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Let us pray. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3.3 Heavenly Father, I exalt you today and every day, from my morning rising to my evening slumber. My every breath is a gift from you. I was born into the heredity of Adam's fallen sin nature, ever since his fall from grace in the garden.

All mankind is born into that sin nature. That's why I must be born again through the redemption of Christ on the cross. I am born again by receiving Jesus Christ into my heart, and the impartation of my eternal inheritance becomes my new identity in Christ. Without spiritual eyes, I cannot see the kingdom of God. I only see through my carnal eyes, but not beyond into the spirit realm.

Once the curse of Adam's sin is broken, I am a new creature in Christ. I am born again into newness of life. I get a do-over. All my sins are wiped away and I can live with the renewed strength of my Lord Jesus Christ. He will restore my life and repair the damage sin caused. What an amazing experience to not have to live with the guilt and shame of my past.

I can learn from my mistakes and move into a future with that wisdom to correct my choices. The debt that I owe you can never be repaid. In the mighty name of Jesus, amen. Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer. For more inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor, stay tuned to Pray.com's Sunday service.

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Hi, it's Samantha Taylor. Welcome to my radio show on Pray. I am excited to be bringing this message to you. This new show is called Divine Life Transformation. Why divine? Because it's guided by God and understanding what does the Bible say about our transformation? Even in Romans 12, 1-2 where it talks about having a transformation is by the renewing of the mind.

but make sure you also check out my new tv show on prey as well it just launched so the tv show is every thursday morning and if you didn't see the episode on self-control you gotta check it out you can see it on my page in this prey app just search for my name under the leader area and you'll see that i take you on a hike actually i teach you in a studio in a los angeles studio set first

as well as we go in the nature on my TV show on a hike. We go all over the place. We go to New Zealand. I mean, we are all over the place. If you want a way to get a more detailed list of scriptures to study, like a PDF that you can print out and have to have as a resource, text the word divine life.com.

to the number 586-500-7333. I'll give this again at the end. It's a divine one because it's God guiding it. It's not you doing it. It's God guiding it. And you're having a transformation in life because you went from not knowing God, not knowing God's ways to now actually following after God. So this is where you find that

balance that you can know how to transform in the ways of God. And that's why it was named that show. It's all about transformation and helping you guys learn. How do you think different? How do you act different? How do you see your behavior change? So when you ask yourself, well, what really is a divine life transformation part?

Part of it is starting off with not following the world system. So the world system is only do what makes you happy, what gives you pleasure. The point is, is the world system is not followed on God's system. So when you want to follow a life after God, it's following how do I actually live in a way that lines up with the ways of the Bible and the world system is ways that can be more destructive to you instead of following God's ways.

So Romans 12, one through two talks about that to not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed in the renewing of your mind. So I want you to ask yourself, what is it that you're struggling with? Is there anything that in your life you're like, man, this is one area that I'm really struggling with. This is one area that I am...

still battling with that I thought I had overcome, or I still take to God in prayer, or I find that it comes back. Like I deal with it and I, I have success and then I keep struggling. So these are things to ask yourself, like, where do you struggle? What, what are you still struggling with in your life? And what is it that you need to expose yourself?

In the light, where the Bible talks about, the Word is like a lamp to your feet, that it lights where you need to step. So when you're trying to figure out where you're going in your life and how you're doing things, you always want to get the light to shine on it from the Word of God. What does the Bible say about this? How does the Bible talk about self-control and walking through this stuff as the new creation that you are? When it says that we are a new creation in Christ, what does that mean?

And I literally spent the house on him out as a friend of mine. She's out of town and she let me stay here when she was gone. I've been here for like four or five days and I was spending literally like 10 to 12 hours a day diving into the Bible. And it was so funny because when I was writing the pilot, I,

thought I'd be like thinking about all the things I've learned and how to organize it on what I was going to talk about. No, God took me into the Bible for like 10 hours a day for four days. And I mean, I'm talking like it was the most awesome scavenger hunt, if you will, of finding all these scriptures and tying them together. And one of the things that I was highly focused on was what does it mean to be a new creation? And what is the difference between the

I believe that all answers

All answers are in the Bible. So I just kept going scripture after scripture, praying, crying, journaling, like God was just showing me so many things that I had not even seen before. So I just started diving in. What does it mean to be born again? That word born again, that word again actually means born from above, that you actually have to be born spiritually. And when that happens,

Now there is a process. So you are now a new creation in Christ. You are spiritually new. You are born from God. You are born from above. But you live in a human body. So now you have this eternal spirit that lives in a human body.

And this human body does have animalistic natures. The Bible calls the flesh, when you look at the original derivative of that word, it actually means an animalistic nature. So it has cravings. It has desires. It has things that are more animalistic in nature. But we have a soul, will, mind, and emotions. The soul is different from the spirit. The Bible separates those two. So the soul is like your mind, will, and emotions.

And that part does not get born again is what I'm seeing so far in the Bible. What I'm seeing is that the spirit is what becomes born again, because as your body born again, is your soul, will, mind, and emotions born again. Again, this is so far where I've gotten to. I don't know if your soul becomes born again, because remember that house is your memories, your experiences, your feelings,

thoughts, all of those things did not just change overnight, immediately. This is where I feel like the process starts to happen. The transformation starts to happen. You are spiritually born new. You're born again because you're born twice. But now there's a transformation that Romans 12, 1 through 2 talks about, that there's a transformation of the renewing of your mind.

So you get born again. There's that beginning foundation, which is the start of the whole thing. But if you don't grow up in the transforming of your mind, then you're not going to mature as a Christian as much. It doesn't mean you're not a Christian. And this is where the understanding of it doesn't mean you're not still going to heaven.

I believe, and the Bible does support this, that once you become born again and you are a child of God, you don't go in and out of being a child of God. Like, oh, whoops, you did something bad that day. And then some denominations preach that, that you can lose your salvation and gain it and lose your salvation and gain it. One of the,

Armors of God is a helmet of salvation. I believe he calls that the helmet of salvation because it protects your mind too of knowing that you are a child of God. You don't go in and out of you being a child of God. So there's solace in understanding that and knowing that.

