The power to change our personality

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The word power occurs 57 times in the New Testament. It is used to describe the most powerful event that ever happened, and event that separated AD from BC - the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And that resurrection power is available to change your life! 

God uses a process

God uses a two-step process to change us. The first step is explained in 2 Corinthians 5:17. If anyone in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come! The initial turning point is when we commit our lives to Christ. We are not the same anymore, a new life has begun. This is why the Bible calls that step being “born again”. It simply means we get a chance to start over. It not turning over a new leaf, but getting a new life a fresh start. It is a new beginning with a big difference when the Holy Spirit controls your life, he will produce in you nine positive characteristics: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control. How many of the people you work with or live with exhibit these qualities? How many of the people you work with or live with would say these qualities describes you? The sad fact is that rather than loving others, we often are unloving rather than living Joyously, we feel defeated, depressed and discouraged rather than experiencing peace, we feel uptight and pressured. We are more likely to respond to others in anger or resentment than in gentleness. And instead of practicing self-control, we watch our lives falling apart.

 We must choose our thoughts

Spiritual growth is not automatic. Change is a matter of choice. We can't just passively sit around doing nothing and expect to grow. We must make choices if we really want to change.
We must carefully choose what we think about. (Proverbs 4:23) “Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts”. Change always begins with new thinking.
How does a person become a Christian? By repenting. Repentance often mis understood term. However, the Greek word for repentance is “Metanoia” and it means to change your mind or perspective. When I became Christian, I changed my perspective on many things, (Romans 12:2) says that we are transformed by the renewing of our minds - not by will power.

What I think => What I feel > How I act

The Bible teaches that the way we think determines the way we feel, and the way we feel determines the way we act.

So if you want to change your actions, you have to go back to the sources and change the way you think. Sometimes you may act resentful. Why? Because you are thinking resentful thoughts. The same is true for anger and worry and many others kind of destructive thought patterns. 

When you change your thoughts, you also change the way you feel. Stop thinking the thoughts that are getting you into trouble and start thinking thoughts that will get you where you want to go. Jesus said, “you will know the truth and the truth will set you are free”, John 8:3. When you base your life on truth - when you live with the right kind of thoughts, not mis conceptions or false beliefs, and you base your life on right thoughts out of God's word - you will set free you will find your old habits, feelings and actions falling away.

The power to change our personality