Today I am featuring a guest writer whom I have been friends with for several years. She recently started her own blog and I asked her to be a guest writer on mine. Please take time to visit her website and read some of her posts. She loves God and her writings will bless you! -Hannah
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A HEARTS ATTITUDE
Hi, My name is Misty McBride and I’m honored for the invitation to be a guest writer on my friend, Hannah’s blog. My hearts desire is for sharing what the Lord spoke to my own heart in hopes that it blesses others.
I’ve heard people say... and actually I’ve been guilty of saying it myself “they have a good heart”
The Bible tells us that the heart is deceitful and wicked. Do we even realize it? The Lord is the only One who knows the true intentions of each heart.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (KJV)
Sin entered our world by temptation and the devil still works the same today. We are born with a sinful nature and that's why we need a Savior.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (KJV)
When the heart is not right with God then it automatically turns to sin.
Its tempted to tell lies to keep itself out of trouble. Its tempted to steal because it covets material possessions. Its tempted to lust and make us appear like the grass is greener on the other side.
When we truly turn to Jesus and seek His ways and ask Him to take over our lives then all those sinful scales fall from our eyes and sin is exposed. When we trust Jesus to be not only our Savior but our Lord too then He promises to give us a new heart.
Ezekiel 36:26 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.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (KJV)
When we are a child of God then He gives us a new way to walk.
Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
He gives us the ability to discern and recognize when we are being led astray. (But we have to stay close to Him daily in order to not be deceived)
Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (KJV)
Staying on the straight and narrow with God is not easy...it takes constant self discipline. We must stay grounded in prayer and in Gods Word.
Lord, I thank You for your divine protection. You've heard and honored so many of my prayers. With faith I continue to pray and seek You to answer those prayers I pray so many times each day. I know Your ways and timing are perfect. I never doubt that, but I also know there comes a time when you will no longer send your spirit to those that you've called for so long. I firmly stand in that gap interceding with a pure heart for those that I love. Lord, you are the one that's chosen to reveal things to me. You are the one that chose to give me visions and dreams and reminding me to never give up. You are the one that told us in your word that the fields are white and ready for harvest. Now I ask that you would pour out a mighty portion of Your spirit and break those chains of bondage that's held loved ones bound. Remove the scales from their eyes so that they might see before it's too late. Our families and our nation are in trouble and we need you Lord. Raise up mighty prayer warriors and Lord if you see fit then I pray that You would start with me. Burn out the impurities within me and make me shine for you... that I can be that lighthouse that stands on a hill for others to see. Lord, that my light would be so bright that others will ask what it is about me that shines and I can boldly walk through that door of opportunity to share You with them. Let me not be caught in a trap of using my tongue when it does not glorify You and I ask sincere forgiveness for using it to tear someone else down as this dishonors You. Lord, I ask that you would bless each of my children and grandchildren and all other family members and loved ones. Go to each one today and move in a mighty way upon them. You are the one that knows the intentions of our heart and I fully trust You to work all things out well. Lord, be with our churches and shake us up in our faith so that we can have the power of God moving in every single service. Let us see the lost saved on a continuous basis. Let us not just build in number but let us build in souls that truly seek You. Let us have supernatural wisdom and discernment for each decision made.
Lord you tell us that YOU will increase our numbers and I pray we stand out of Your way so that you can move in mighty ways.
I thank you Lord for your mercy and grace and for saving my soul. I thank you for never giving up on me. I thank you for the storms I've walked through in my life as it's made me see just how much I absolutely need you. I thank you for choosing to perform mighty miracles in my life...for had we not walked through the nightmare of our oldest sons cancer then we would never have gotten to see You miraculously heal him and give us a testimony that we can share every single day and glorify You with it.
Lord, I thank you for dealing with my heart so many years ago and I thank you for giving me a new heart with such a strong love for You and I ask that you would keep it always tender towards You and not allowing it to ever be deceitful and I ask You to never allow it to be deceived. I need Your divine wisdom and favor as I take each step in life.
Be with me and each person reading this today. I ask that You would move in great ways in each life.
Let each person see You clearly in their own daily lives.
In Jesus name....amen
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