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It Takes a Heart

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What are you willing to give up for God?   IN order to walk in our full potential for the Lord, one must give Him all to receive all. This requires us to hold nothing back, trust Him and obey His will for our life. And what God wants most is that one thing we least want to give up. Everybody has something on their heart. Well God wants us to give Him our hearts; that very thing we don’t want to give up, the thing our heart is attached too. He wants us to be fully His, fully satisfied in Him. He asks us to give Him our heart because He wants to take us deeper into relationship with Him and share His heart with us. He wants to take us into to deeper trust, deeper spiritual living & being. He wants to bless us & do amazing things in our lives. It takes a heart. God is the one who really knows our hearts. There is nothing we can hide from Him. Sometimes we are blind to the truth in our heart but God desires truth in our innermost parts. "The heart is more dec...

Three elements of Prayer for a stronger prayer life

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Prayer is such a powerful tool. “The prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective...prayer offered in faith will restore...pray for one another so you may be healed” James 5:15-16. We are encouraged to “rejoice always, pray without ceasing and in everything give thanks” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. To ask, to knock and to seek. "To enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise” Psalm 100. Whatever is taking place, we can take it to prayer. We can take it to the one and only almighty God. The best thing is, that’s exactly what He wants us to do! The Psalms show us a great example of the heart of a man who feared and trusted in the Lord and loved Him above all. In them, we see the Psalmist give praise and glory to God over and over; we see him pour out his heart, his fears and anguishes as well as his joys, delights and gratitudes. David calls out to God in distress and when he is in joy. He gives blessings and curses. He relies on prayer to help him fi...