June 9, 2025 … A New Heart …

June 9, 2025 … A New Heart   …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with the group Village Worship singing… A New Heart, describing the new heart we Christians experience when we surrender our hearts to follow Christ.

A New Heart from God's Spirit ... 

 

Highlight Passage: … Ezekiel 36:26 … [NLT] … 

26 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.            

…  God’s covenant promise to give His people a new heart.       

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Ezekiel 36:22-28 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b> 

… God, thru the Prophet Ezekiel, extends His promise to change the hearts of His people to reflect the heart of God’s Spirit.  

===========                

Reference Passage: … Psalms 51:10-13 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings his prayer for God to give him a new heat which desires to follow God’s ways.

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

…God, thru the Prophet Jeremiah, declares The Lord’s promise that He will bring goodness and hope into the hearts of His people.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:28-29 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians that all things in the hearts of born-again Christians will work for their (our) good and God’s glory.

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 5:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians that surrendering their (our) hearts to Christ will make them (us) a new person with a new heart.  

Reference Passage: …Galatians 2:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul testifies to what God did in his life when he (Paul) was willing to die to himself and let his faith in Christ transform his heart to live for The Lord.  

Reference Passage: … 1John 1:9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle John also shows fellow Christians that God  will cleanse the hearts of those who confess and repent of their (our) sins.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Amy Boucher Pie … AT THIS LINK     … relates how she and a friend, who had gone thru a time of conflict, were willing to confess to each other of their wrongs and pray …  TOGETHER … for God’s forgiveness and a renewed love for one another.     

And if my readers have taken the time to hear the linked song and meditate on the Scriptures shared above, perhaps, … like me today, … God has shown you how to receive God’s restoring grace to do what is shown in the linked photo, … and that is to let God’s word do Spirit-directed “heart surgery,” giving us a surrendered new, Christlike, heart as we live for HIS GLORY.   Will you join me to give our hearts to the Lord and let Him do His heart surgery today? 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for giving me a new heart to serve You, Lord.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … that we give our hearts over to Your reshaping hands, Lord.    … Amen

=============

Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries.  If you GO TO THIS LINK  on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.