Rend your Heart
Oct 4, 2020 ·
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WEEK 12: DAY 1 REND YOUR HEART Joel 2:13 Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow...
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WEEK 12: DAY 1
REND YOUR HEART
Joel 2:13
Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of evil [when His conditions are met].
There is something about a heart that is broken, ready to be addressed, ready to be used, ready to be employed; that heart is a heart with the potential of maturity and growth.
In the kingdom, the most precious offering is the offering of oneself and that begins from where life occurs :- the heart.
Matthew 12:6
There is far more at stake here than religion. If you had any idea what this Scripture meant—'I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual'—you wouldn't be nitpicking like this.
More often than not, we are quick to offer our outsourced materials as offerings because as hard as that may be, it is easier to let go of, easier to release. However, we hold on tight to our inward, building protective walls around it, giving justifiable reasons for not letting anything close to it including God, not knowing this is much to our deficiency.
When you hold on to a seed, you can never realize the forest. When you hold on to heart, you stand to lose out the life that should stem out, the fruits that will be born and the multiplication of lives that you could touch.
In offering your spirit in submission by giving your life to Christ, you offered a renewing: a renovation. However, your choice is required in offering your soil/land daily for planting and pruning so there can be a bounty to be enjoyed.
A rendered heart is beautiful to mold into a vessel for His Glory. Know this, to be a blessing, you have to be blessed.
A life of principle is amazing but of greater power is a submissive heart in His Hands. Let all outward morals be the fruit of the heart rooted in God and it wouldn't just be that you are good, but, that you are godly. Therein lies the power.
I pray you look up to Him today and offer your heart in a rented fashion so He can break, bless, share and multiply it for His Glory in Jesus name, amen.
Rain in a bucket; Devotional with Toyosi
www.raininabucket.wordpress.com
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REND YOUR HEART
Joel 2:13
Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of evil [when His conditions are met].
There is something about a heart that is broken, ready to be addressed, ready to be used, ready to be employed; that heart is a heart with the potential of maturity and growth.
In the kingdom, the most precious offering is the offering of oneself and that begins from where life occurs :- the heart.
Matthew 12:6
There is far more at stake here than religion. If you had any idea what this Scripture meant—'I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual'—you wouldn't be nitpicking like this.
More often than not, we are quick to offer our outsourced materials as offerings because as hard as that may be, it is easier to let go of, easier to release. However, we hold on tight to our inward, building protective walls around it, giving justifiable reasons for not letting anything close to it including God, not knowing this is much to our deficiency.
When you hold on to a seed, you can never realize the forest. When you hold on to heart, you stand to lose out the life that should stem out, the fruits that will be born and the multiplication of lives that you could touch.
In offering your spirit in submission by giving your life to Christ, you offered a renewing: a renovation. However, your choice is required in offering your soil/land daily for planting and pruning so there can be a bounty to be enjoyed.
A rendered heart is beautiful to mold into a vessel for His Glory. Know this, to be a blessing, you have to be blessed.
A life of principle is amazing but of greater power is a submissive heart in His Hands. Let all outward morals be the fruit of the heart rooted in God and it wouldn't just be that you are good, but, that you are godly. Therein lies the power.
I pray you look up to Him today and offer your heart in a rented fashion so He can break, bless, share and multiply it for His Glory in Jesus name, amen.
Rain in a bucket; Devotional with Toyosi
www.raininabucket.wordpress.com
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