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Topic: The Pure In Heart See God In All - Arthur Burt
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Clay Sikes
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Posted: 10/23/2014 at 7:34pm
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THE PURE IN HEART SEE GOD IN ALL
Weekly Blog - arthurburt.com
Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God,”
Matthew 5:8. Heart purity is seeing God in all things.
Two sisters were exchanging conversation on their desire to walk more
intimately with the Lord. One confessed her need to hear the Lord more
clearly, her desire for more discernment and to experience the
fulfillment of the “Tabernacle Rest” of our Heavenly Father’s Presence
more.
The other sister shared how she had asked of the Lord, “When am I
going to experience your fullness, Lord?” The Lord replied to her quite
clearly, “When your heart is pure. When you see Me in all things, in all
your circumstances and in all your relationships. Pray for heart purity.”
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God,”….Do I see God
in my circumstances?…or do I blame the devil? Do I see God in my
relationships with others, or do I blame, judge or feel an unholy
indifference to them? Heart purity is seeing God in all things.
We have all experienced times when we have questioned God’s word
to us and applied our reason to it. Mark 2 records the account of Jesus
healing the man sick of the palsy, who was lowered down through the
roof in order to gain access through the thronging crowd. Some of the
scribes present, reasoned among themselves and judged Jesus’ words
as blasphemous. Jesus immediately had discernment of them, we can
read in verse 8, “And immediately when Jesus perceived in His spirit
that they so reasoned within themselves, He said to them, Why reason
these things in your hearts?”
When God speaks to me, His word is creative if I receive it into the
fertile ground of my heart, but if I reject it, applying my reasoning to it
then I begin to “eat” from the wrong source – the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, (Genesis 3) and my reasoning heart becomes an
environment for pride to flourish as I have the last word. The function of
my heart is to bow to what God says and say “Amen.”
THE REASON OF THE HEART IS THE TREASON OF THE HEART.
Treason is betrayal of the ruling authority. When I apply my questioning
reason to God’s word, then I demonstrate a lack of acceptance that He
is the ruling authority in my life, but heart purity rules out reasoning and
questioning.
If I am reacting against my circumstances it amounts to reasoning and
judgement and I am not “seeing God” in them.
God permits in his wisdom, what He could prevent in His power in my
life for His divine purpose. The Lord “tries the reins” of my heart. The
reins are the deeper, hidden part of the heart where the motives lie.
Pride is a deep root resident within the reins, and is the father of sin.
Jesus dealt with the sin issue at Calvary, once and for all, (Hebrews
10:10 and 14), God requires me to humble to deal with my pride. When
pride surfaces, God requires me to bow and walk in humility. He will
resist me in pride (1 Peter 5:5), but rejoices over me and embraces me
in humility, for it is the character of His Son, the Indwelling Christ, and
He cannot deny Himself.
When the Holy Spirit convicts me, it is the seat of responsibility in my
life to humble before God and man. Divine impartation takes place in
my life when I purchase truth with humility, which is the currency of
heaven. What is imputed to me through the righteousness of Christ is
only imparted to me as I humble and co-operate with the workings of
God in my life, as He purifies my heart.
I may witness to the truths of God by the anointed words of a man, but
until that word is tried and tested in my life by the Spirit of God, they are
not imparted to me and working for the extension of God’s kingdom
within me. We have to test the words we receive and try them. Jesus
said, “Learn of Me,”….I must get past the “by”, the man, to get to the
Source, the Living Christ.
We are journeying along together, our only safety is in the Body. As
someone once put it, “We may not have it all together, but together, we
shall have it all – in unity, every man living an orderly life under the
Head, Jesus Christ.
A hardened heart does not see God in situations, a purified heart sees
God in all.
DEAR LORD, please purify my heart…….
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Clay Sikes
www.lighthouseprophecy.org
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Kimberly Fowler
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I didn't get all of this, some of it was a bit over my head, yet there were parts that I was able to understand and digest and they were just wonderful to my spirit.
It was like the bits that I was understanding I was just relishing! So I really very much enjoyed the parts I understood. I really loved this..."God permits in his wisdom, what He could prevent in His power in my
life for His divine purpose." God has really been opening my eyes to this even just recently, how everything really does work out for a spiritual purpose and is used for growth, even unpleasant things.
And it is true that we may learn something from others and think we 'know' it until God actually takes us into a life lesson where we actually have to apply our learned wisdom. OUCH! Sometimes it hurts, but that is when the knowledge then goes down into our hearts and becomes a rhema word rather than just a learned word!
Anyway, I don't always understand fully everything I read, but I was blessed through your writing of what I did understand!
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