3 Things to Achieve God’s Vision for Your Life - Part 2

The posture of your heart.

THERE’S a common saying—Follow your heart, but the only heart you can follow is the one God informs.

God informed Abraham to leave his father’s house and kindred for a land God would show him. (Genesis 12:1)

He told David to pursue the Amalekites, and he would surely overtake them and recover everything. (1 Samuel 30:8)

He told Jeremiah he knew him and appointed him a prophet to the nations before he formed him in the womb. (Jeremiah 1:5)

GOD will expound his word to you when the posture of your heart pleases Him.

He saw the Ethiopian eunuch struggling to understand the scriptures, so he sent Philip to teach him (Acts 8:26-40)

God expounded his word to Peter in a vision, in which he saw all kinds of animals.

When he was told to kill the animals and eat, Peter said he had never eaten any unclean thing.

So, God told him not to call unclean what he had made clean.

When Peter followed the three people who came to see him, he acted on what the Holy Spirit told him. (Acts 10)

If you're going to walk with God, you must act on his word.

ACTING on God’s Word will change your heart and move you from where you are to where you should be.

The Widow of Zarephath moved from the season of lack to the season of more than enough when she fed Elijah. (1 Kings 17:7-16).

Peter moved from prison to freedom when the apostles interceded for him. (Acts 12:5)

Anytime you act on GOD’s WORD, you prove him right; when you do His will, you give him something to work with.

Anytime you act on God’s word, you prove him right.

So when you receive Christ, God gives you the right [the authority, the privilege] to become a child of God because you believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name. (John 1:12)

Any interaction with God, whether in prayers, worship, or reading of the scriptures, is to help you align with His Will. Everything you do is a matter of the heart.

AS WATER reflects the face, your life reflects your heart (Proverbs 27:19).

When Mary anointed Jesus with an expensive perfume, Judas queried why it wasn't sold and the proceeds given to the poor.

He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor. He said it because he was a thief. Judas was in charge of the money bag. He used to help himself to what was in it. (John 12:5-6)

The most brazen lie people tell themselves is when they say they love God, but their lives contradict this.

So, your LIFE expressions are postures of your heart.

Jesus buttressed this when he said, “These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And in vain they worship me and teach as doctrines the precepts of men.” (Matthew 15:8-9)

THE APOSTLES knew God looked at the heart [thoughts, motives, desires].

So when they wanted someone to replace Judas, they prayed that God would show them which one he had chosen to occupy the ministry and apostleship Judas left. (Acts 1:24-25)

The apostles sought God’s mind. In your dealings, whose mind do you seek?

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he saw an Israelite indeed [a true descendant of Jacob], in whom there is no guile, deceit, or duplicity!” (John 1:47)

When God looks at you, what does he see? Does he see a heart of stone or one of flesh?

A heart of stone is an unrepentant heart. A heart of flesh is one with love for God.

God wants to give you a new spirit and provide you with a heart of flesh for your heart of stone.

TO GET a heart of flesh, you need to ask him to forgive your sins and invite him into your heart.

Thank him for doing so.

Prayer for the week: Lord, help me seek your mind in all I do. Take away my heart of stone and give me one of flesh.