Welcome To Equipping For Change Ministries
Where You Will Find Resources For Change!
Selena Mosley is founder of Equipping For Change Ministries and is the mother of two adult sons and the grandmother of an nine year old girl.
She is a licensed minister, licensed in 1989 by Pastor Thurman Graves formerly of the Well Church International.
Selena struggled with same sex attraction for many years and lived openly as a lesbian who attended predominately GLBT Churches where she was a active member for 8 years.
Selena will always remember the Words of the Lord spoken through her Aunt Jannie when she told her that she decided to live as a lesbian, "Selena you are going to come out (of homosexuality) and when you do, you will bring thousands out with you."
She is now actively helping others especially Christians who struggle with homosexual desires to realize their deliverance and freedom from homosexuality through faith in Jesus Christ.
The Word of the Lord has and continues to come to pass. Selena has come out of the lifestyle and mind set of homosexuality and is helping others to do the same.
Selena is the founder of Equipping For change Ministries, a ministry proclaiming that freedom from homosexuality is possible through faith in Jesus Christ.
Equipping For Change Ministries seeks to help Christians who struggle with unwanted homosexual desires to connect to resources needed for change and to love and be loved God's way. She is the author of Selena's Self-Esteem Builders, a booklet written to help the Body of Christ know who they truly are in Christ Jesus.
She is a member of Fire and Rain Ministries where Prophetess Allison J. Cross is the Founder and Pastor.
http://www.myspace.com/equipping4change
Many believe that only non Christians struggle with homosexual attraction and desires. This is far from the truth, many men and women of God from the pulpit to the pew secretly struggle with habitual sin including homosexuality. There is great debate in the World and even in the Church, concerning the possibility of changing ones sexual identity. Many say that sexual identity can be changed and others say, absolutely not, sexual identity is fixed and unchangeable.
It is not the mission of Equipping For Change Ministry to debate or argue the possibility of change, for we believe that although no one chooses homosexual desires, change is possible for all who choose to do so. Hosea 4:6 says, "My people perish for lack of knowledge." The word perish used in Hosea 4:6, can also be translated as, "cut off". We are cut off from what we don't know. The mission of EFCM is to assist those who desire freedom from homosexuality to acquire the information that promotes knowledge for change. As you visit our website it is our prayer that you will leave here with knowledge needed for freedom homosexuality. If you don't struggle with same sex desires, it our prayer that you will leave here with information that will assist you in helping those who do struggle with compassion without compromise.
The Condition of Homosexuality
Homosexuality, at its root, is not a sexual problem-it is a gender-identity problem.
Four Gay Myths
1. Ten percent of the population is homosexual.
2. You’re born gay.
3. Once gay always gay.
4. Homosexuality is normal in every way.
. Believing 1 2 3 4=Total Acceptance . Tolerance versus approval. Informed disapproval does not mean "homophobia."
Gay Vs. Homosexual
. There is no such thing as a homosexual.
. Homosexuality is a gender identity disorder
Homosexual Behavior as Reparative Drive
.Same -sex behavior is an attempt to "repair" childhood emotional hurts.Taken from the
Love Won Out Conference Guide. Please visit the Love Won Out website to find out when a Love Won Out conference will be in your area.
Empowered For Change
As a resident of California, I am made aware of the yearly migration of the Monarch Butterfly. As a child I loved the yearly appearance of the butterflies that seem to blanket our yard. I don't know if they were Monarch Butterflies, but they were beautiful just the same. Now as a Christian, I see a commonality between the butterfly and Christians. The butterfly does not start life as the beautiful creature it ultimately becomes. When someone first becomes a Born Again Christian, more often than not, they do not appear to be the sons and daughters of God that they are.
As you can see by the picture above the caterpillar looks nothing like what it will be. We too in the beginning of our Christian life do not appear as what we will be. The Scriptures tell us, "it does not yet appear what we shall be like but when He does appear we shall be like Him." God has equipped or given what is needed for change to all who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. The Word change is defined as, " make or become different".
Like the butterfly our metamorphosis or change is progressive. The caterpillar goes through four stages of change. The egg, lava, pupa, and finally the adult butterfly. We may not be able to determine the stage of metamorphosis for the Christian as we do for the butterfly but like the butterfly our change is progressive. Many times as we are seeking change from habitual sin, we become discouraged because change is progressive. We don't like to deal with process of change the pain that can accompany it.
We should learn from the butterfly who does not complain or become discouraged as it moves through each stage of its life. I have never heard the egg say to the lava, "I am just so tired of being an egg, why can't I be like you?" I have never heard the pupa in the cocoon complain about being in the cocoon too long. Nor have I ever heard tell of the butterfly looking down on the caterpillar as it flies by saying, why can't you be like me. Why are you still crawling around on the ground?" We as Christians must learn to be content in the stage of life that we are in. We must remember that it is God Who orders our steps. We must remember not to compare ourselves with others and to trust God that we are where He wants us to be in our stage of metamorphosis or change.
Above is a picture of a cocoon with a pupa within it. Although the caterpillar was created with everything it needs for metamorphosis, it can not and will not complete it's metamorphosis without cocooning itself. The Christian could learn well from the pupa, for although we are born again with everything we have need of to change from sinner to the sons and daughters of God, we will not appear to be the sons and daughters of God until we wrap, encase or cocoon ourselves in the Word of God. The caterpillar warps itself in the cocoon and does not worry about how long it will take to become the beautiful butterfly it was created to be. It stays in the cocoon until its change comes.
No matter what is going on outside the cocoon the pupa will not emerge until its appointed time. The winds may blow, the rain may fall and the pupa inside the cocoon may feel as if they are being bounced around but it will not emerge from the cocoon before its change has come.
We who are seeking change and freedom from homosexuality and other sinful addictive ways of living, must learn from the caterpillar and wrap ourselves in the cocoon of God's Word and stay there no matter what may come. The enemy will cause the winds of opposition to come and the rains of frustration to fall but we must make a commitment to stay encased or wraped up and cocooned in the Word of God. You see, the caterpillar knows that if it emerges from the cocoon before its metamorphosis takes place it will never become the beautiful butterfly it was created to be. In fact it will die.
If you emerge or unwrap yourself from the Word of God before your metamorphosis is complete you too will die or be separated from that which is the source of your change and metamorphosis will not be complete. When I say "die", I don't mean cessation of life, I am talking about a separation a separation of your source of life, that is the Word.
Although we are born with everything we have need of for change, we can't change without God.
Jesus said, " you can do nothing without Me." Jesus is the Word made flesh. (John 1:14) When you have completed your metamorphosis, you will never have to struggle with homosexuality again. You will continue the change process as long as you live, because there will always be something that we need to deal with so that we might look more like Him who created us and gave His life for us. Dont allow the frustrations of life chase you out of your Word cocoon.
Jesus said in John 16:33, " I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trial and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [ I have deprived it of the power to harm you and conquered it for you.]"
I want to encourage each of you to not compare yourself with others that appear to be maturing or progressing faster than you. Don't allow the enemy to condemn you because it seems that you are stuck where you are. Just stay in the cocoon and you will find yourself emerging appearing different than when you went in.
As you allow the Word to bring change to your life, you will find that not only are you transformed but you will help to transform the lives of those around you." For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome."
