As I laid in bed one night pondering on
many things, “Worship” dropped in my spirit. Worship is not only the singing
that we do but it is our service to God. Whatever you do in Gods house and for
God is seen as an act of worship. And as I kept on being still the Holy Spirit
started to minister to me about the Heart! God places so much importance on the
heart. The word heart is used over 720 times in the Old Testament and about 164
times in the New Testament. We normally attribute it to the physical organ or
an emotional feeling. Scripture describes it as the whole or centre of man’s
inner life or nature. We can think and imagine with our hearts (Genesis 6:5),
we can love God with our hearts (Mark 12:30) , We can make choices, decide
things in our hearts (Daniel 1:8) ,we can hate with
hearts (2 Samuel 6:16) and we can believe with our hearts (Acts
8:37). The physiological purpose of the heart is
to pump the blood that bathes every organ of the body. The blood carries oxygen
and nutrients to the tissues, and removes waste products from the tissues. If
the pumping action of the heart is disrupted, the body’s organs begin to fail
very quickly. Therefore, life itself is dependent on the efficient operation of
the heart. The same way the heart pumps blood to every organ of the body and
that blood carries oxygen and nutrient to the tissues and removes waste
products is the same way the state of our hearts works in our Christian walk
and in our service to God.
Matt 5:8:
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” If your heart is
not pure, you can’t see God so how are you going to lead people to Him if you
can’t see him yourself?? What is a pure heart? A pure heart is not necessarily
a perfect one but it is a heart that admits when they are wrong, always willing
to do the right thing and follow what is right!
You see many at times we go to church
and come home, we serve in different ministries pursuing our different callings
and destinies do we really take time out to stop and look at the heart we serve
with? It doesn’t matter whether you sing in the choir or usher or even clean
the toilet in your respective church as your services and act of worship to God
but what matters is the heart you do it with.As it is all a matter of the Heart
what is YOUR heart saying?
A man that we can definitely learn from
is The Psalmist David who was called a man after Gods own heart as Acts
13:22(KJV) “And when he had removed
him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their
testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own
heart, which shall fulfil all my will.”
Acts 13:22 (AMP) “22 And
when He had deposed him, He raised up David to be their king; of him He bore
witness and said, I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart, who
will do all My will and carry out My program fully.”David was a man that
loved God more than anything! David was an undignified worshipper and servant!
He wasn’t scared to look ridiculous for God! A man that seeked to do Gods will
and above all he was a man who knew how to touch God’s heart.But let’s start
from the beginning! Let me give you an insight of the beginning of David’s
story As God has rejected Saul due to his pride and disobedience, God now sent
the prophet Samuel to ordain another King. That King would come out of the
house of Jesse. As Samuel went to Jesse’s house he explained everything and
told him to bring all his sons out because out of them a King would be chosen.
And Jesse called all his sons except David. As Samuel looked at David’s
brothers he thought surely out of these ones must be God’s chosen one then God
stopped him and said look not on the outer appearances, on their statures or
their muscles but for I The LORD does not look on the outer appearance of man
but I look at the heart(The
bible says in 1 Samuel 16:7(KJV) says “But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on
his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him:
for the Lord seeth not
as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”) And
therefore God chose David and David was the one that ruled over Israel and
Judah for many years and till this day he’s known as the greatest Psalmist of
all times that knew how to touch God’s heart!A
pure heart is not perfect heart! A pure heart is a heart that acknowledges when
they’re wrong and cries out for mercy! A heart that completely depends on God,
a heart that knows that without God they are nothing! And David had that heart.
Every time he sinned he went before God and repented Psalm 51 was written out
of a repented heart (For the director of music. A psalm of David. When
the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with
Bathsheba) Psalm 51:17(KJV) “The sacrifices of
God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou
wilt not despise”.Psalm 51:17 (New
Living Translation) “The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit.
You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.” .The Bible
clearly says in James 4:6 that “God opposes the proud, but shows
favour to the humble”. We were created to
worship God. Worship is from your heart. You can sing but not worship! Worship
is not only singing it is your service to God. Doing what you were called to do
with a pure heart. So what is your heart saying? Are you just serving God for
the fringe benefits of serving Him or are you worshipping/serving Him for who
He is? Are you just doing lip service or heart service? Matthew 15:8 “These
people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.”The
State of your heart differentiates between A Relationship with God and Religion Where is your
heart at? Do you serve God to please him, to know him better or just
for the anointing so that when people see you they can hype you? Prov
18:16 “A man's gift maketh room
for him, and bringeth him before great men” But a PURE HEART
will make room for you and KEEP you before great men. As that heart will never
think that you’ve arrived but will constantly seek to know God more not just to
God to the next level in ministry but to know God more for yourself and that is
what God is after.
As a singer you can riff and run up to the roof! But if your
heart is not pure nor in the right place with the wrong motives all that you do
is in vain!A
pure heart and a humble heart attracts God and causes you to become a man/
woman after his heart to be favoured by him and for you to connect with Him to
know what he wants you to do. A pure heart is a heart open to correction, a
heart willing to learn, a heart saying Lord I don’t have it together and I
never will have it together unless you hold me together. A heart that
understands that we can’t do anything without God! A heart always opens to
hearchecks! We need to check our hearts! These are all matters of the heart.
So
Where is your heart at? What is your heart saying?
Dearly beloved I pray that this Blog
will be a blessing to you! In this season I encourage you to seek to
serve God with a pure heart! Seek to know who He is and know His heart! He is
an amazing God not hard to understand if you would only seek Him you’ll find Him!
And
remember! I love y’all but God loves you more!
Bless
up!
Valencia
