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3/13/08 THE SACRIFICES IN BEING transformed
PIX: I saw a car door shut and lock.
HEARD: Stay out of trouble. What’s wrong?
Appetite. I will deliver you. Hopeless and bitter
fruit. A way out. Egypt. You shall be seeing shortly
how to do this. Sacrifices, little ones.
HEARD: Dont be afraid. I gathered you in the
storm.
DREAM/ VISION: I saw a beautiful lady who had
thick, glistening dark brown hair down to her waist.
She had a very large butterfly appear on the top of her
head, it looked like a delicate, beautiful and lacey
hair ornament, sitting upon her like a large hat. The
butterfly was a shimmering brown, yet iridescent and
transparent color, and it appeared lacey and very
delicate. Then I saw the butterfly gently lift off and
fly away, and another butterfly appeared on top of her
head.
Her hair was shedding layer upon layer of these
butterflies. It did not appear that she was losing hair
or that it was getting any thinner. But somehow the
layers were making butterflies. It was something very
beautiful that she was yielding up to the Lord and I
knew it was something very precious and sacrificial. As
I was watching these butterflies be offered up to the
Lord, it was imparted to me that the Lord was somehow
using these transformed butterflies as a secret weapon,
in their gentleness and beauty and sacrifice.
I asked the beautiful lady when her hair was all done
shedding the layers, how long it would take for it to
grow that long again and she said, “Oh years!” It truly
was a beautiful sacrifice to the Lord.
HEARD: Sacrifices. What you gave to Me. The
message is on your head.
Rom 12:1-2 NKJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable
service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed {3339} by the renewing of your mind, that
you may prove what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of God.
Interpretation: Every time we turn away from
hearing carnal language, from seeing carnal images, from
feeding worldly appetites in our thoughts, emotions,
spirit, soul, and bodies.... each and every time they
are considered holy and acceptable sacrifices unto the
Lord. The more we make a deliberate choice with our
wills to shed the layers of our carnality up to Jesus,
we become transformed into Jesus’ image from glory to
glory.
TRANSFORMED: metamorphose
TO BE TRANSFORMED LIKE A BUTTERFLY
metamorphoo
NT:3339 metamorphoo (met-am-or-fo'-o); from NT:3326 and
NT:3445; to transform (literally or figuratively,
"metamorphose"):
KJV - change, transfigure, transform.
Rom 12:1-2 AMP
I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you
in view of {all} the mercies of God, to make a decisive
dedication of your bodies {presenting all your members
and faculties} as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted,
consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your
reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual
worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world (this
age), {fashioned after and adapted to its external,
superficial customs}, but be transformed {3339}
(changed) by the {entire} renewal of your mind {by its
new ideals and its new attitude}, so that you may prove
{for yourselves} what is the good and acceptable and
perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and
acceptable and perfect {in His sight for you}.
2 Cor 3:17-18 NKJV
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with
unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the
Lord, are being transformed {3339} into the same image
from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Cor 3:18 AMP
And all of us, as with unveiled face, {because we}
continued to behold {in the Word of God} as in a mirror
the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured
{3339} into His very own image in ever increasing
splendor and from one degree of glory to another; {for
this comes} from the Lord {Who is} the Spirit.
Matt 17:2 KJV
And was transfigured {3339} before them: and his face
did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the
light.
Mark 9:2 KJV
And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and
James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high
mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured
{3339} before them.
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WORD O’GRAM: REASONABLE SACRIFICE
Reaching
beyond the demands of flesh for
Eternal
purpose within mortality.
Always
facing the battle of
Sin’s
lure by
Overcoming
through the power of His Spirit.
Not
yielding to the carnal nature
And
impure motives.
But
with reason, and purpose, choice and
Logical
will,
Eagerly
laying down whatever opposes the call of His Spirit.
Sharing
what costs the most.
Anticipating
reward for what died.
Costly
payment.
Real
heroes pouring out mortality.
Instant
giving without hesitation.
Finding
the sheer grit of purpose in suffering.
Issuing
from a deeper will of giving.
Caring
deeply with eternal perspective.
Extravagance
beyond self.
Rom 12:1-2 NKJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice ,
holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable
service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
of God. |
