Pastor Jan D vanderMerwe

from covenantnet.com

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Do you want things to change in your life?
Are you wanting God to soften your heart?
Are you wanting God to put a fire in your heart?
Have you prayed and asked God to do just that?
STOP...!
God has already done it all for you ...

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
--- Deut. 30:19

God has already prepared the fullness of life and blessings for us!
... and He cannot soften your heart and make you receive it ...
But in fact says to us ...

Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
--- Hebrews 3:15

God has already put a fire in your heart ... Himself!
... and He cannot put more fire in your heart ...

For our God is a consuming fire.
--- Hebrews 12:29

And He says to us, "You act on what I have already done!"...

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
--- James 2:20

God has already done and prepared everything for us!
It is up to us to soften our hearts ...
... and to respond to the fire that is in our hearts ...!
How?
You soften your heart towards God ...
... by opening yourself to His will and His ways!
... by relying on Him and starting to do things His way!
That is making Him Lord ... that is softening your heart!
And ...
You get that fire burning in your heart ...
... by starting to reach out in love to those around you ...
... by seeing whose life you can affect for ever ... for God!
... by living Mark 16:15-20 ...

... In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
... And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them,
and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

As you touch the lives of people, right there where you are ...
As you reach out to them in love ...
The fire in your heart will burn so strong ...
... and your light will be seen wherever you go!