Topic: How to Experience Real Change [Joyce Meyer Devotional 7 October 2021]

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Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.— 2 Corinthians 4:16 (AMPC)View Previous DevotionalOCTOBER 07, 2021

How to Experience Real Change

Change does not come through struggle, human effort without God, frustration, self-hatred, self-rejection, guilt, or works of the flesh. Change in our lives comes as a result of having our minds renewed by the Word of God and by trusting God to work in us according to His will. God, Who began a good work in you, will complete it (see Philippians 1:6).

As we agree with God and really believe that what He says is true, it gradually begins to manifest in us. We begin to think differently, then we begin to talk differently, and finally we begin to act differently. This is a process that develops in stages, and we must always remember that while it is taking place, we can be thankful and have an attitude that says, “God is changing me little by little, and I can enjoy myself while He is working.”

Prayer Starter: Father, thank You for changing me and making me what You want me to be. Thank You for completing the good work You have begun