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Why is change so hard. Is it because of being satisfied? Is it just to far out of our comfort zone? Or maybe control issues? Perhaps it’s scared of failure and taking a risk? Whatever the answer you come up with I am convinced of one thing, lack of change or refusing change goes totally against the way Christ intended for us to live. I am not talking about doctrine, covenants, or even convictions I am talking methodology.
When will the church take a risk or better yet act in total faith that anything God’s people do, when motive and intention are in line with Christ, that it’s really no risk at all. It’s what true faith is all about. How can we see the miraculous, experience the supernatural, or change the apathy of the body of believers if we do not take a risk. Faith can’t grow if it’s never tested. The body of Christ was never meant to plod along calculating every move to the crossing of the “T” and dotting of the “I”, it is to reach beyond the average and challenge everything that we count as safe. This is the only way we move into another dimension of Spirit, leadership, and anointing.
It all rest on the willingness to CHANGE.
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I pray that I am always willing to change according to Gods will.
Comment by Jared Whitlock November 26, 2008 @ 8:07 pmThings are either growing or dieing. When we refuse to change and grow, then we start to die. Thanks Bro Tim! Great thoughts.
Comment by Nathan 'Nate' LeJeune November 27, 2008 @ 10:30 am1. CHANGE = to take the form, nature, content, of (something)and make it different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone:
2. to transform or convert into
3. to substitute another or others for; exchange for something else, usually of the same kind: 4. to give and take reciprocally; interchange: to change places with someone.
NO MATTER WHAT DEFINITION WE CHOOSE…..IT MUST HAPPEN TO US ALL!!!!
Comment by tj November 28, 2008 @ 5:29 pm=
No one is more ready than I am! Great thoughts.
Comment by Farah November 28, 2008 @ 8:59 pmChange…. and my simple thoughts on it
I don’t know… it seems like all of my life I have either fought against the machine of life or have resisted my own need to change. And the resistance was at times, due to lethargy, fear or arrogance. Or maybe the lack of change was simply because I had lost my own identity.
Not sure how to put “Change” and all that it is and all that it isn’t in a box with a bow on it ~ ya’ll.
But I DO know that change can not be born using the collective residual energy that lies at the bottom of our daily box of thoughts and rocks.
Change does NOT happen using the wasted and resigned creative juices that sit in the closet corner of our minds.
Change does NOT come by chance or circumstance.
So what IS Change??????????
I guess for me change is born when I consciously CHOOSE! When I am daily making intentional decisions for change I find myself staring down the snarling faces of fear, rejection and resistance.
Plato said “the first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”
When we defeat our flesh and the fear of the unknown ~ ONLY THEN WE WILL SEE CHANGE!
I could banter on about our purpose and identity and the loss of it in The Church but my friend, I will not go down the long dark road of that worn out song….
Instead ~ be challenged to daily examine ourselves in the mirror and CHOOSE to become who we were made to be in His image and Likeness. And daily hope that we look more like Him than He looks like us.
BELIEVE in LOVE and live it out loud with Power and Creativity,
Comment by jP November 29, 2008 @ 9:05 pmjP
I have noticed that I welcome change much more when things ARE NOT going according to MY plan or MY thoughts on how things should be in my life. When things are going bad, sure … I’ll take a change. On the other hand, it’s when I am in my own little “comfort zone” in my “perfect little world” that I find myself fighting change. When I think things are on track . . . family, career, finances, etc. . . I resist change. Why would I want things different or want things to change if “life is good”? However, if I really think back and be true to myself, those are the times that I can see where God has truly worked miracles in my life. Those are the times where I can look back and see how I resisted a blessing that I never heard, felt, or saw coming. Those are the times where I almost turned away from the perfect will of God.
Lord, help me to have trust enough in you to “step out of the boat” into change … to embrace it … to welcome it … knowing that You will be right there with me, watching the path in front of me, protecting me from myself and others that would attempt to steer me away from the destination You have plotted for me … as long as I continue to call on and believe in You.
Comment by Dennis Kniery November 30, 2008 @ 8:08 pmthe trees change
love me some pastor tim!
Comment by jill December 1, 2008 @ 12:53 amI have to say that the most amazing, wonderful, new opportunities have come in our life when we had to go through a huge change. I’d love to say that we went out and looked for change… that we said…Hey, let’s get out of the boat! No… every time it was because of circumstances beyond our control. Sometimes He has to ruffle our feathers a little to get us out of our nest. And… other times He seems to just turn the nest over and shake it! Either way, He is truly the master of the wind and waves of our lives. I’m so glad He is in the boat with me!
Comment by Deborah Cook December 1, 2008 @ 6:08 pmChange is good….welcome….
Comment by perpetualrenovator December 3, 2008 @ 9:39 pmTim I was searching for a picture of a broken chair and I happened on yours. I am a born again Christian that publishes a not for profit Chritiian paper in Syracuse, New York. I love what you said, could you please email me back at goodnewspr@aol.com Peace – Cathy
Comment by Cathy Fida July 25, 2009 @ 5:45 pm