But where is that process that the mind becomes transformed and renewed? So we're going to dive into some more of those scriptures today and talk about that because there's a difference of maturing in your relationship with God and growing in your relationship with God. And now you're actually living out the ways of God.

So again, you can become born again and go to heaven, but you're not mature in the ways of God. And the Bible talks about those differences. It talks about us being more mature. It talks about us being babes, infants. The one scripture I'm going to point out to you is it says that we are infants, new Christians, new believers are called infants in the word of God.

I believe because it's our mind, will, and emotions that must grow up. The spirit is just, righteous, and holy, and pure because of Christ. And again, I'm diving deep into these scriptures, but even the years of studying this information, I believe that that is the truth. That the spirit, once that becomes born again, that is made righteous, just,

holy and pure because of Jesus Christ. That was the price that was paid at the cross that he took on the sin. And I believe strongly that the Bible supports that.

So where's the process of you growing up? Where's the process of you maturing in the ways of God? This is where I believe the Bible also supports that we grow up and mature in the ways of God, that we actually, it says that we can only drink milk as an infant in the word, infant Christian, we're a baby Christian, that as we mature, we can handle meat,

So little babies don't consume meat. They have milk, right? When they're, you know, the mother is nursing them. They just have milk for the first year or however long that amount of time is. So the Bible says it like that too. And that's when you think about, okay, when you were born onto this earth, you didn't have anything to do with that. You just showed up and there you are. You didn't have anything to do with, you know, putting your, your spirit in the body. God did that.

So your born again experience is the same thing. The Bible says that grace of God have we been saved. It is by the grace of God.

So no man can boast about their works of, oh, yeah, I did this. I got this. I'm in this family. No, it is a gift of God. You didn't have anything to do with Jesus Christ going to the cross and paying the price for the sins of the world, the Bible says. So when you think about that, okay, so now I'm a new baby, if you will, in my spiritual walk. I was now maybe, okay, so I'm 49 now.

I'm 49 in my earthly body, but my spirit, I was born again 29 years ago on April 16th. So my spirit is 29, if you think about it that way, that my body and my mind has had to align with that. And I believe that this is the balance, the delicate balance of the

process of transformation as you become more in tune to understanding that you are an eternal spirit that lives inside of a temporal body. So this eternal spirit, once it becomes born again, it is now alive to God. It is now alive to the ways of God. It is now a

of the things of God than before we worked, right? Before we knew Christ and before we had that conversion that we now are born into the family of God, into the spirit of God family, that our spirit has been born, that we weren't aware of any of those things. But then you add the other component. The Bible says that when we do have that moment of experience, then now the Holy Spirit lives inside of us.

So not only do we have the experience that our spirit, our spirit within us that God created is now born from above.

But now the Holy Spirit, the Creator, God Himself lives within this temple. That's why it's called a temple. And this is an understanding that if we don't know these things from a Christian perspective, and we don't understand what this is relative to our faith, then we don't really know what's going on.

what it means to be a Christian. I mean, think about it. If you don't really understand what these things are, what does it even mean to be born again? So the Spirit of God lives inside of me? What does that mean to be a temple? Those are foundations of understanding biblically what it means to be

a Christian, also Christ-like, and what it means to live in the kingdom of God. The Bible says that even though you have an eternal spirit that will be in heaven, it also says that we are seated in heaven right now at the same time. But it does say that we are

duly in heaven in eternity, and we are on this earth in this body. So this is where when we think about, well, what is that process? And what does that process look like, you know, for you as a believer? And how does that affect your behavior? How does that affect your life? How does that affect your thinking? How does that affect your choices that you make?

Because remember, now that your spirit is new, you're a new creation in Christ. That word that says a new creature in Christ, it also means creation. So why are you a new creation? Because your spirit is born now to this kingdom of God. You are now in the family of God. And that's the part that is just so powerful.

Amazing when you start to see that a little bit more and understand it more spiritually of what that means. So one of the things to think about is the new creation in Christ. You have a new nature. So your spirit is what is driving you.

That's what you want now. You don't want your flesh driving you. Before you were not born again and you were not born from above, your flesh drove you. Your mind drove you. Your feelings, your thoughts, whatever you wanted to do, your memories, everything that your life was, was represented in all of the things that made you up to who you are at that moment. And who you are at that moment before you meet Christ always

the things you went through formed and shaped you to who you were at that moment. So now that you become born of the spirit, now all of those memories and experiences that you've had, all of those brain thought patterns that you've developed over 30, 40, 50, 60 years, whatever age you are,

Those are not born again. Your brain is not born again. Your memories are not born again. And this is why I was diving into the Bible for four or five days straight, because I wanted to be able to understand this scripturally and be able to explain this scripturally. Because if you can't back it up in the Bible, then that is not something that I believe should be taught because it's not, there's no proof of it in the Bible. So it's something that when you think about, it's like, okay, so how do you,

How does my mind become transformed by the renewing of it? So that word renewing means renovation and that word renovation. So if you ever think about gutting out a kitchen in your house, let's say you wanted to renovate your house.

