Seek to be Transformed By Nina Keegan

SEEK TRANSFORMATION! BEHOLD.. GOD IS AT WORK!
God's word is sealed… It is alive, it's absolute truth and we need to receive it and not just read it… ! PRAY THE SCRIPTURES AND LET THEM BREAK UP THE HARDENED GROUND OF YOUR HEART!! Fertile soil Lord.. reveal the fertile soil in our hearts!

We need to follow the word and put it into practice and allow it to transform us every day into who God has designed us to be.
If we don't put into practice what God's Word says and believe in its ability through Jesus to change our lives, then why even read it? What would be the point?

When we purchase something that needs to be put together, there is an instruction booklet included in the box... if we read it and do nothing.. the item remains in pieces .. not fully becoming what is was designed to be..
READ GOD'S INSTRUCTION BOOK!! THEN LET THE WORD PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER.. LET IT MAKE YOU WHOLE AND COMPLETE IN JESUS!

True salvation brings change! We should never want to stay where we are, we should abandon our old lives, die in our flesh and whole heartedly seek the Holy Spirit's help in bringing the change we need from glory to glory to become more and more like Christ! HOLY CORRECTION.. THROUGH GOD'S EVERLASTING LOVE.
GODLY TRANSFORMATION!

Gal 6:16
What matters the most to God our Father is whether we have been  completely TRANSFORMED from the inside out into a new creation.
 May God's peace and mercy be upon all who live by this principle they are new people of God.

Gal  6:17
From now on don't let anyone trouble me with these things for I bear on my body the scars that show I belong to Jesus.

It's so easy to get caught up in the externals of the world we must always be cautious of those who emphasize actions… The religious rules and the endless rigid lists of should and shouldn't dos!

Living the good life without an inward change will cause us to be shallow and empty in our spiritual walks… We want to walk in the spirit, led by Christ in all we do..  we want to be emptied of all things the world has been offering! SEEK HIM FIRST.. and then all else will be added to it!

Sin is fun for a season! Then what..?
Once we've open that door we've made it clear path for the enemy to have his way in our lives.. the still small voice from the Holy Spirit  becomes more and more faint as we choose to ignore it.

The peace we desire does not come when we walk in the world.. peace comes when we seal ourselves on God's path.
We must follow peace.. we are not objects of wrath! We need  not be subjected to the world's chaos!

GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION!!

This transformation is made complete solely by salvation through the blood of Jesus not on keeping strict regulations, laws and  heavy doctrine.

How strange it would be for a prisoner who had finally been set free to walk back into his or her own cell and completely refusing to leave!
That is what it's like to give your life to Christ and then feel like you have to do something to earn salvation.. It's about what Jesus did for us!!! JESUS!!! It's all about Him!
Check yourself! Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal anywhere in your heart where you have strayed or gotten off course! Where are you caught up in religious laws thinking you have to check off boxes in order to stay saved.

Seek God first and let His transforming Grace wash away your sins and set you down in a NEW PLACE IN HIM!

Our ROCK! He is our rock.. it's Him we seek as our solid foundation.. IT IS IN CHRIST ALONE WHERE WE CAN STRETCH OUR CHORDS, EXPAND OUR TERRITORIES AND LIVE IN ABUNDANT PEACE!

Rise up in CHRIST'S transforming victory!!!

I pray new heavenly alignments for you all now as you seek God for transformation!

I pray bold new encounters with the Father as you will see His love and peace in your lives like never before..
I pray that you will all rise up in your callings and step out in those calls fearlessly accepting the mantle God is placing in each of you!  Amen God!
It's time!
I pray a new peace OVER YOU NOW as confusion is being replaced with GOD'S ABUNDANT PEACE!
And for those of you saying it's too late and you have missed the boat… God is sending a glorious new revelation of his will for your life… Receive it!! Yes!!
Receive it!! Glory Hallelujah!!

TRANSFORMATION!

Behold behold!! We are new creations in HIM!!!

Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Ezekiel 18:31
"Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 36:26
"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

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GOD WANTS YOUR SOUL HEALED NOW! By Nina Keegan

IT'S TIME FOR OUR SOULS TO PROSPER!

Does it ever feel like you've hit your absolute bottom, like you are having your "dark night of the soul… ? "   I feel like lately this is what's going on with many of you, believers in general.. I feel it in my heart and in my family as well.  The Bible says we are to prosper even as our soul prospers...

3 John 1:2
Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, even as your soul also prospers.

The enemy tries to worm his way in and bring up past hurts through our soul cracks... the lingering pains and hurts, the deep ones with with layers of patches on them , the cracks and sorrows we have Spackled over.. stuffed down into the deep recesses of our souls, ignoring the pain, the despair and discouragement.… There has come a day when these temporary patches just won't work anymore, no more short lived Band-Aids.
It's time to dig down deep , It's time to go deeper in our faith .. it's time to let Jesus have all hurts ...let the love of Jesus be all encompassing, surrounding that old wound.. let the name of Jesus pull out all of the roots that cause these hurts to spring forth.. it's time for DELIVERANCE...!

It's time we declare that the blood of Jesus can cover over all the hurts that spring forth like weeds in a beautiful flower Garden and choke off all that's good.
The enemy loves the weeds..
The weeds are the long lists of lies that we have believed about ourselves and those we love. Lies poison our souls. The enemy loves to deceive us, it's the grievances he wants us to remember and never forget, it's the echoing of hurtful things that were told to us, it's the fear that there is no hope, it's too late, and things will never change…
It never seems to end...and with every entertainment of these lies, we crack our souls just a little bit more....

WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THIS..?

 Friends It's time to lay a new foundation and seal these old wounds forever.

THERE IS NOT ONE HURT, PAIN, SORROW ,GRIEVANCE, WOUND, NEED, CRISIS OR ILLNESS THAT JESUS DID NOT ALREADY TAKE CARE OF!

The blood of Jesus is still speaking and still has the power to bring all of the change we need!!

James 4:7
So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

We have total authority and dominion over the enemy ..yes we can resist him at the onset, and he must flee from us! But… We must first humble ourselves and submit ourselves to God!

We must acknowledge that we in our own strength  are not overcomers,but tolerators!!!  We can do all things through Christ who gives us strength! Phil 4:13

The trouble is many of us think we deserve these pains or we think we've done something to cause them ..we think we haven't been good enough or we just can't seem to forgive..

Jesus himself had a dark night of the soul when he was in the garden of Gathsemane awaiting his fate… He prayed that the Lord would take this cup from him, but he went to the cross in our place, he paid the price for the sin and death and for us to be redeemed and for us to have souls that are made new and whole and filled with the peace that surpasses understanding!

Why is it so important for our souls to prosper?...
When our soul is prospering we are set free, we are able to love others, we are able to be the light of Jesus in this world, we begin to live and move and have our being in him. We are able to keep the commandments and live out our purpose in Christ.

But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 22:5

It's time to wake up again to Gods unfathomable love ...we must encourage ourselves again, trust in the word again… Every word of the Bible is true for you, it has the ability to redeem, restore, vindicate, heal, seal, sanctify, justify and prosper us in every area of our lives., It's all about the blood of Jesus, let's never forget what the blood of Jesus means to us! Let the blood of Jesus cover over everything that's caused you pain and suffering, let the blood of Jesus heal you, even as your soul heals right now in the name of Jesus! Reach out and grab God's  hand of hope and never let go!

Declare right now that this is the last day you will spend in darkness believing the enemies lies, you are coming out..! You are going to live the life that Jesus Christ of Nazareth has died for you to have!
Right now in the name of Jesus we break every chain of bondage over everyone reading this.. in the name of Jesus we ask the Lord for souls to prosper now in Jesus name, we ask for the healing balm of Gilead to be poured out over every hurt, pain and illness… I thank you Father that right now in the name of Jesus people are getting healed and delivered and set free right now… Let us be prosperous Souls. Let us be victorious in you so we can be a light in the darkness shining bright for others to see… Thank you right now that you're healing souls!!!
FATHER we declare this now in JESUS name!!! Glory hallelujah we praise you!!!!!

