MEMORIZE: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh” (Eze. 36:26)
READ: Ezekiel 36:24-28
Just as a negative heart transplant is possible, so also is a positive heart transplant. When Saul was being anointed king of Israel, God had to give him another heart to enable him perform his divine assignment. People saw him prophesying as a totally different person and were startled (1 Sam. 10). That was a positive heart transplant! Ezekiel 36:26 says, “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh”. No matter how stony your heart is, God can operate on that heart and replace it with another.
A stony heart is a dead, insensitive and spiritually incapacitated heart. God can exchange this with a heart of flesh - a soft, sensitive and living heart which can respond to the Spirit of God. This tells us that when you are born again, it is more than mere words: it involves a spiritual positive heart transplant. Without this new heart, the Spirit of God cannot dwell in you and that individual will not be able to receive spiritual transmission from the Heavenly radio station.
Another lesson here is that the type of heart you have is a reflection of the spirit that dwells in you. You cannot have a negative heart and expect the Spirit of God to be residing there. For God to come into your sinful heart, you have to realize that you are a sinner, confess and forsake your sins and invite Jesus Christ into your heart. At that moment, God will cleanse you from your filthiness and replace your evil heart with a heart of flesh and give you His Spirit. In addition, as we can learn from king Saul, there is an appropriate heart you must have in order to serve God in any Heavenly task.
Without this heart, service will be such a struggle and will be incapable of eliciting Heaven’s expectations and goals. This is why you should never lobby for positions - especially spiritual positions. If you can bribe or maneuver your way into that spiritual office or position, can you give yourself the required heart? This is how such self-seeking men and women undo themselves. But if God elevates you Himself, He would have given you the right heart for the assignment. Ask God for a positive heart transplant today!
ACTION POINT:
Do you have the appropriate heart to back up God’s calling upon your life? Ask God for it today.
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