Word for Meditation
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.
~ Ps 139:23-24
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The Grace of Transformation
Hello friends!
It's been a while since the last newsletter. The Lord has directed me to take some time away from ministry. This edition's main feature is an excerpt from an upcoming new book, You Can Be Free from Yourself!, by my long-time friend, David Alsobrook.
I have watched David undergo a dramatic transformation these past couple of years and am pleased that he is sharing his experience with us to give us all encouragement and hope, that the Lord will indeed perfect that which He has begun in us. Enjoy! ~ Donna Astern
From You Can Be Free From Yourself!:
The Grace of Transformation
It was transformation. It had happened by God's
work within me, as I sat passively in His Presence.
To put it another
way, this work of transforming me had been all His work, not mine. The Holy Spirit did the actual transformation
within my soul as He applied the benefits procured by the Cross. Should
transformation occur within your soul, it will be as profound and unique to you
as mine was to me. It is beyond the ability of words to convey the state of
peace that is given to you in transformation. It is all grace, all love, all
peace, all God.
Transformation was
a death - an ending of "me" that was not the true me. This other "me" had been hurting for a half century. The other
"me" needed constant care, had to be controlled, restrained, and was almost
always hurting in one way or another.The emergence of the true me that had been
hiding somewhere inside my body all these many years could only take place as
the other "me" had dissolved in God's Presence. Instead of God healing the
hurting me, as I had prayed for years that He would do, the Lord killed that
part of me, the part that had always been so painful. He had answered my
prayers three years earlier to die and I did die. He then caused the true me He
had earlier birthed on November 30, 1969, to come vibrantly alive in such a way
that I had never sensed aliveness before.
Profound Change
This inner shift
of knowing who I am produced profound change. It was transformation, in the language of Paul. It was deeper than
anything I had ever known in over 40 years since the born again experience.
Although I had experienced God in real ways over those 40 years, this fundamental
change made previous divine touches, precious though they were, lessen in
significance. The permanent change experienced in silence made metamorphosis as real to me as it must
be to the new butterfly emerging from its old cocoon. The young butterfly is no
longer trapped and in darkness inside a tight cocoon. It is free to fly about
in the light. So am I.
This profound change
is not for a few--the divine work of self
dissolution is available for believers everywhere. Nor is this change new; it
has occurred in the lives of many down through millennia. The "many" that have
been changed in centuries past were actually few in number during any specific
time period, so far as Church history records them. The Lord has recently spoken
that "a sudden radical transformation" is about to occur on a "worldwide scale
in the lives of many" of His people.
Those who have
lived lives of inner defeat, frustration, confusion, and pain as I had for so
many, many years are about to wake up and never be the same again. The Lord is
not going to heal the part of them that is hurting, but remove it entirely,
essentially kill it, so that the part of them that already had been made new in
the born again experience, the spirit part of every believer, can thrive unhindered
by anything within the soul part of every believer. If you have come to the
point in your Christian life where you wish you could just die and go on to
Heaven, this message is good news to your ears.
If you are in the place in your
Christian walk where you are excited about all the good things you are doing
for God or are going to do for God, this message will not mean much to you now.
Such a Christian is not ready for transformation yet because he or she is
inflated by self. It is only when you
have tired of self, have been disillusioned by it over and over, and have come
to the end of yourself that you are
ready for this message. You might as well put this book on your bookshelf, but
please do not discard it. Pick it up again in a few years after self has
deflated you. When you are miserable as a result of allowing self to run your life, you are then
ready for this book.
Changes Produced by Transformation
The soul of the
believer, having been transformed by radical change, no longer strives against
the spirit of the believer. Instead, the soul resumes its original function as
servant to the spirit. It becomes the vehicle through which the spirit expresses
Christ in the believer's body. The soul is not the antagonist it formerly was,
continually thinking against the spirit and even warring against it. Peace
pervades the entire individual and even his or her body sleeps better. The
physical body lives in harmony as part of the whole individual and the believer
senses oneness within himself or herself as never before. You are not divided
anymore. In the words of Jesus: "you are
whole" (John 5:14).
This is what
happened to me. It is lasting. It is real. It is transformative. It is the work
of God. Since my soul is perpetually renewed now, there aren't new disturbances
continually arising within it. It seems as though "all things are new" which
Jesus promised us as He sat upon His "rock":
And He
that sat upon the Throne said, "Behold,
I make all things new." And He said
to me, "Write, for these words are true and faithful." ~Revelation 21: 5 NKJV
For news of the book's publication and his ministry schedule, contact:
David Alsobrook
Sure Word Ministries
www.surewordministries.com
615-366-5888
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