You have to gut out what's there. You need a new plan of what you're going to put in and you need to install the new kitchen. So think of that like that with your mind. The mind is like that. So your old kitchen and your brain is your old ways of thinking, the old patterns in your mind, the ways you used to do things.

things lack of self-control doesn't even matter just do whatever you want whatever makes you feel good that's not the ways of god it's not that we can't have pleasure and enjoyment but there's very fine lines between your flesh running you and it becoming idolatry so these are the things that we we think about we think well how does that work how does it actually work that i renovate my mind well you have to gut out the old to put in the new

You've got to get rid of the old. Well, part of that is recognizing what the old is. What are the former ways that you used to think before Christ? And there's many scriptures that actually talk about this. It talks about your former conduct, your former behavior. It talks about putting off your old ways. It talks about putting on your new ways. There's a scripture that says to put off your old ways, being renewed in the spirit of your mind and to put on.

the things of Christ. Well, that was talking to believers. That scripture was talking to believers. So he was telling people that were already born again to put off the former things. So those didn't just fall off of them when they became a believer.

that they had to be renewed by the spirit of their mind to put on the ways of Christ. And those are the things that I am just diving in to truly understand this, because you better believe there's going to be a book I'm writing about this. This might be my first

book that I write on my own that I believe will help a lot of people really understand this part of their faith, understand what this truly means on how to be transformed. But the show is going to be a lot about this as well. So this is where talk

We're talking this out and understanding how does my brain become renovated? How does my mind become renovated? How does my will become renovated? Well, your spirit that is now born again, that is born of God, you have a new nature. You are a new creation.

That is what influences your mind. That is what influences your thinking, your mindset, your perception, your judging, your choices that you make. You want that to be driven by you.

The spirit. But the beautiful thing is it's not just your spirit that is pure, holy, righteous, and just because of what Christ has done. But now you have the spirit of God living inside of you. That the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is our guide. He is our comforter. He gives us instruction of life, tells us things, helps instruct us. So now not only do you have your spirit that is born of God, but now you have

The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit living with inside of you. This also guides you, instructs you, and helps transform you. There's another scripture that talks about that it is the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. That is what changes us. So there's many scriptures. And again, I'm tying all these together into the deep studies that I've been doing. But there's many scriptures that talk about

These things about being regenerated in ourselves, but they're talking to believers. So again, these people have already had a born again experience that they believe that Jesus Christ died for their sins and that they are sinners without him. And that when they believe that Christ died for their sins and they repent of their sins and they now have accepted and received that free gift that God gave them.

They are now made pure, holy, righteous, and just.

All of the scriptures that address believers after they've been converted does not call them sinners anymore. So this is a part of doctrine that's important to understand too, because we're not just sinners that are saved by grace. We were a sinner that was saved by grace, but we are not sinners anymore from the Bible's perspective. So this is where it's very interesting because now remember,

Is a sinner someone that is a child of God that lives in heaven dually? No. That's what the whole point of Jesus Christ paying the price for it. And I hope light bulbs are going off inside of your spirit going, oh, okay. The Bible says that we are righteous, holy, just, and pure once we become born again. And that is because of Christ, of nothing that we have done.

Now we are not called sinners anymore. Does that mean we don't sin? Absolutely not. It does mean we still struggle with sin, but the Bible is very clear in many places. And again, I'm going to dive deep into this to explain it properly scripturally, that it says that when Christ was crucified and raised from the dead,

that that actually made our flesh dead as well, that we were crucified with him, that we also raised from the dead for what he did. And again, that is a very deep scriptural, spiritual understanding to tie the scriptures and understand what they mean and what God was saying in that.

But this is why I've been on this journey of discovering what this means. Because if we are a new creation in Christ and all old things have passed away and I'm now a child of God, why does my body want to sin? Why does my body want what's not good for it? Why does my body want to choose things that are not good for it? And how do I bring it under subjection to line it up with the ways of God?

So these are the things that I've been asking, you know, in the studies that I've been doing. When you think...

So how do I navigate through this process? How do I walk in my transformation more? The Bible talks in many places about walking in the ways of God. That word walk is a series of steps. Walking is not one step. It's not one choice you made to make a better choice that day. No, it's a series of steps that takes you on a path that gets you into an end destination. So

So when you think about the Bible, it talks about walking in the ways of the spirit. You will want the ways of the spirit. Walk in the ways of the flesh and you will want the ways of the flesh. So this is where the Bible talks about these things being different. And he's speaking to believers. So we've already had a born again conversion. We've already been born of God. Now we have to walk in the ways of God. We have to walk this out in our life.

that we are choosing by the spirit of God, the guidance of God, but also submission. This is, again, another area that I really am studying deep on the will. What is the difference between our will that God has given us and following after his ways when he's the one that does the finished work?

These are things that I ask questions because I want to know scripturally and spiritually what this means and how do we actually navigate through these things and how is it not of our works? Because it's not of our works. The gift of God is a free gift of God. So no person can boast about, oh, gee, I did so many good works to get myself into heaven.

That's not what the Bible talks about. But it does say we were created for good works. So it talks about show me your faith by your works. How do you truly know if you're born again? You know, that's a question to ask yourself. How do I know if I'm born again? Well, if you didn't have a conversion with God,

with Christ and the things that I've spoken about earlier. But you didn't start to see a new nature happen, that you didn't have any thoughts change. You had no concern sinning and doing the same sins you did before you met Christ. You had no issues, you know, doing things that were just not of God. And you know they're not of God, but yet you completely ignore the fact that they are

and you don't have any issue with it, meaning you just sin and it's no big deal. That would be a sign that maybe you did not become born again, because part of being born again is a new nature. You are a new creation. Now, when you go through a process, absolutely. You're not going to change everything overnight. I've been very open with you guys that when I got

born again on April 16, 29 years ago, I went through a process that we cleaned up our life, got off drugs, changed so many parts of our life, but we got back into drugs. So I was still a Christian. I still had not renewed my mind though and transformed my mind to be not following those ways.

But you can guarantee I felt more guilty about it. It was an issue for me. It was not something that I just did it and be like, oh, well, it doesn't matter. No, I knew it mattered. But I was struggling with the sin that I was struggling with. Does that mean I was a sinner? No, because that's an identity. I wasn't a sinner because I was righteous, holy and pure and just by my spirit.

But my human side of me, which were my thought, my will, my mind, emotions, were reverting back to old behaviors of drug addiction.

And it was by the grace of God that he finally got a hold of me again. And I finally submitted and I, once it hit and God showed it to me and I was like, I am done. I, by the grace of God had never gone back to drugs. And that was over 25 years ago. So I was a drug addict for 10 years.

probably closer to 15. I'd have to look up the numbers because I started doing drugs when I was in seventh grade. So this is where I'm very open and transparent about these things because it's very helpful for you to know when I talk to you about this transformation stuff, it's not just some scriptures I read in the Bible.

