In Jesus name, Father help us to open our hearts to your Holy Spirit. That we may have eyes to see, ears to hear, lips that will confess, and hearts willing to receive your correction.... Lord, if a broken spirit and a contrite heart is what you desire of us, then I ask that your will be done in accordance with Your Word. Allow our hearts to be broken over the things that break your heart. Allow our spirits to become grieved over the things that grieve your precious Spirit. I ask that you humble and break us before you daily, that the fruit of the Spirit be made manifest in our lives, and that the lost may come to know your love and be saved. For Your glory, for Your Name's sake, help us to repent O Lord....please help us....for the hour grows late, and we are not ready.
In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and the name of the Holy Spirit,
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Matthew 13
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not ; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, BY HEARING YE SHALL HEAR AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE, AND SHALL NOT PERCEIVE:
15 FOR THIS PEOPLE'S HEART IS WAXED GROSS, AND THEIR EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED; LEST AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.Jesus explained to his disciples that when someone's heart is not right before His Spirit, it effects their spiritual hearing and sight. They will hear and perhaps understand with their intellect things in the natural realm....They will see things from the natural perspective, but they will close their eyes to the spiritual aspect and be overcome with darkness. Spiritual understanding flows from the heart, because that is where the Holy Spirit dwells. He is the one that reveals Truth and helps us to understand...and He reveals it to the heart, not to the intellect, not to the flesh, but to our inner spirits. Everything the Heavenly Father does with us starts from the inside. He works from the inside out. But so many hearts are filled with so many other things that there is no room for the Holy Spirit.....and sadly, many are not willing to make room for Him either.