I'm Not Just Different, I Am Better!
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A Change In Me
A Change In Me
Before I knew who I am and before I came into a relationship with Our Father; what the world’s systems told me, I believe that and chased that, which had me believing I was not worthy to be in His Holy Presence or to be called As Him in the earth - That I was not worthy of God saving me and rescuing me!
Thus, I would allow my thinking to keep me from realizing the Change That had taken place due to the encounter. . .
Saul (Paul) was on his way to persecute more believers of The Way, but he had an encounter and was never the same afterwards!
Before, he was zealous for the law, but afterwards, he was zealous for God’s Will being done and that was to ensure that we all realize that God’s Will is for us too!
“He that has an ear, let him hear;” I believe what this reference is this: Those who desire to listen wholeheartedly, suffer them not to receive The True Word of The Lord!
I used to only hear, but now I listen - No longer do I just hear what God is saying, I listen so that His Word saturates my soul and I can allow those walls to be torn down that hinders me from going into the place of Better!
Paul was better after the encounter - Not just different, but better - not just delivered but better!
You cannot have an encounter with God and remain the same!
God’s Word along with The Holy Spirit; not only changes you but increases you - And because you have received fully His Word - There will be no end: Isaiah 9:6-7 (NKJV) 6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Being Better lets you know that regardless of the current outcome, you will not be overcame by what is going on in this world!
So many are in the blame game, trying to get their point across, but it does not matter who did what, Our Father will handle it; we are to gird ourselves up and not be consumed with the the world’s issues. . . Yes, I know the gas is high, food is high, everything is high, but there is nothing Higher Than God!
In all things I give God Glory - I give Him Praise - From the rising of the Sun, to the going down of the same!
His Word has been revealed and has caused me to be better, so I must put down the lust of the flesh, and live by faith -
Romans 1:17 (NKJV) 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
When you have changed, the enemy will attempt to convince you that your change is not steadfast - He will use all kinds of tactics, trying to convince you that God does not care for you!
Just because you are different, but better; some people who remember your old, will attempt to keep you there!
There are those also that you can do a million things right for, but that one thing they feel you did them wrong in, will be exacerbated more than those great things you have done!
Paul is encouraging the knowers of The Word to hold fast to what they have heard; not just hear, but listen to the words and be doers of His Word
It is alright to be different, as a matter of fact, you should be different: Ephesians 5:14-17 (NKJV)
14 Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light." 15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Too much just hearing and not doing - We not only hear, but listen to His Word - Allow His Word to saturate
It does no matter when you received it, first or last, as long as you do not allow your position to be changed by the actions of the enemy!
Paul says; 1 Corinthians 15:8-10
8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
The world systems will/have caused our view to be skewed - But Grace corrects our vision - Grace lets me know that regardless of who I was, although I may be different, but because of Grace, I am Better!
There were those Corinthians that did not believe in the resurrection - They could not fathom Christ Is Living - I have come to realize that when things are out of our power, rule or control, we tend to denounce it as being able to authentic!
The enemy desires to convince you that you are not authentic - he wants you to think on those things beneath and not above - And because we tend to move our focus from “Better” we allow moments of weakness to enter in and trouble our soul, but Grace says - Not Today!
Paul says; 1 Corinthians 15:31 “31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”
This is not saying everyday is a bad day, there are no such things; everyday I get better because I have confidence in Christ Jesus Our Lord!
Because I am no longer connected to the before - Everyday I Am New!
I may be different but I am Better - There is a reason you need to awaken to the fact that you are “Better:”
Better = To bear through, to differ, surpass, be more excellent, to collect, to bring together, bear together, be good, profitable, to excel. . .
I realize we are in the season of Lent - The days before The Resurrection of Christ - His Resurrection that made us better!
But before His resurrection, He had to be born to make us all better - Isaiah 9:6 “6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Because of His Birth, we do not worry about the world’s systems - the plot of the enemy because He was born to make us Better - He gave us The Way - The Only Way - The Best, Better, Greatest Way
And when the enemy decides that he wants to destroy your Better; remember that no weapon formed will prosper - God has the Power to send the enemy’s designed plot into New Directions - Matthew 2:12 “12 Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.”
It could have been another way for me today - But 1 Corinthians 15:57 “57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Jesus was different, but Much More Than Better - He was The Difference - And He said “Greater things will you do. . .”
We are designed to do better things and greater things because of Him Being Different - And taking away the sin of the before, and giving us an afterwards!
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.