I mean, I was so struggling in my life that it is a miracle that I'm alive. And it is a miracle that my brain is not destroyed from the amount of drugs that I did and that I did not die from the amount of overdoses that I almost had. So this is where...

It's important for you to know these things, that it's not just some idea that I have about what it means to transform your mind. And I'm talking about like a serious life transformation. And God has done it in me. And when he finally, you know, he got a hold of me, but also when I submitted.

Because there is that part of that free will. You can fight God. If you say, no, God, I don't want what you have for me. I'm not following you. I don't want that. That's a free will. You do have a free will. We are not robots. Part

Part of love is free will. If you don't have a free will to love, then that's not truly love because love is desiring to care for someone, desiring to want them, that you want that person, you love them, you are choosing to love them as well. And this is where the interesting part comes in, that God is the only one that can open our eyes to be able to see that love for him.

Even in the scriptures, it says that no man can come to Christ except if he's called by God. So we didn't just find God one day. We actually responded to God calling us. And there are so many scriptures that talk about that, that he's the one that woos us. He's the one that calls us. And all of a sudden you finally respond.

Someone invited you to church. You didn't go. You saw a show on TV. You didn't go. You got a book that you read that talked about God. Didn't respond. And then all of a sudden, there's that one moment that you finally see it. And that's what happened to me on April 16th, 29 years ago.

So this is where, when we think about that process of how do you actually transform? So when I did go back to drugs after I became born again, doesn't mean my spirit wasn't still born again and I wasn't going to heaven. It does not mean that. What it means is that I was, they call it backslidden, does talk about reverting back to your former ways before you knew Christ.

So that is backsliding. So this is where we find those balances. Well, what does that mean? And how am I putting on the ways of Christ and taking off my former ways?

So there's two main areas that I saw in my life that I started to see massive transformation. And the first area was my relationship with God. So really knowing God, really personally having an intimate relationship with him. So being born again is the foundation of that. You can't truly, you can't have a relationship with your creator without Christ. There's no access to God the Father without through Jesus Christ.

So we're talking about a holy, righteous God that cannot look upon and have a relationship with us through sin. That's why Jesus Christ is the mediator the Bible talks about, and he actually pastors

paved the way for us to be able to have a relationship with our creator. So that's where when you realize, okay, so God sees us through Christ. So that's the foundation of the relationship. That's the foundation of knowing God. But then as it develops your relationship with him, you spend time with him. You get to know him. You get to, you know, connect with him. And the Bible is very clear that God talks to us.

Most people don't hear an audible voice, but it's an internal knowing. And it sounds like your own thought in your mind. When I first started getting more familiar with this, it was sounded like my own thoughts speaking to me. Like, you know, your thoughts go through your mind and you're like, oh, that was a thought. Well, was that actually God speaking to you? So this is where God taught me over the last 25 years, how to be very clear of hearing his voice. And again, it's not an audible voice.

voice. I have never heard the massive audible voice of God. So there's one or two times that have been stronger than anything I've ever experienced, but it was not an audible voice. So when you get to know your creator, you develop this relationship.

You get to know this creator, your God. And as you become intimate in this relationship, you get to know his character, his nature more. You start to understand more who this amazing creator is.

And as you get to know him more, you desire to follow him more. You want to follow him more. You desire to be more like him. Christian means Christ-like. So you actually want to be more like what the Bible says. And this is where this relationship starts to develop. So you become born again, born from above, and that you're

process of your free will that God is the one that woos you to him, that you admit that you need him, that you want him, that you want him in your life and you want this relationship. As that develops, wow, it is the most beautiful thing that you could ever imagine and I know many of you experience that on a regular basis.

But I have watched such a beautiful experience. I am talking about such an intimate relationship with God that it is so beautiful and so caring and so loving.

loving. It just amazes me. So that personal relationship is developed over time, that connection. Think about from a human perspective, when you fall in love with someone, you get to know them, you spend time with them. You would not have developed that relationship and been experiencing love if you had not developed that

a relationship over some time, getting to know that person, spending time with them, learning their ways.

So this is the way that I have noticed for myself, that when I started to transform, number one, it was really having a strong relationship with God. And it started with becoming born from above, with believing that Jesus Christ paid for my sins, and I was now a believer. Then as my relationship developed with him, I was more drawn to wanting to be like the Bible says, to be Christ-like.

I wanted to be like the Bible talked about. I wanted to align my life with the ways of God, my new nature, my new desires. The Bible says we're a new creation, but we must be renewed in our mind to be transformed. So when that word renewed means renovation, right?

The word transformed comes from a word of metamorphosis, which is the same thing from a butterfly. So when a butterfly cocoon and a caterpillar, which I did not know this either, that a caterpillar is actually butterfly eggs.

I mean, it's not like the caterpillar just turns into a butterfly. Maybe you didn't know this either, but they're actually cat, they're butterfly eggs that a butterfly laid and it's a caterpillar first. And then it becomes a butterfly. Sadly enough, I did not know that until I started researching that last year. So it goes into cocoon and then it turns into a butterfly. Well, there's a transformation process and

And that word transformation means to go from one form to another.

You're transforming from one form to another, a caterpillar to a butterfly. But yet remember that that caterpillar already had the DNA inside of it to become a butterfly. It was already inside of it. So as it transformed, it became this butterfly. That word transform also means an adjustment of parts, right?

So this is the study that I've been on for the last like four days. I mean, I'm not, it was just amazing. I mean, I had so many times to just crying and weeping and journaling and talking to God and getting answers of this stuff. And then he said, he was showing me about this transformation that this cocoon is a period of time that the, the caterpillar goes inside and the parts of the caterpillar have to be adjusted to become the butterfly.

