I Am After Your Heart

My Beloved, I am after your heart. 

I want more than your mental agreement to the truths of my word. 

You mean more to me than that! 

I desire a deep relationship with you in purity of faith and love. I want truth in your inmost parts. So much so that I will allow circumstances into your life which will highlight what is hidden within your heart. This is not to harm or humiliate you – my intentions for you are always good. It is so you can become aware of the ways in which you do not trust or believe me, for these are the things which keep you distant from me.

As challenges arise for you which cause you to question my goodness, do not squash those things down and pretend to believe. Do not harden your heart and turn away from me. 

Allow me to highlight these areas so you can come honestly before me and receive my healing and my truth. I want you to experience me afresh in areas of pain so you may know me more purely and more deeply.

Activation: Make a choice that when there are circumstances and events you do not understand, you will not harden your heart.

Ask Holy Spirit to highlight areas of unbelief (don’t go soul-searching – allow him to show you!) As he does, take each situation to him and hand over your hurt and disappointment. Be real. But do not stay there! 

Ask him to reveal himself afresh to you and heal your heart. Then pray Psalm 139:23-34 (TPT) over yourself:

“God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on, and lead me back to your glorious, everlasting ways— the path that brings me back to you.”

Psalm 86:11 (NIV)

Teach me your way, Lord that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.