A Man Who Wanted the Heart of God
by Ernest Angley
November 1999
There is a man in the Bible who asked for the heart of God, something no other man, no other woman had asked for. This man was a king, and God gave him everything He could; He gave him all His greatness to lead His people. The prophet Samuel said: The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people (I Samuel 13:14). Yes, David was the man who sought the heart of God. Even as a boy, David had sought the heart of God. At about age thirteen, he met Goliath head-on when all the armies of God, even their leader Saul, were afraid of him. But young David went forth unafraid and defeated the giant. God had found a young man after His heart.
Called from the sheepfold to play music for the tormented mind of King Saul, David had so much God in him that the devils had to leave the moment he began to play. And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him (I Samuel 16:23). Oh that Saul would have desired God! The Lord would make the devils go when David played, but the Lord had given man freedom to choose, and He couldn’t make Saul choose to serve Him even though Saul had many chances.
God Himself testified that David was a man after His heart: I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will (Acts 13:22). Because David, thousands of years ago, wanted the heart of God, God blessed him in a great way. But the Bible does not say David got the heart of God, only that he sought after it. David, in fact, did not get the whole heart of God. Why?
Let’s look at the time many years earlier when God gave His whole heart, His whole love to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Everything wonderful was available to them; God had made heaven for man right here on Earth. Earth, in fact, was meant to be a heaven.
Adam carried the miracle in his body of divine blood, and divine blood is the will of the Lord for us all to carry. Adam and Eve, children of God, could actually walk and talk with God just as though He were human. God had made them that close to Him, had given them His heart. They didn’t have to seek the whole heart of God; they had it. But sin entered that wonderful paradise. Man no longer had the whole heart of God, for now man had taken on the sin nature, and God cannot look on sin, cannot have anything to do with it. With sin came sickness. Man was never to have been sick; the heart of God desires people to be well. God never intended man to have pain; pain entered only after man had sinned. Consider the millions and millions of people who have felt pain down through the ages—and millions more will feel pain. Think of all the institutions to help people today, nursing homes, hospitals filled with people suffering. Why all the suffering? Because man sold out to the devil and lost the heart of God.
The Psalms Reveal Much of God’s Heart
God made Himself real to David, poured much through him. The more God pours to you the more you want from Him, the more you desire from Him. The Psalms will thrill you when you read them with the whole heart of God. Much of God’s heart is revealed in the Psalms. No Old Testament book is more complete about the coming of Jesus than the Messianic passages in the Psalms.
In a sermon at Antioch, Paul made clear that the one whom the Psalmist had prophesied about was Jesus: As it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption (Acts 13:33-37).
In the Psalms we read: The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner (Psalm 118:22). They pierced my hands and my feet. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture (Psalm 22:16,18). David was told about the coming of the Lord and His crucifixion.
David tasted of the Lord and found Him more delicious than any food. The water of life through the Word had quenched his spiritual thirst in a great way, and yet he was thirsty for more. But as close as he was to God, David could not get into God’s Eden. The door was still closed with the angel of judgment standing guard. Man couldn’t get past that judgment.
Although David sought the heart of God, it was not time for the whole heart of God to be given again. But David saw the hour that would come when men, women, boys and girls could all have the heart of God. For God to give His whole heart is astounding.
The Whole Heart of God Wasn’t in the Law
Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel, the three Hebrew boys, the prophets of old, both major and minor—and others—all lived close to God; yet they didn’t get His whole heart. God did wonderful works, great works, moved for His people when He could find obedience. God longed to move, to show His greatness.
Moses received the Law from God; God put as much of His heart as He could into the Law at the time, but the Son of God was the only one who could bring the whole heart of God to the people. Moses didn’t have the whole heart of God. That would come later. The Law was given, written by the finger of God and all the power of Heaven—but not with the whole heart of God. The New Testament, not the Old, is the heart of God. The Old Testament sacrifices that God said would have to be given, God despised. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure (Hebrews 10:6). The blood of animals was not pleasing to God, but because of man’s disobedience, it was the best God could do for man under the circumstances.