Well, if that word transformation, being renewed in your mind to be transformed, to be in another form, to be metamorphosis like a caterpillar to a butterfly, to have an adjustment of parts, what vehicle is that done in? The renewing of your mind. So the renovation of your mind, your thinking, your patterns, your behaviors, right?

are done through the transformation of adjusting those parts. And that's when I started tying all these things together. I'm like, oh my goodness, that is so awesome. I was just so encouraged to get scripture after scripture that was showing me this.

So I started asking, okay, so what is the adjustment of parts? That adjustment again is your brain, your thinking, your will, your mind, your emotions, your behaviors, your desires to serve God and follow after God and the ways of God. Do you want to just do whatever you want and not care what God wants for your life or

Or does your life now line up with saying, wow, God, you are my creator and I want to follow after you and I want to do what you want me to do. I want to do what you created me for. And the beautiful thing is the Bible says that God gives us the desires of our heart.

but you also put those in us. So that's one beautiful thing. I mean, think about all the gifts that you might have that are actually natural, God-given gifts that other people don't have. Maybe you're an amazing photographer or you have a beautiful voice. You didn't give yourself that voice. God gave that to you. So this is where when we look at that and realize that this whole transformation process

When he gives us clues, it tells us in the Bible what that means and gives us examples of what being transformed means and that it is similar to a caterpillar going to a butterfly, the adjustment of those parts.

So the first thing, like I mentioned, in transformation is having, of course, being born again, a born above experience that you are now born of God and developing that relationship, that time with him, the character development, the personality. You spend time with him in your prayer, in personal time with him, communicating with him and getting to know your creator.

I would say the second area that really transformed me in my life was really diving into the Bible and really understanding more what the scriptures said and how they applied to my life. What does the Bible say about this? What does the Bible say about our mind, our will, our emotions, our cravings? You know, what does the Bible say about how we actually change our life? That's what the Bible tells us.

So getting into the scriptures and understanding what the Bible says is very different than just having knowledge of a scripture. So if you know the scripture and you can memorize it, that's data, that's information. But if you don't actually apply it in your life, in your life,

in your thinking to affect your behavior, to transform by the renewing of your mind. Remember, we're renovating. We are renovating the mind. We're getting all this stuff out that's not of God, thinking, you know, that are not the ways of God, the thinking of the world. Get that stuff out.

and you're inputting, you're renovating, you're putting in that new kitchen, you're putting in the new thinking and the new behavior patterns of the ways of God. And how do you know what that is if you don't get into the Bible? How do you know what that is if you don't spend time with your Creator? How do you know what that is? So this is what we're talking about is not only the relationship with God, but understanding what the Bible says as much as you possibly can and

Reading scriptures to understand more what the Bible speaks about, about every area of our life. I've been studying deeply the Bible for, I would say, not far after I got born again. So there was that period where I struggled with drugs, and that's probably one of the reasons why I did write, because I wasn't reading my Bible much then. But when I got away from it, you know, those kind of things that can impact your behavior, right?

But I would say overall, I've been studying the Bible very intensely for over 25 years, probably closer to 27. And when I say intensely, I mean deep studies, like going into the Hebrew and the Greek and studying for an hour, two hours, the average an hour a day. I mean, that's still the life that I live now is every morning, an hour a day in the morning with God, because I know how critical that is.

And that might not be something that you're called to. That might not be something that's possible in your life right now, but there needs to be a time that you spend with God. Maybe it's only 10 minutes and then maybe you grow in that because I didn't start at an hour, but there's times where I'll go four or five, six hours because I'm studying and I'm really understanding more about the scriptures. So knowing more about the Bible, what does it say and how do you transform your life through the Bible?

True transformation that Romans 12, 1 through 2 talks about by the renewing of your mind, renovating your mind, restructuring. That word, when you dig deeper, also means reversal by repetition and intensity.

So I'm like, okay, well, because I kept wanting to find out, well, how is human behavior impacted by this? And how are we changing by these things that the Bible says? Well, if renovation goes back to the original word of repetition with intensity and reversal,

I was about falling off my chair when I saw that one, because I found that one quite some time ago. And I'm like, whoa, wait a minute. That's what we have to do in rethinking. How are we rethinking now? Now we need to think like Christ. There's another scripture that talks about that the things that you used to do before you knew Christ,

Christ, you became ashamed of if you did them now. Like you think about how you used to live your life. Some of us way worse than others that you look back at, they're like, oh my goodness, I'm so embarrassed that I actually lived that way that I did those things. So these are the things that I'm talking about. You before Christ and you after Christ. So that difference of understanding the repetition with intensity and reversal. How do you actually renovate your mind

Gut out the old, put in the new. It tells us to put off the former ways and put on the ways of Christ. But between those two statements, it says by the renewing of the spirit of your mind. So we are to put off, which also means cast aside, and we are to put on the new ways. We are to put on the new ways of God.

And this is where it's just so amazing when you can go into the Bible and find these ways that he talks about. So in Matthew 22, 29, these people came up to him because they were talking to him about something and they were asking him questions, Jesus. And Jesus said, you are mistaken because you do not understand the scriptures and you do not know the power of God.

So Jesus Christ said that to the people asking these questions about things that happen in heaven afterwards. And he says, you're mistaken because you don't know the Bible and you don't know the power of God. So to me, those are very clear directions of Jesus Christ that we are to know the word of God, but also to the most of our ability, understand what the power of God is to be able to clearly understand this.

Because if we don't understand this, then we're not going to be able to walk it out. We're not going to be able to walk in the ways of the Spirit.

Because if we do that, we will want the ways of the spirit. And all of a sudden you will start to see your life transform and you won't even want the old ways. You won't even think the same way anymore. And if you've been a believer for quite some time and you've been maturing in the ways of God, you would say, yeah, I've seen that happen. I actually am not the same person that I used to be. I don't think the same. I don't have the same desires. That is a good thing.

