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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Monday’s broadcast of the gospel truth
today I’m going to begin a brand new
series talking about effortless change
and I have a brand new book and study
guide out on this this is a teaching
that I have been giving for decades now
and it’s really one of the foundational
truths that God has shown me you know
everybody desires to change even if
you’re going in the right direction most
of us have goals and things that we
haven’t obtained and there have to be
changes before we can see all that come
to pass in my own life I really believe
that I’m exactly on target I believe I’m
right where God wants me to be but I’ve
got a lot of things God has shown me
that I need to accomplish and there has
to be change in order for me to be able
to accomplish that so really I think the
change is something that every single
person desires
you know if somehow another we could see
into the future and if you could plot
where you are right now and say 10 years
or 20 years in the future if the Lord
tarries would you want to be in the
exact same spot that you are right now I
believe that most of you would say no
that you have desires to increase and
accomplish more and and do more things
and so change is something I think that
is universal people desire it and yet
most people just don’t seem to be able
to find a handle on change there’s no
way to grab hold and to make it come to
pass most people desire it and they pray
and they somehow or another are looking
for change but it’s just hit and miss
there doesn’t seem to be any consistent
way to do it and then this title that
I’ve a ascribed to this teaching about
effortless change that sounds like an
oxymoron to most people I mean most
people this is just completely
contradictory change for most people is
traumatic
it is a terrible thing for instance if
you just talk about people changing jobs
people changing their house people
changing their location of where they
are with most people changes as
traumatic experience and this you know
title that I’ve put on it of effortless
change just seems like this is
impossible but what I want to share with
you is that the Word of God teaches us
how to change and it teaches us how to
change effortlessly and I know that at
first people just think that can’t be
but I really believe it’s because people
are trying to change in ways other than
what God said but God built into nature
if you just looked in nature God built
into nature this ability to grow and to
change and of course this is illustrated
in a lot of ways but you look at a seed
you plant a seed and that seed changes
it changes from just a little tiny scene
you could plant an acorn that is very
small and it turns into this huge tree
that is able to withstand hurricanes and
the elements and all of these things and
you talk about a change or you could
take a mustard seed like Jesus did in
the fourth chapter of the book of Mark
when he was talking about the mustard
seed in the mustard seed is the tiniest
of all herbs and yet you saw it if it
comes the biggest of all the herb trees
and it just it’s just huge change you
take an apple seed and you plant it and
it produces this tree that produces
apples and I can guarantee you there’s
not a single person that has ever walked
by an apple tree and has heard this
apple tree grown and grunt and scream
and yet out they’ve let out this
tremendous paid-in boom here’s an apple
it doesn’t come that way it is the
nature of that seed to produce an apple
tree that produces apples and it just
comes effortlessly its natural now there
are things that have to be overcome if
there’s a drought if there’s storms if
there’s you know freezing temperatures
and there are things that are adverse in
a way you could say it takes a lot of
effort but in another way it’s just
effortless it is the
of that seed to produce apples and
likewise this is going to be a summary a
simple synopsis of the whole thing that
I’ll be teaching that the word of God is
a seed and if we would take the Word of
God and sew it in our life and protect
the seed then the Word of God just
changes you effortlessly it’s automatic
it’s just natural the Word of God will
produce after its own kind if you take
the scriptures concerning healing and
meditate on healing it will produce
healing in your body and I’m going to go
through a number of scriptures and show
you things like in proverbs chapter 4
that the Word of God is health all of
your flesh and life to those that find
it Psalms 107 verse 20 he sent His Word
and healed them and delivered them from
all of their destructions and on and on
and on the word goes with promises about
how that the Word of God will produce
healing and yet see most people that
need healing in their body they don’t
approach it from this standpoint what
they do they go and they pray and they
they cry out to God emotionally
passionately and they ask God to heal
him and they will get other people to
pray and they will start fasting and
they will start doing things trying to
effect healing you know what if you go
about it that way that’s the hard way
and that’s the reason that it is so
traumatic and it’s so hard and people
come all of the time say what do I have
to do being I fasted I pray I go to
church I’m paying my tithes I’m doing
this and this and this and they tell me
all of the things that they do and it’s
just like they’re running after a
miracle their tongue is hanging out
there they’re out of breath their God
what do I have to do you take the seed
and if you were to take the promises on
healing and meditate in them and take
the gospel instead of just some pill