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
Matthew 16:26 | NIV

Truly my soul finds rest in God;
my salvation comes from him.
Psalm 62:1 | NIV

This is what the Lord says:
Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls.
But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 6:16 | NIV

Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
Psalm 42:11 | NIV

Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Matthew 22:37

Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Psalm 103:1 | NIV

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Faith Faith and more Faith by Nina Keegan

FAITH... sometimes we have faith for everyone but ourselves,

FAITH IS IN WHAT WE CANNOT SEE! 

FAITH is

complete trust or confidence ...

FAITH.. it is the opposite of logic ..

all the great stories in the Bible where there was great faith, logic was disproved..

 There is no room for Logic where there is a need for great Faith.. Faith that can move mountains.....it takes over where logic can no longer tread..

There was no logic that caused a little boy's  lunch of five loaves of bread and two fish to feed thousands and thousands, it was the faith that would bring the basket to be bottomless.. It was faith that let everyone eat until they were full and it was faith that collected 12 baskets of leftovers... A tangible visual of having what they ended with be more than what they started with.. 

Food unlimited.. Food multiplied... the food would not run out... It overflowed into possibility..( faith trusted Gods glorious power)...Not the logic of impossibility that there was no where near enough food in a boys basket to feed such a vast crowd.

Faith was in the obedience that  dared to believe and step out to feed the multitudes and in that simple act of saying "Yes" to what made no sense, God was able to work through them and do the miraculous..

God first needed the believer,  he needed the faith.. God needed to be "amened" He just needed that simple act of someone getting into agreement with God Almighty that He can do all things, He alone is sovereign and with Him nothing is impossible!

Through our obedience and faith in what we cannot see God will do more.. So much more..than just enough! He wants to do Exceedingly abundantly more..God will meet our needs and then give us leftovers, overflow, dry land in the middle of oceans, leveled mountains and torn down walls that are locking our victories out.. 

God can succeed where logic fails!

He will take that which seemed impossible and make it exceed our need.. Make it surpass understanding.. Believe..!! 

Get your faith out of your faith and be audacious for God.. you have not because you ask not! 

 Ask big, think huge, don't put God in a box, don't set limits on our omnipotent, omnipresent supernatural God....!

What's in your basket? 

John 6:5-13

New Living Translation (NLT)

5 Jesus soon saw a huge crowd of people coming to look for him. Turning to Philip, he asked, "Where can we buy bread to feed all these people?" 6 He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do.

7 Philip replied, "Even if we worked for months, we wouldn't have enough money to feed them!"

8 Then Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up. 9 "There's a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?"

10 "Tell everyone to sit down," Jesus said. So they all sat down on the grassy slopes. (The men alone numbered about 5,000.) 11 Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to the people. Afterward he did the same with the fish. And they all ate as much as they wanted. 12 After everyone was full, Jesus told his disciples, "Now gather the leftovers, so that nothing is wasted." 13 So they picked up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with scraps left by the people who had eaten from the five barley loaves.

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Jesus Was Only In A Hurry Once... by Nina Keegan

 JESUS WAS ONLY IN A HURRY ONE TIME...

when Jesus walked the earth ministering to others, there was always a sense of rest.. he never seemed to be in a hurry. He encouraged people to not be worried, to stay in peace, to be at rest… He was never in a hurry even to go take care of Lazarus,(his good friend) while he was sick, in fact he showed up a few days after he was already dead… even then he was not in a hurry and Lazarus rose from the dead.

  In the story of the two sisters Mary and Martha, Jesus encouraged Martha to sit down and rest at his feet like her sister Mary...  

Martha was hurrying to get dinner on the table, rushing  about and worrying. Jesus did not like all the busyness and hurrying..he encouraged her to sit and rest.