In spite of that disobedience, the heart of God was so great toward man that He offered the Israelites freedom from sickness if they would walk in His statutes, obey Him and keep His commandments. And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee (Deuteronomy 7:15). There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling (Psalm 91:10). Since under the Law God promised healing, think how much greater that promise is today under Grace! It should let you know that you can have any miracle you need.
God brought mighty miracles, fantastic wonders to Israel, but they were not faithful to Him. In spite of their waywardness, God made them a holy terror to their enemies. He kept working with them until they finally chose other gods, desired other gods rather than the Lord God Almighty. They marred their image to the extent that when God looked on them He saw strangers, not sons and daughters, and He let them go, scattered them into all nations.
On his death bed, King Hezekiah prayed, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years (Isaiah 38:3-5). Although Hezekiah had walked before the Lord with a perfect heart, he didn’t have the whole heart of God.
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God (Hebrews 11:5). Enoch pleased God, and God took him to Heaven alive, but Enoch didn’t have the whole heart of God.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil (Job 1:8)? God called Job perfect and upright, but Job didn’t have the whole heart of God.
These men, without the whole heart of God, were highly esteemed and greatly loved by God. What would they have accomplished had they been able to have the whole heart of God? What would they have done to the devil’s kingdom?
God Gave His Whole Heart at Calvary
Not until Calvary did God once again give His whole heart. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). God gave all His love on Calvary; and when He did, there was no more to give, no love left for Himself to look upon the scene. God had to turn His back when Christ was on the Cross. God never before had been helpless like that concerning love. Had He looked on the scene without love, He no doubt would have rained down judgment.
If people won’t accept that incredible love displayed on the Cross, they have no right to go to Heaven, no place in the heart of God. God will be justified in turning them away, justified when He wipes out of His heart the memory of every human being who would not accept Jesus.
God let me know one day that He has power to forget as well as power to remember. He can wipe anything or anyone He chooses out of His mind for time and eternity to never think of them again. Those who didn’t want God, who preferred to go the way of self, will be sealed away forever from the memory of God. God will never hear their cries, their prayers. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death (Proverbs 14:12). Wide is the road that leads to destruction, but narrow is the gate that leadeth to eternal life.
It took the heart of God, all the love of God to set an open door back into Eden for man. Jesus said, I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture (John 10:9). There is no other door but Jesus, no other way into eternal life with God.
Divinity Works in the Born-Again
As the powers of darkness grow stronger and stronger in this last and final hour, the powers of righteousness grow stronger and stronger, also. The Lord is drawing you to Him like a mighty magnet, but you must have something in you that will respond. This divine magnet cannot draw you unless you want to be drawn.
The Lord is drawing people who yield to Him away from imperfection into perfection. God is clothing the Bride with all the righteousness and holiness of Jesus, with all the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit, with all His goodness, all His gracious love; and no power can defeat her.
The same power over the devil that God gave His Son when Jesus walked the earth He is giving the Bride today. Jesus, very man as well as very God, used that power not as the divine one, but as one who had become human. Divinity and the human worked together in Jesus; and as very man with divinity working in Him, He was able to defeat the devil at every point. When we take Jesus into our hearts, it means divinity is now working in us, divinity and the human working together to defeat the devil through the power of Jesus’ blood.
The Hour of Visitation and Revelation
Jesus healed all manner of sicknesses and diseases. However, He couldn’t heal all manner of people; He couldn’t heal those deceived ones who were unwilling to accept God’s healing power but would rather follow the devil and seek his ways. Down through the years man has disobeyed God, failed God causing much of the mind of God, much of the divine will of God and the paths of righteousness to be obscured from view. Now the Lord is making plain those paths of righteousness and holiness, revealing all His divine will to all who want Him.
