August 17, 2023 • 19 mins
Ever wondered about the profound role your heart plays in your spiritual journey? Well, we're about to shine a light on that intricate relationship.
We get personal, sharing stories about how our heart's desires can sometimes overrule our logic, leading us down unexpected paths. From an in-depth look at Matthew 15:18-20, we reflect on the heart’s guidance in our relationship with God, ultimately tying it all together with a prayer.
We consider how our hearts are mirrored in our interactions with others, offering a fresh perspective on how our spiritual selves are seen by the world.
Join us on this heartfelt journey as we gain new insights into the importance of the heart in our spiritual lives.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Good morning, good morning y'all.
This is going to be a reallygood one.
Not all good, but I am so happyto be back here.
It's Thursday, which means it'stime for Come Out of the
Wilderness Prayer, and I'mShelly, so before we get into
the word, I just want to say aquick thank you and a shout out
to everyone who's watching.
(00:37):
We're on multiple channels, soall of the folks in our three
different Facebook groups andLinkedIn and YouTube and Twitter
, and especially the folks thatare watching us live on Prairie
Deck TV live.
So welcome back.
If this is your first time here,I'm here every Thursday at 7
o'clock and I share scripture,we do prayer and we have a
(01:01):
little bit of conversation.
So feel free to drop yourcomments and that way I can kind
of see who's here.
And please don't forget to likethe video so that that helps us
get the video out to more eyesand ears who need it.
All right, I think I dideverything that you're saying.
Good morning, laquita.
I think I did everything I'msupposed to do, admin wise.
(01:25):
So now we're going to get intothe word and this y'all so
matters of the heart is acomplex.
This is going to be a complexone.
I think we may have to do acouple of cycles of it, but if
you saw the description that Iprovided when I share this out,
it's really talking about theheart being the metaphor for the
(01:48):
seat of our emotions and ourdesires and our feelings, and so
I'm going to break this downinto three parts.
But the reason I'm doing thisis because there is such a
yearning within the body ofChrist to have a better
relationship with God, but noteverybody's yearning for it.
Okay, a lot of folks have kindof stepped away from the heart
(02:12):
of God and how we're usingthings that are happening here,
you know, here within the earth,right, things that are
happening around us, toinfluence or sometimes
manipulate what we want, fleshlythings that we want.
And so we're going to talkabout how the heart shapes our
actual spiritual journey.
So I'm going to talk throughsome notes that I have, but I'm
(02:35):
going to obviously take us backinto scripture to show you what
the Lord says about it, not whatShelley says about it, and then
we're going to close withprayer.
So the first thing is thinkingabout it from a physical
perspective, which is verysimple, right, the heart is
something we can't live without.
So just from a physicalperspective, the heart is an
(02:56):
incredibly important organ.
So we'll start there right.
So that's that.
We all agree with that.
Come argue over it.
We all agree that the heart asan organ is very important, but
the other area that I want toshift into is the emotional
aspects of the heart, and wethink about the heart.
We talk about the heart when itcomes to even believing God,
(03:18):
and how do we posture our heartso that we are humble and we're
forgiving?
How does that help us in ourfaith?
So I'm going to share anexample of the heart emotionally
and then I'm going to go intothe word and show you why the
heart is important spiritually.
So I had this dream last night.
(03:38):
I had this dream last nightthat it was a fight between
myself and my daughter.
My daughter is at this point,even in the dream, she's 14, so
it's current.
She looks like she looks, Ilook like I look, but for some
reason my daughter wanted tomove out of the house and she
wanted to go live somewhere, andin my head it was like on the
(04:00):
streets, because you know,you're 14, you don't have a job
where you're going to go.
Mind you all this is a dream,okay, even in the dream my
emotions are stirred up, allright.
So in this dream, because shewanted her independence and I
didn't think that she was readyfor it, I started setting up
situations to not help her getready for it.
(04:22):
So in the dream I was sayingthings like well, you can't take
those shoes, you can't takethat bag, you can't take those
clothes because I bought it.
And I started to strip awaythings that would have provided
her comfort for her becomingmore independent.
And it was because I washeartbroken.
I was heartbroken that therewas this separation that was
(04:47):
happening, and so I started tocreate ways, y'all, I started to
create ways that would make itharder for that separation of
independence to happen.