That is confirmation that you are born again, that you have a new nature, that you are a child of God. Again, if you have no concern whatsoever and you do not care about any of that stuff, then that might be a time to have a real moment with God and really seek him and pray and have a conversation with him about your spirit.

because the Bible is very clear about eternal life. There is heaven in eternity and there is hell in eternity. And those are just things that are not

Something to ignore because we are talking about eternity forever. We can't even, we can't even wrap our mind around what forever means. I don't think we can comprehend for a second what that actually truly means to, to the level of on this earth for just a blink of an eye and eternity is forever to no end. And that's the part that is just,

So amazing when you look at it. So in 2 Corinthians 5, 17 through 18, it talks about being a new creature in Christ. So this is a scripture that I was talking about. And it says, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things are new and all things are of God.

who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. Remember I talked about how the Bible says that you cannot get to God except through Christ, that we've been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

So when you see those scriptures, that's where it's just so powerful to study these things. It's so powerful to recondition the mind. This is what we are doing. When we are reading the Bible, we are reconditioning our mind. We are reconditioning our behavior. We are reconditioning how we think.

We are reconditioning what we are doing. And by doing this, we are putting new understanding in our brain of how we function as a child of God. Before we met Christ, we did not know this information. We weren't even aware of it. But by reading the Bible and getting this relationship with God active in your life,

You are teaching your mind. You are teaching your brain what it means to follow God. You are transforming by the renewing of your mind, putting off the old things, being renewed in the spirit of your mind, and putting on the ways of Christ, putting on the new things. So to me, that is required to dive into the scriptures, to understand what they say.

What are they saying about guidance in these things? How do we live our life? What is God saying about how we live our life and how we follow after God? And that's why it's so important to get into the Bible to be able to see what these scriptures talk about and how to actually live them out. But this is part of the renovation. This is part of the transformation. This is part of just changing.

changing your old ways so that you can think more clearly, that you can think more like the ways of God. The transformation process of renovating your mind and putting in the new things of God, the new ways of God. This does not happen without being born again first. So that's the foundation. That's the total foundation first.

Then as you transform and your mind is renewed, you are renovating it by adjusting parts because you're being transformed from one thing to another. That thing before was before you knew Jesus. Your mind was not transformed. You didn't think differently. You were the same way that before you knew Jesus. And that's the point of the transformation process.

So when you think about, again, that scripture that says the deeper meaning of renewing is with repetition, intensity, and reversal.

Repetition meaning I went back to drugs after I became a believer. Not soon after, but a couple of years, I believe. I'd have to go back and track it. But it was a couple of years later. I got back into drugs after I was a Christian. So what was I doing? I was going to former ways before I knew Christ. But I was convicted about it. I struggled with it. It wasn't something that I just did as easily as I did before I became a Christian.

So when you think about the repetition with intensity and reversal, sometimes you have to do it repetitively. You're talking about ingrained behavior patterns that have been so ingrained in your mind for your entire life. You're talking 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years for some of you.

So those behavior patterns, those are what must be renewed. That's what must be renovated. That's what must have repetition with intensity and reversal. Reversal from what? Your old ways to the new, right? We're renovating. We're new creation. You're going from a caterpillar to a butterfly as

an example, of course, that's not what we are, but it's an example of that word metamorphosis. You're going from a baby believer, a Christian, a babe, the Bible calls us, an infant to a mature of full of age, it calls us when we are more mature walking in the ways of God. So this is where, when we look at that and realize, wow, with repetition, we're

Repetitiveness, because sometimes it's going to take some repetition, but with intensity, because sometimes it's intense, right? You're not going to just all of a sudden be a totally different person and be like, that was easy. Bam, just down my fingers, everything's different. Some people...

When they get born again, they get immediately delivered from drugs, immediately delivered from cigarettes, immediately delivered from alcohol, pornography, whatever sin they're dealing with. Some people get immediately delivered in their body and they live it out from the day they become born again. Others have to walk it out.

Others did not experience that miracle. Does it mean they can't? No, it did not happen for them. And that's where it's important to know it doesn't mean you didn't get saved. And that's also the terminology the Bible talks about. Being born again is also being saved because you're being saved from eternal damnation and hell and you're going to heaven. You're being saved from a life of sin and destruction to following after God. That's what you're being saved from.

So when you don't know those terms in the beginning, it's like, well, what do I need to be saved from? I mean, I remember saying that when I didn't know things of God and those words just seemed odd to me. I didn't understand what they meant. So this is what I'm talking about is that repetition with intensity and reversal. This is why I have loved how God has had me dive so deeply into the Bible and studying these words so

God has kept me following him by spending time with him and getting in his word. And when you think about going 25 years with never once regressing back to drugs. Now, I did drink alcohol. So I've been off alcohol for 15 years. So that took some time to work out of me. I never did drugs again. But then I still struggled with alcohol for a little while.

So this is where the process of transformation for me took a quarter of a century. You know, it wasn't something that happened overnight. But now I've been off alcohol for about 15 years. I've been on sugar for over 10 years. And, you know, it's just so amazing when I'm watching the transformation power of God. All of that stuff has been renovation. All of that has been renovating the old, getting the old out and putting the new in.

And it also has been with repetition, with intensity, with reversal. It's been adjusting of my parts inside my mind, my will, my emotions, my desires to serve God, to follow after God, submitting to God, being obedient to God. In times that I didn't want to be, I had to obey God and do what God said. And I wanted to because I was his child, but I was also struggling with those things.

So this is where when you think about and think about all these areas in your life and how you have been transforming over all this time, it is a process. Will you ever be fully transformed like you just arrived? I think there's levels of it.

I think you reach levels of growth. And then when you reach that level, then you go the next level of growth, the next level of awareness until the day we die and our spirit goes and be with God forever in eternity. I just think it's a process process.

But I can tell you that the level I walk spiritually with God now is so different than 15 years ago. The maturity level in your mind, your will, your emotions, your behaviors in you as a believer as well. You do grow up in your knowledge as a believer.

So that's why it's so important to know the ways of God. And in Galatians 5, 16 through 17, it says that I say, then walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh where they are contrary to one another, that you cannot do the things that you would, meaning that you want.

