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         If you really want a fresh new start with someone and the way you interact with them and look at them, to break out of the old habits and ways of doing things, the old way of looking at the person, then all you need to do is the humble thing. You need to be humble and realize that I love that person very much, and I have been working in their life too. They feel in the spirit the way you look at them and what you think about them and how you treat them. So if you want to change anything about the way you work with someone, the way you relate to them and communicate and talk with them, then you just need to ask Me for new eyes.
         Be desperate and ask Me to change things, and I will. Fight for it and work for it in all that you say and do. Ask Me to give you a fresh new outlook on them, a brand-new spirit, and a good new way of thinking about them and talking to them. The only thing that will hold you back is the past and the old dead habits, the old dried-up interactions, the same old stale habits that you don't like anyway.
         You want the fresh, the new. You want to be able to express the new creature that you are. You want to be able to interact with the love and understanding and joy of My Spirit--and you can. You are a new creature if you want to be. I have made you new. I have given you new ways of thinking, new ways of behaving, new ways of loving, new ways of seeing Me, new ways of seeing others, new ways of looking at yourself. Only the Enemy tells you, "It won't work. You're not new, you're not able, you'll never change. You'll never be able to treat this person or that person any differently. They're not new. They haven't changed, and they'll never change. It's just the same old uninspired relationship, and nothing's ever going to be able to help."
         But I don't tell you that, because it's not true. Anyone who wants a fresh new start, a fresh new approach to life, or to people, or to their work, or to their ministry, or to their husband or wife or children, or to someone that they don't get along with, can have it! You can be what I want you to be. You can give the love that I have inside of you, that's just waiting to burst out. You can give good Spirit-filled reactions; you can give inspiring, encouraging words; you can have loving sex; you can think positive, uplifting thoughts; you can resist the attacks of the Enemy; you can let My Spirit flow through you and make you different. You don't have to live in the past or let the past dictate how you live today. You don't have to be what you were yesterday, and you don't have to look at others and think about them the way they used to be.
         They want to change and have changed, just as much as you want to change and have changed. You can be part of the changes that they desperately seek by treating them as new creatures, and you can treat them as new creatures by asking Me to give you the faith for new eyes for them.



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