heart of the matter part 6

Lesson 6: April 22, 2015

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The Ten Week Challenge

Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be enlightened.

Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring what is coming out of our mouths.

Pray daily for God to search our hearts and transform them into the heart of Christ.

35 days in/35 days to go

The Ten Week Challenge

Identify the source of impurity in our lives.

Expose them to God.

Prayerfully develop a plan to eliminate these sources.

35 days in/ 35 days to go

The Ten Week Challenge

Monitor the attitude of our hearts.

How merciful are we?

35 days in/35 days to go

How much do we truly desire God’s righteousness?

Pray for God to search our hearts and show us wounds that need to be forgiven.

Do any of us have a heart that needs to forgive someone and be healed?

Remember…

We are in a war!

Eph. 6:11-12 – Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh

and blood, but against the

rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, against the spiritual

forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

It’s more important than giving…

Matt. 5:23-24…Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.

It requires honesty…

It requires action…

Mark 11:25…And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

It doesn’t require an apology

It’s more important than worship…

This is not an option.

Forgiveness is a step by step

process.

Ten Steps to Forgiveness…

Step 1:

Face it

and our

Step 2: Let God completely in.

What forgiveness is not:

It’s giving up control of

the hurt.

What forgiveness is:

It’s releasing the offense

to God.

It is not forgetting

It is not justifying what

happened.

Step 3: Be clear of

the goal.What are we doing?.

and our

Why are we doing it?.

It’s for us.

It’s for God.

to be like Him

to honor Him

to submit to Him

to be free…

to be forgiven…

(It’s not for the other person.)

to move on.

Step 3: Be clear of

the goal.