So that you won’t be deceived in any way, you have God’s promises, His Word. This hour of visitation, of revelation has been foretold in God’s Word. God is seeking to reveal to people the state of their souls. Some of you are reaching out for the world instead of reaching out to God. God knows all about it. Are you in the “selling business?” Are you doing little things contrary to God’s will? Do you have one grain of sand between you and your God? If so, you are in the market to sell, saith the Lord. If you don’t get rid of every grain of sand, you, no doubt, will sell out in this final hour. God is subject to cut you off in your sins and disobediences when you know the truth but turn from it with a heart that just doesn’t care.
If you would rather satisfy the lust of the flesh than walk with God into the spiritual land of Canaan and help take this Gospel to the world, you have disowned the Christ who died for you, dishonored the Christ who paid the price for you and the God of Heaven who made you; God has no responsibility for you any longer. You are out of the ark of safety, heading for total destruction. If you keep on your path, you will grieve the Holy Spirit until you finally blaspheme against Him, and God won’t care about you.
Were you not hardening your heart, you wouldn’t be committing sins when you know better. Your heart is becoming so hardened that you can commit sin and then come to church, making people think you are all right with God. You are a hypocrite, deceived. God knows you are not all right; you are grieving the Holy Spirit.
There is no excuse for anyone to turn back, saith the Lord. In turning back, you are in danger of becoming completely worthless in the eyes of the Lord, as worthless as Lot’s wife was in the form of salt; in other words, you are in danger of blaspheming against the Holy Ghost. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost is the unforgivable sin, one that will seal your doom in hell for all eternity.
If you think God will overlook your sin, you are very deceived. Heed the voice of God and repent before it’s too late. The clouds of the Great Tribulation Period are closing in; the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, the days of Noah are here once again. No matter how many times you have failed God in the past, you must get right with God and stay right to never fail Him again.
Don’t deceive yourself by thinking you can really be saved, baptized in the Holy Ghost, a member of the bridal company ready to meet the Lord any time, and not have the love bridle on your speech. Deceit in you will flow through the tongue to deceive others. If you don’t bridle your tongue, you will sin against God. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body (James 3:2).
God is going to use holy voices; those are the only voices He can use. No discord. The only way all our talents can be used is to give over to the heart of God. When you realize that talents are given from God’s heart, you know you must use them in the same Spirit in which they are given. Then you will excel for the Lord beyond anything you’ve ever dreamed of. God increases talents when people use them for Him, when the heart of God is going forth in those talents.
For people who refuse to accept God, this hour of visitation and revelation will become an hour of blasphemy. God killed in the Early Church to keep it free of contamination, and He is just as dedicated to keeping the Bride clean in this the latter part of the Church Age. God has been through much with sinful man; if you don’t accept the heart of God now, you are on dangerous ground. God has opened His heart to you; He has nothing more to offer. If you accept the heart of God and keep it daily unto yourself, you become His heartbeat in everything He is doing. In His thoughts, in His care, in His plans, you are in the middle of His heart for all eternity—you have the heart of God.
Oh, that David could have lived in our day! How he would have rejoiced! He possibly never would have sinned against God had he gotten the heart of God and lived in a day he could be free through Calvary. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). When you become born again, the Lord forgives the past, closes the door on it to never look back; but if you have backslidden, you must repent. Now is your hour to live in His presence with the heart of God.
A Temple of the Holy Ghost
When you are born again, living free from sin, you have the heart of God to the extent that the third person in the Trinity of the Godhead is offered you. The Holy Ghost baptism…what greater honor could be placed on your life than for God to choose your body as the temple for the Holy Ghost! What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own (I Corinthians 6:19)?
You who have the Holy Ghost, don’t let anything contaminate the temple. Don’t look to past failures or abuses. The Lord is offering you mercy to close all doors, to separate you from all hindrances so you can go deeper into the holiness and righteousness of God, to live, talk, walk in His image and speak His tongue, the love language. The Lord’s speech is seasoned with love and grace, and He has given you the same seasoning to use.
