) learn to enjoy the experiences and encounters as you go!

So, last night I had this thought, what if the caterpillar decided that the changes were too hard, and it was not going to do it? What if it decided it wanted to stay a caterpillar forever? Well, you know this isn’t going to work, the process from caterpillar to butterfly is the natural order and no matter how much it may not want to change, it’s going to change! It cannot stay a caterpillar; it will become a butterfly, whether it wants to or not! Think about a baby, a baby grows from stage to stage until it becomes an adult like you and me! A baby can’t say that I don’t won’t to grow up, I want to remain a baby forever! You don’t have a choice, you will grow up, (so why do you try to use this excuse as a Christian when you don’t won’t to be obedient, do what your Father says. You are without excuse; obedience is better than sacrifice!) You are going to grow whether you like it or not, you just get to choose who you will serve. Joshua 24:15!

Now let’s use our imagination for just a moment then. What if that could really happen? The caterpillar would never reach its full potential, and it would never be all that it was meant to be, a beautiful reflection of God’s splendor and handiwork, an original! Well, think about yourself in the same way, you were made in love by God, and you were made to love Him back, you were made to worship Him! You were made to be a Christian (you just have not surrender to Him, but just know that time is running out, choose now where you want to spend eternity, in Heaven or Hell, only you can make that decision). Your Father is showing you things that you need to change and or let go of, that’s what the processing is for, to help you move from the old self and to embrace the new you, so that you can emerge and become all that you were created to be. It is time for you to reach your full potential! Processing is over, it is time for you to emerge into the beautiful creature that you were designed and destined to be!

But when you refuse to change, or you think it is too hard, you never will reach your full potential (in and of yourself it is hard, but when you give it to God, He performs a miracle. You serve a God who specializes in the Impossible.) You cannot remain where you are and expect to become anything more than what you are right now. You can’t want His blessings and live a disobedient life, you can’t want all good things to happen to you and all you put out is bad, you have to live right. God called you to live a Holy and Righteous life. This means you chose Him over you every time, even when you don’t understand, you still follow His plan, trust Him, He knows the end from the beginning. You need to allow God to work in you, to transform you into the beautiful creation that He established from the beginning, it was and has been His plan all along for you to grow and prosper in Him!

Just as the butterfly was created by God, so are you! You are a reflection of His love, and you could take a lesson or two from them.  First, thing you see is that the transformation process is not easy, change requires the giving up of you, moving from your place of familiar to take up the position of the uncomfortable, but this is where any and everything that is not like God gets removed off of you, when the caterpillar goes through the chrysalis process, it sheds it hairy, slimy form, it grows legs, wings and antennas (all things become new.) It wasn’t easy changing, but it was necessary! Say that again, It Was Necessary! Everything that you went through was necessary to get you to where you are right now! Secondly, you have to learn how to stretch out and flap your wings, yeah sometimes it might be a little hard, but trust the process of God, let His Wind get in you and beneath your wings so that you may fly, for if you are going to be useful to God’s Kingdom, you can’t stay where you are, you have to be willing to feed on the Word and to grow up in the Word!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You Father, Thank You for transforming me into Your beautiful creation! Thank You for making me an original, for there is no one else like me, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made by You! Father, Thank You for giving me just the right amount of food to feed and to grow on, for I love the way it tastes, for Your Word says, Psalm 34:8, “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!” Father Thank You for being the wind beneath me and in me, and through me. Father, I know that changes are not always easy, but I surrender to Your Will, Way and Word, that I may flap my wings and fly. That I may see all that You have in store for me, I may not know the end, but I trust and know that You do, and I know that my end results will be well worth it for my good! Father have Your way, feed me, grow me and transform me into anything that You desire, for I want to be used for You and by You for Your Honor and for Your Glory. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean
Have A Blessed Weekend..

Good Morning Sunshine! It Is Transformation Time!

Romans 12:2 AMP ~ “And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].”

I read this quote from Dr. Maya Angelou, “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” God designed the butterfly to go through an amazing transformation from a bug to beauty on wings, gliding in the wind that He created. God knew what was going to happen. And He knows what is going to happen with you too. He knows how you will be change and transformed also!

A butterfly doesn’t just become a butterfly, it has to be transformed into it, by going through the process of change. Today welcome change, as you are being transformed into who God called you to be!

There it goes, crawling on the ground, hairy and creepy, it’s making its way to your flowers leaf! Do you like caterpillars? They are wormlike creatures that crawl around on the ground and eat everything in sight, even your favorite flower bush? It’s in search of the perfect leaf to begin the butterfly transformation. You may see yourself with little value and worth, but God sees you through His eyes and it’s a different view! He knows the beauty of His creation. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 1 Corinthians 12:7 (ESV)!

Because of God’s Mercy and Grace that has been given to you, the believer, you should live a life of service to God.  Your new way of living, involves you transforming from your old self to the one who lives and acts like God.  This “metamorphosis”, or complete change, involves the renewing of the mind.  And your mind feeds on the true Word of God in order to think with the mind of Christ. You must go through the process to be transformed to walk in the transformation and there is no way to circumvent the process!  “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. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3:18!

The process is always going to be the same, it’s how God designed it. The Egg, the caterpillar must hatch from the egg. You must be, got to be born again to accept Him. John 3:1-8. Now that you have been born, hatched from the egg, you are now a caterpillar, and it’s time to eat, eat everything that you see, sleep with the Word, rest in the Word and meditate on the Word, this is how you are going to grow strong to support your change. In order to be changed spiritually, you must also feed on the Word of the God, the Bible.  The Word is what renews the mind and brings metamorphosis.

Then you transition to the Pupa stage.  This is where you grow your wings, legs, antennae that make up the butterfly.  Now as you grow into a Christian the food, the Word that you ate, helps develop your spiritual attributes, your faith, your love and your character, things that were not present in your former self. You have moved from your old self to your new self! It’s where the fruit of the Spirit is evident and established in you! And it is evidence that you are not the same as you were. Now you have arrived, you are a beautiful butterfly that is able to fly into the purpose that you were made to be by God, and to reproduce another believer just like you, one who is mature and Christ-like! Mark 16:15 AMP, “And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

When the world looks at you, they should see Jesus, they should see a Christian. One who has been changed from caterpillar, your former, sinful selves into beautiful butterfly that reflect the image of your Savior Jesus Christ! It is my hope that you would continue to feed on the Word of God and allow the Word to change you into who God destined you to be and that you might share the Gospel wherever you go, in order to make new disciples wherever ever you can throughout your journey!

Let’s Pray:
Father, Thank You! Father, search me and know my heart. Try me and know my anxious thoughts and see if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. Father, I choose to crucify my flesh during this transformation time, break and remove everything that is not like You off of my life. Please remove all distractions and unholy influence that have tried to hold me captive! I stand before you open and acknowledging the areas of my life that need your refining fire. I want to be free! Father, I Thank You for transforming my heart and filling it with what You desire to be in me. Father, mold me into the person You created me to be. Fill me with the fruits of your Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Father, grant me the wisdom to discern Your voice above the noise of every other voice I hear. Father, empower me to embrace every season and stage of my transformation process that I may be just like You, for my good and for Your Glory. In the Name of Jesus Christ! Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean