Stained Glass Souls - Finding Grace Through Change
Trying to Change?

The vast majority of us quit our resolutions by the second Friday of January.

Romans 7:15, 19, 24 NLT I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. … 19I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. ... 24Oh, what a miserable person I am! ...

Real change isn’t behavior modification.
Real change is spiritual transformation.

Romans 7:24-25 NLT ... Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. ...

The Way to Real Change
• Not “God, then me.”
• Not “God, not me.”
• But “God through me.”

1 Corinthians 15:9-10 NIVFor I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me

The grace that saves you is also the grace that changes you.

• Your spiritual “why” is God’s purpose for you.
• Your spiritual “how” is God’s power through you.

Zechariah 4:6 NIV …‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

I am disciplined. Christ in me is stronger than the wrong desires in me.

If you change your behavior but don’t change your heart, the behavior will come back.

You’re trying to meet a need or relieve a hurt with something besides God’s grace.

2 Corinthians 12:9 NLT... [God] said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.

Real change isn’t behavior modification.
Real change is spiritual transformation.