RETURN!
Memorise:
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of
your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26
The sanctification experience involves God talking
away your old rebellious heart and replacing it with a heart of flesh that
enables you to do His will without being forced. This is enunciated in Ezekiel
36:26:
“A new heart also will I give
you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you heart of flesh.”
If you still struggle to obey God on any matter, it is
doubtful you have received this new heart. If you are always out to do what you
want, how you want it, when and where you want it, then this new heart is
missing. If you are not yet broken, it is because you lack this heart. If you
are still arrogant or boastful over your accomplishments, you need this new
heart. If your speech is not seasoned with salt of heal its hearers, or you
don’t know how to speak acceptable words to people, you need this heart of
flesh.
The heart of flesh makes you to enjoy and not endure
the service of God. It enables you to give without being cajoled. In the olden
days, when it was time for offering, we needed nobody to exhort us on giving.
The one who was to make the offering would simply ask us to prepare out
offering and we gave joyfully because we saw it as a great opportunity to give
something to God. Our hearts were focused on Christ and we appreciated our
salvation, as a result, we were willing to spend for the One who saved us. We
had the heart of a sheep and not that of a goat. In these days, you would not
become a worker in the church until you were sanctified because when a worker
comes to church on Sunday morning, he would not know when he would go back
home. But today, immediately after service, some ministers take off even
without telling their pastor. In those days, you could not leave until your
pastor releases you. Visitation was compulsory then. We were few, so we knew
each other. When we arrived at church on Sunday morning and discovered some
brethren were absent, we would send workers to go and find out why they could
not come. It is time we returned to the old way of service!
Key
Point
One
of the key to rapid church growth is effective fellow-up of first timers.
