Fly Butterfly!

People will support you as long as you are manifesting the vision they provide and/or encourage. At some point in your life you'll have to take the limits off. In other words there are no boundaries on your successes with God, so why conform to other people's standards and do only what they want you to do? Sometimes you have to stop and say "Okay Chels, who are you serving? Who's desires are you fulfilling? Is your purpose to please man or God?"

Some will not be able to accept your stance and that is okay! Some will not support your stance and that is okay also. As long as you feel in your heart that you possess the power to fulfill Gods purpose for your life and your desire is to please God, it doesn't matter who doesn't support you. God is always on your side, rooting for you! He's in your corner helping you plan your next big move. Just trust the process. Those who leave, let them leave. Those who stay, let them stay. God is transforming you into the person he wants you to be!

In the words of Ms. Eryka Badu, "Bag lady, you gon hurt your back carrying all them bags like that!" You can't carry the bags of being accepted by others, pleasing others, conforming to other people's lifestyles, and being what people want you to be. All the while trying to carry out Gods purpose for your life. Think of yourself a butterfly. A butterfly isn't born as a butterfly, it's born as a caterpillar. You were once a caterpillar, once small, slow, and dirty. Now you're in your cocoon. In the chrysalis/cocoon the caterpillar digests itself, only certain cells survive. The caterpillar turns into a liquid and after a certain amount of time the surviving cells begin to form the "adult body" or the butterfly.

There is a process that we all must go through in Christianity if we are going to live according to Gods will for our life. I'm not talking to all the perfect pattie's out there. I'm talking to people like me. Those people who were once "dirty"/unclean. The people who sinned a million times before they decided it's time to change their lives. Those people who knew nothing about Christianity, but one day in service something on the inside of them told them it's time to change your life.

Chels, or anyone out there who feel they can relate to me... You were not designed to be that caterpillar all your life. Eventually you have to grow up and prepare yourself for the transformation that's about to come over you. It's time for you to Transform!

You're in your chrysalis stage. Now is the time you have to accept who you once were and digest the old you. You have to make peace with your past and understand that when you transform you aren't bringing that old version of yourself with you. In your chrysalis you are being filled with the power of God. You are being filled with the Holy Spirit. You are preparing yourself to blossom into the person God designed you to be. Your relationship with the father is changing. Your prayer life is changing! Your heart is changing. This transformation is life changing.

Have you noticed something?

This process is about you and only you! The caterpillar can't bring his family and friends into his cocoon, there's no room for them! Just like the caterpillar can't bring his friends and family with him while he's changing, you can't either. You aren't who you're supposed to be yet. You can't share a testimony with a person while you're still going through the test, you haven't experienced victory yet. When you're in the midst of your transformation it's okay to be a little bit selfish because this is the time you separate yourself to find yourself. You can't find yourself while there are 5 different people telling you who you're suppose to be. The word of God and The father Himself will let you know who you are supposed to be. This is the time God is using you to show people they can change too, not by you doing anything drastic, but just by you allowing yourself to be changed and used by God. This is the time you are leading by example. This is the time you say okay Lord, use me as your vessel.

Quoting scriptures when you haven't studied the full text does not make you a Christian or mean you've transformed into the person God designed you to be. Going to church on the regular and being involved in church doesn't mean you have transformed into the person God designed you to be. Only your relationship with the father and obeying His word will transform you into the person God designed you to be. Being religious (practicing traditions) doesn't mean you're spiritual. And just because you're spiritual doesn't mean we serve the same God. Satan was once an angel and spiritual too. Holding a position in the church means just that, you hold that position in the church. If the people around you can't see or feel the power of Christ working through you, you are just a person in a position. God anoints and appoints people to manifest His vision. God reveals to His grace to His people through the people He uses. You can be used by God, but not until you remove yourself from carnal thinking and make yourself available to be used by God. God will use the called not the qualified. In other words, you don't have to be qualified to be used by God.

At some point we have to let go of the "hype" associated with titles. We have to make ourselves available to be used by God. We have to deplete ourselves of our selfish agenda and become completely sold out for God. Not because of what He can do for you in return for your service, but just because you love God! I would not serve if I didn't have the heart for pleasing God. Playing with God is something I do not want to do and I wouldn't advise anybody to do it.

Going to church to feed your spirit man is a requirement. God appointed preachers, prophets and apostles for a reason. Your translation of the bible is biased to your opinions and your perception. If you listen to yourself all the time nothing anyone else has to say will mean anything to you because you'll become close minded and only susceptible to your own voice. Church isn't about how you feel after you leave there; It shouldn't be emotion driven, church is a place set apart to worship and praise God, to hear from God, and to honor God with your gifts, talents, and finances.

You have to be careful where you sit.

Make sure you're sitting in a place that helps you to learn and grow. If all you get from service is a good feeling, then you need to find another leader to sit under. It's not about what you feel, but what you learn so you can live the abundant life God has promised you.

Ephesians 4:12-25 AMP

[12] His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), that they should do the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church), [13] That it might develop until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate knowledge of the Son of God, that we might arrive at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him. [14] So then, we may no longer be children, tossed like ships to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, the prey of the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, gamblers engaged in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead. [15] Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, even Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). [16] For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part with power adapted to its need is working properly in all its functions, grows to full maturity, building itself up in love. [17] So this I say and solemnly testify in the name of the Lord as in His presence, that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility of their minds. [18] Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. They are alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God with no share in it; this is because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart to the insensitiveness of their moral nature. [19] In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves a prey to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity that their depraved desires may suggest and demand. [20] But you did not so learn Christ! [21] Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as all Truth is in Jesus embodied and personified in Him, [22] Strip yourselves of your former nature put off and discard your old unrenewed self which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; [23] And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude, [24] And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God's image, Godlike in true righteousness and holiness. [25] Therefore, rejecting all falsity and being done now with it, let everyone express the truth with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one body and members one of another.

Hebrews 10:22-25 MSG

[22-25] So let's do it---full of belief, confident that we're presentable inside and out. Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.

Being saved is a requirement! Accepting Jesus as lord and savior of your life and believing He died on the cross for the remission of your sins and rose again is what saves you.

Romans 10:9-10 KJV

[9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Pray: Father I know without Jesus I'm lost, and I believe your word that if I ask Jesus to save me, that he will. So father take the throne of my heart and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Father fill me with your spirit So that I may live a life that is pleasing in your sight. I thank you father for saving me, in Jesus name!

Serving God is a requirement!

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