What's in your heart? It's 'Neon Lights' to God!

What's in your heart? It's 'Neon Lights' to God!

Jeremiah 17:10

“I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.

Sometimes we think that no one really knows what's going on with us; our struggles, our strengths, our weaknesses.  Sometimes there are areas in our lives that we try to work around, even ignore.  There is an area in each of our lives that we try to hide from everyone-else, even God.  But here's the truth.  The heart is the primary organ in our bodies that God focuses on.  Like an eagle 2000 miles above the earth that zeros in on its prey, and swoops down and clutches it the first time around, God never misses HIS mark.  HE'S always on the lookout.  God is interested in the condition of your heart. 

 

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 

God knows exactly what we are capable of.  HE is our creator. HE has invested several tools in each of us.  But our success is based upon our choices.  For instance:  An 'iphone' can do multiple things; but if you only use it to make and answer calls that's such a waste of a lot of money and resources.  People don't confuse iphones for androids.  Apple sure doesn't.  In fact, each new product has unique features the previous series didn't have.  Instead of having a camera, a cell phone, a computer, etc.... i.e.  several different devices; everything is now located in the same handheld device - the cellphone.  

Access your resources....

 

Use up your features.  Get the most out of them.  You are expensive and full of resources.  You were born with a price tag.  The Messiah - Jesus Christ died on the cross for you.  HE left HIS throneroom to get you.  Do you understand how great a sacrifice that was?  2 Corinthians 5 Do you understand your value, your resources?  If you're not optimizing your services , you are wasting away, i.e. 'bearing bad fruit'.  No one is born an expert.  Every iphone user has read the manual and/ or followed the directions given.  In God's Kingdom the manual is The Holy Spirit.  Jesus' death and resurrection 're-granted' us access to God's heavenly resources and throneroom.  Since we're not familiar with the culture of heaven, Jesus left the Holy Spirit as a replacement teacher for God's children on earth.  That's the gospel.  John 14  Over time, mistakes, practices and obedience one becomes better at it.   The Bible is the constitution of heaven and the Ten Commandments are its laws.  But in order for us to know, understand and apply its principles correctly we need the guidance of The Holy Spirit.  HE helps us to become 'legal citizens' of heaven on earth.  It is a training process.  So too it is with the heart.  If you don't cultivate it, it won't bear good fruit.  It won't grow.  The things you want to see in you, you must work at them in tandem with the teacher's instructions.  

"If you want to be nice, start by doing nice things.  Actions become attitudes.  And attitudes become habits.  And habits are clothes you wear.  You can change them!"...Ingrid Boyd

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Luke 6: 43-45

43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. 45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

"When you know what kind of seed you are, you'll stop trying to get grafted. Bear your fruit! We long to taste you!"...Ingrid Boyd

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Whenever something goes wrong with your iphone there's warranty on it.  The manufacturer - Apple Store will repair it for free because as a company, it's very interested in protecting it's brand.  They will pay for shipping. The iphone is just a product.  Your life is much more valuable than a cellphone.  If HE God provides for the birds of the air, how much more will HE provide for you.  Matthew 6 God's search for you is not to condemn you, but to call you back to HIS factory for repair/ renovation.  If something's going wrong, check the manual.  The manual for your life is their to help you get it right. If you don't know how to fix it, or don't understand how to manipulate all of your features, connect with the source.  If you're serious about getting the most out of your life, God is serious about helping you.  

 

John 3: 16

 

For God so loved the world that HE gave HIS only begotten son.  That whosoever believeth in HIM will not perish but have everlasting life.

 

Love is as love does....

 

God is interested in the condition of your heart.  Why make a product you can't brag about?  It's in you.  All you need to bear your best fruits, it's in you!  Fill your heart with the right features.  John 1  God realized that since Adam through Abraham, Moses, David all the way down through the ages mankind was failing at using our talents and resources.   Over and over we were being deceived by the devil and his demons about our true purpose and authority.  God's decision to send Jesus was in order to enlighten us i.e. to open our eyes of understanding.  God's intention is not to keep punishing us for wrong. But instead to teach us how to avoid and disdain wrong so that we could operate at a 'maximum potential' without it.  Jesus did not bring condemnation; but instead HE brought grace and truth.  You don't hurt people you love.  You aren't supposed to.  It is wicked to keep on sinning because of God's grace.  God's grace is pardon for disobedience to God's laws.  Grace is unto repentance not repetition -  it's not supposed to be committed again. That's why knowing the truth is important.  The truth is found in God's Word.  Check the manual or it will all be gibberish to you.  I implore you today to observe and model King David's attitude.  Inspite of all of his flaws, God commends David for his heart.