You want to do better, but you just can't get yourself to do it. You just, you know, it's just something that you struggle with and you're trying. So this is the process of that transformation.

Now that word walk actually means to regulate one's life, to conduct yourself. So you walk out your life is how you regulate your life, how you conduct yourself. What is your behavior? How do you actually live your life? And that's just one thing that when you study the scriptures and you break them down, it's like, wow, that just makes so much more sense than it did before.

Now in Hebrews 5, 13 through 14, that's where it talks about us as babes, it calls us. It says, for everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. And he's talking about believers. So those that must have the milk because they can't consume the meat of the word, the Bible says, which also refers to deeper principles of God.

deeper understanding scripturally. There's things you don't understand when you first get saved, but as you learn more knowledge and you get more relationship with God and closer to God, then you understand more. So it talks about how

You're unskillful in the word of righteousness. So the Bible and the word teaches us of righteousness. So when it says we are unskilled, that means we don't know the word. We're not educated on it. We don't understand what it says. And that is unskilled of the word of righteousness.

Then it says, but strong meat belongs to them that are of full age or mature. Even those by reason of use have exercised their senses to discern both good and evil.

So what does that mean? It means by using, and that word use means habit as well. So that's a whole nother topic, building your habits around your life, that you're actually able to discern the difference between good and evil. And that means the choices that you make. Do you make choices that are good in your life or cause evil in your life?

You know, the Bible says that evil is not just like we think of like axe murders and these horrible things for the word evil, but it also means discomfort.

It means toil. It means struggle. It means harm. It means things that are, you know, causing challenges in your life and discomfort. So it's not just this really heavy, intense, destructive thing when we think evil like a murderer, which is horrible, of course, but something that is evil causes disruption and pain in our lives.

So those that become more mature in the ways of God, you are actually exercising by use of your senses, which is your ability to perceive and judge things that you actually are able to discern the difference between good and evil. That's when you mature more in your relationship with God. That's when you actually get better.

more mature, you grow up more. Now you're not an infant anymore because you make choices based on wisdom, on the ways of God. You now are transformed by the renewing of your mind over time. It's a process that happens. But as you start to see decisions that you are making that is based on wisdom,

And being skillful in the words of righteousness and knowing what the Bible says. Remember Jesus said in Matthew 22 that you are mistaken because you don't know the word, the Bible. You don't know the scriptures and you don't know the power of God.

So as you start to see this, you know, come together in your life and you start to see this relationship with God just develop stronger and stronger. And then you get into the word and you study the word and you watch it change your thinking. You watch it renovate.

You as a person, you are adjusting in parts. You are transforming into this new creation. And see, this is the dual thing going on here. And again, I want to make sure I'm scripturally explaining this properly. There's a new creation in Christ that you are made a new creation when you are born again. But then there's the process of becoming regenerated. The Bible talks about that you are transformed again.

into more of the ways of God that you are following after the ways of the spirit.

And that is just a beautiful thing to think about. So one scripture I was really encouraged in is 2 Corinthians 4.16, which is actually my born-again birthday, 4.16. It says, inwardly, we are being renewed day by day. Although the outwardly person is perishing, your body, because it's temporal, it says we are being renewed inwardly, day by day. You're spiritual.

soul, your mind, your will, your emotions, lining it up with the ways of God, lining it up with how does God want you to live your life? How does he want you to think? How does he want you to pursue the destiny that he's created you for?

And that is the beautiful part when you think about being transformed by the renewing of your mind. And that's why this show is called Divine Life Transformation. So we are going deep into the scriptures and discovering how do you actually apply this to your life? How do you strengthen your relationship with God? How do you get better?

that's important to you, that you spend time with him. How do you study the Bible? How do you digest the Bible? How do you see it change your thinking? These are all things God has done in me. And these are all things that he is allowing

allowing me to have this platform to be able to help you do the same thing. And that is what I'm so excited about because I know that he is the one that has called me to this. And I'm so honored and so humbled to be able to do this and just help bring what does it mean to have a truly transformed life?

So I went through those phases in the beginning where I struggled with drugs and alcohol. And then even after I overcame drugs and alcohol, I still struggled with food. So I was a total glutton, idolatry of food. I would binge on five,

5,000 calories. I mean, I would, I never purged my food, thank God, but I would eat until the point of nausea. And I mean, I was a rat. So when I talk about transformation, I'm talking about true transformation that I don't struggle with any of that stuff anymore. It's never like

like in and out of a struggle. No, it's gone. I have been completely renovated, completely gutted out that old kitchen, adjusted those parts, but it did not happen without diving into my relationship with God and diving into my personal time with God, prayer time, in the word. And then the other thing too, of course, is getting in the word.

Diving into the Bible and understanding what the scriptures talk about, understanding what the Bible says about how we live this life transformed. And that's just something that is so exciting to be able to show you that because God did it in me first.

And he showed me how to do it through his word. And when I asked him, what do you want me to talk about in the show that you're giving me? I wasn't clear on what the topic truly was going to be or even the name. And he said to me, I want you to show them how to transform their life like I did for you and my relationship with you and in knowing the word. And I knew that that's what the show is going to be about because that's exactly what God has done in my own life.

So I want to wrap this up with praying for you because maybe you never had an experience. You never had the conversion. Maybe you don't know if you're born again. Maybe you never actually had that moment where you submitted your life to God and you actually became born again.

So I don't want to close this out without giving you that opportunity to say that prayer, because it's something that is just an admittance and understanding of

A moment with God. So you guys all know the story in John 3 where Nicodemus, who was a Sanhedrin, he was a scholar and he was a Jewish scholar. And he started to believe that Christ was the promised Messiah, that they were promised. Many of the Jews did not believe that.