That is a matter of the heartthat is responding in an
emotional way, and that is whatalmost like what manipulation
would look like.
(05:07):
Except there are problemmothers who would say, oh, I
totally get it, because you knowit's hard for us to break away
from our babies, and Iunderstand that feeling, feeling
.
But this is an example of howthe heart, as an emotion, kind
of takes over your common sense.
Right, because the head mighttell you objectively don't do
(05:28):
such a thing.
But the heart has feelings andI don't care how smart you are,
once the head and the heartstart to argue, you're gonna
fall towards the heart more thanlikely, because we all wanna go
for the feeling of what it isthat we want.
So that's an example, and it'sa horrible example because as a
mom, I don't wanna ever putmyself in a position where I am
(05:53):
causing that kind of turmoil.
But it literally was just anexample that came in a dream and
I just wanted to share y'all areal life, y'all An example of a
heart's desire, right, cause alot of people throw that out all
the time.
The heart want what's the heartwant, okay, and your head will
help you convince your heartthat that's what you should do.
So that's an example of it, allright.
(06:14):
So now I'm gonna shift tospiritual and I'm gonna bring up
my Bible gateway.
Just bear with me.
I think this is gonna helpy'all.
So if you don't have your word,don't worry about it.
But this is Matthew 15, verses18 through 20.
This is coming from the Lordand this is the ESB version.
Y'all know that's how I rock,cause it's easier and the word
(06:36):
says but what comes out of themouth proceeds from the heart,
and this defiles a person.
Let's just pause right there.
What's coming out of your mouthproceeds from the heart, and
this defiles a person.
You know what you're actuallysaying is coming from your heart
, and so there's a lot of folksthat will say things and it's
(06:57):
actually just reflecting what'sin your heart.
Right, there's a connection inyour mind and your heart.
So what comes out of your mouthproceeds from the heart, and
this defiles a person.
Verse 19, for out of the heartcome evil thoughts.
Murder, adultery, sexualimmorality, theft, false witness
(07:19):
, slander these are what defilea person.
But to eat with unwashed handsis not defile anyone, and the
Lord was.
He was making reference to someof the physical laws that were
set up back in the Old Testamentabout washing hands, et cetera.
So it's not about, you know,unwashed hands or those physical
(07:41):
things, right Things that we'veestablished as a law.
This is talking about what'scoming out of our hearts.
So, if you notice this and Ithink a lot of Christians get
this really confused in verse 19, where it calls out for out of
the heart come evil thoughts,and people tend to separate.
Well, if it's in your head,it's not really coming from your
heart, but your heart feedswhat you're thinking, your heart
(08:03):
feeds what you're saying, yourheart feeds your action and your
perception.
There is a connection there,and so that's why having a pure
heart is so important.
So I'm gonna stop sharing.
In Psalm 51, when we talk aboutthere's a prayer, that I use
this prayer all the time, psalm51, for you know, when I am
(08:24):
going into confession or I'm ina season where I just, you know,
listen, I need to, I need to, Ineed to pure heart myself.
So in Psalm 51, it talks aboutthe Lord, the sacrifices of the
Lord, is a broken spirit and acontrite heart.
I'm just paraphrasing because Idon't have it in front of me.
(08:44):
But a broken spirit and acontrite heart is the posture.
It's going before God humbly.
It's not going to God, like youknow, like you even deserve to
be here right, it's being humblewhen you're going to ask for
forgiveness, and so that postureof the heart is something that
we all do if you're trying totrying to work out your
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forgiveness and all those things.
So the heart is so important.
You know, this is again, youknow, when I meet Christians who
are hard heartened, who arejudgmental.
Okay, you know who are reallyquick to judge, who are really
quick to gossip.
You know there's a lot ofChristians and y'all Christians,
(09:28):
y'all, y'all are what ishappening.
You know, when I hear aChristian and then I hear hate
come out of their mouth, hatefor one another, hate for a
neighbor, hate for someone whodoesn't look like them, just
pure hate, I can, I tell.
I know what's on your heart,because I can hear it coming out
of your mouth and that doesn'tplease God.
I'm telling you right now, Ionly please you and your friends
(09:49):
, but that doesn't please theLord.
