913 Change Starts Here

A fresh, clean, never been lived before month is here. It still has the tags on it! Brand spanking new days and new weeks like you’ve never seen before in August 2021. Before your eyes glaze over assuming this is a month like all the others, and you withdraw to the numbness of it all, let me breathe some life into you. This month doesn’t have to be like last month. August has the potential to be your game changer, your turning point, your breakthrough, your fresh new start on the 8th month of the year that changes every single month to come. Could that be possible for you? Could the things you struggle with really be overcome this month? Could real progress really happen here, starting today? I mean why not? Why couldn’t it be possible for you here right now? Do you really believe God has rendered you incapable of change? Do you really believe God has counted you out and declared you a lost cause? Do you really believe God has all that power, but he’s decided he won’t be wasting it on you? Oh how it must break his heart to see his girl believing she is anything less than who he created her to be. YOU are his girl, and he still sees your greatest potential within you … and guess what … he’s not giving up on you! You’re hearing this today because he is calling you out of the rut you’ve been stuck in, out of the darkness you’ve been wandering in, out of the repetitive cycle you’ve been dwelling in, and whispering the hope of new beginnings to you. This is your new beginning. God isn’t waiting until the New Year, he says this day of this week, in this month of this year, is exactly where he wants to show you the new things he’s been aligning for you. The Lord says in Ezekiel 36: 26-27 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.” Do you understand what God is saying here? He is saying he will give you a new heart and new spirit and as a result you will desire different things. When your desires change, your thoughts change. When your thoughts change, your actions change. It’s not a struggle. It’s no longer an exhausting battle where you continually end up on the losing side. Everything changes when your desires change. Desires change with this new heart and spirit from God. Do you remember the old cartoon with Sylvester the cat? He was always trying to catch Tweety Bird. But in a moment of conflict, Sylvester would have the little angel on one shoulder and the little devil on the other. The battle was which one would he listen to. The angel told him to be nice, the devil told him to eat the bird. The devil always won and the chase was on. Sometimes it feels like that in our own lives. The angel tries to remind us of our priorities, our goals, our commitments, our faith … but that darn little devil on our shoulder comes in with temptations of what we can have right now, what feels good in the moment, and what satisfies the craving. Maybe you wake up today to a reality caused by caving to that little devil. Maybe what you most want is not what you have because you were swayed by the offerings of what you wanted now. Maybe you’re living well below the potential God placed within you, and you know it, but darn it you just can’t seem to change it. It’s time to receive that new heart and new spirit God has been offering you. His Spirit changes your desires at the core. You will no longer fight his will, you will deeply desire his best plan. You will no longer be swayed by the detours of the little devil, you will be fully focused on the little angel on the other shoulder guiding you to your destiny. This new heart and spirit makes you more responsive to God...