Living a Transformed Life

Assignment this week:
Read this chapter in Romans every day. For all the social issues we have in Montgomery, this chapter sums it up and teaches us how to live and act toward our fellow men and women. Ask the Lord to help this chapter sink into your heart.

When you read this, ask the Lord for wisdom on dealing with everything you see and hear that is going on in the Greater Montgomery area. Here, in this chapter, we have a guide on how to respond.

When we get angry at someone or their situation, we need to respond with a "transformed mind" that only a relationship with Christ can provide. It is hard to not let our fleshly mind take control and be judging, be harsh and cruel and be less than Christ-like. But it is possible....through a relationship with Christ.

And before we say, " I can't do all this all the time" OR "You don't know what I have to face with (fill in the blank)" OR "those people don't deserve (fill in the blank)"......remember....God already knows WE CAN'T DO IT OURSELVES, in our own strength, but through Christ we can do ALL THINGS....including loving the unlovely. (Phil 4:13)

Pray this week for our brothers and sisters in Christ in our area-that we will ALL live as God instructs us to live.

May God's peace reign in your heart this week and every week till you meet Him face to face!
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A Living Sacrifice
12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Humble Service in the Body of Christ
3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,
5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your[a] faith;
7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach;
8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead,[b] do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.[c] Do not be conceited.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.
18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”[d] says the Lord.
20 On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.