Quotes About Transformation

Beloved, are you being sifted? Has God permitted the enemy to launch a full-scale attack against you? God knows what He's doing. He isn't looking the other way, and He's not being mean to you. Maybe this is the only way He can get you to attend to the old so He can do something new. Grab onto Him for dear life! Give Him full reign to remove anything in you that needs to go. Hasten the end of the process. Sift, dear one. Sift!

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

When we set apart our lives unto Him, He will do wonders with us the likes of which we cannot imagine.

if we change the way we think, before long our thoughts change the way we feel.

victory is not determined as much by what we've been delivered from as by what we've been delivered to.

To be free in Christ, our high places will have to fall. We must be willing to take a stand against idolatry.

Acknowledge God. Acknowledging God first thing every morning transforms my day. I often begin my day by reconfirming His authority over me and submitting to Him as Lord in advance of my daily circumstances. I try to accept the words of Joshua 24:15 as a personal daily challenge: "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do—it's part of who we are.

No amount of determination will bring freedom. We're going to learn to be victorious by surrendering our lives completely to the Spirit of God, not by gritting our teeth and trying harder.

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2

We must call on Him to fight our battles for us and through us and to stand us on steady feet in a confidence only He can supply. We must ask Him to bring forth the women in us that we didn't even know we were.

The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person." (1 Sam. 10:6)

We're all looking for a quick fix, but God is after lasting change—a lifestyle of Christianity.

Sometimes God demands radical measures when He wants to bring about radical results.

Let God have your failures. Surrender to Him your most dreadful moments of captivity, your most humiliating defeats. God and God alone can use them to make you twice the warrior you ever dreamed you'd be.

Having our minds sanctified is an ongoing, lifelong process, but absolutely nothing will have a greater harvest in your life. So many people try to get hold of their emotions, but they don't realize the emotions are usually regulated by the mind. If we don't start thinking differently, we will never feel differently.

If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17

The truth is, God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion, and destiny.

matters. We'll take a look back for the right reasons. We'll see how strongholds

We must not be defined by anything that has happened to us or anything we have done. We are defined by who we are in Christ.

God desires to change us from the inside out—renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

Godly sorrow is a change of heart resulting in complete agreement with God over the matter.

You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever.

You are being renewed in the spirit of your minds. Ephesians 4:23