God can change you. God is deep. God is mysterious. We can never know all of Him but He knows everything about us. The innermost parts of us. He knows us better than we know ourselves for He created us (Psalm 139). Don't limit God. Don't think anything is impossible with God. Don't think you can never change. Ask God in. Ask Him to totally take over you and watch how He will empower you to be like Him.
There is a prayer I love to pray constantly. "Father, anything that is in me that is not of you, please remove it. Anything that will prevent me from experiencing the fullness of you, please remove it and the taste of it permanently from my mouth. Fill me with more of your Holy Spirit and less of my flesh. Make me to be more like you, that when you look upon me you find me pleasing to your sight". And when God began to answer this prayer, it amazed me. Suddenly, things I used to enjoy before, I no longer found pleasure in them. I began to wonder what was wrong with me because I could no longer fit into the world like before. The world no longer held any excitement for me. All I wanted was more, more and more of God. I then realized the power of the prayer I had been praying. God was truly changing me and making me peculiar. This scripture I had learned as a memory verse when I was child now became real to me. I am chosen, I am royalty - the royalty of God not of man, I am holy and acceptable unto God - for I must be holy to be used by a holy God, I am peculiar to the world, He has called me out of darkness into His marvelous light. Light exposes, purifies and expunges. God is light and His instruments which are you and me, must shine. In order to be used fully by God, He must take away the darkness in us. The parts of us that yearns to blend in with the world and do what other human beings are doing. In order to be holy and to look more like Him and be like Him, love what He loves and hate what He hates, we must be pruned of our worldly ways. This is a lifetime journey and requires living daily in the will of God. You and I need God every single day. We need His power and purification daily because the flesh and the spirit are naturally contrary to each other (Galatians 5:17), the flesh must be crucified for the Spirit of God to prevail in our lives.
When God begins to work in us, we suddenly find we are no longer satisfied with earthly standards. The Spirit of God takes us to a greater height in order to serve an excellent and perfect God. God is holy and God is perfect, the only way we can be holy and acceptable to Him, the only way we can be perfected to do what He has called us to do, to be who He has created us to be, is to invite Him in daily to overtake us. The things that were previously impossible for us, will now be possible.
Let me give you an example. I have always loved to sing and have been doing so since I was 6 but I could never write a song. I would start writing but have "writer's block". I had friends who could write with ease, but I could not. I slowly accepted I would never write a song. Not all singers are songwriters anyway, so I didn't let it discourage me. But let me tell you something. When I prayed a prayer of total surrender to God. And I told Him that He should just freely have His way in me and activate the gifts in my life that He had put in me to serve Him effectively. Suddenly, I was hearing songs in my spirit. I was shocked! I have now learned to have a recording device close when I am worshipping God because new songs begin to come out of my mouth and I must document it. David said in Psalm 40:3 that God put a new song in his mouth and I am telling you it is the same for me. I always thought when I would eventually work on my album it would be only English songs but that is not God's plan for my life. I am hearing ethnic songs in my spirit. Since I have fully yielded myself to God to be used by Him, I am not complaining or arguing with my Maker. He knows the best for me. He knows the people He wants me to reach. He is showing me how great He is by enabling me sing in languages I do not fully understand so I can discover the depth of His power. Language is powerful and God is teaching me a lot. It is very exciting being led by the Spirit of God.
I challenge you today to be totally sold out for God and watch Him make the impossible possible in your life. Things you could never do. Things you never thought you could do, you will begin to do.
"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”
Ephesians 3:20 KJV
God has created you for a purpose in your generation. You must inquire of Him what exactly He has created you for. That is why we have gifts and talents. All are to be used for the glory for God. God can only fully use us once we are heavenly minded and living for eternity with Him and nothing in this world. Once God is a priority in your life and you make it known you are here to serve Him. And you ask Him to equip you for your purpose. You will be amazed at what you will be able to accomplish. I am now at a place where I can finally work on my music and I tell you it is God's music divinely from His throne room. I could not imagine having an ethnic song on my album because I don't speak any language other than English very well. But God created people who do not speak English and He wants me to reach them. Even those who speak languages other than English but also speak and understand English fluently, when they truly want to express themselves deeply they switch to their ethnic language. There are some words where the English language is not sufficient enough to express from the heart. God understands this as the Maker of languages. God is awesome!
I am excited and joyful to be discovering parts of me that will fulfill my calling. Parts of me that will move the Kingdom of God forward in areas I could never foresee. Where I am weak, He is making me strong. What I cannot do, He is sending divine helpers of destiny to ensure I do it. If He can do it for me, why will He not do it for you? He loves you so much. Please give your life to Him in totality and watch Him work through you. Let us humble ourselves and let our Maker work through us. Walking with God demands a lot of sacrifice because He requires a faithful heart. And you will be tested to see how faithful you are. God will meet you at whatever level you give to Him but I encourage you to grow and seek more of Him. If you want to experience the fullness of God and true intimacy with God, you must sacrifice a lot but it truly pays off. The happiest I have been in my life is when I fully surrendered to God to have His way come what may. The storms still rage and life gets real hard but nothing and no one can steal my joy because I know who I am in God and I know what I am living for. I have chosen to make Heaven and reign with my King. Whatever will prevent me from ruling with King Jesus at the end of my life or when He comes back to rapture His Church I have asked Him to remove. And I am glad to see the changes within me all to the glory of God. There is nothing wrong with you once you begin changing to God's specifications. All is right with you my friend, and all is well with you. God is real. We must live for Him now so we can reign with Him in eternity. If the world calls you weird or strange or peculiar, be happy for your Father has made you peculiar. It is a high compliment to be called peculiar because it means you fit in with God and fitting in with God is what counts. The path to Heaven is narrow but glorifying Him with our peculiarity ensures we will make it.
If you will like to fully surrender your life to Christ. If you are ready for a change and tired of being stuck and stagnant. Humbly repent and ask God to fully take you over. Rededicate your life to Him and begin a new chapter in your life. Read the Blog Post: Invite Jesus into your Heart. Congratulations, for your life will never be the same again. God loves you and so do I!
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