In Romans 12:2, the word “transformed” was translated from the Greek word metamorphoo, from which our word “metamorphosis” comes. If you want to be transformed in the same way that a worm becomes a butterfly, then renew your mind through the Word of God, and effortless change is the result.

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and now here’s Andrew welcome to our

Tuesday’s broadcast of the gospel truth

today I’m continuing a series that I

started yesterday talking about

effortless change and I tell you this

has to be one of my favorite things to

teach this is one of the most important

things that God has shown me of course I

say that about everything I teach it but

it’s because everything that God has

showed me I believe is really important

and this follows up perfectly with the

series I was doing about how to find how

to follow and out of fulfill God’s will

and I’ve made some of these points but

now I’m just beginning to zero in on how

do you do it how does this change come

and it can come effortlessly if you take

the seed of God’s Word and plant it in

your heart God’s Word will change you in

every area it will change your emotions

it will change your finances it’ll

change your health it’ll change your

attitude it’ll change the way that you

look at things it’ll change whether you

are a pessimist or an optimist God’s

Word if you were to take it it’s just

like swallowing seeds and that nutrition

the the power that’s in the word will go

throughout your entire body and through

your soul and through your mind and it

will change everything but this is not

how most people are approaching change

most people just throw a prayer out to

God and beseech God and if they don’t

see the change that they want well then

they go to a prayer group and try and

get them to pray but they are continuing

to sow the seeds of this world the seeds

of doubt the seeds of fear the seeds of

worry

the seeds of murmuring and complaining

and all of these kind of things and they

are sowing those kind of seeds and yet

they want this harvest if you could ever

get this mindset that your life is going

the direction of your dominant thoughts

and your thoughts are controlled by the

input that comes to you Romans 10:17

says faith comes by hearing and hearing

by the Word of God

if you are hearing the Word of God

meditating in the Word of God faith will

come and faith will begin to start

producing nothing but love and joy and

peace and all of the fruit of the Spirit

if we are listening to this world and if

we are plugged into it and I’m telling

you brothers and sisters in our age with

our television our videos DVDs mp3

players the internet and all of these

things I believe that this generation of

Christians is more plugged in to the

information and the knowledge of this

world than any other group of Christians

has ever been therefore we are having

the seeds of fear and doubt and all of

these things plant it in us and it is

going to take a greater effort on our

part than any generation that has ever

lived to counter all of this negative

ISM well those are some strong

statements but the I believe that I’m

describing one of the major things today

that is keeping people from experiencing

God’s best is just the fact that we live

in a carnal world and we are more

influenced by the carnal world around us

than any other generation of believers

that have ever lived on this earth I

guess that’s debatable but that’s my

opinion is that we are just being

inundated with it and because of this

traditions and doctrines of men are

negating the Word of God more of us most

of us are more influenced by the world

than we are by the word and that has to

change proverbs 23:7 says for as he

thinks in his heart so is he

and that’s talking about you know going

into the house of a rich person and

being careful that you don’t let him

bribe you and influence you by all of

the day knees and all of the things that

he can offer you boy there’s a direct

parallel between that and the world that

we live in today and then it goes on to

say because as he thinks in his heart

that’s the way that he is it doesn’t

matter what his surroundings are like it

doesn’t matter whether he’s living in

opulence whether he’s living in a lap of

luxury and all of these things that way

that a person thinks in their

heart that’s the way that they are so

you could say it this way that change

starts from the inside out most people

are trying to get change from the

outside in there’s a lot of people

thinking if I could just get a different

job if I could just get a break and if I

had a career and if I had more finances

and if I had this house or if I had this

car or if I just had more looks if I was

skinnier if I was prettier if I could

get this to happen or if I could just

get a different mate we’re looking for

all of these external things and

thinking that if I could change all of

these things then I’m going to be happy

and then I’ll be fulfilled and yet the

Bible teaches it it’s just the opposite

as you think in your heart that’s the

way things are on the outside that is a

major statement and again I’m saying

that most people most of you watching

this program I’m sure many of you have

had a revelation but probably the

majority of people that are watching

this program are praying for change to

come externally and if you could just

get your environment change these things

to change then you’d have peace on the

inside and yet the Bible teaches it’s

just the opposite that change starts on

