Negative Heart Transplant- Open Heavens devotional by Pastor E. A Adeboye

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exo. 38-40

NEGATIVE HEART TRANSPLANT
Saturday, February 13, 2010

MEMORIZE: “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Prov. 4:23)

READ: Romans 1:21-28

God can reduce a tree to a stump. And He can do it in a moment of time like it happened to Sennacherib after he blasphemed the living God. Whenever God leaves someone, the fellow enters into bondage. For instance, after the Spirit of God departed from king Saul, an unclean spirit took over him and tormented him (1 Sam. 14). One way to steer clear of bondage is to ensure that God is always with you. Similarly, when Samson lost his hair, he was put in chains. If you do not want to be in satanic chains, ensure the Holy Spirit never leaves you. Do not yield to any advise to indulge in whatever can grieve Him. If you grieve Him, He will take His leave (Eph 4:30).

“Let his heart be changed from man’s and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him” (Dan. 4:16). One frightening reality that we can see in Nebuchadnezzar’s humiliating experience is that if you fail to use your heart for what it was created for, you could lose it to something far less human. Nebuchadnezzar had a heart transplant. A spiritual surgical operation was performed and his human heart was taken away and replaced with that of a beast. This was a negative heart transplant! This tells us that the heart can easily change its nature or form depending on what it is exposed to. This is why you must guard your heart with all diligence (Prov. 4:23).

Ezekiel 11:19 talks of some people who had another negative heart transplant. On this occasion, they had their hearts exchanged for a stone. Have you seen people who hardly feel for their fellow men? They are victims of a negative heart transplant. Witches and wizards and people of the occult undergo such heart transplant. When their hearts have been replaced with stones, their loved ones become like strangers to them, hence they can easily donate them as sacrifices.

In today’s reading, some people had their hearts darkened because they failed to glorify and thank God but freely engaged in evil imaginations. If you take whatever God does for you for guarantee, you will be walking your away into a negative heart transplant. Being thankless and unappreciative have negative impact on the human heart. What is the state of your heart today? Have you become irresponsive to the Word? Do you sin and do not feel condemned? You are a victim of negative heart transplant. Ask God to deliver you today.

ACTION POINT:
Spend all your free moment today in thanking God for what He has done for you.