If the devil can deceive you in your speech, it means you have at least one grain of sand. Check your speech often. At the end of each day before you close your eyes, look to God, let Him be so very personal, and ask Him if you have made Him a perfect day. Dear Lord, have I used your perfect speech? Have I used your perfect grace? Have I used your perfect love? Have I walked as you will me to walk? Have I used the divine blood that is in my soul in all that I have done?
Jesus, the Revelation of God’s Heart
The revelation of all God’s heart came in one little package, the Babe of Bethlehem. Jesus, the revelation of God’s heart, is the revelation of all the will of God, all His ways and plans. He is the revelation of God’s heart to make you a son or daughter of God, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Jesus made it all possible.
Never forget that at Calvary the Lord gave His whole heart, offering it to man once again after thousands of years. How priceless that heart is! You have the heart of God available to you. Are you carrying it in His love, His grace? Are you realizing that you have divine blood to protect you so you will never misuse and grieve the heart of God?
Adam and Eve in Eden had the heartbeat of God, the perfect heartbeat. They had never grieved the heart of God until they sold out to the devil, introduced sin to the human race. The horrible tragedy of what they had done made God cry, made Jesus and the Holy Spirit cry.
Because of sin, people today are still making the Godhead cry; but the Lord lets us know in the book of Revelation that the hour will come when God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away (Revelation 21:4). All human tears, all divine tears will be wiped away one day. The heart of God will never again be offered to any sinner, to any ungodly person.
God gave the revelation of His heart to the Early Church. For thirty-three years they walked in that revelation, in the sunshine of Heaven’s love. They were in the heart of God every moment of their lives day and night, willing to do anything and everything for the Lord. That’s the reason Stephen, the first martyr, went so heroically to his death, praying that his murderers be forgiven. He had the heart of God, the same Spirit that the divine Son of God had displayed.
God looked on Stephen with as much pride as He looked on His Only Begotten Son. Calvary worked. Not only was man willing to live for God; he was willing to die for Him. Man had given himself completely at last into the hands of God.
The man who wanted the heart of God missed getting it because he lived in the wrong hour. Thank God, we live in the right hour! Thank God this is His hour for us! In your bosom you cradle the whole heart of God if you are walking in perfect love, perfect obedience, if you have taken on His love in perfection. Living a holy, consecrated, dedicated life, you cradle the heart of God to you with its great, divine love. God will do anything for you when you accept His whole heart and cradle it in your bosom.
The only way to have the heart of God is to say farewell to the world and all that goes with it. You must be very careful what you listen to, what you look at.
A Fire Shut Up in the Bones
Before I was saved, I had battled God, not wanting to give my heart to Him because I thought I would never be happy that way. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The Lord has made me to be one of the happiest people on planet Earth. When I received salvation, I felt like Jeremiah who wrote, His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones (Jeremiah 20:9). The fire of His love and grace was shut up in my bones. Salvation was mine, the heart of God was mine. About six weeks after I was saved, I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. No one could have made me doubt the greatness of that experience. The Holy Ghost took my tongue and spoke in all kinds of languages and dialects. I would spend hours in His presence while He talked.
People thought I was different because they had never seen a person walk with the Lord the way I was walking—and you can have that same walk. If I did it, you can do it. God walked with me just as He had walked with His Only Begotten, and He wants to walk the same way with you today. God is seeking people who want His whole heart.
Oh, blessed Lord, you are great and mighty indeed! We thank you for this hour! We rejoice with the whole heart of God to be here for the final walk!
The Great Deceiver Will Be Deceived
Beaten horribly, mocked, Jesus was crucified. God watched while man put to scorn His love in the form of His Only Begotten. Had man appreciated that sacrifice on Calvary, it would have been a little easier to make. The devil thought he had won, but, thank God, death had no power over Jesus! He arose from the tomb, stood before many witnesses. Paul writes, Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time (I Corinthians 15:3-8). One day God will stand in a way different from that of love, a way of total destruction for all who have lined up with the devil.
