(Psalm 139:14 NLT) Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--how well I know it.

(Ephesians 2:10 NLT) For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anewin Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

√ The Gospel means CHANGE.

(2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a newcreation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

(John 3:1-6 NLT) There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. "Rabbi," he said, "we all know that God has sent you to teachus. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you." ) Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, unless you are born again,(transformed not conformed) you cannot see the Kingdom of God." "What do you mean?" exclaimed Nicodemus. "How can an old man go back into his mother's womb and be born again?" Jesus replied, "I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.

√ God loves us AS WE ARE but loves us too much to LEAVE US that way.

√ If I'm NOT changing, I might not really KNOW God.

(1 John 1:6-10 NIV) If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

(1 John 2:4-5 NIV) Whoever says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

(1 John 5:3 NIV) ... this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,

1. Drop the weight of WHO WE WERE. Target who God wants us to BECOME. (#ONEstep)

(Romans 1:1 NIV) Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God--

2. Give God TOTAL permission not LIMITED ACCESS.

(Galatians 5:19-21 NIV) The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

(Galatians 5:22 NIV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

(Philippians 2:13 NLT) For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

3. Choose to let God start TODAY!

(2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV) But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.