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Life Changes Bible in a Year : Psalms 107–109; 1 Corinthians 4 Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:24 Ephesians 4:20–24 Stephen grew up in a rough part of East London and fell into crime by the age of ten. He said, “If everyone’s selling drugs and doing robberies and fraud, then you’re going to get involved. It’s just a way of life.” But when he was twenty, he had a dream that changed him: “I heard God saying, Stephen, you’re going to prison for murder.” This vivid dream served as a warning, and he turned to God and received Jesus as his Savior—and the Holy Spirit transformed his life. Stephen set up an organization that teaches inner-city discipline, morality, and respect through sports. He credits God with the success he has seen as he prays with and trains the . “Rebuilding misguided dreams,” he says. In pursuing God and leaving behind our past, we—like Stephen—follow Paul’s charge to the Ephesians to embrace a new way of life. Although our old self is “corrupted by its deceitful desires,” we can daily seek to “put on the new self” that’s created to be like God (Ephesians 4:22, 24). All believers embrace this continual process as we ask God through His Holy Spirit to make us more like Him. Stephen said, “Faith was a crucial foundation for me changing my life around.” How has this been true for you? Reflect & Pray When you look back over your life, what comes to mind as key moments that prompted change? What long-lasting change resulted? Jesus, You’re alive and working in the world and in my life. Help me become more like You day by day as I leave the old self behind. 
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Walking with the Lord is not a contest with anyone other than myself. I have to ignore those who would try to bring me down by reminding me of things of the past or by criticizing where I am now by judging with the standard they THINK a Christian should be. But when I look at all the changes He has brought about in my life, I am just so grateful to be His child. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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My life would have been very different if I had not walked into a 12 Step Meeting and made a commitment to a lifetime of teetotalling and seeking a personal relationship with God to help me keep that commitment. Abracadabra 
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