the inside if you can’t change on the

inside if you can’t see it on the inside

you won’t see it on the outside and

there are many of you you know again

recently if you’ve watched my program I

taught about hope and imagination and I

was making some of these exact same

points and I did a great teaching on

that that was in that series on how to

fulfill God’s will if you missed any of

that you ought to call us an hour right

and get that series but this is a

tremendous point that if you can’t see

it on the inside you’ll never see it on

the outside because as you think on the

inside that’s the way that your life is

gone you know at first this is offensive

to people because they think well I

didn’t have anything to do with me

getting cancer having a sickness or

disease you’re that you’re saying that

that’s the way that I think you

may not have been thinking I want cancer

you may not have been thinking that I

want to die but your thinking was not in

line with God’s Word you weren’t

thinking that I have the same power that

raised Christ from the dead that I can

change my situation that I am greater

that the power that God placed on the

inside of me is greater than any

sickness or disease you were just

thinking that your natural you’re just

human you might have been a very nice

person very calm person maybe you were

you know you aren’t mean to anybody

you’re just a good ol average Joe Blow

or whatever but you’ve been thinking

natural and then something hits you like

cancer and you know what the reason that

it’s having the effect on you and stuff

is because of the way you think if you

were to begin to think that look every

name that has been named in heaven and

in earth has been put under my feet if

you can put a name on it if it’s got

cancer if it’s got AIDS if it’s got

leukemia whatever the name is it’s under

the feet of Jesus therefore it’s under

my feet I have authority he Matthew

chapter 10 he gave His disciples

authority over all sickness that

includes cancer it includes AIDS that

includes leukemia that includes anything

over all sickness over all disease and

if you were to be thinking that way

about who you are in Christ and what you

have in your authority then I can

guarantee you you could overcome those

things instead of being overcome by them

but see most people see something like

sickness and disease as something that

is totally organic

it is not spiritual in nature there is

nothing to do with the way you think

it’s all physical it’s all tangible

therefore they are looking for only a

physical tangible answer to this problem

they want to get it cut out radiated

take a pill for it or do something and

they don’t understand that if you could

change the way that you think to wear I

am NOT just a mere human being I am NOT

just susceptible to sickness the way

that everybody else is there is a part

of me that is God possessed I have the

same power on the inside of me that

raised Christ from the dead

as it says in first Peter chapter 4 let

this mind be in you which was also in

Christ Jesus how do you think Jesus

thought about sickness do you think when

it came to be you know the winter that

he said he well it’s flu season and I’ll

probably be the first one to get it do

any of you really believe that Jesus

thought that way or do you think that as

God as creator that he saw himself able

to overcome all sickness and all disease

I personally don’t believe that Jesus

got sick until he took our sicknesses on

his own body on the tree I believe that

he was living victorious over that and

people say well yeah but that was Jesus

the Bible says again 1st Peter chapter 4

let this mind be in you which was also

in Christ Jesus and it says in John

chapter 14 verse 12 Jesus was speaking

he says verily verily that means truly

truly you know I had to say truly truly

to introduce his statement because he

knew that this was going to be so far

fetched so far different than the

average normal way of thinking that

people were going to thank all he

couldn’t mean what he said so he started

off by saying look I’m telling you the

truth and then he repeated it again I’m

telling you the truth

that whosoever believes on me the works

that I do shall he do also and greater

works than these shall he do because I

go unto my father

some people get off on a tangent and say

well the greater works are deed on radio

and television and we’re reaching more

people and you know let’s just forget

the greater works part what are you

going to do with the part of John 14:12

that says the works that I do shall he

do also I believe that Jesus was able to

conquer sickness and disease and I

believe that because I’m a believer if I

will trust in him I can do that same

thing now see if you begin to have this

mindset that I’m describing here which

comes from the word of god from the

promises and if you begin to think that

way did you know what you can walk free

from sickness and if sickness does

attack you I don’t believe that all

sickness is generated by negative

thoughts on the inside of us we live in

a corrupt world

and you could get around somebody who

had the flu and if they coughing your

face you know you could you could be

exposed to it not based on some negative

thinking on your own but just through

contact with this fallen world and stuff

but if your thinking was correct and if

you were thinking greater is He that’s

in me that Heath it’s in the world if

you were thinking according to

Deuteronomy 28 that no plague will come

nigh my dwelling he’ll give his angels

