{"id":27778,"date":"2015-09-21T00:20:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T04:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27778"},"modified":"2015-09-21T04:33:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:33:04","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/21\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Search me, O God, and know my heart; <\/span>
\ntest me and know my anxious thoughts. <\/span>
\nPoint out anything in me that offends You, <\/span>
\nand lead me along the path of everlasting life.<\/span>
\nPsalms 139:23-24 NLT<\/span><\/p>\n

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Do you believe that’s a person can change? \u00a0I do…I believe that a person can change, if they want to change. \u00a0We cannot change people, people have to want to change on their own or the change won’t stick. \u00a0I’m talking about true change not “appearances” of change. \u00a0Can people change on their own? \u00a0I do believe that even this is possible. \u00a0However<\/em>, I also believe that the easiest change you will ever experience is with<\/span> t<\/strong>he help of God<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0And by easy<\/em> I mean that the tools are readily available if you will accept them.<\/p>\n

First, and foremost, a person needs to acknowledge that there is a need to change. \u00a0As you can see in Psalms 139:23-24, he asked for the Lord to change him—to make him better. \u00a0Confession time: when I first came to Christ, my biggest concern was that if I let Him “change<\/em>“ me<\/strong> that I would no longer be “me<\/strong>“. Through prayer and constantly going to God about my concern, He pointed out that He was not changing me<\/strong>, but was making me<\/strong> into the person I was intended to be before life happened. \u00a0The “me<\/strong>” that I came to Him as was not the “me<\/strong>” He had envisioned me to be. The more I explored Scripture, the more I was able to accept this.<\/p>\n

God says, “Bring all who claim Me as their God, for I have made them for My glory. It was I Who created them” (Isaiah 43:7 NLT). \u00a0He made us for His glory<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Does He find glory in the fact that I isolate myself or that I am mean to others? \u00a0Well, no. \u00a0So, then this is not how He created me to be. \u00a0How we are<\/strong> is not the same as how we were created to be<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Things happen in life that influence us—in positive and negative ways. \u00a0God happens to make us right.<\/p>\n

…this means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.
\nThe old life is gone; a new life has begun!
\n2 Corinthians 5:17<\/p>\n

New life<\/em> is what we are promised. \u00a0But you know we have to choose to live in this new life. \u00a0God can show us a better way to do anything; whether it is managing money, or loving your family and friends, or loving the people of the world, or interacting with other believers, or how to be a better mother… boss… worker… or anything! \u00a0God knows the very best way to do it! \u00a0And, if we ask, He will show us.<\/p>\n

The key is that you have to want it. \u00a0So, what do you<\/em> want?<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends You, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalms 139:23-24 NLT *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 * Do you believe that’s a person can change? \u00a0I do…I believe that a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[1570,3146,1618,3367,9434,1287,425,4075,9433,4516,3174],"class_list":["post-27778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-2-corinthians-517","tag-ahmee-bronaugh","tag-change","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-do-you-want-to-change","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-isaiah-437","tag-need-to-change","tag-psalms-13923-24","tag-seeking-him-devotional","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-change","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27782,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions\/27782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}