from the doctor if you took the gospel
morning noon and
and meditating in it the word will just
effortlessly change you it will produce
health in your body it will be health to
all of your flesh and life to those that
find it proverbs chapter 4 and see this
is the way that God has ordained changes
for us to take these seeds these truths
that are in his word and we meditate in
it day and night and it produces results
let me start with the passage over here
in Joshua chapter one and just make this
same point again the book of Joshua of
course is after the death of Moses
Joshua became the new leader of the
children of Israel Moses let him ride up
to the promised land but he died and
didn’t take him into the promised land
so Joshua’s job was to replace Moses as
the leader of the nation of Israel and
go in and conquer the land of Canaan and
give the Jews their position possession
in the promised land I could spend a lot
of time on this but if you just think
about this I mean the shoes of Moses are
pretty hard to fill how do you take over
for a guy who called you know and said
if these people die a natural death then
you’ll know that God hasn’t spoken by me
but if something supernatural happens
and the earth opens up and swallows
these rebels alive into the pit then
you’ll know that I’m God’s messenger
this is in numbers chapter 16 and the
earth opened up and swallowed them and
everything that belonged to them into
the earth and then it closed upon them
again and Moses as the guy came down his
face showing Moses is the guy who held
his rod out over the Red Sea and party I
mean on and on we could go talking about
how powerful Moses was and here comes
Joshua to replace him you know it’s just
it would be natural that people would
not put him in the same category as
Moses and yet in the first chapter of
the book of Joshua the Lord is telling
Joshua he says as I have been with Moses
that’s exactly the way I’m going to be
with you and I’m not going to go on and
read all of this but in the first couple
of chapters here the Lord told Joshua
says are today
I’m going to begin to magnify you in the
side of the people so that they will
know that I have been with you the way
that I was with Moses and one of the
ways that he did that is when they
entered into the Promised Land
it was during you know the rain rainy
season the Jordan River was out of its
banks and the Lord told Joshua he says
you tell the priest to carry the Ark of
the Covenant and go stand in the river
and when they got up to about their
ankles or their calves in the water then
the waters of the Jordan parted and the
children of Israel walked across on dry
land to go in to the promised land and
so very similar to what happened at the
Red Sea God parted the rivers of Jordan
and he said the reason I’m doing this is
to magnify you to put Authority and
validate your ministry and let the
Israelites know that I with you the way
that I was with Moses and so this is
what the first few chapters of the book
of Joshua are about and he’s telling
Joshua to be strong and of a good
courage don’t let these people
discourage you and how is it that he
accomplishes this how is it that Joshua
changes from a person who for 40 years
had served the man of God to now being
the man of God well that is significant
some of you have never been in a
leadership position and you’ve never had
to make this mental change on the inside
where you go from being the follower to
the leader but I tell you that is change
and that change has to take place in
your heart before you can assume that
position I’m sure that there are people
watching this program right now who God
is opening up a door for you and calling
you to a greater position of leadership
and yet you’ve got to change the way you
see yourself on the inside you’ve got to
change your attitude from being a
follower to being a leader you’ve got to
change your confidence level from being
well it’s not my responsibility to now
everything is my responsibility and how
are you going to handle this and I’ll
tell you this is one of the reasons that
people fail not because they don’t have
the ability not because God
it hasn’t called them but because on the
inside they have not changed that image
and the image the way you see yourself
functioning the level to which you see
yourself functioning will be like a
governor a limiter on you that will stop
you at some place and this is what the
Lord spoke to me in 2002 about how I had
limited what God could do with me
through my small thinking and the Lord
told me to take the limits off of him
and when I did that I my whole life my
whole ministry everything in my life has
dramatically changed
I mean dramatically changed I I’ve got
an entire teaching series on all of that
but see this is exactly what Joshua was
going through you talk about change
Joshua was experiencing huge change and
how did it come to pass
there’s a lot of things that he said
here but I want to point out in verse
eight Joshua chapter 1 verse 8 it says
this book of the law shall not depart
out of your mouth but thou shalt
meditate therein day and night that thou
mayst observe to do according to all
that is written therein for then thou
shalt make thy way prosperous and then
thou shalt have good success now again
if you take this and put it in its
context and if you see how dramatic the
change is in Joshua’s life in his
position of leadership in his realm of
influence I mean this is dramatic this
is huge and how do you accomplish it the
Lord said this book of the law at that
time there was only five books of the
Bible Moses had written Genesis Exodus
Leviticus numbers and Deuteronomy and at
that time this is all that he had and
