From Transformation to Transfiguration: Our Hope for the Future.

(I felt inspired to write while listening to my favourite teacher, pastor Peter Tan. I have listened to his teaching for years and I always feel spiritually well fed afterwards. He teaches indepth spiritual truth that creates such a hunger for more of God and holiness in me.  Feel free to look him up on www.petertan.net.)

From Transformation to Transfiguration.

When I heard these words I immediately thought of Jesus on the mount with Moses and Elijah. He was transfigured.
Matthew 17:1 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. ² There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. ³ Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

This is also the promise of the Bride of Christ; we will be transfigured when we receive our Glorified bodies at the rapture.
Phill 3:21 Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

The Church will first have to be transformed on the inside. In our soul as our spirit man grows. We have to became without spot or wrinkle.

Efe 5:27 So that he might present the church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish

We have to grow from glory to glory until we become one with Jesus completely, as He is without spot or wrinkle. In Him there is no sin and darkness. He invites us to this unity with him in His prayer to the FATHER. We have to grow to Christ who is the head, and walk with God in such a way as Elijah did before he was taken away. He embodied the Glory of God and his body did not die, but changed when taken up to Heaven.

Moses saw and walked in the Glory of God and his body did not age. He was still in his prime of strength when he went up the mountain and was taken by God.

The Glory of God was with the Israelites in such a way that during the forty years in the wilderness not even their clothes nor shoes broke.

The complete transformation within will lead to the transfiguration at the rapture. The Lord will come for a Holy Bride. Not a half backslidden, sleepy, dirty bride. But one without spot or wrinkle.

Who of us can say we are there already? Who is preparing themself?

I desire to. My flesh is slowly catching up to my spirit. In my spirit I want all these things but my flesh often chooses something else. I pray that my flesh may be more submitted to my spirit so that my transformation can be completed in due time. There is no formula for this to happen. We just have to follow the examples set by Jesus Himself. How he spent time with the FATHER in prayer, and also Enoch who walked with the Lord and was in His presence and Elijah who also walked closely with the Lord in prayer.

So prayer, spending time with the Lord,  is the key to the complete transformation that will lead to transfiguration. I believe prayer in Tongues has the greatest part in this process because it is the spirit man that has to grow to that stage. There are many testimonies of people who spent a lengthy time in prayer, in tongues, with the Lord, and then had some level of spiritual awakening and open visions. A more close walk with the Lord.

Let us join in more fervent prayer in Tongues, so the spirit can do His complete work in us.


God Bless!!