Transformation of the Bride 

The beginning of this week, as I was getting ready for 
work I had a vision. I saw the bride. She was tattered 
and torn. She looked so malnourished and slumped over. 
Her dress hung off her shoulders. Her face was thin, 
her cheekbones were very prominent. There was no life 
in her eyes. She looked completely defeated, worn out 
and tired of the fight. I knew that she had been in a 
long wilderness season and the evidence was written 
all over her. 

Song of Solomon 8:5 "Who is this coming up from the 
wilderness leaning on her beloved?" 

I then noticed Jesus in front of her. He looked at her 
and took her hand to dance with her. I watched as each 
spin she would begin to transform. She began to mature 
and fill out the dress. I watched as Jesus placed His 
hand under her chin to lift her head. Her confidence 
began to strengthen and she began to stand up tall. 
Each time Jesus spun her around her whole demeanor 
would change. She began to dance with assurance, no 
longer tripping over her own feet. There was a fluid 
movement between the two of them. A blissful love 
dance was taking place before my eyes. I watched her 
transform into His glory. She was beautiful, full of 
grace. My eyes couldn't depart from what was taking 
place before me, until I heard His voice. 
Jesus spoke to me and said, "My daughter, stop 
focusing on the bride and focus on Me." 
When He spoke these words to me, I saw His fiery eyes 
of love for His bride. I felt the longing of His heart 
to be one with her. His eyes were burning, burning 
with passionate love for her. His eyes seemed to 
pierce straight through her heart and I could feel how 
much He loved her. 

It was then I realized, I was this bride. I was 
looking through her eyes and staring at His face, 
straight on, no longer looking from the outside but 
from the inside out. The fire of His eyes became more 
intense, the feeling of love that I felt He had for me 
became way more intense. I knew He wanted me to know 
that this was me the whole time and He wanted me to 
focus on Him, instead of the process. When I was 
looking from the outside, all I could focus on was the 
process. As I started looking from the inside of the 
bride, the process seemed to just fade away in the 
glory of His presence, in the glory of His love for 
me. The process no longer mattered, the wilderness no 
longer mattered. The process was a distant memory, 
lost in His eyes of love. 

The Lord began to speak to me and say, "You are worth 
it. You are My glorious bride. You are who I love and 
whom My soul longs for. I've always thought you were 
beautiful, even in the beginning. I love to dance with 
you and watch your spirit brighten with My light and 
love for you." There were so many things He spoke to 
me about my worth and value to Him. Then, I watched as 
the bride walked as one with her bridegroom. She 
walked in beauty, strength, and authority, with 
regalness and confidence. She now had a robe around 
her neck and a scepter in hand. 

As I began to have this deep knowing of His incredible 
love for me, Holy Spirit began to reveal some things 
to me that I believed were important to share with the 
Body. First is, to focus on His eyes and not on the 
process. The process can seem overwhelming but when we 
are in Him, it's not overwhelming at all. As we focus 
on His face, we can enjoy the process of 
transformation instead of feeling that we have a long 
way to go. He is the only One who can make us a pure 
spotless bride and He's doing it as we spend intimate 
time with Him. As we become more aware of our Oneness 
with Him, we are being changed and it won't feel like 
a duty of ours but it will be Him changing us, as we 
surrender to Him. 
Dear reader, I believe the Lord wants you to be able 
to see this same thing for yourself. The same words 
that He spoke to me, He's speaking to you as well. 
"You are worth it. You are My glorious bride. You are 
who I love and whom My soul longs for." These words 
are yours too and there's much more. I encourage you 
to just spend time with Him and allow Him to tell you 
how He feels about you. 

Holy Spirit began to show me that I haven't been able 
to love myself the way that He loves me. I realized it 
was much easier to love others and speak about His 
love then to receive it for myself. I knew what the 
word says, but it was not in my heart. I know we've 
been told that it's more blessed to give than to 
receive, Paul tell us in Acts that Jesus said those 
words. So I believe this to be true but how can we 
fully give away something that we don't understand to 
be true of ourselves. Jesus says in Matthew 22, about 
the greatest commandments, the first being to "Love 
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all 
your soul and with all your mind." The second 
commandment that was like the first is to "love your 
neighbor as yourself." How can we love like He loves, 
if we don't know how much He loves us first? How can 
we love like He loves if we don't love ourselves? 
I began to realize how I thought about myself, the 
words I have spoken over myself were NOT how He felt 
about me at all. I have focused so much on my outward 
appearance and how my physical body has changed over 
the years, instead of focusing on the inside and Him 
living in me and how beautiful that is! The world says 
that we must look a certain way, with all the latest 
trends, make up tricks, fashion tips that are forever 
spread on all the magazines. That's not the definition 
of beauty at all, let's ask Him and let the Father 
reveal our real beauty. 

God gave us a body. If we didn't have a body to house 
His Spirit we wouldn't be here upon the earth at all. 
We wouldn't be able to spread the good news and be His 
glory that covers the earth like the waters cover the 
seas. Your body is beautiful just how He made it. He 
truly wants you to see that and to know it deep 
within. It's not about our "self-image", it's about 
HIS image!! As we begin to focus on His face, His eyes 
of fiery love, we are being transformed, we can then 
love ourselves and love others. 
2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT "So all of us who have had that 
veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the 
Lord. And the Lord--who is the Spirit--makes us more 
and more like him as we are changed into his glorious 
image." 

"Father, forgive us for speaking curses over our 
bodies. Forgive us for the thoughts that we have had 
towards ourselves. You make us beautiful, in Your 
image. We are so thankful that we have You to focus on 
during this process of transformation. We ask Papa 
that You reverse every curse that we've spoken against 
our bodies, we wipe those words clean with Your blood. 
Lord, I ask that every person reading this will know 
their value and will love themselves the way that You 
love them, so that we can truly love others like You 
love. Thank You Lord for Your incredible love for us, 
let us never forget. Set Your seal of love upon our 
hearts, our minds, every part of our being. We love 
You so much and we thank You for loving us first! We 
are forever changed by Your love. Thank You for our 
dance together, that is transforming us with every 
spin." 

1 John 4:19 "We love because He first loved us." 
Psalm 129:14 "I will praise You, for I am fearfully 
and wonderfully made..." 

John 17:20- "My prayer in not for them alone. I pray 
also for those who will believe in me through their 
message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just 
as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in 
us so that the world may believe that you have sent 
me. 22 I have given them the glory that you have gave 
me, that they may be one as we are one--23 I in them 
and you in me--so that they may be brought to complete 
unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and 
have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 Father, 
I want those that you given me to be with where I am, 
to see my glory, the glory you have given me because 
you loved me before the creation of the world. 25 
Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, 
I know you, and they know that you have sent me, 26 I 
have made you known to them, and will continue to make 
you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."