yet the Lord was saying this book of the
law these five chapters are what the
Jews call the Pentateuch this book you
have to meditate in it day and night you
speak it out your mouth you keep it in
front of you now of course today we have
also the inspired Bible we have all of
these books 66 books in the Bible and we
could substitute or put into here that
not only this book of the law the first
five books
this Bible shall not depart out of our
mouths but we need to meditate in it day
and night
and if we will do that and observe all
that is written in it it says then we
will make our way prosperous and then we
will have good success
everybody wants the prosperity everybody
wants the success everybody wants this
change everybody would love to see God
increase them and give them more
influence and so that their life could
make a bigger impact and so that they
could live more abundance and that they
could walk at more victory and power
everybody wants these results but I’m
telling you there is not one out of a
thousand Christians who is taking this
approach to the change you want this
goal but most of us are just wishing and
a hoping and a praying we are expecting
faith to just supernaturally move us
that direction and it’s just somehow
another going to come to pass and we
don’t know how and and we’re going about
our way and just goofing off and wasting
our time and we aren’t taking the word
of God and meditating in it constantly
and yet we want the results this makes
it very specific it says then you make
your way prosperous then you have good
success then why when you have meditated
in this word day and night when you take
the seed and you plant it in your heart
and you let this seed produce I’m
telling you I’m going to be spending a
number of weeks here just trying to get
this point across that God’s Word is a
seed and if you want prosperity the
seeds for prosperity are in this Bible
and if you would take those seeds and
meditate on them that’s how you plant
them in your heart then those seeds
would spring up and it would begin to
start producing prosper and it would
just come to pass I know some of you
think that I can’t believe that I can’t
believe that just reading the Bible and
reading scriptures about prosperity is
going to make me prosperous no I have to
have master’s education I have to have a
connection here I have to have a super
product to be able to sell
and we’re looking for all of these
natural things but I’m telling you that
the seed of God’s Word will make you
prosperous and then you will have good
success it’s really how it works now I’m
not saying that God won’t give you a
creative idea but it will come as a
byproduct of meditating in the word in
putting God’s Word first you know I
wished I had the ability I’ve read
things about this but I wished I had all
this information on the inside of me
that I could spit this out to you and
prove it to you but I’ve read lots of
documents and different things about
inventions and some of the inventions
that have changed the world some of the
medical discoveries and just all kinds
of things Industrial Revolution and all
of these things some of the great
scholars and scientists like Newton that
came up with the law of gravity of
course he didn’t create gravity but he
was the first one to express this as a
law and some of the things that he did
did you know that the vast majority a
weekend I wished I had the ability to to
show you this specifically but it’s I
just don’t have those figures in my head
but the vast majority of scientific
breakthroughs medical breakthroughs in
things all of the stuff that has made
our life’s so far superior
technologically compared to previous
generations the vast majority of those
discoveries and inventions came from
people who were god-fearing people who
meditated in the word and as God
influenced them then that caused these
reactions and these things that have
impacted our everyday life now I know
there are some people are going to argue
with that and say oh that’s not so but
again I’ve seen a lot of statistics and
I mean for instance you could go back to
the Reformation that happened around
1500 Martin Luther and all of this and
when the Reformation broke people out
from under the religious system of the
Catholic Church the bondage and people
begin to start studying the word they
started putting the word
into the languages of people in the
Reformation the Protestant allowed
people to start reading the word and
people started doing this there came an
industrial revolution that was a direct
results I just recently saw a thing on
television that was not a Christian
program it was a secular program
discussing about some of five of the
major things that have changed the
history of the world and it listed the
Reformation as one of the dominant
forces in the history of the world
because it opened the Word of God up to
the average person as people begin to
study the word have personal
relationship with the Lord then the
Industrial Revolution broke out all
kinds of things happen and again
somebody else could probably verify that
and make that point better than I am but
again I’m saying that see when you
meditate in the word the Word of God
frees you up it takes us away from these
religious traditions and doctrines of
men that make the Word of God and no
effect it causes you to start thinking
bigger it’s causes you to start thinking
outside of the box things start
happening and if you would take the Word
of God and plant these seeds in your
life these seeds would produce the
change effortlessly the only effort is
really to just discipline yourself to
turn off all of the things of this world
that occupies so much of our time and
