Heart Transformations
God loves you too much to leave you the same. Transformation in and around you is the fruit of your relationship with Christ. Your hunger and thirst for His love and presence to pour out on ALL PEOPLE have stirred HIS HEART. We are entering a time where we will experience and witness radical heart transformations and conversions right before our eyes. Many will HEAR and SEE with greater clarity and a knowing that HE is nothing short of AMAZING! I hear the Lord say, “ARISE”.
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.” - Ezekiel 36:26-27 NKJV
In my morning prayers and time with the Lord this week, I prayed for those He had put on my heart. There was a heavy burden in my heart as some came to mind—specifically, the wounded, mean-spirited, and hard-hearted people blinded by worldly ways. Father God gave me great compassion and mercy for them as I continued to pray. I then decreed by the spirit of the Lord that He would do a “HEART TRANSFORMATION” in them.
“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.” - Romans 12:2 NKJV
Immediately I thought of the story of Paul, who was formerly known as Saul. He was blaspheming the name of Jesus, persecuting, and killing Christians for their faith. He had a religious and murderous spirit until Jesus met him on the road to Damascus. He fell to the ground, HUMBLED and BLINDED by the glory and righteousness of Christ.
“...and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting...” - Acts 9:3-4 NKJV
Saul was then instructed by the Lord, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” His men led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus, and he was three days without sight, food or drink.
Ananias, a man of God, was instructed by the Lord to go and pray for Saul for his salvation, and he received his SIGHT and a HEART TRANSFORMATION. Now a Christian, Paul offered himself as a living sacrifice to the Lord. No matter the circumstances or challenges he faced, he glorified God through and in it all. These men are great examples of what God can do IN US and THROUGH US.
But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.” - Acts 9:15 NKJV
In pressing into this word and God’s heart for His people, I recall my own conversion and heart transformation coming out of a life of despair, brokenness, fear, anxiety, rebellion, pride, and self-righteousness. I had spent so many years of my life being stubborn, trying to do things my way, and running from the TRUTH, who I later learned is JESUS. In chapter 14 of the book of John, Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
I am also reminded of a message I heard preached on Revelations 2:17 at the beginning of the year in 2017 that confirmed my conversion. The Man of God led us into a prophetic act to press in to God to hear our new names. I heard God speak the name “Isabella” to me, which means devoted to God. This NEW NAME that I heard direct from God shifted my identity from who I was to whom HE says I am. We are in a time where God is not only TRANSFORMING HEARTS, but HE is also giving NEW NAMES to memorialize and mark those who have OVERCOME!
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone, a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” - Revelations 2:17 NKJV