After the Perfect Age, after the devil has been in the bottomless pit for one thousand years, he will be set free. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever (Revelation 20:7-10).
When Satan is set loose from the bottomless pit and goes out to the nations, he will snare them in his trap all over again. My time has come, he will say. I survived the pit and now I have more power than ever. Come on everyone, we’re going to take over! It’s time to destroy that Jesus man, time to dethrone God! Satan, the master deceiver, will himself be deceived. His grand takeover plan will never happen. The Lord will simply call down fire from heaven and destroy Satan and those who are so foolish as to follow him. Cast into the lake of fire, Satan will be tormented forever and ever with the Antichrist, the Antispirit and all others who didn’t want God.
Some people, taken in by one of the many deceits of the devil, think there is no fire in hell. Jesus spoke of the fire of hell at different times. In Matthew 25:41 He tells us, Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. In Revelation 21:8 we read: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. There is a lake of fire awaiting sinners. It’s a fire where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched (Mark 9:44).
The fire of hell will last for all eternity. But with the heart of God, man can triumph over that lake of fire. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12).
You Must Be Born Again
The Lord wants people to know that the born-again experience is essential. People have trifled with it, made it seem unnecessary, failed to stress its importance. Even preachers have disregarded it, thought so little of it that they didn’t preach it at all. Join the church, be baptized in our denomination. Social work is all you need to do; find a cause to support. Take fellowship with the church, and you’ll be all right. The Bible, however, lets us know in no uncertain terms that you are not in the body of Christ until you are born new.
Jesus didn’t say He would mend you, patch up the holes in your ragged, worn-out character or brush the dust from your shady reputation. He didn’t say He would treat your symptoms, stupefy your senses, deaden the pain, and disguise the stink with perfume. He said He would make you a new creature in Him, brand-new. Jesus does not promise to change your house, your business, your friends, your wages, your work. He will change you. That’s what a born-again experience will do. He promises to enter into you, to change, transform and regenerate you into a new creature in Him.
When you are born new you take on the heart of God. Everyone who comes to Calvary should walk away from the altar with the whole heart of God. God doesn’t want to give you half His heart or a third of it; He wants you to have it all at Calvary.
God Has a Work for You to Do
In making the crossing into spiritual Canaan, many of you will take on the whole heart of God and be changed. The things you once battled, you won’t battle anymore. In your prayer time, your Bible study time, the light of the Gospel will shine forth on every page for you so you can have greater understanding than ever before. With that understanding you can testify and be a witness to the Word as the apostles were in the beginning of the Church; you can preach Christ to all peoples and tell the world about this wonderful Gospel.
It’s time to step into the freedom and liberty of the Lord where you won’t be carrying bags of despair, oppression and depression. The Lord has nothing to do with those bags. Why carry the baggage of the devil when you could carry the whole heart of God? Never let one grain of sand come between you and your God.
This is your hour of victory, not an hour of fairy tales. Imagination has nothing to do with receiving the whole heart of God. God gave you this revelation, and He wants you to digest it, to take His whole heart and treat it right. In His heart you will find the greatest peace, the greatest joy, the greatest satisfaction you have ever thought possible. You won’t look to money for happiness. People who depend on riches for happiness are disappointed, restless, suspicious that it will be taken away from them. When they die, they leave it all behind, but when you die in the Lord, you have the riches of Heaven for eternity, and no one can take them away from you.
The born-again have the heart of God, and the heart of God includes a new heaven, a new earth. A mansion is awaiting you in Heaven, and the Lord is eager for you to come home—but He must wait for you to finish your work for Him.
In Heaven with the whole heart of God you will never have another pain, another sorrow. Your loved ones who died in the Lord will be there with you. Through His great heart, the Lord will have preserved the wonderful personality of each one you loved so dearly, preserved it in total love in perfection for you to enjoy as eternal ages roll. Never again will you see one of those loved ones shed a tear or be in pain. Sorrow will be no more. No tombs, no cemeteries exist in Heaven. The Lord Jesus brought the whole heart of God to you and destroyed death, hell and the grave. How wonderful! You have the whole heart of God offered you; how much you use it depends on how much you accept.
