Discipleship is Supernatural

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Good Morning Disciple!

Someone sent me a TEXT message this morning asking, why do we have to RENEW our minds? Is it not our effort to change, when we are already SAVED by HIS Grace?
That's a genuine question of a person who LOVES the LORD and DESIRE to grow and be fruitful.

Anyway I responded to him the way best he could understand.
However why do we have to RENEW our MIND? is it not sufficient that we have experienced NEW BIRTH and come into God's family? 

Yes that's the most important FIRST STEP to be BORN-AGAIN by the HOLY SPIRIT.
However we need to understand that we were created spirit - soul - body.
So our SPIRIT gets saved first, however our SOUL and BODY remains the same untouched by our NEW-BIRTH experience.

What happened at this FIRST STEP, is that our spirit was made ALIVE, we were BORN of GOD. We became brand NEW SPECIES. We entered a NEW FAMILY, now we have come in GOD's household. GOD is our FATHER. All these happened when we placed our TRUST in CHRIST JESUS to be our SAVIOUR and LORD. We did nothing, its all HIS GRACE ALONE. 

The SECOND STEP is the process of our SOUL aligning with our NEW IDENTITY in our BORN-AGAIN spirit. Our MIND, being part of the SOUL, is renewed by the WORD so we can know GOD’s WILL, live out our NEW NATURE, and BECOME like CHRIST JESUS. As a 'farmer' all we do is to sow GOD's Supernatural Word in our HEARTS.

The process of DISCIPLESHIP is SUPERNATURAL indeed! The RENEWING of our MIND directly IMPACTS our BODY. It's GOD's grace totally, from end to end, to TRANSFORM us like CHRIST JESUS little by little.

Look at this picture of how a PUPA is transformed into a beautiful BUTTERFLY. This is what happens when we RENEW our MIND.

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Shalom!

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