Only the Lord can heal/transform your false self!

Apparently, no one has explained this fact to many of my dedicated Christian sisters who genuinely love God.

It’s no wonder, then, that so many Christian women never embark on genuine transformation.

They are scared of the process.

When it comes down to it, they think they’ll never measure up.

They are not sure they themselves can achieve this gradual transformation.

And they are perfectly right in thinking this.

Because —it bears repeating —ONLY God can initiate and carry out this process.

BUT you do have a pivotal part in the process.

Your part is to cooperate with God!

A simple, yet guaranteed, way to do this is to discover how to pray with your heart. 

2 Myths Regarding the Transformation

of Your False Self

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Myth 1

Transformation of the False Self

is Merely a Nice, ‘Dreamy’, Theory

Many Christian women accept in theory that, in order to be transformed into the image of Christ, their ‘old’ woman needs to be replaced with the ‘new’ one (Ephesians 4:22 - 24 NIV).

But, too often, they seem to understand and apply this only in a limited, intellectual, and theoretical way.

 This is exactly where they do themselves a grave disservice.

This is exactly where they go badly wrong.

Why?

Because the truth is that your transformation is NOT some sort of nice, far-off, ideal theory.

It’s a tangible reality.

It has legs and feet.

You see, God never promises you ANYTHING that He knows is out of your reach!!

Myth 2

You Must Transform Your False Self

by Your Own Efforts

Too many Christian women mistakenly believe that they have to transform themselves by their own efforts.

As I pointed out earlier, the truth is that you can’t!

You see, you can’t FORCE your heart to do anything.

Only the Lord can enlighten and change/transform your heart.

Your role is to support and aid this process.

You can do this most simply and effectively by learning how to open your heart fully to God’s healing presence and love for a few minutes each day. 

Change happens when you take a few minutes each day (5 - 10 - 20 minutes, but no more than 20 minutes) to spend in God’s presence and soak in His healing love and rest (peace).

How Praying with Your Heart Achieves This

Your human heart, your entire being, is the only place that an authentic transformation into God’s image can ever occur.

This is why praying with and from your heart is a guaranteed way to experience genuine transformation.

Here’s what actually happens when you pray with your heart.

When you pray with your heart, you experience—firsthand and directly for yourself —God ’s love.

This is critical.

Because if you’re not completely sure that God loves you, you won’t be able to fully trust Him.

And if your trust in God is weak, you won’t be able to develop a truly strong, genuine, two-way, free-flowing friendship with Him, the kind of friendship that the Lord longs to have with you!

And if you and God don’t enjoy that kind of friendship, your desire to be transformed into God’s image, to transform your ‘old’ woman into your ‘new’ woman, will remain just an intellectual theory —that, if you’re honest, you really aren’t convinced deep-down is really fully attainable!

The transformation God wants for you, and that you want for yourself, will continue to elude you.

I’ll say it again —it’s God, not you, who transforms your heart:

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

                                 2 Corinthians 3:18 NIV, my emphasis

Or, in a different translation:

‘We are transfigured by the Spirit of the Lord in ever-increasing splendour into his own image.’

                          Corinthians 3:18

J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS), my emphasis

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