charge over me and if you were thinking

according to all of the promises that

God gave you you would be able to

overcome any sickness any disease

anything that came against you and I

know some how do you think I’m weird

well I think you’re weird because you

don’t think according to what the Word

of God says you know there was a man

John G Lake who lived in the early part

of the 1900s and this man had a

revelation of healing saw great miracles

of healing he’s one that started the

Healing Rooms in Spokane Washington and

and anyway his ministry has been

resurrected there are still healing

rooms all over the United States all

over the world and he’s still having an

impact nearly a hundred years after his

ministry in any way John Lake I heard a

story about him that he was actually

granted a license to operate a hospital

in Spokane because he saw more results

than the medical doctors did at that

time if I’m not mistaken in the story

that I’ve heard there was two hospitals

in Spokane at that time and one of them

closed down because his ministry was so

effective that it literally closed one

of two hospitals in the city down he

became so effective they gave him a

medical license and anyway there was a

plague going on among the people I’m not

sure exactly what it was but there was

this plague and the doctors the medical

people were helping and they were

putting all of these sick people in

these quarantine type of things and

anyway John Lee was working right

alongside some doctors to deal with

these sick and dying people and there

was one man that they were working on

who

convulsed foamed at the mouth and died

and one of the medical doctors that was

working there looked over at John Lake

not knowing really who he was and looked

over at him when this man died and he

says man aren’t you glad that we have a

vaccination against this disease and

John Lake just looked at him and he says

who has a vaccination and this medical

doctor when he said that says you can’t

be serious you can’t be working with

these people without a vaccination and

John Lake see because again his mind

said he had been thinking that the works

that Jesus did shall I do also and

greater works than these shall I do let

this mind be in you which was in Christ

Jesus and no plague will come nigh your

dwelling he gave us power over all

sickness over all disease and on and on

and on all of the Scriptures go he was

thinking that way and because of it he

was working with these dead people

around a communicable disease with no

inoculation because he trusted the Word

of God and when this medical doctor

found out about it he just got incensed

you’re crazy you can’t be working around

this you’re going to die of this plague

and so John Lake said no germ can touch

my body and live and of course this

medical doctor was skeptical and he says

you’re crazy and he says I can prove it

to you so he had this medical doctor

take one of these little slides

glass slides that you put under a

microscope and they swab some of this

foam that had come out of this man’s

mouth who had just died and they swab

that God got this saliva and put it

under a microscope and had the doctor

look at it and you could just see all of

these germs moving and stuff under a

microscope and there was all of this

plague in these germs you know in that

slide and then John Lake said watch this

and he just touched his finger to that

slide and instantly all movement stopped

instantly all of that disease that

plague nothing could come near his body

and live and you know there’s a lot of

people thinking man I wish I could do

that

Jesus gave every one of us the promises

that we can do things like that but see

most

of us aren’t meditating in the word we

don’t know what the word says and so you

may be a very nice man or woman you may

be just the sweetest person and you love

God and you go to church and pray but

you see yourself as only human you don’t

recognize the power and the authority

that God has been put on the inside of

you so when it comes to cancer when it

comes to AIDS when it comes to some

disease you see yourself is no different

than the unsaved neighbor Nick living

next door to you and you think that way

and then when cancer comes your way you

just God why did this happen and you

pray and you ask God to supernaturally

change it but see you haven’t taken the

seed of God’s Word and planted them on

the inside you don’t know who you are in

Christ you don’t know what you have you

don’t know your authority

so you’re just begging and pleading for

God to come touch you and wondering why

nothing is happening and you say it’s so

hard to change it’s so hard to change

from being sick and to being well it’s

so hard to change from being poor into

being prosperous it’s so hard to get

over the discouragement and the fear and

the doubt and all of these things it’s

because we are not thinking and

meditating according to the Word of God

I’m telling you that change starts on

the inside and the number one I mean by

far the number one way of changing the

inside of you the way you see yourself

the way you think proverbs 23:7 as he

thinks in his heart so is he the number

one way of changing your inside is

through the Word of God through

meditating in the Word of God and I’m

not talking about just you know reading

one verse a day having some kind of a

little five minute devotion and trying

to counter eighteen hours worth of being

awake with five minutes of being

positive in the Word of God I’m talking

