Made For Whole Hearts
(4 minutes)
"Most people have heard the good news until they're blue in the face. They've just been listening to it with broken hearts." (Pastor Tim)
Keep your heart with heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. (Proverbs 4:23 NKJV)
So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life. (Proverbs 4:23 TPT)
"Every decision we make is either from a healed heart, or a broken heart." (Pastor Tim)
We have to understand that our heart is in the driver's seat and it's affecting all that we do. As we find ourselves in situations that cause us to question ourselves, we must go to the heart to find the answers because everything we do, everything we like, everything we're attracted to and everything that's attracted to us is flowing from our innermost being, the heart.
This is why it's so important for us to open our hearts up to Abba and allow Him to heal every heart-shot that we've suffered from the past. We've been making decisions, big and small, from a broken heart. We've been picking spouses, choosing careers, and attending churches from a broken heart. Scripture tells us that deep cries out to deep, and if that's true then shallow must cry out to shallow. Our brokenness has been calling out to the brokenness in others. The things that we drift towards and the habitual situations that we find ourselves in all come back to our unhealed hearts.
The truth of the Kingdom is this: everything in your life has been flowing from your heart. You can trace every issue back to your heart, be it broken or healed.
This week we're going to learn an important Kingdom truth about hearing Abba's voice. Hearing His voice for ourselves will be the thing that heals the brokenness in our hearts. But we must open up our hearts and be willing to be fathered by Him. Are we willing to let Abba come and speak to us about every area? Even the parts that have been off-limits for so long? Even the parts that we deem the most unlovable? This is what it means to be fathered - giving Abba access to speak into every single area - staying honest and vulnerable with Him as the healing goes deep. It takes a restful trust in His goodness to allow this healing to take place. If you don't trust Him to be pure light, with no trace of darkness at all, then you'll recoil every time He comes near and you'll cower every time He speaks.
Beloved One, you were uniquely made to be fathered by Abba. His presence and voice in your life will bring restoration to every area of your heart. You were made to hear His voice for yourself. This is why He's lured you into the wilderness, so He can speak tenderly to your heart and make it whole.
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Worship: "You And You Alone" by UPPERROOM
Honor: Give Online to The Wilderness Place
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