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The Cry Of My Heart: A Prayer After God’s Own Heart
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Jun 22, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: 1.TRANSFORM ME 2.TEACH ME 3.TRAIN ME 4.TEST ME 5.TOUCH ME 6.THINK OF ME 7.TRUST ME
THE CRY OF MY HEART: A PRAYER AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART
OUTLINE
1.TRANSFORM ME
2.TEACH ME
3.TRAIN ME
4.TEST ME
5.TOUCH ME
6.THINK OF ME
7.TRUST ME
THE MESSAGE
THE CRY OF MY HEART : A PRAYER AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART
1.TRANSFORM ME
It is very important that we pray that God should transform us. Very often we pray for others that God should change them .We see their flaws and mistakes and ask God to transform them.But often we are blind to our own faults.We fail to realise that we need a deep transformation in our own lives.When God changes us that will produce a consequent change in others.Many times others will not change until they see a change in us.May God help us to cry out ’Transform me’.
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Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2.TEACH ME
It is very important that we pray that God should teach us. Many times we are not aware of our ignorance.We fail to realise how much we dont know.We are complacent and confident and think that we know everything.This is a dangerous condition.We must seek God’s revelation and guidance to know His paths and His ways and His truth. Therefore it is very important for us to pray ’Teach me’.
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Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.
Praise be to you, LORD; teach me your decrees.
Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I trust your commands.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
3.TRAIN ME
It is very important that we pray that God should train us.We face so many battles and struggles and attacks of the enemy. Therefore we must ask God to train us to fight these battles.Lack of proper training can cause serious damage in our spiritual walk. Therefore it is very important that we pray ’ Train me’.
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He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.
4.TEST ME
It is very important that we pray that God should test us and examine us. People undergo periodic medical checkup to find out the condition of their physical body.It is even more important to undergo a spiritual checkup to ascertain the condition of our spiritual life. Otherwise we may be unaware of serious spiritual flaws and spiritual diseases that could destroy us. Peter was unaware of the deceitfulness of his heart but the Lord Jesus revealed it to him. Therefore we must seriously pray that God should examine us and point out anything that is dangerous. Therefore it is very important that we pray ’Test me’.
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Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind;
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
“I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.â€
“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.
But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.â€
