Jesus said, “You have been given a teachable heart to perceive the secret, hidden mysteries of God’s kingdom realm. But to those who don’t have a listening heart, my words are merely stories. Even though they have eyes, they are blind to the true meaning of what I say, and even though they listen, they won’t receive full revelation. (Luke 8:10 TPT)
It is so easy to be drowned in the havok and waves of life. Sometimes we don’t even know how and when we will come out. However, the secret lays and is embedded in our hearts. Pharaoh couldn’t release the Isrealites due to his heart. The Bible said it had been hardened. Although, he could hear the declarations and the promises Moses was making. He couldn’t perceive the whole truth because his heart was grounded in the wrong place.
There are people reading this who God has been trying to be free however like Pharaoh your hearts are hardened. Yes you have seen the miracles, heard the testimonies and witnessed the good news. However, things still don’t work the way you believe or want them to go. Perhaps you have grounded your heart in your desires to the extend the word of God has now gone invisible in your life. Others have entered in God Given opportunities yet not seeing the expected results.
Likewise, we hear David saying create in me a clean heart, why? He understood the only way to perceive the secrets and mysteries of God was through his heart. The posture of your heart really matters. Hebrews 11:1 say “Now faith is…” The expected result of your faith travels through the channel of your heart. In Psalms we hear David say, “some trust in horse, some in chariots.” As you walk in this journey who is your heart trusting in?
The scripture at the beginning expresses the importance of the heart. Jesus here describes the kind of heart he was relating to in the parable in regards to the seeds and the ground. He doesn’t just call it a heart or red heart. No. Rather, he speaks of a “teachable heart.” Paul says count it all joy when persecuted. I believe this is a lesson he had learnt only through his heart yearning to know the answer to the concerns in his life. Yes, trial and tribulation were there however his heart reminded him of the love of Jesus. How Jesus had provided for him over and over again. Hence in Hebrews 12:2 he begs the church to fix their eyes on Jesus.
He was teaching them that when your heart is on Jesus be expectant of his great and marvellous wonders. Be expectant of a God who is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above. However the secret layed in the heart. Its like David, in times of sorrow and distress we hear him say, the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. His expectations was on the Lord. He knew its the Lord who changed the season. Not his wisdom, wealth or warriorhood, just God. His expectancy was in God’s plan.
Let it be your prayer today that God prepare my heart. Prepare my heart for the people I will meet today. Prepare my heart for the work i will embark on today. Prepare my heart for the schemes of the evil one. The answers you search for are in the heart. Acknowledge that “the human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord , search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10 NLT)
Feel free to drop your thoughts in the comment box. God bless and continue to persue the Kingdom of God. Be expectant of a move of God wherever you are.
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