The Next Step

Summary:

We are God's workmanship. He want's to create you according to His plan. We start with opening our heart and letting our prayer be,”Lord I turn away from what I am not. I turn to You to be what You want me to be.” As we turn to Him in thanksgiving, we simply ask Him for His nature to be created within us.

Show Notes:

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  Our daily walk with the Lord includes a persistent asking, Knocking and seeking His face.

  
  


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  In our repentance we come too another step of turning away from what we are not, and turning to Him for change.

  
  


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  We stop defending our nature and open up to the Lord to ask Him for a new nature.

  
  


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  As we turn to the Lord, our first step is to thank Him.

  
  


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  This new level of repentance is so positive and creative. We simply open up and ask the Lord to change us.

  
  

Quotes:

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  It's a daily getting up, Lord, I'm open to You today. And I ask, I keep asking, I keep knocking.

  
  


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  There's another step; and that's turning away from what we're not.

  
  


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  You are His workmanship. And He wants to do the job according to His plan. What you do is you say, “Father, create in me what I am not.”

  
  


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  So you quit defending your nature, quit defending who you are, and you simply ask the Lord, “Lord, change me.”

  
  


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  Lord, it's your choice, not mine. I turn to you, and repent for what I am not, I turn away from what I am not. And I turn to You to impart to me, to give me, put it in my heart, put it in my spirit, what You want.

  
  


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  The first step of receiving something from God is saying, “Thank You, Lord.” And then He'll help you with the rest of receiving it. You will be His workmanship every step of the way.

  
  


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  We change in worship. When you come before the Lord and say “Lord fill me, Lord make me Your son.” When we address Him face to face we say “it's You Lord I want to love.”

  
  


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  The new level of repentance. It's called turning to. It's that creative faith I guess you call it creative, open heart. “Just ask Me. Open up to Me. I'll displace all the other stuff.

  
  


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  That's a wonderful place to be, because if you can experience just one time in changing something in you. Wow! From that point on, the universe is yours.

  
  

References:

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Revelation 3:20

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.

I Thessalonians 5:18

in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.

Take Away:

The next step in our relationship with the Lord is coming into a awareness of what we are not in our very nature. As we simply turn to Him in thanksgiving and worship, He begins to replace our nature with His.