Heart Transformation

Thank you Lord for all of the things you’ve taught me throughout.. My life..

Just these past few days, wow, it’s been the most transforming week of my life.

*you taught me to see true beauty, to value health and see what you see beautiful… that yes in every person’s heart makes everything finished even if its not yet. Even people who has not said yes, was created to say yes, and that to you is hope enough for you to see them as a finished product, in her true beauty.

*you taught me to value money. I’ve wasted a lot of money; I waste a lot of money. I create debts, now I see that they’re pretty pointless, you provide as we ask, even when we don’t ask, your love has its way of providing us all we need. The money you give each obedient heart is enough for his needs, and you always give more, blessed more to be a blessing to other people. Every cent has its purpose, some meant for me, some you gave me to give to others. Money should not be wasted on things you’ve not allotted it for. Always seek you for guidance about money.

*you taught me to be less dependent to food, to respect my body and have it glorify you, not by having people notice it, but by being healthy and allowing positive lifestyle usher in positive attitude and emotions. Health is directly connected to our well being spiritually; it helps us focus a lot more our eyes at you. Not eating too much food allowed me to focus my eyes more on you rather than my body. It allowed me to focus my time energy and thoughts at you more than when I’m busy eating and feeding my flesh. This goes the same with too much entertainment and passive time.

*you taught me the true meaning of rest. Sabbath = Mary of Bethany. It’s not spending time doing nothing or unproductive things, its about spending time off stress and tiredness. It’s about spending time at your feet, resting in your love and abandoned in your presence, its soaking and being refreshed by your passion. Its not rest from church, rest from the bible, it’s about rest from the world and more of you.

*you taught me to plan; you showed me that if I don’t manage time, I end up wasting a lot of it doing things I don’t value. I miss out a lot on what you wish to do in my life. Wasting time sitting in a mall has never amounted to anything. It meant so much more for me to spend it with my family. I realized that my family is not getting any closer in being saved because I refuse to even spend my time with them. You taught me that my mere presence around them allows you to reach their hearts. Wisdom and obedience about time gets rid of a lot of unnecessary emotions, stresses, broken relationships, spending of resources, tired moments to even seek you. “Being wise about time” ushers in the fulfillment of your will in every part of our lives.

*you taught me to watch what I say, that what I say is powerful and when used in a wrong way can destroy lives, my life and others. I learned to encourage instead of make coarse jokes. I learned not to hold back your words of wisdom but share it that it may engulf my heart and the hearts of who hears them. I learned to watch my thoughts and my words in the most subtle moments in my life, like after every intense experience with you, that it will not set a foothold in my heart, nor will I be used to strike fiery arrows in others’ hearts.

*you taught me to make a covenant with my eyes, that it’s not just about not having lustful and vain objects in my mind and heart, but also that I run and stay away from anything that would even give the slightest hint of it. You taught me not to entertain any thoughts that are not from you and to allow you to take captive each and every thought that comes into my mind. The enemy uses the slightest hint of lust and sin as a foothold in the heart, if we learn to make a covenant with our eyes, keeping it and our minds pure and holy; we get rid of a lot of unnecessary battles in our lives.

** most of all this, You taught me that with out you, all these learning are like a hole in the ground that I dug, its deep but empty. I pray o father that you fill it with your glory and love Lord. These things I learned will go in vain if not sustained by your fiery love oh Lord. There’s more to it than just knowing by mind and trying to practice it with all that I have. It is about your glorious love, your endless love that sustains me and fills me with purpose and hope. It is only in you that I am strengthened to pursue, stand up when I fall. It is only in you that I am able to move in confidence that all will be alright.

You transformed my heart oh Lord. I desire to be disciplined and to be obedient because I know that you teach these things not just for you to be glorified but mostly coz you love mo that much. As is draw near to you, you draw near to me, revealing your ways, transforming my heart in every way possible towards that me that you’ve created. The “me” that you purposed to be married to your Son, equally yoked, created holy and loved by your infinite LOVE.