Lord, today, make my heart like your heart and my thoughts like your thoughts! Hands down with knees bent, this a powerful declaration to make at the start of each day!
It’s not a coincidence that God’s blessings manifest in our lives when we seek to know His heart and thoughts (aka His will, plan and purpose). The more a person learns and knows about the Lord, the more he or she will long for Him and declare with the psalmist, “As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God” (Psalm 42:1, NLT).
The ‘spiritual’ heart is the nature of a person, and to know the ‘spiritual’ heart of someone is to know that person’s innermost character, feelings, or inclinations (see Proverbs 4:23 and 16:1). As mentioned above, the heart of God is the essence of who He is, what He desires, His will, and His purposes. If we truly want to bring this declaration into daily frution we must begin by opening up the Bible and also spend time in prayer. These are the only two vehicles that will help us understand and know the heart and thoughts of God.
Let’s not forget that we have to climb higher in order to begin to understand God’s ways (heart and thoughts). Isaiah 55:8-9 very candidly reminds us that, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
So, if we want to truly know God’s heart and thoughts we must seek to understand them through prayer and reading the Bible. Look at it this way, the Bible reveals God’s heart and prayer reveals His thoughts.
Spending time with the Lord in prayer assists in knowing His heart and thoughts. Just as a child must spend time with his father to know him personally, so we also must spend time with God in prayer to know Him more deeply. The first part of James 4:8 says, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”
My brothers and sisters, spending time alone with God in word and in prayer will encourage a deeper relationship and create a greater intimacy between us and God, in which our hearts and thoughts will become more focused and aligned with His!
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