Jesus whole ministry portrays him from a place of peace and a place of rest..that was his message except for one time….

In all four Gospels there's only one time when Jesus said "make haste", Just once, there  seemed to be an urgency in his voice and he seemed to be in an apparent hurry. Why? 

Luke 19:5

When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. "Zacchaeus!" he said. "Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today."

This scripture is packed with information about the importance of salvation.

Zacchaeus was a tax collector who was very wealthy and he got that way by cheating people. He had a bad reputation about town and wasn't well-liked .. yet he had heard about Jesus and was excited to get a glimpse of him as he was passing by. Zacchaeus climbed up in a tree so he could see over the vast crowds that were gathered to see Jesus and those that were following him in great numbers.

What's interesting to me is that

We cannot hide from Jesus and he always knows exactly where we are… He looked straight up into the tree and called "Zacchaeus"by his name!

That had to have startled him… Jesus had known his name! Jesus always wants to be personal with us, he wants a loving, personal relationship with each one of us.

Jesus knows your name.

Next, Jesus said "quick come down!"

Zacchaeus  needed to come down quickly.. 

Jesus wanted to meet with him Jesus wanted him to be changed and to be saved… and, when it comes to our salvation, there is no time to waste. We never know when our last day on earth will be...and this was so important to Jesus. Also by Jesus telling him to come down, he was asking him to humble himself it was very metaphoric as Zacchaeus had quite a lofty self image… He had pride and he had greed. Jesus was trying to bring him back down to a place of humility.

The scripture goes on to say that Jesus said "I must be a guest at your house."

Zacchaeus was very quick to climb down from the tree and with great excitement and joy was ready to host Jesus at his house… We all should be so excited about an invitation from Jesus for our divine salvation.. but what I love is that Jesus didn't just stop with Zacchaeus,

He saved his entire household!

  Luke19:9

Jesus said to him, "TODAY salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.

Immediately Zacchaeus and his household were saved! I believe that's why Jesus said "Today"

He didn't wait for Zacchaeus to get cleaned up and get his act together, he didn't wait for him to be perfect to be saved.

No matter what you're doing, no matter what your besetting sin is, Jesus wants you to be his...sealed in salvation now!

When we accept Jesus as the Lord of our lives, then we can be a witness to our families.

 The Bible says in Acts 16:31

"Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.

What's interesting is that when Jesus announced he was going to stay at Zacchaeus's house, he had to have said it loudly so that he could hear him all the way up in the tree. But I believe Jesus also wanted the entire crowd to hear him because Jesus wanted everyone to know that even though this man was a sinner, Jesus loved him and wanted him saved.

The people were very displeased that Jesus would be the guest in the home of a notorious sinner and they grumbled..

How many of us judge others that way by thinking that their sin is so much worse than ours? But that's what Jesus died for .. his whole purpose was to seek out the lost, the hurting, the broken, the sinners, he came to set us all free from sin and death.

 Jesus came for us all!!

In the end,

Zacchaeus would demonstrate total repentance. He would restore people that he had cheated and he would give half of his wealth to the poor….

When we get in the presence of Jesus that's when we come to a place of true repentance that's when we can totally let go of our sin! The blood of Jesus and his mercy and forgiveness for us redeems us and begins to rend our hearts pure.  It's in this place of repentance where we can call on Jesus to be the Lord of our lives and begin to live on purpose for Christ.

There is no time to waste and when it comes to your salvation and your household salvation. Jesus wants your whole heart and now, what are you waiting for? There is an urgency, call on the name of Jesus and be saved!

If you who have not yet made Jesus your Lord and Savior say this prayer and call on Jesus now..

"Heavenly father I repent of my sins I know that you sent your son Jesus to die on the cross for me, to forgive me of all my sins, and then he was raised from the dead for my eternal salvation.

Jesus, I ask you to come into my heart now and I make you the Lord of my life in Jesus name I pray."