Don’t see how close to the world you can walk and still keep your salvation. That walk of danger must be over. You have come to the final hour, and what you do you must do quickly. The crucified Christ is not going to be offered to the world much longer. When the crucified Christ can no longer be offered, it’s go-home time for the Bride. Our message will be finished.
A Vision of an Angry God
Years ago the Lord gave me a startling vision: I will never get away from it. I’ll probably think about it in eternity. In this vision I was going through great crowds of people, and the Holy Spirit was shouting through me: Come to Jesus! Come to Jesus! The words seemed to be amplified going forth to multitudes of people gathered all around me, to the left, to the right, in front of and behind me as far as I could see. In great jubilation I was crying, Come to Jesus! The Spirit of the Lord had taken over my voice: Come to Jesus! I started one more time to say, Come to Jesus! I said, Come… and then the message was gone. I had no more invitation. The Lord let me know it was finished, and He took over, telling the people: I don’t want you anymore. I wanted you. I gave you my whole heart, but you didn’t want me. I gave you all my love; you didn’t want it, and now I don’t want you. I will never desire you again. I will never hear your cries. I will never hear one prayer from you. I wanted to talk to you, and I wanted you to talk to me, but you didn’t want that. Now I will never want you. You’re doomed, doomed!
I never thought I would ever hear God talk like that. How I cried! I was helpless in that vision. I had no message. People were pressing against me, all around me, so many it was like looking at the whole world at one time—and I couldn’t tell one soul about Jesus. For the first time in my life since God had called me to preach, I had no sermon. Calvary is our sermon, salvation, love, grace, Heaven…and I had no sermon. It was all over. The journey had ended. My divine mission was finished.
God Rewards
You must know that God is God, or you will not have His whole heart. You don’t really know God unless you have His faith. Without His faith you can’t please Him. You don’t know God unless you know that He rewards all those who believe in Him. He rewards with goodness and mercy. He rewards with salvation. He rewards.
God has given you many promises; accept them all. He is the Lord who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s (Psalm 103:5).
If you are a child of God, He has promised to heal you of all manner of sicknesses and diseases; accept His healing. He has promised that healing is the children’s bread, and you’re His child. Just as bread is always on the table, Jesus always has healing on the table for you. By whose stripes ye were healed (I Peter 2:24).
Our healer is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8). When He walked on Earth, He healed all manner of sicknesses and diseases. And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel (Matthew 15:30,31). And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all (Luke 6:19). Jesus healed when He walked among men, and He is still healing today.
The Lord promises healing from Heaven; accept it. God offers you the same divine faith that the Son of God used when He was here on Earth. Paul said, We are more than conquerors through him that loved us (Romans 8:37). More than conquerors…was that taught in the Old Testament? It’s Jesus who brought us all the power we need and more, all the power to conquer all the armies of the devil and still have plenty power left. It’s Jesus who brought us healing from Heaven for soul, mind and body.
Take On the Whole Heart of God
The whole heart of God gave Paul this revelation: I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13). Paul knew he had the heart of God; it’s the reason he changed so quickly. Taking the whole heart of God, he walked in the steps of Jesus, talked like Him.
Having the whole heart of God is the reason many of you are walking and talking just like Jesus, loving like Him. That’s the reason you sacrifice to take the Gospel to the world. You have realized at last: I have come to serve. I have come to do your will, oh Lord, and I have come as a servant.
Without the whole heart of God you can’t be the servant like Jesus was. It takes the whole heart of God to always have all the patience, all the love, all the peace to serve the right things that man needs, the things that make up eternal life.
If you don’t carry the whole heart of God, you will serve something with sand in it. If what you have served in the past contained sand—perhaps only one grain—it was enough to hinder God from doing what He wanted to do. He couldn’t work His perfect will through you to help someone in need.
