Mar 13, 2025 … A New Heart

Mar 13, 2025 … A New Heart  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Keith Green singing … Create In Me A Clean Heart,  covering the call of King David in Psalm 51 for a new and clean heart, confessing his sins with Bathsheba and Uriah. 

Highlight Passage </u>: … Ezekiel 11:19  …[NLT] … </b>

19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart, …              

… God’s promises His exiled and sinful people a new heart to live for and follow the Lord ALWAYS.            

Highlight Passage (in context): … Ezekiel 11:14-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Ezekiel receives a message of hope for God’s people exiled in foreign lands.                           

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 51:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  King David, confessing his sins with Bathsheba and Uriah, prays in song for a new heart to pursue a right relationship with God </b>(see photo)</b>.

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 4:23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…Solomon calls on believers to protect their (our) hearts against evil influences.   

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 24:7 … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru Jeremiah, promises to give His people hearts that will return to and worship Him..

Reference Passage:… Ezekiel 36:25-27  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru Ezekiel, promises to renew the hearts of His chosen people to be responsive to and follow God’s ways. 

Reference Passage: …  Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…The Apostle Paul pleads with fellow Christians to become living sacrifices for the Lord, avoiding the ways of the world and following God’s will and His ways.

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

…The Apostle Paul also shows that when we truly seek to follow the Lord, we become new in Christ, … totally living for His glory.

                            

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Amy Boucher Pie  … AT THIS LINK  … The ODB author relates a story of two youthful friends, Brock and Dennis, who separated from their friendship because one of them, … Dennis, … who pursued Jesus and Brock could not.  But after a decade or so, Brock came to pursue a relationship with Christ, reuniting the two friends in their newly joined faith in Jesus.  

And that’s what Jesus does, … doesn’t He?   Like in many of the scriptures <b>(see those shared today),</b> God’s Spirit relentlessly pursues the hearts of those who reject Godliness.   And as God was with King David (see Psalms 50:10) and with Ezekiel (see Ezekiel 11) and the Apostle Paul (see 2Cor 5:17). God promises, pursues, and provides a new heart which becomes receptive to seek out God’s ways, … rejecting the ways of selfishness or the world.  My heart is too slowly tuning in to follow God’s truth and His ways; … how about you?                       

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for Your Spirit, living in me today and tuning me into Your will, Lord, thru Your Spirit and Your word.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  as we tune our hearts to Your will and Your way, Lord, thru Your word.

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