Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
We grow into the image of Christ, The Word, by deliberately dressing ourselves in The Word of God.
Thus all things about us "become" new during the years we live on this earth and make choices to live in specific scripture.
For example: Jesus said: 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow:for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Mt. 6
We see this Word. We determine that this is what we will do. We replace what we had been doing with doing this instruction. We put away the old man and put on the new man by doing this instruction. We cast off our old garment, the natural man/the fleshly garment, and we put on the new garment, created in the image of God and Christ, The Word.
Therefore we "become" new ... growing into that which is new, as we put aside the old.
Now instead of planning ahead for our success, we seek the word of God daily as one seeks for great treasure. We hunt those scriptures daily. We dress in what we find, going that way, daily. Things become new by our deliberately going another way.
Then we decide we will also dress in what Jesus said: Take no thought of the morrow ... We refuse thoughts concerning tomorrow. When those thoughts come we return to the instruction of Jesus concerning taking no thought of tomorrow. Instead today we seek what God would say to us as we pray and read Bible and think on the word of God. We focus on today and "HIS righteousness", on that which is right in the sight of God. We meditate on that scripture that we have found today as we "seek HIM" by reading Bible or by hearing a word from the Holy Spirit and focusing on that word.
This transforms us from the way the world goes and sets us into the way of God.
II Cor. 5 ... 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
This is not a one time experience but is a continual "becoming new" as long as we live on this earth.
Every time we see a scripture and "dress ourselves" in that scripture by doing what that scripture says to do, we cast off our old garment (our old way of life) and we put on Christ, The Word, dressing in the Word by doing the Word.
become means: to change, to grow into
Thus I keep certain scripture before me day after day and think on that instruction and turn my way toward that instruction, purposefully doing that instruction instead of doing what my own flesh would prefer doing ... casting aside the old garment to put on the new garment ... made in the image of Christ, The Word.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
Man has a soul. Man can make choices. Plants can't do that. Animals and fish can't seek the will of God. But man can. Man can be changed into the image of God by choosing to do the will of God, by choosing to do the Word of God.
Jesus gave the following example of the man who came to the wedding without dressing in a wedding garment.
Mt. 22 ... 1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding:and they would not come.
4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner:my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready:come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth:and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good:and the wedding was furnished with guests.
11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
The wedding garment in the Kingdom of God is the Word of God. We must dress ourselves in The Word of God ... casting aside the old nature of man and putting on the new man created in the image of God by the Word of God.
In Eph. 6, Paul said: Put on the whole armor of God ... again this has to do with dressing ourselves in the Word of God, in prayer, in truth from God, in God's righteousness by seeking God's way for our lives, in faith, ...
Thus Paul speaks of being clothed "in our new house / our heavenly house" ...
II Cor. 5 ... 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
We seek God's will daily by prayer and by hunting scripture and putting on scripture.
Romans 13 ... 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep:for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand:let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ (THE WORD), and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.