about if you would take the word in like

that verse I used yesterday in Joshua

chapter 1 verse 8 says this book of the

law for us that would be the Bible shall

not depart out of our mouths but we

shall meditate therein day and

night that we may observe to do

according to all that is written Aryan

for then we will make our way prosperous

and then we will have good success if

you were to change from being just a

nice Joe Blow or Jane Doe into being a

person who thinks like Christ that the

same power that raised him from the dead

lives on the inside of me whatever he

did I can do I have the same power and

authority I am thinking like Christ I am

letting this mind and if you were to see

yourself and get identified with Jesus

and start approaching life from that

perspective I guarantee you change would

come you would be promoted in whatever

situation you’re in because you would be

a person who would be inspired by God

that would have confidence and boldness

you would instantly become a leader you

know my own testimony many of you have

heard me refer to different things but I

was an introvert I certainly was not a

leader I was not a leader when I was a

kid but you know what when I got changed

by the Lord and I realized first of all

how much he loved me and I felt it

emotionally but then the emotion wore

off and I began to panic and God led me

to get into the Word of God and through

the Word of God I began to renew my mind

and I begin to understand how God loved

me now not because I felt it but because

I understood it I understood that I had

become a new creature and as I begin to

get the word in my life it changed the

way I thought and did you know today I’m

not saying this in a I’m not trying to

promote myself I’m just saying this

really to brag on the Lord and to give a

testimony about how change has come

through the word but I used to be an

introvert I was the one that would have

taken the back seat I was the one that

would have hidden I was the one that did

not want to be out front I was not a

leader I was a follower but you know

what I got into the Word of God it

changed the way I think and now I can

guarantee you it’s just if I was in a

crowd if you were to take me and put me

in a group of people that nobody knew

who I was nobody had ever heard

if I didn’t tell them anything about

myself I can just guarantee you that I

would be in a position of leadership in

a very short period of time because God

has changed the way I think and I’m in

union with the Lord I would be inspired

by the Lord with solutions and answers

to things when I was working secular

jobs I guarantee I went in one time in a

photography studio because I owed the

guy money he was my landlord and I

didn’t have enough money to pay him and

I went in and he taught me how to

develop pictures and within two months

he offered me a joint partnership 50% of

his business at that time that was worth

30 or 40 thousand dollars back in 1976

that was a lot of money and he offered

it to me because in two months I had

transformed his business I’d pulled him

out of bankruptcy the thing was working

I did things that he told me he had been

developing pictures for 20 to 30 years

and he had never been able to do the

things and you know how I do it I’d get

in there and pray in tongues and God

gave me creative ideas I just don’t know

how to express this any more than I’m

expressing it but I’m telling you that

the way to change is not by just praying

and asking God but it’s by taking the

Word of God and if you had meditate in

the word day and night change starts on

the inside the Word of God will change

you on the inside it will renew your

mind who you are you will begin to start

thinking differently and not seeing

yourself as only human I’m not only

human one-third of me is wall to wall

Holy Ghost one-third of me has been

transformed by the power of God and

because I have a can-do attitude that

has literally changed my life and it’s

changed me in the area of finances it

changed me in the area of physical

healing it’s changed me in the area of

leadership it got me out of being an

introvert into being an extrovert it

changed my life in every single area

it’s changed my memory I see things

differently I remember things

differently it’s changed my vision about

the future I’m not afraid of things I

was just with a group of people

yesterday who were afraid

of everything they were afraid drive it

up my driveway they were afraid we were

driving on pavement and they were

following me and we came to a dirt road

and they nearly came to a stop it’s

probably the first time in their life

they’d ever been off pavement they’re

just afraid of anything and everything

I’m telling you the Word of God had

changed you to where you wouldn’t be

afraid of all of these things brothers

and sisters I’m giving you a key if you

want to change and if you want that

change to just come effortlessly just be

a natural outgrowth get into the Word of

God meditate in the word and you I can’t

fully explain this but I can testify to

it and proclaim it that it’s true that

you will make your way prosperous you

will have good success the Word of God

will transform your thinking or this is

good news

this is nearly too good to be true news

it’s exactly this simple it’s not

necessarily easy the hardest thing

you’ll ever do is get to where you turn

off all of the attraction in the pull of

this world and get to where you just

focus on the word but it’s exactly this

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