where can i get such a good and obedient heart? how can my dead heart of stone, that wants nothing to do with God, be replaced with a new and living heart?
does every good and perfect gift come from the Father, or what?
i need to know how i can be raised from death to newness of life, can you help me? if 'no one is righteous, no one understands, and no one seeks after God', what hope have i?
If you don’t have the heart that seeks God, earnestly pray for one, it worked for me. I said “God, like Paul, the good I want to do I don’t do, and the wrong I do not want to do- that is what I end up doing. But it’s worse than that. Sometimes I find that I don’t even want to do something that’s right to do, or even accept something in Your Word. Please, oh please change this in me! ...
Father, I am utilizing my freewill to request that You take it over if needs be. Put that want in me completely, take over and change my heart to be as it should be. I would rather You take me over and control me like a robot than to allow me to ever sin against you. I know You won’t do that, because of freewill. You want my heart to choose to obey You, so if my heart is not right, please give me a new one. I want to want what You want.”
David also prayed to God for a new heart. And God gave him a heart like His. David being a man
after God’s own heart does not just apply to David- all God’s children need to have a heart like God’s in order to be His children. Unlike adopted children in this world, a ‘child’ adopted by God can look like their Father, just as a natural born child does. Prayer is powerful in deed- to change my heart or the heart of a murderer (David murdered Uriah, Paul once killed Christians- the chief of sinners). If they have hope, we all do- we just need to pray and “work out our salvation with fear and trembling.”
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This is how to be
raised from death to life; Jesus says “I tell you the truth, unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man (spiritually) and drink His blood (spiritually) you have no life in you.” (spiritually). So first we have to get
into Christ (spiritually) in order to have access to His blood. Then, just as a heart continually circulates blood through the body to
keep it alive, you must partake of the Lords Supper (bread without yeast- cracker, and the fruit of the vine- grape juice- which represent Christ’s pure body and blood without sin) upon the first day of the week in the assembly of the Saints (Christians).
If someone who is not
in Christ partakes of the Lords Supper, all they are doing is eating and drinking- nothing happens for them spiritually. So how do you get into Christ so that you can have life in you (spiritually)? No matter how many ways people say, the Bible says
only one way- we are baptized
into Christ (Romans 6:3). The Bible says Christ’s church is His body (within a living body is where that person’s blood is) of which He is the only head (authority).
But once you are in Christ, you must stay in Christ- you can fall from grace. For example, if you cut off blood circulation to your finger with extra tight rubber bands, eventually the tissues will die, turn gangrene, and fall away from the body- never to be restored again. But if you do go away from the church, and come back before it’s too late (prodigal son), the Blood will rush back to the area- like when your foot ‘falls asleep’ because you temporarily cut off circulation.
The Bible says the life is in the blood (both physically and spiritually true), and Christ’s blood is in
His church (body of believers).