 

Psalm 139:23-24 

 

"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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WORSHIP: Open up my heart

Are you bearing the right fruits?

Are you tired, need something more?

Are you tired, need something more?

Like the heavy pouring rain drowning out the sound of everything else,
do you ever feel so overwhelmed?  Have you ever had a situation where you looked for answers but they were never enough.  All the solutions you've encountered thus far are just never enough.  Harder still, if it's a situation that maybe you are the only one fully aware of how desperate you are for the right solution.  

What is your prognosis....

 

Do you feel stuck? Do you have a really bad habit or situation that's destroying you and/ your loved ones.  For instance: drugs, alcoholism, pornography, promiscuity, cheating, stealing, lies, gambling, debt, etc... It doesn't have to continue to be that way. Christ came to fill that void.  HE died to quench that thirst once and for all with something that is sufficient to eradicate all of your wrongful desires.  Christ came to set you free from that stronghold, whatever it is. And HE comes in search of you like the woman at the well.   HE knows where to find you and HE intentionally comes to sit and wait on you to acknowledge HIM.

St. Jon 4: 4-26

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

Jesus was practical....

 

Jesus was God on earth, so HE knew in advance that the Samaritan woman was going to be coming by the well at that hour of the day.  HE also knew that she was going to be alone, and HE knew all of her story.  She was unfulfilled.  She had had five husbands plus another man she was seeing, and they were still not enough for her.  Having had such a colorful lifestyle back in those days was an embarrassing thing.  Surely the other women denied her friendship.   Can you imagine the gossip and disdain which she must have endured?  She came to the well alone at midday, a time when no one else would have been there.  The scorn, abuse, rejection and condemnation she must have endured.  Yet God chose her to sit with.  God chooses us.  HE understands what it feels like to be tired.  HE too was tired when HE met her.  HE'D been busy ministering with HIS disciples and HE was resting when she came.  God understands your pain.  Let HIM help you to deal with it.  HE'S the only one who can quench that thirst inside of you. Let HIM!

Philippians 4:19 

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 

 

The solution to the problem....

 

God's riches are not on earth, they are in heaven 'the headquarters' of the Kingdom of God.  In order for us to rightfully access those resources we have to 'tap into God's warehouse'.  Whatsoever we bind on earth is bound in heaven, and whatsoever we loose on earth is loose in heaven.  Matthew 16 Our only way to heaven is through Jesus.  But the way to access Jesus is through the leading of The Holy Spirit. Jesus told the woman that God's worshipers must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.  The kind of human worship that pleases God needs assistance from The Holy Spirit. Jesus offered the woman 'a spring of water welling up to eternal life'. John 7  HE was referring to The Holy Spirit.  Jesus commands us believers/ and children of God to be filled with The Holy Spirit. John 14  Just as we need to take a shower with each new day or eat breakfast every morning; so too God expects us to relate to The Holy Spirit on a daily basis.  

 

Each new day often has new challenges that we need guidance with.  Some of them need us to just use our authority as children of God to overcome them, while other need prayer and fasting.  Fasting is very powerful especially for 'besetting sins/ obstacles in our lives.  This could be bad habits, overpowering circumstances, direct attack from the devil and his demons, etc....  TRUE Fasting brings the physical under submission to the spiritual.  It is very important to note that victory in The Kingdom of God is not achieved the same way as in the kingdom of the world.  Humans don't fight, angels do on our behalf.  Some strongholds are destroyed by worship and praise, not vengeance.   It's God's pleasure to win on our behalf because HE gets the glory out of it, plus HE does love us.  HE instructs us to cast all of our cares upon HIM because HE cares for us. Matthew 11  When you're tired find rest in God.  When you long for more answers and fulfillment drink from HIS well, find The Holy Spirit.  The water flows unendingly connect with 'The Source'.

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If ever you feel thirsty, come to the well!