A Valentine’s Day Prayer to Domesticate a Tender Coronary heart towards God
By Lynette Kittle
Bible Studying: “Rend your coronary heart and never your clothes. Return to the Lord your God, for He’s gracious and compassionate, sluggish to anger and abounding in love, and He relents from sending calamity”–Joel 2:13
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In in the present day’s tradition, Valentine’s Day is concentrated on romantic love, aimed in the direction of {couples}. It appears to be the #1 objective of many individuals on the earth to seek out romantic love above all types of affection, to the purpose it detours and distracts numerous folks from loving God.
Nevertheless, in terms of love, as Christians, isn’t our precedence love relationship the one we have now with God above all our different relationships? Though we honor and cherish the love relationship between husbands and wives, dad and mom and youngsters, and mates, love for God usually takes a again seat to having the forefront of our consideration.
If that’s the case, how will we domesticate a young coronary heart towards God this Valentine’s Day? What does it take to maintain our tenderness for God ongoing in our lives?
4 Methods to Assist Domesticate a Tender Coronary heart in the direction of God
Following are 4 methods to assist domesticate a young coronary heart in the direction of God.
1. Ask God to look at our hearts. Conserving a young coronary heart includes frequently asking God to look at our hearts and reveal what He finds in us. Psalm 26:2 urges, “Take a look at me, Lord, and check out me; study my coronary heart and my thoughts.”
As nicely, 2 Corinthians 13:5 urges us to, “Look at yourselves to see whether or not you might be within the religion; take a look at yourselves. Do you not understand that Christ Jesus is in you—except, after all, you fail the take a look at?”
Though it’s good for us to look at ourselves, God’s examination reveals issues we might not acknowledge. Each are helpful for us, however His inspection has a method of preserving our hearts softened and from hardening in the direction of Him.
Proverbs 21:2 describes the distinction between our observations and God’s observations. “An individual might imagine their very own methods are proper, however the Lord weighs the center.”
2. See repentance as essential. Acts 3:19 urges, “Repent, then, and switch to God, in order that your sins could also be worn out, that instances of refreshing might come from the Lord.”
Typically Christians imagine as soon as they’re saved, they don’t ever want to hunt repentance for his or her sins. However repentance is wholesome for us, cultivating tenderness for God and bringing instances of refreshing to us.
It helps to maintain our hearts mushy and tender towards God. 2 Corinthians 7:10 advises, “Godly sorrow brings repentance that results in salvation and leaves no remorse, however worldly sorrow brings dying.”
If we discover it troublesome to repent, God suggests ways in which assist lead us to it. “’Even now,’ declares the Lord, ‘return to Me with all of your coronary heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning’” (Joel 2:12).
3. Cease sinning. Sin has a method of hardening our hearts and inflicting distance between us and God. Isaiah 59:2 describes its results on our relationship with Him. “However your iniquities have separated you out of your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, in order that He is not going to hear.”
Sin in our life retains God from listening to our prayers. Psalm 66:18 reminds us, “If I had cherished sin in my coronary heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.”
The Apostle Paul in Romans 6:1 challenges us, “What let’s say, then? We could go on sinning in order that grace might enhance?”
4. Love one another deeply. Loving each other helps to domesticate tenderness in the direction of God. As 1 Peter 4:8 encourages, “Above all, love one another deeply, as a result of love covers over a large number of sins.”
Loving others tenderizes our hearts as a result of God has given us the power to like. “We love as a result of He first cherished us” (1 John 4:19).
Loving others cultivates a tenderness in the direction of God that brings unity with Him and with others. Colossians 3:14 urges, “And over all these virtues placed on love, which binds all of them collectively in excellent unity.”
Let’s Pray:
Pricey Father,
Immediately and on daily basis, we ask You to look at our hearts, main us to hunt repentance and cease sinning, in order that we might love You and one another extra absolutely.
Thank You for loving us first, tenderizing our hearts in order that we could possibly love others and to like You.
Domesticate tenderness inside our hearts and lead us to assist others’ hearts to be tender in the direction of You, too.
In Jesus’ identify,
Amen
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Lynette Kittle is married with 4 daughters. She enjoys writing about religion, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been printed by Deal with the Household, Determination, Immediately’s Christian Lady, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and extra. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent College and serves as affiliate producer for Soul Examine TV.
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