Acts 2:21

Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

If you have made the decision to make Jesus the Lord of your life I pray for you right now and for everyone reading this that behold you are a new creation in Christ! Stay in the word, get in a good Bible-based church and begin to listen and read the word. There are angels rejoicing right now because of your decision.

God bless you all! 

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Be made New... by Nina Keegan

God is always guiding us, every notion, every thought you ever have comes from one of two places... do not let your heart be hardened by not listening to that still small voice, that feeling that starts to bother you when you are off track! 

Always let that voice… "Gods voice" trump the voice that says "it's OK to do your own thing", the one that tells you that you're sin isn't that bad...! After all, everyone else is doing it... or "their sin is way worse than mine... " do not live in what I'd like to call justifiable ignorance..

Do not measure your sin by your own standards of deeming the severity of someone else's sin...

Like a loving parent, God is never not with us... he's incessantly trying to teach us and to lead us. We should be ever mindful to obey and listen to him because that's where our peace and victory come from. When we obey the Word of God and refuse to pay attention to what the world is offering… We can walk in the blessings of divine obedience.

Our unwillingness to pay attention to God's commands, invites self inflicted sorrow and threatens that peace that we get to have through God and God alone..! It's like we've stepped out of the covering and divine protection of God  through our own free will and willful defiance.

The Scripture says in Isaiah 48:17

" I am the Lord your God who teaches you what is good for you and leads you along the path that you should follow! Oh that you had listened to my commands, then you would've had peace flowing like a gentle river and righteousness rolling over you like the waves of the sea."

After 40 years in captivity, the Israelites were finally shouting with joy as they crossed the Red Sea, free from slavery at last!

40 whole years of wilderness before they finally got it right... 

Why were they so blatantly defiant..? 

They were actually worshiping idols and melting their own jewelry to build golden calves to worship simultaneously while God is feeding them manna from heaven .... food is literally falling from heaven... miraculously appearing daily from the sky to feed them and yet....they still were determined to worship something else, they still continued to murmur, grumble and complain, ... this seems so erratically audacious to me !!!

What are you doing that has you repeatedly treking around the wilderness while staring at the locked gates to the promised land..? 

What is holding you captive, what is your besetting sin? Be free! The Lord has already redeemed his children from slavery to sin through the death of his son Jesus... When you let God free you from your captivity, you will also be shouting with joy and entering into the promised land of being a new creation in Christ. 

 There is nothing like the peace and the freedom of walking in victory from strongholds. You too can be free from any addiction, any besetting sin, you can be free from fear, anxiety, depression, illness, you can be an over-comer through the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony. Declare it!

Many people continuously cry out for the need of comfort, security and relief from the turmoil and discomfort they are going through but they haven't taken the first step to repent and turn away from their sin.

  The choice to remain in sin closes off the ability we have to receive from God....

God is not pushy, we have free will and he is waiting on us to call on his name and make the determined decision to turn our lives over to him.

We must repent and turn to God and trust him to take over. 

If you want true peace, seek God first.. He is  the one who can help you change your situation. He is the one who can bring you freedom from the enemies stronghold!

The scripture says in Isaiah 48:20 ( paraphrase)

Yet even now be free from your captivity! The Lord has redeemed his servants.. they were not thirsty when he led them to the desert, he divided the rock and water gushed out for them to drink, "but there is no peace for the wicked!" says the Lord...

Isaiah 49:8

This is what the Lord says:"  I will respond to you on the day of salvation I will help you. I will protect you .."

 God will bring you into the light..

He will bring you into freedom, for you will no longer hunger and thirst or be searching for all the things to fill the void that only God can fill through his love, peace and mercy!

 God loves you with an everlasting love, he has your name written on the palms of his hands!

All glory to God!

 He will never leave you or forsake you ...let God do the impossible in your life because that's where God starts!

Call on the name of JESUS NOW...and be saved! Let God rescue you and pluck you out of harms way and set you down on solid ground which is the rock… Jesus our rock and our redeemer! 

Isaiah 43:19

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.