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<blockquote data-quote="Starr71" data-source="post: 50899234"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: black"><u>Let God Rub Off on You</u></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Romans 8:29 The Ampilified Bible</span></strong></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px">As a believer, you're destined to be molded into the image of Jesus, to grow in spirit until you look just like Him. God's supernatural power began that process the moment you were born again. You were changed on the inside instantly. How successful you are in allowing this change to progress to the outer man is mostly up to you. We grow up spiritually just like we grow up physically.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: teal">What can you do to speed this growing process along?</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkorchid">Spend more time pursuing the things of the Spirit than you spend pursuing the things of the flesh. Become dedicated to the Word of God and to fellowship with Him. Be willing to pull aside from the busy things of life and get alone with Him, so He can guide you, teach you and share His likeness with you.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: magenta">Have you ever noticed that if you spend time around people who have strong personalities, you will automatically be affected by them? You'll find yourself doing the things they do. Their mannerisms will rub off on you. You can't help it. They just influence you, especially if they are people you respect and admire.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: red">The same thing is true in you relationship with God. If you spend enough time with Him, He's going to rub off on you! His ways will become your ways.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #696969">So make yourself available to Him by praying in the Spirit and worshiping and loving Him. Hang around His Word and the people who love His Word and live it.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkorange">Before you know it, you'll begin to notice yourself changing. You'll find your character becoming more like His. You'll begin to think like He does and talk like He does and even act like He does. His image will begin to shine forth in you!!!</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: black">Scripture Reading:</span></span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">1 Corinthians 3:5-18</span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believeas the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">16Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">18Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"> </p><p></span><p style="text-align: left"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Starr71, post: 50899234"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=4][COLOR=black][U]Let God Rub Off on You[/U][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/CENTER] [SIZE=3]For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. [/SIZE] [B][SIZE=4]Romans 8:29 The Ampilified Bible[/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [LEFT][SIZE=3]As a believer, you're destined to be molded into the image of Jesus, to grow in spirit until you look just like Him. God's supernatural power began that process the moment you were born again. You were changed on the inside instantly. How successful you are in allowing this change to progress to the outer man is mostly up to you. We grow up spiritually just like we grow up physically.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=teal]What can you do to speed this growing process along?[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorchid]Spend more time pursuing the things of the Spirit than you spend pursuing the things of the flesh. Become dedicated to the Word of God and to fellowship with Him. Be willing to pull aside from the busy things of life and get alone with Him, so He can guide you, teach you and share His likeness with you.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=magenta]Have you ever noticed that if you spend time around people who have strong personalities, you will automatically be affected by them? You'll find yourself doing the things they do. Their mannerisms will rub off on you. You can't help it. They just influence you, especially if they are people you respect and admire.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=red]The same thing is true in you relationship with God. If you spend enough time with Him, He's going to rub off on you! His ways will become your ways.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#696969]So make yourself available to Him by praying in the Spirit and worshiping and loving Him. Hang around His Word and the people who love His Word and live it.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorange]Before you know it, you'll begin to notice yourself changing. You'll find your character becoming more like His. You'll begin to think like He does and talk like He does and even act like He does. His image will begin to shine forth in you!!![/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][SIZE=4][COLOR=black]Scripture Reading:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][SIZE=4]1 Corinthians 3:5-18[/SIZE][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [/LEFT] [SIZE=3] 5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believeas the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. 10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. 16Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple. 18Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. [LEFT] [/LEFT][/SIZE][LEFT][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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