Undivided
Heart – Wholly devoted.
What is a
divided heart? What is full devotion to the LAMB?
For discerning believers the loss of passion, revelation and deep waters in worship should signal heart trouble.
Deep fountains abide in the heart. The heart is deep waters. Rich wells of understanding and revelation abide as inheritance in the heart (Ephesians 3:14-21).
Love for God is a never ending open country.
The heart has no limitations in exploring the deep waters of the Love of God. The Father's heart is an expanse of welcoming grace; through the blood of Christ and his perfect sacrifice.
Make music in your hearts. Explore. Run Free. Go for deep desires. Focus. Pursue. Relentless. Never settle.
If we run with an undivided heart we find the open country.
Somehow, we seem to have lost real vision for the Kingdom of God's endless country. Those we admire have known the country.
Are we more like the Pharisees? Doing site tours of the prophets tombs and honoring the idea of a move of God? Who is ready to let go. Are you ready to let go all the protections of the heart and surrender undivided to the Father's heart?
Why do we settle for a walk that lacks connection in passion and deep abiding love with Jesus?
Do we think it is not possible? Have we been led into teaching that is not in "Spirit and Truth"? Teaching that does not drive us in passion and love to the Lord Jesus? Teaching that satisfies us without Christ? Without more and more and more thirsting for him and his presence. Without real and ongoing encounter with the depths of his love?
We are human. We are subject to the same stumbling as those that have gone before us. But we are also subject to the open country that some have found.
The pathways to the undivided heart is bathed in the realities of Jesus' work.
Blood, grace, mercy, truth and purity all meet us on the way to the open country. It takes courage and total dependance in the person named Jesus to walk in the new country. To run in the open country with the Spirit requires a childlike trust. Open freedom rooted and established in ABBA knowledge of the Father God. That freedom is rooted in the love of Jesus.
As soon as we accept the proposition that the Kingdom of God is not a endless abiding in the grace, love and power of the victory of Jesus, we settle into hearts seeds for a divided heart.
Easy to fill, this void cannot go empty. The fountains of the deep and the places of the heart that long for HIM will not be satisfied with any other thing or person.
Stumblers:
1) TASTE - God uses the weak things of the world to confound the wise -Taste and see that the Lord is good! Not that we are. Good at packaging the expected, easy and naturally tasty with no sight of God or water for thirsty hearts after the Father.
2) TRUTH - The Spirit is true. He knows the condition of the deep places of the heart. There is no hiding from the righteousness and glory He brings us to understand. It is a good thing to see the condition of our passion, hearts, love and grace. We have a Savior! We can turn from those dark places and pour out our love and hope for the deep places to arise again and begin walking in the open country.
3) TRUST - We trust you God. In the face of all can you trust that the Father will "bring all things together for good"(Romans 8:28-29)? Do you know and have revelation of the goodness of God? Trust is essential to walk in the open country. Trust is the energy for the footsteps of faith and the motion of hope. It is a place of following not leading or hiding.
There is really no pause button on spiritual pursuit. Lukewarm appears safe, but is actually a place with no friends.
Other streams start trickling into the divided heart. The stream of offense and anger, the stream of bitterness and condemnation. The world will send it's streams to the divided heart with no effort on your part. It will come to you like packages on your doorstep.
The natural wants to flood the eyes of the heart with the smoke of vain conceit and the embrace of the spirit of the world.
Weeds grow up in the fresh water of spring. They sprout quick and invade the glory of pure spiritual encounter with Jesus. The cares and distractions of the world divert us. Our identity and our source for security love and surrender must be fueled with the fresh streams of the deep waters. The divided the heart is muddy waters of love and surrender.
If Christ Jesus is anything less than our identity and passion, we find there are millions of meaningless and two dimensional streams ready to flow into and pollute the deep places.
The Pathway looks something like this
Wholly devoted – fragrant offering – fires of sacrifice – sufferings of Jesus -
Patient
Endurance
The pathway looks something like this.
The last day of the Gladiator Games. Martyr in the city. On vacation after years of serving the Lord, this Saint could not stomach the wanton murder and bloodshed of the gladiator games. He went down into the amphitheater and tried to meekly appeal to those who sought life while inflicting death.
Saint Telemachus (also Almachus[1] or Tilemahos[citation needed]) was a monk who, according to the Church historian Theodoret,[2] tried to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and was stoned to death by the crowd. The Christian Emperor Honorius,
however, was impressed by the monk's martyrdom and it spurred him to
issue a historic ban on gladiatorial fights. The last known gladiatorial
fight in Rome was on 1 January 404 AD, so this is usually given as the date of Telemachus' martyrdom.
Wikipedia
Deep fragrance – is that which arises from sacrifice that touches heaven as spirit and truth worship. It is a worship that connects with the culture and essence of the way of Jesus. An offering that speaks of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
There is no worship without sacrifice. Deep love is laying down our lives. Deep worship is laid down lovers in Him, through Him, for Him, by Him.
Love and Mercy -
resting in the power of Jesus’ finished work and serving in the power of
the indwelling Spirit, love and mercy gain a voice in the heart. The eyes of the heart start seeing.
A temple is laid out.
The plans are set. The building
is receiving the large cut stones smoothed by the sufferings of Christ and the
patient endurance of undivided hearts free in worship and intercession of the open country.
Worship “describing what we hope to be” vrs worship emanating from those who we are citizens of the Kingdom, speaks a word of truth and power into the atmosphere. It calls heaven on earth. The reality of what the eyes of the heart are seeing.
Lips speaking the truth from true hearts of undivided love pour fresh streams of grace and power on mustard seeds of the Kingdom. The seeds are looking for water and good soil.
Surrender. We don't carry ourselves. Jesus does.
Teach me your way, LORD, that I
may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear
your name.
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Fall into the promise that comes direct from the Father's Heart.
I will give them an undivided heart
and put a new spirit in them;
I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Ez 11:19
Receive. Do nothing and receive. Believe. HOPE. Lay there with the flow of worship bathing your heart in healing. Let Jesus come and be the doctor of the heart. Let Him direct the conversation. The Father gave all things up to be connected with you. It is easy.
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