They were still waiting for their promised Messiah. So if you don't know this, they were promised many, many years ago that they were going to have a Messiah that was going to come and rescue them. Well, the Jewish culture did not believe that Christ fit the things that they thought the Messiah would arrive at. But there were some people that believed he was the promised Messiah. And Nicodemus started to have questions about,

are you the promised Messiah? Like, I think you are the one. And then he started to realize he was the one, but because of his position in being a scholar in that community, he would go, he went in the middle of the night to speak to him because remember the persecution was intense from not only the Roman government, but,

But also the Jewish culture was persecuting people that were, you know, being around Jesus. And so it's just so intense when you really realize those things and what those people did to catapult our faith in Christ. Now, the Holy Spirit was a huge part of that, but it's just so intense.

Amazing when you think about what God has done in the people of that who he has been working through to carry the message out of who Christ is and what this faith in the Bible and God is. It's just so amazing when you think about it.

it. So this is where I started asking myself, well, okay, so what is the new creation and what is born again? And Nicodemus came to Christ in the middle of the night in John chapter three. I would recommend that you read through that whole chapter and just see what it says. He calls him a rabbi. He says, you are from God and you work miracles because nobody could work those kind of miracles if you weren't from God.

So it's interesting because he didn't recognize him at that moment as the Messiah, as the Lord, as the one that, you know, was the promised king. But he was calling him a rabbi. And he did say, you are from God because you do miracles. No one can do those kind of miracles if you weren't from God. And Jesus said back to him, he didn't even ask this question. But Jesus said to him, you cannot see the kingdom of God unless you are born again.

And Nicodemus was like, what do you mean born again? How am I supposed to go back to my mother and be born again? And Jesus was not speaking of that. He said, you must be born of the spirit. You were already born of flesh. That flesh is of flesh. And if you read through John 3, it'll talk about all of that. He said, being born of flesh is of flesh and being born of the spirit is of the spirit. Those are two different births.

So even though we've heard the term born again, it was like, wow, okay, that just helped me understand a little bit differently. And that word again means born from above.

So we now are born spiritually. We were born of the earth, of the flesh, of water, it also says, through the human of our mother. That was the first birth. The second birth that's required to get you into the kingdom of God is the birth of your spirit. And that's the birth that is born again. That is the birth that is born from above.

And it says that when we have that birth conception, you know, the Bible calls it, that we are now a child of God, that we are now in the family of God, that we are now children of God. And that's the part that, you know, I just kind of dug deeper and deeper. And the other thing, and I know this is, I don't want to say common sense, but common knowledge when you study the scriptures, what is truly becoming born again?

And the foundation of that is believing that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that we cannot get into heaven without that awareness, that we repent of our sins and we know we need a savior and that Jesus Christ is the

for that, that he came here on this earth to die for us, to pay the sins for the world, the Bible says, and that that is when you become born again. And I knew that in parts of me, but I don't know. It was just something that I realized all

that being born spiritually is truly having the revelation and admittance and acceptance that we are sinners without Jesus Christ and that we need to have a connection with God and the only way to have

that connection with God is through the blood of Christ. And I know you might have been taught that in different ways, but it's just, that's one thing that I'm diving into is how do I really explain that scripturally and be able to show that scripturally as well?

So being born from above is the fact that human beings have sin. Why? Because of Adam. That when Adam and Eve sinned, you know, Adam and Eve, both of them, that sin came onto the human race and that every person has sin. That's just, they are called sinners, every single human being. And the only way to take that away from them is to be bought at a price, which is the blood of Christ.

So that's where when you start to study the scriptures and seeing when the Bible talks about his crucifixion and what he did, he paid the price for all of the sin. He took on

of the sin of all humanity and he paid for it. And part of becoming born again is in that moment of conception, of reception, that you've accepted that, that you've realized it, that you've repented of your sin and you've asked God and received God, Jesus Christ, into your heart as your savior. That is being born again.

So if you are seeing all these things that I've explained and you realize, you know, I want to have this relationship with my creator. I want to know this God you're talking about. The one that puts you on this earth, the one that put your spirit inside your mother's womb and that gave you life.

That is your creator. And he wants to have a relationship with you. But it is required to have a relationship with this creator who is holy, pure, righteous, and just God.

You have to have the sins paid for that is on the human race because of the fall of man. And that's something that when you realize that and realize, wow, I know I've sinned. I know I've been a sinner and done things that are not godly. And I know I need a savior. I know that I need to have a relationship with my creator. But to be in connection with this creator, we must pray.

be born again. So I'm going to say this prayer and just say it after me and just, you know, pray it with all of your heart as well. Lord Jesus, I come before you now and I thank you for what you did for me on the cross. I thank you that you have paved a way for me to have eternal life with you. And I repent of my sins.

I repent of not following you or wanting a relationship with you. And I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that you are the Lord of my life. I receive the free gift of being born from above. And I thank you, God, that I am now a child of God.

I thank you that I am in your kingdom and I have eternal life now. And I pray that you guide me, that you instruct me, and you show me how to transform my life. In the name of Jesus, we pray.

Amen. Well, hey, I believe that that is your moment in conversion right there. That if you said that prayer and you have never had that revelation and repentance before God and receiving the free gift of eternal life through Christ Jesus, which the Bible says that in so many places, Jesus

that now, today, it's your birthday. This is your spiritual birthday today. So happy birthday. Document this down, whatever day this is for you, because that is something that is so amazing that God brought you here. God brought you right here.

Right now, at this moment, he knew where you would be. He knew what you struggled with. And he knew that some of you did not know him yet. And some of you just met him.

And I am so honored to be able to be an ambassador for God, to be a servant for God. And I am so excited for your life to be transformed. And I am so honored to be a part of that because obviously God divinely brought you here. And I am just so excited for you. So everything that I've been through has been worth it because I know the lives that it's going to change.

And I know the lives that it will impact.

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to the number 586-500-7333. All right, I'm Samantha Taylor. I'll talk to you on the next TV show or on the next Pray Radio show. Bye-bye. The podcast, The Bible in a Year with Jack Graham, is a moving and inspiring biblical audio experience that will help you master wisdom from the world's greatest book. In each episode, you'll learn to apply biblical principles to everyday life.

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