How many souls have you missed by not serving with the whole heart of God? You dare not serve any other way now. You dare not give your opinions; you must give thus saith the Lord to people.
Depend on God to use your mind. If you don’t have the mind of God, the wisdom of God, don’t say anything other than I will pray. Be able to discern whether or not the person you are dealing with is ready to be served the Word of God. If the person is not ready to drink of the Lord, you waste time trying to serve. God doesn’t force people to accept Him; He just wants His children to spread a table of salvation before a lost and dying world, to invite them to come and dine: Come and be free from all your sins. Come with your tattered self-righteous garments. Come as you are and be cleansed. Come, there is a fountain open, the heart of God is open to you for forgiveness of sin and ungodliness!
Only in the heart of God can you find the sin-cleansing fountain. Outside of God is no forgiveness for sin. Man cannot forgive sin; only divinity can forgive sin.
The whole heart of God is for service. Don’t waste time; be more careful with your time than you have been with your money. Your time is really more valuable than your money. Spend time with the Word, time praising and glorifying God. Spend time in the presence of the Holy Spirit, giving Him your undivided attention so He can teach you everything He wants each hour, each day you have left before you’re called home.
This is one great, mighty walk. Never has there been an hour like this; it’s an hour of great separation between flesh and divinity. You realize you are but flesh, but you are valuable flesh because the anointing of the power of the living God, the heart of God, abides in your innermost being.
God is cleaning out the sand. If you don’t get rid of the sand, saith the Lord, you will go with the sand and God will replace you. I warn you as one who has heard from Heaven: You will have to walk holy in His holy presence and accept the whole heart of God to do the whole will of God. Jesus did the whole will of God because He accepted the whole heart of God. Paul was given the whole revelation of God and did the whole will of God because he accepted God’s whole heart.
The Lord Walks with His Children
The Lord has come to reveal Himself. This is your hour of revelation, your hour of visitation. You are being visited by your Lord. He is walking in the midst of His people, saying, I am with you. I am with you.
After my wife, Angel, went away, the Lord lived with me day and night. He would tell me again and again: I am the Lord that walketh with thee. How many thousands of times He told me that, giving me strength, putting me back together! I was in a million pieces after she died. I didn’t see how I could go on breathing, how I could live without her. But the Lord would speak, and with that voice He would dry my tears again and again. He will dry your tears with the same love voice; He will help you with the same love He helped me.
If you have lost a great love, you may feel you have no love left, but you do. You have the whole heart of God. He is talking to you, telling you: I am the Lord that walketh with thee. I am here; I have come to walk with this people. I have come. You are being offered the same heart I was offered, the whole heart of God. The Lord is saying, Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27). If you have failed God, if there is one grain of sand between you and your Lord, get rid of it. Yield to the heart of God. He is offering you love, forgiveness.
See the great God down on His knees in total humility, down in the dirt ready to work with the clay, longing for clay He can use, clay He can mold and make. He is crying to you to come. This great voice of Calvary’s love is going forth to all the inhabitants of the world as loudly as God can send it in this final hour. Take the whole heart of God; then if discouragement ever tries to come in, you will know how to handle it like Jesus. Let nothing get you down. When loved ones turn against you, the Lord promised to take you up into His love, into His heart, and He will do just that.
The whole heart of God is available to you; the most valuable heritage you could ever have is yours. With the heart of God you will lose sight of the world, of the sins, the lust of the flesh. You will lose sight of everything but walking just like Jesus walked. Jesus was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus was wise to the ways of the devil, and never deceived by them. No one has ever loved you like Jesus loves you; no one has ever cared for you like He cares. He sees every tear, hears every sincere cry.
Open your heart’s door and take the mighty revelation of God’s whole heart; take what is in that whole heart for you, realize what that whole heart will mean to you and those you love. Yield to Him in all humility; close every door behind you and use the greatness of God’s heart, the great powers of His heart, to do His divine will. The whole heart of God is offered you in this last and final hour; accept it, cradle it to your bosom and never let it go.
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