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INWARD TRANSFORMATION

          DAY THIRTY-THREE:

              Paul to Titus, "This is a faithful saying, and these
          things I want you constantly to affirm,…”

                            SAVED TO DO

              Believe it or not, some will have agreed with most
          of what I have said in this book thus far but shrink
          back  when  it  comes  to  working-out  our  salvation.
          But we were not saved to only go to Heaven someday.
          Jesus  saved  us  to  also  fulfill  our  God-given-grace-
          purpose here on Earth – to be the light of the world,
          and  salt  in  the  Earth.  Heaven  is  a  great  final
          destination. But we must also do what He has saved
          us to do in this life. And it takes faith to do this. It
          takes an inward-metamorphosis to be able to walk in
          the perfect will of God in this corrupt world. It takes
          transformed  thoughts  and  speech  to  reform  our
          actions. We must know and accept the truth that we
          are called to do good works. We were born again to
          fulfill a predetermined plan God had arranged from
          eternity for us to do in this life. Let’s do it!
              “ For by grace you have been saved through faith,
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          and this is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God,  not
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          of works, so that no one should boast.  10  For we are
          His  workmanship,  created  in  Christ  Jesus  for  good
          works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we
          should walk in them.”                     Ephesians 2:8-10

          DAY THIRTY-FOUR:

              Paul to Titus, "This is a faithful saying, and these
          things I want you constantly to affirm,…”

                        TO WILL AND TO DO

              It is hard to consider we should be thinking and

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