Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Monday 11.30am-2.30pm (UK time)
Nehemiah 1:3-4 And they
said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and
reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is
also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.” 4 So
it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and
praying before the God of heaven.
Out
of our heart flow the issues of life. How does our heart respond to information
about persecutions; desperate situations; backsliding hearts; attacks within
and without; widespread proclamation of errors; great misrepresentation of
Christ and the faith and calamities?
- How many times did the news just slip by as INFORMATION instead of a BURDEN?
- Do you recall a time when your mouth simply exclaimed with pity and that was the end of the matter?
- What about instances when that news came to your attention but your heart did not skip a beat; didn’t shed any tear or even connect with the victims?
- How often did the news sprout a concern that grew into a burden but it soon died out because it had no real roots on the soil of your heart?
- When was the last time news from afar (with no direct ties to family or friends) struck the core of your heart; halted your business as usual; made you weep; and progressed to spontaneous fasting and prayer?
- How often do we stand aloof assuming others will pick up the burden of giving Jesus no rest?
- Is the ground of your heart full of junk, that even Jesus is unable to find space to place a burden there?
- When will you become available like Nehemiah to stand up and become solutions to matters that make the MASTER sad?
- Regenerated & Redeemed Heart
An
un-regenerated heart is incapable of carrying a burden. Its allegiance is to
its fathers business (the devil). Even if a person desires to do a selfless
work-he is born of the flesh and cannot please God.
- I don’t want to receive a doctrine, I desire a personal revelation of what transpired at Calvary. Gal 2:20
- I do not want a theoretical or historical Christ. I need the tangible JESUS that is able to take me to the other side (LIGHT). Phil 3:10
- Help me know that any man born of the flesh can only render services in the flesh, which CANNOT please God. Romans 8
- Holy Spirit, my Guide and Counsellor- help me now with the new creation life step into all the good works pre-ordained for me. Eph. 2:10
- I cannot conceive, birth or nurse a burden in my Adamic state, please Lord deliver me so that I can be the solution to the groans and cries in my generation.
- Repentant & De-cluttered Heart
·
Resurrected Jesus,
please flush out of me all the relics of the old nature.
·
Help my heart to thirst
and hunger for the Word of Life (JESUS) Matthew 5:6.
·
De-clutter all my
vessels, veins, capillaries so that Jesus’ passion, mission, good works can
permeate out of it.
- Largeness of Heart
And God gave Solomon wisdom and
exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the
seashore. 1 Kings 4:29
· Lord Let the virtues of
Christ (largeness of heart, wisdom and great understanding, compassion,
selflessness) begin to pump out of my heart.
