Oct 30 2025 … Made Over By God …

Oct 30 2025 … Made Over By God  … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from Don Moen,  singing God Will Make A Way … showing God can - and will - make Christians over into God’s image.

Refashioned ... Remade ... Remarketed ... into "Play-Doh" 

Highlight Passage: … Genesis 45:15 … [NLT] … 

15 Then Joseph kissed each of his brothers and wept over them, and after that they began talking freely with him. 

… Joseph’s brothers see that Joseph is a new person, reflecting God’s grace upon them.  

Highlight Passage in Context:  Genesis  45:12-15. 21-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Joseph shows grace to His brothers instead of revenge. 

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Reference Passage: … Genesis 1:26-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God originally created mankind in His image.

Reference Passage: … Psalms 139:14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… King David thanks God in song for making him into a reflection of the image of God. 

Reference Passage:…1Corinthians 15:49  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…Paul teaches truth about Christians being “made over” into the image of God.

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul shows fellow Christians that they (we) are made over to carry out HIs good works for which we were created.

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to put on the nature of Christ, made over into his images.

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 1:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…   Finally, Paul also shows that God’s Spirit is remaking Christians into the image of Christ.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author,  Kenneth Petersen …  USE THS LNK  …  wrote about a young inventor, Cleo McVicker, in the 1930s, who came up with a new product, … a clay compound which could help home owners remove the soot from their walls as most homes then were heated by coal which produced the soot.  The product was not very successful; but decades later the same compound was refashioned and remarked as a children’s toy …  that we now know of as “Play-Doh.” (see photo)

The story of something being remade and repurposed apparently reminded the ODB author today of the story of Joseph, who was sold into slavery as a young boy by his brothers.  However, years later Joseph was remade into the operational leader of Egypt and was reunited by God’s design to give God’s grace to His brothers (see Highlight passage).

And that story reminded this old Christian how God took me from an atheist sex addict to become a refashioned/ordained minister of the Gospel, called to lesd a ministry, for over 25 years, to help many men refashion their lives by God’s grace.  God has remade  me for His glory.  How about you?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for making me over, … more every day, … into Your image.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... for those who love and follow You, we are made over into Your image.    … Amen

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