You do not have to get sinless to get saved, but God does require a fully committed heart. A dichotomous heart is a divided heart – not sold-out to Jesus. A “this-way-that-way-two-sided-heart” cannot be saved. What kind of commitment do…
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What is your heart like?
…Unbelievers reject God “…because of the hardness and insensitivity of their heart”. They are hard-hearted. What will it be for you? FOR MORE: Is this you? What sort of person are you? Opting Out The faith of anything…
Seeing change in your heart
Are you seeing change in your heart – since you “became a Christian”? We absolutely will see change towards godliness in our life… when the Holy Spirit enters into us. God can accept all your most heinous of sins. He’s…
Got a Cracked Heart?
PIC: Olive Tree Branch. Janine Joles – Unsplash I don’t know about you, or anyone else, actually – but I know my heart was given to Christ way long ago, and I’m still workin’ with Jesus to keep my heart…
Signs of an unrepentant heart
…the signs of an unrepentant heart? The unrepentant heart makes excuses for sin (vile things before God). What do I support – that is “not of God”? …in my personal practices, in my politics, in my relationships, in my mind…
Approach God with a true and sincere heart
…true and sincere heart God listens to us. He wants us to come to Him. Hebrews 10:22-25 Amplified Bible (AMP) 22 let us approach [God] with a true and sincere heart in unqualified assurance of faith, having had our hearts…
My wild and crazy stallion heart
…it’s not from me – when I am “kind and helpful… tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding], forgiving… [readily and freely].” (Ephesians 4: v32) I know myself. Some of these are still rearing their ugly heads inside the cavern of my heart: “bitterness…
Like gold dust streaming from my heart
…My [perfect] peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. [Let My perfect peace calm you in every circumstance and give…
Acting with your heart, soul, strength, and with your mind
…all other habitual sins. The habitual hate by a professing believer (or habitual sin of any kind), is evidence of a dichotomous heart. And the message of the Bible is: No dichotomous heart gets to heaven. Not a one. That…
Lord, Father, I bow my heart before you
…I ask that you will search my mind and my heart, my soul and my spirit — and see if there be any wicked way in me. Cleanse me from every stain, anything wrong, anything “not of You” that I…
Being faithful, little by little
…that you “love the Lord your God with all your heart“? Is your heart on the altar – 100%? Or is your heart cracked? Got a “Cracked Heart”? FOR MORE: Bein’ Bad or Good Sinners, versus…Living In Sin Got a…
What is necessary to be saved
…fake it with God. He knows your heart. Faking = Still lost You can talk like/smell like/pray like/look like/act like/dress like/preach like/give money like/claim church membership like/go to church like… but if your heart is not genuinely His, “with all…
Living a forever life – now
…missing “one thing“. And evangelists can’t see into your heart like Jesus can. So we must examine our own heart. There may be issues deep-seated in your rebellious heart, like with the rich, young ruler. Those truly bowing the knee…
The Redemption of God
PIC: The Pawn Shop is full of what’s beautiful. But they are lost forever until redeemed. Have you been spiritually redeemed by Jesus the Redeemer? Pawn Shop Redemption Any common Pawn Shop holds what you “lost” to them, until it…
Jesus will reject many “Christians”
…in Him. Salvation only happens if your heart is sincere and truthful and not holding-back. A cracked heart does not submit 100% to Jesus. Got an achy, achy cracked heart? In the book of Acts we are warned: Acts 20:30-31…
Psalm 51. Wash me. Cleanse me.
…bones which you have broken may rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. 11 Don’t throw me…
It is bare open
…all the way this past presidential election cycle. I knew where his heart was. The issues were very clear for that election cycle. We all voted our heart. His voting showed his heart, bare open. * Saul Alinsky (Wikipedia) wrote…
As if your mindset is protected by God
…in all things, both public and private. God’s Think You are what you’ve set your mind into. You are what you think. Your heart follows what you think. And God cares where your think is, where your heart is. What’s…
The one who is an idolater
…has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” – Ephesians 5:5 “loving anything more than God” It’s a matter of your heart …the lusts of their own hearts” –Romans 1:v24. Elsewhere God says that if a person persists…
Transgenderism as seen from the Bible
…understand what makes the trans* heart tick. Understanding is a good thing. Books are being written to help us try to understand Transgenderism, like this one by Preston: Embodied: Transgender Identities… The Church, & What The Bible Has To Say…
Fearing God with awe-filled reverence
For those of us who have a heart 100% given-over to Jesus – it is natural to “fear” God, in the sense of: we have a heart full of “awe-filled reverence”. We are full of respect for God, and thus…
What Jesus Taught
…to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ “This is the great and foremost commandment. “The second is like it, ‘You shall love your…
Take a Stance on Homosexuality – like Jesus did
…to them, “You are the ones who declare yourselves just and upright in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts [your thoughts, your desires, your secrets]; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the…
The Moment of IF
…salvation story? Could you perhaps have a Cracked Heart? Were you truly saved? Beyond the shadow of a doubt — THIS is the biggest question for all professing believers: Were you truly saved, actually redeemed by the blood of…
Loving the world
…Jesus sees into the intimate corners of that heart. If we love the world, He knows we do. The rich, young ruler who had a heart ruled by his riches, was told by Jesus, “One thing you lack….” The same…
I’ve got that joy
…in me a new heart. And with it, now I’m ready for my entrance into His Kingdom. Are you ready? Or is there something lacking? Now THAT is the scariest thought EVER – kneeling before God and finding you are…
All or Nothing
…reveals if that yielding was genuine. Our words do not save us. Our actions do not save us. God saves us according to the genuineness of our heart when we come in repentance to yield our sinful heart to Him….
Faking It
…your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ – Matthew 22:37 You can’t opt-out your heart, opt-out your soul, opt-out your mind or any part of you – and expect God to be fooled into believing…
Believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One
…save yourself by working at it. Salvation will happen to you when you give Jesus all your heart. You turn from your sin, “go the other way”, and give Jesus all that you are… acting with your heart, soul, strength,…
A tough life in Nazareth, by James Martin; LATimes.com
…a backwater of a backwater; he and his mother and father, the figures at the heart of the Christmas story, were most likely considered throwaway people. The Gospels tell us little about Mary other than to say that she was…