How To Be Changed Like Paul...🕊🌼🌿

How To Be Changed Like Paul:

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, (Romans 1:1​ ESV)

Paul isn’t simply saying that he was ear marked for ministry—he was irrevocably transported to a new reality.

His new horizon as an apostle was vastly different than his old one as the disciple-persecuting Saul. And when your horizon is different, your entire future is changed.

Paul was expressing the irrevocable transformation the gospel worked in him. It wasn’t simply that some of his habits and ways of thinking changed at his conversion. It was that his entire horizon changed. God transported him from one place to another—from a dead life to a living one.

Paul didn’t simply change directions, he changed locations. And this is what it means to encounter the gospel of Jesus Christ and be made new.

What is the new horizon God has given you? -SD Devotional

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon! PRAISE THE LORD!💖

How To Be Changed Like Paul 🕊🌿🌼

How To Be Changed Like Paul:

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, (Romans 1:1​ ESV)

The secret of Paul’s greatness is that he was first a “servant” and second an “apostle.”

To understand and emulate Paul, we need to focus on his relationship with Jesus before we look at his feats of faith.

We should be astounded that Paul submitted to the authority of a man killed as a Jewish blasphemer and heretic—Jesus of Nazareth.

That is the power of the gospel to change people—to change us. There is no power greater and no heart too far. What an encouragement—and challenge to our limited beliefs—the life of Paul is. The gospel can change any heart, any time, anywhere.

The heart of Paul’s ministry is his intimacy and obedience to Jesus. He was a man under orders, not in control of his own life and destiny.

He looked to Jesus. He listened to Jesus. He obeyed Jesus.

He was a servant before he was an apostle. A man who gave up control of his life; who modeled what it means to submit to Jesus as Lord.

Are you a servant of Jesus? And more importantly, do you live like it? -SD Devotional

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon! PRAISE THE LORD!💖

How To Be Changed Like Paul!🕊🌼🌿

How To Be Changed Like Paul:

Jesus worked in Paul before he ever worked through him.

Paul met the Christ he persecuted on the road to Damascus—and in a blinding flash—his life changed forever (Acts 9). And we simply cannot overstate the importance of this moment.

One moment, he was “breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord,” (Acts 9:1), and three days later he received a vision from Jesus that a man named Ananias would restore his sight (Acts 9:12).

Saul was transformed from persecutor to prophet. But he first had to encounter the gospel power of Jesus.

Today, my prayer isn’t first: “Lord use me like Paul!” It’s, “Lord change me like Saul!”

As the saying goes: Changed people change people.

Do you long for Christ’s power in you—or just through you?  

-SD Devotional 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  PRAISE THE LORD!💖

Happy Father's Day!🌿

Living by Faith!🕊🌼🌿

Living by faith, we receive His grace, and our lives are changed. The committed followers of the Savior not only will have faith “in” Jesus but also will have the faith “of ” Jesus. Jesus’ quality of end-time faith will be theirs, and they will remain faithful, even unto death, as Jesus did...SSQ

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  PRAISE THE LORD!💖

The Faithful Minority...🕊🌼🌿

Only a small proportion of earth's inhabitants will escape from the overwhelming deceptions of the last days and be saved. A little remnant, as always, will be more concerned about doing right than pleasing self, the crowd, or some other individual. The record of history consistently chronicles the story of that small company of dissenters who dared to reject the comfortable appeal of the crowd. The majority seem never to be searching for truth so much as for a smooth, easy, convenient religion which will allow them to live as they please. To them any doctrine which demands self denial or a disciplined lifestyle is bad news

 "When the son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). In the same discourse He declared, "As it was in the days of Noe, so it will be also in the days of the Son of man” (Luke 17:26).

 Let us continue to pray for strength for the journey!

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  PRAISE THE LORD!💖

Powerful Magnets of Temptation 🕊🌼🌿

Powerful magnets of temptation are all around us trying to disturb our spiritual balance and turn us upside down. Those who trust in feeling and majority opinion are easily up-ended by the strong attraction of outside forces. Consoled by the presence of so many others about them doing the same thing, they soon begin to see everything in relation to their distorted view. They reverse all the signs in order to read them better, and develop a firm conviction that they are balanced and correct, while everyone differing from them is wrong. Eventually they see wrong as right and right as wrong. Anyone who goes contrary to his or her perceptions is instantly branded as a fanatic or a critical troublemaker.

This points up one great truth: We cannot measure right and wrong by our feeling or by what the majority are doing! We need something from outside ourselves to tell us where the truth lies. Our impulses may be just as real as the pull of the magnet, but they could also be just as misleading. Our numerous friends may be most respectable and religious but their status stone could be linked to the same false guidance system, cleverly sabotaged by the enemy.  -Amazing Facts 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  PRAISE THE LORD!💖