A New Heart

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh."
Ezekiel 36:26


I have been thinking a lot about personal revival lately. I need it in my life. I was just reflecting on the richness and the fullness of a heart renewed in the Lord. Sometimes, when my focus gets fuzzy, and the distractions seem to crowd into my priorities, it is good to just come to the Lord for a renewal, a fresh pouring out of His Spirit upon a very dry and parched heart. The water of God's Word pouring over the dry, parched surface of a heart that has turned to stone by the world and its ways and its people - only God can do that for us.

Beloved, God can, and He promises He will, take out the heart of stone that has been make hard by the world system, and replace it with a tender heart of flesh that only comes from the pouring out of the living water upon our souls. We need to personally develop a hunger and a thirst for the Word of God, and His presence in our lives,
and a fresh outpouring of the power of His Holy Spirit into our lives. That is how we are going to change the world.

I sometimes get all caught up in what people think, and trying to please this one and that one, when really, and too often I forget this, but the one I need to please is Jesus. He is the one who is the giver of my life. He is the one who holds my name in the palm of His hand. He is the one who orders my steps and knows my days, even before I was born. He is the one and only one I serve. He is the only one I must worry about pleasing. If we all just lived for the Lord instead of other people, what a place the church would be in. We would truly be attractive to the world, because we are pleasing the Lord.

I am making it my aim to begin personal revival in my heart today. To not just settle for a status quo walk with God, one that is powerless and unfulfilling. Would you join me on this journey? Beloved, you will experience God as never before if you covenant to start a personal revival in your hearts, starting today. Shalom.