Quotes about Transformation

Have you ever physically turned from a sin and ceased the activity, yet continued to cherish it to some degree in your heart?

You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts. Ephesians 4:17

At times He seemed just like a friend, Unique but one of us. Then suddenly we saw the One Who formed us from the dust.

God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change.

Prayer matters. It's not just words in the air. The Spirit of God released through our prayers and the prayers of others is enough to turn cowards into conquerors, chaos into calm, cries into comfort.

I have given Him permission to take every one of my memories captive to Christ, and now I can no longer see my abuses and sins in their own accord or in the hands of Satan. Now I see them in the healing, forgiving, nail-scarred hands of Jesus where He is cleansing them and transforming them into the stuff of mercy.

Lord, make me a student and take me not home, until You look in my face and see the reflection of Your own.

I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6

If our stubborn minds would absorb that we are accepted by God because of Jesus Christ, our choices and subsequent behaviors would be profoundly affected.

Promised Land theology becomes an earthbound reality only to those who cash in their fear and complacency for the one ticket out of their long-inhabited wilderness.

Those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. Romans 8:29

Have you ever wondered why God goes to the trouble of sanctifying us? He could instantly zap us into His image the moment we decide to follow Jesus, or He could transport us into heaven the moment of our conversion. Why would He opt for taking us through the long, drawn-out process of planting, watering, pruning, and harvesting? But sure enough, He rolls up His sleeves, puts palms to the dirt, and begins putting the pieces of our lives together in a way that matters.