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RHEMA  3/13/08  THE SACRIFICES IN BEING transformed

 

PIX:  I saw a car door shut and lock. 

HEARD:  Stay out of trouble.  What’s wrong?  Appetite.  I will deliver you.  Hopeless and bitter fruit.  A way out.  Egypt.  You shall be seeing shortly how to do this.  Sacrifices, little ones. 

 

HEARD:  Dont be afraid.  I gathered you in the storm.

 

DREAM/ VISIONI saw a beautiful lady who had thick, glistening dark brown hair down to her waist.   She had a very large butterfly appear on the top of her head, it looked like a delicate, beautiful and lacey hair ornament, sitting upon her like a large hat.  The butterfly was a shimmering brown, yet iridescent and transparent color, and it appeared lacey and very delicate.  Then I saw the butterfly gently lift off and fly away, and another butterfly appeared on top of her head. 

 

Her hair was shedding layer upon layer of these butterflies.  It did not appear that she was losing hair or that it was getting any thinner.  But somehow the layers were making butterflies.  It was something very beautiful that she was yielding up to the Lord and I knew it was something very precious and sacrificial.  As I was watching these butterflies be offered up to the Lord, it was imparted to me that the Lord was somehow using these transformed butterflies as a secret weapon, in their gentleness and beauty and sacrifice. 

 

I asked the beautiful lady when her hair was all done shedding the layers, how long it would take for it to grow that long again and she said, “Oh years!”  It truly was a beautiful sacrifice to the Lord.

 

HEARD:  Sacrifices.  What you gave to Me.  The message is on your head.

 

Rom 12:1-2 NKJV

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed {3339} by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

 

Interpretation:  Every time we turn away from hearing carnal language, from seeing carnal images, from feeding worldly appetites in our thoughts, emotions, spirit, soul, and bodies.... each and every time they are considered holy and acceptable sacrifices unto the Lord.  The more we make a deliberate choice with our wills to shed the layers of our carnality up to Jesus, we become transformed into Jesus’ image from glory to glory.

 

TRANSFORMED:  metamorphose

 

TO BE TRANSFORMED LIKE A BUTTERFLY

metamorphoo

NT:3339 metamorphoo (met-am-or-fo'-o); from NT:3326 and NT:3445; to transform (literally or figuratively, "metamorphose"):

KJV - change, transfigure, transform.

 

Rom 12:1-2  AMP

I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of {all} the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies {presenting all your members and faculties} as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.  2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), {fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs}, but be transformed {3339} (changed) by the {entire} renewal of your mind {by its new ideals and its new attitude}, so that you may prove {for yourselves} what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect {in His sight for you}.

 

2 Cor 3:17-18  NKJV

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed {3339} into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

 

2 Cor 3:18  AMP

And all of us, as with unveiled face, {because we} continued to behold {in the Word of God} as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured {3339} into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; {for this comes} from the Lord {Who is} the Spirit.

 

Matt 17:2  KJV

And was transfigured {3339} before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

 

Mark 9:2  KJV

And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured {3339} before them.

 

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WORD O’GRAM: REASONABLE SACRIFICE

Reaching beyond the demands of flesh for
Eternal purpose within mortality.
Always facing the battle of
Sin’s lure by
Overcoming through the power of His Spirit.
Not yielding to the carnal nature
And impure motives.
But with reason, and purpose, choice and
Logical will,
Eagerly laying down whatever opposes the call of His Spirit.

Sharing what costs the most.
Anticipating reward for what died.
Costly payment.
Real heroes pouring out mortality.
Instant giving without hesitation.
Finding the sheer grit of purpose in suffering.
Issuing from a deeper will of giving.
Caring deeply with eternal perspective.
Extravagance beyond self.

Rom 12:1-2 NKJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice , holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 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.

 

 


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Words from the The Quickened Word are excerpts from the journals of Sandy Warner.  To better understand how God speaks, read Sandy’s book, “101+ Ways God Speaks, And How to Hear Him.”  Website:
www.thequickenedword.com    Email:  swauthor777@usa.net  
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