SylviaListen to God's Word for you in 1 John 3:2. "Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is."

Be blessed to understand and receive these blessings in spirit and in truth. Wherever you are with God right now, he says that you are not yet what you will be. Be blessed to be transformed, healed, and enlarged by God's Spirit in you, because he promises that your inner man is being renewed day by day (2 Cor 4:16). God is reviving you. Be blessed with believing and receiving this truth and seeing his results in your life. Be blessed with being enlarged in your inner being to know your Father more and more. Be blessed with his profound working in you for your sake and for others in your world.

You were incorrectly taught many things. You had many experiences that were wounding, many absences of good nurturing. Be blessed as God goes back to your childhood and growing up days to heal, reprogram, and renew your inmost being. Be blessed with complete healing and recovery from abuse and shame: physical, verbal, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

Be blessed to feel the Holy Spirit making real to you his truths and blessings in righteousness. Absorb from him and feel yourself being set free as he teaches, trains, and transforms you. Be blessed as he nurtures, challenges, encourages, and directs you. Be blessed with new revelation, insights, spiritual wisdom, and knowledge. Paul told his Colossian friends to put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator (Col 3:10). The New Living Translation says it this way: In the place of the old man, "You have clothed yourselves with a brand-new nature that is continually being renewed as you learn more and more about Christ, who created this new nature within you." Be blessed with God's timing and process of making you more like Jesus in all your responses, actions, and thoughts. Be blessed with seeing his fingerprints on your life.

God says that he is doing a new thing. Listen to Isaiah 42:9. "See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you." Receive Isaiah 43:19-21. "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up... I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland... I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise."

In God receive his new thing. Don't let anything or anybody rob you of God's best. Be blessed each day with more peace, joy, encouragement, and boldness that you know have come from him through seeing him as he is and seeing yourself as you are in him. There's more! Reach out, be enlarged, and receive more of him.

Be blessed in the name of the One who is doing a new thing (Isa 43:19).

Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

  • Jesus be the centre

    Center is a song that speaks of the essence of our life in Christ, and echoes the words the Christ Read More
  • I Lift My Hands

    A powerful hymn of adoration and praise Arkansas Gospel Mass Choir. This succinctly captures the joy of knowing our savior. Read More
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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Christ is a Great Savior: a review of the movie Amazing Grace +

    Amazing Grace is a historical drama about William Wilberforce who was elected to British Parliament at the age of 21 Read More
  • Wilberforce, Hollywood's Amazing Grace, Charlotte Allen +

    William Wilberforce's relentless campaign eventually led the British Parliament to ban the slave trade, in 1807, and to pass a Read More
  • Making Beauty out of Ugly Things: Grace by U2 +

    Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, she carries Read More
  • The True Nature of Grace and Love: a movie review of the Soloist +

    The 2009 movie The Soloist is based on a book by the same name, written by Los Angeles Times columnist Read More
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