Prayer and The Heart

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Why would the old and new Testaments referred to the heart there describing what it is that motivates us more than anything else. If the center of our desires and what we really want in life. So it's really what you live for and that's where prayer comes in because few things reveal the condition of our hearts by prayer boy mentor very thing Jesus pointed out when he quoted Isaiah about the religious authorities in his day is they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me is not the challenge we all face sometimes when were talking to God. Yet it is probably when were talking to God. It is important you had to say that the well it were not communicated with him that also showed something about our hearts of think about the old hymn prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart to conceal it, seal it for thy courts above. In other words, Lord, I wander away from you so easily. Please make my heart yours such a great prayer to pray Lord help me with my heart is in this scriptural prayer right because if you think about it Scripture talks about God working with people's hearts quite a few places really like when it says he hardened Pharaoh's heart or when he says that he put a new spirit in his people and remove their hearts of stone and gave them a heart of flesh. That's exactly right.

God twice in Ezekiel and whenever you see God think something twice in his word. You can underline it highlighted draw circles around it because it doesn't for emphasis, and this is where praying about our heart can be such a powerful thing, because it's like saying, Lord, help me to want what you want and the beautiful thing is he's does that he works on a level that goes even deeper than our wills, and he does change our hearts over time so that we can look back and say the father, thank you, but not where I once was. I know I'm not where I need to be yet, but thank you for your help and for your spirit, I'm making progress down. That's a beautiful thing about God. He never gives up on us is for us even when we are against ourselves, and yet he is in our heart matter so much to him problems for $0.23 above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it so we know that this is a prayer that God loves to answer and just think about that. Think about the ways he can change our hearts for the better. And what a difference that can make me think about it you know if my hearts changed in in my relationship with him or in my relationship with my wife or my relationship with that person having trouble with it work you just just imagine if my hearts changed all of them in everything we do. What is different second coming is a good thing about praying like that is it's really saying, Lord, I want to be yours and we need to pray that way any time, but especially when we are really struggling with some I think that's that's on point because God's word so much to say about this about our hearts and he is in Jesus described his own heart is gentle and humble in Matthew 1129 and he wants to help us be like that and he wants us to know that he's that way so we can come to him and he says that if we follow him will find rest for our souls. So I mean that's that's all part of that verse of the result is peace and and just being close to him and we want that. Also think that what he says about where your treasure is, that's where your heart be also. After playing what praying like this writing helps us treasure him know that's what we wanton. Certainly that's where we want to be yeah yeah and you just being honest with him about our hearts are so good I heard someone say once the church doesn't say her lie she sings them now. Yeah, I think about some of the things that some to God.

And maybe I like the song, but I wasn't really thinking about what I was saying in the moment, and then it's like I just looked right. So now, sometimes only seeing the lyrics say something like everything I do is for you Jesus I try to be really honest and turn it into a prayer and thing in my heart Lord help me to be this way so that I have everything I do is for you, it may seem like such a change in winter singing, but it's really trying things, and sincerity is as a matter of the heart, and that's really what God is after yeah yeah I think of one of those quoted verses in the Bible when Bob spoke to his people and they were in captivity for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future that's Jeremiah 2911 right right well you hear that verse quoted, but there are two verses that come right after that we really don't want them or miss Jeremiah 2912 says then you will call on the income and prayed to me and I will listen to you and then verse 13, you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart, so first notice that this is about prayer.

You call on me you'll come and pray to me, and then got promises that when we go after him from the heart.

It's then that we meet in fresh ways, how I love, I mean you will seek me and find me you seek me with all your heart and understand Earth's prayer is a way to do that some practical. I guess you could say bringing a down to earth, makes heaven much closer hello Robbie, would you would you wrap things up with a prayer that will do this it will pray more and more from the heart. Thank you so much that you keep banging away at our heart of hearts, we can see this Lord I like the psalmist said in Psalm 119.

Lord we seek you with our whole hearts. But Lord, let us not wonder from what you've told us to do.

Lord help us to see that this opportunity is at every moment and see the opportunities that come your way, that somehow another touch our mind with your spirit and let him guide us back to you in prayer as we think about the light meeting with you in our heart and in your right hand are pleasures for evermore hear more from Pastor James by visiting the website James Banks.org or by visiting these church in Durham, North Carolina.

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