put your effort into meditating in the
word day at night and if you would do
that then change would come effortlessly
you know let me give you a personal
testimony that back about I started on
television in 2000 and I knew that we
were moving in that direction and it was
somewhere around 96 or 97 1996 or 97 I
just saw television on the horizon I
knew it was going to be infinitely more
expensive than the radio ministry that I
had had for 25 years and I saw that we
were going to need huge influx of money
and I was just barely getting along
where I was and I just
it was a revelation from God that I
needed to start getting my attitude
straightened out in this area of
finances so you know what I did based on
this exact teaching I’m giving you I
went to the Word of God
I took Scriptures about prosperity about
a hundred of them and I put them on my
computer I made a file and I just put
scriptures about prosperity and I would
go through and I would read those
scriptures and I would meditate on it
and most of them I guess nearly all I
might heard before but I took them out
of context put them all in one place
just so that I could get the maximum
impact and I started meditating on these
scriptures and for about two years I
just took these scriptures and I
meditated them even though I knew these
scriptures I would read them over again
I would pray and ask God for new
revelation and for about two years there
was virtually no change in our finances
we were limping along there was times
that my board even told me that they
were going to close the ministry down
because we were bankrupt on paper but I
just kept meditating on the scriptures
in anyway it’s a long story I haven’t
got time to give you the whole thing on
today’s program but as I meditated on
these scriptures there came a time that
I invited this man
pastor Dean Melton from Charlotte North
Carolina I’ve been going to his church
for about 22 years every September and I
invited him to come into our school and
teach on prosperity because he had a
revelation of prosperity I saw it
working in his life I saw it working in
the lives of people that were in his
church I knew that he had something
working in his life in this area of
prosperity that I didn’t and so I
invited him in I took a legal pad of
paper I sat down and for two days I
listened to him and I was going to copy
down everything he said and I was going
to learn what he needed to know and you
know what after two days I had never
taken a single note he didn’t use one
scripture that I hadn’t been meditating
on he didn’t say one thing that I hadn’t
already heard but you know what it
changed my life
because pastor Dean Melton believed it
in a way that I didn’t believe
that I had the knowledge but for
whatever reason I believe it was really
tradition and doctrine a man that had
taught me basically that Christians
aren’t supposed to prosper that we’re
supposed to be poor and that those
traditions were voiding the word of God
but through pastor Dean Melton I saw
some things I grabbed hold of these
truths I started believing God and I
guarantee you our finances exploded and
some people think well man I need this
guy to come into my church but you know
what it would have had the same impact
if I hadn’t have planted the seed for
two years been meditating on these words
and I just it’s like I had all of this
fuel there and all I needed was a spark
to ignite it and see some people only
hear testimony like this and think well
I need this person to come do something
but if you haven’t been meditating in
the word then change is not going to
come effortlessly but see I’ve been
meditating in it and because of that the
Lord was able to take that and our
finances now are probably a hundred
maybe 200 times as great as they were
back in 1996 I tell you this is how
powerful the Word of God is and if you
need financial miracle or if you need a
healing or if you need relationships or
if you need skills to learn how to get
along with people whatever you need the
seed is in this word if you will plant
it in your heart then change will come
effortlessly you know I’m out of time
today but I’m going to continue to teach
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when Andrew and Jamie were young they
went to a conference on Biblical
prosperity they desperately wanted to
get the teaching but simply could not
afford it Andrew promised God that if he
was ever in a position to make his
teaching available he would never deny
it to someone for lack of funds that’s
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John chapter 14 verse 1 the very first
thing that Jesus told his disciples he
says let not your heart be troubled when
I looked into his face I saw his eyes
flittering and so um I yelled at him and
I said you are not going to leave me
next thing I know I’m down an emergency
room at the stroke center and eres
Methodist in Fort Worth
one third of Alan’s brain had not
received blood the MRI scan of the brain
showed a massive stroke they told me he
was paralyzed on the left side they told
me that he could not swallow they told
me he could not speak they were saying
he’s going to need a stomach to to be
fed the rest of his life we were not
very optimistic about the outcome we had
spent that time in Christian survival we
had spent that time in harnessing your
emotions and I was harnessing my
emotions I was completely under control
and that’s what disturbed the doctors
the most they were not going to speak
death over him because his life was in
the balance and I knew the truth and the
truth
was gonna set him free and I knew it I
knew it would set complete it would set
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