Okay, that is a matter of theheart, that you have to go back
to the Lord humbly and ask forforgiveness, but he, he, he is
not the kind of father that.
That that's okay.
In Proverbs Proverbs six, verse16, I was looking at this this
morning.
I don't have it on the screen,I'm just going to share it with
you.
Proverbs six, 16 through 19.
(10:10):
Y'all can go back and checkthis out and it talks about the,
the, the.
There are seven things that arean abomination to the Lord.
There's six things that theLord hates.
Yes, he does hate me.
Okay, there are six things thatthe Lord hates seven that are
an abomination to him.
And to list them out Lottieeyes, lime tongue, hands that
(10:32):
shed innocent blood, a heartthat devises wicked plans, feet
that make haste to run to evil,a false witness who reads out
lies, and one who sows discordamong brothers.
Okay, and so when I come backto verse 18, again, a heart that
devises wicked plans.
You know when you're when you're, when you're trying to get your
(10:53):
own way and you're trying tocome up with a way to take
somebody down.
Or you know, literally, youknow believers who are jealous
of other people if they'regetting promoted or they're.
You know things are happeningon the job and it's not
happening to you.
And so now you're, now you'reupset that that's not happening
to you, or God is, is elevatingmen and women of God around you,
(11:16):
and you're upset because whenis when, is it going to be my
turn?
That's a matter of the heart,and the heart corrupts, and so
what's seated in the heart isgoing to come out of your mouth,
and so a lot of us are speakingdeath into all of our
situations based on the, thecraziness that's going on in our
heart, right?
So forgiveness and the postureof the heart is important.
(11:39):
Our relationship with God andwith others is important, right,
really thinking about how we're, how we're healing, bringing
healing into our own lives, isimportant, and it stems from the
heart.
It really stems from the heart.
So there's three things that Iwant to leave with you guys, and
then I'm going to close thisout in prayer.
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Like I said, this is such athis is such a huge topic, and I
don't want to rush through it,but I just want to make sure
that I did a good job, a fair tomiddling job, in the same
America, to make sure that youhave at least some guidance, and
obviously, I want y'all to goback into the word and learn
more.
There's just three things thatI want to leave with you, and
(12:21):
the first one is that our heartsinfluence our faith and our
capacity, or our ability, toextend and receive forgiveness.
First of all, it's impossiblefor you to believe and have
faith in a God that you cannot.
I'm just doing air quotes forthose who are going to listen to
this on podcast audio.
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But, though, for it'simpossible to have a a faith
walk, it's impossible to have arelationship with God if your,
if your hearts aren't in theright place.
You're not even open toreceiving that kind of love.
That's the first thing.
But then your ability toreceive that love and and then
build on that forgiveness andthen extend and show forgiveness
(13:03):
you know, forgiveness whenyou're not getting anything back
, do you understand?
So our hearts are the, and theposture of our hearts influence
our faith, our beliefs in Godand our ability to extend, to
give and to receive forgiveness.
Okay, that's the first thing.
The second thing I'm going todrop it here in the chat is
(13:25):
really, really simple, and itbasically says this that a
forgiving heart brings healingto our own lives.
A forgiving heart bringshealing to our own lives.
And what is a forgiving heart?
So someone did me wrong and I'mnot looking to.
You know, I'm not seeking arecompense, I'm not seeking to
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go after that person and when Iforgive someone, you know it's
it's, it's that, it's therelease.
Also, it's forgiving andletting it go and not holding
onto it like a, like a prizefrom.
You know, back in 1978, when Iwas in high school, this person,
you know, this person reallyhurt me and I can't let it go.
Let it go, let go.
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Okay, let it go, but know thata forgiving heart brings healing
to our own lives, all right.
And then the last one I want toshare with you is really, really
important, especially for a lotof folks who are, you know,
asking God for help withgenerational curses.
You hear this all the time andagain I tell people that listen,
I have no curses.
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I stopped saying that over mylife.
My family's blessed, I'mblessed, and that's that Okay.
But the last one is that havinga heart postured to Christ, it
helps us with our reconciliationand how we restore the
interaction with people aroundus.
You cannot have solid, healthyrelationship when you have a
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heart that is just buried inhate, is buried in unforgiveness
, is feeding your thoughts?
Okay, you cannot.
It's not sustainable.
And again, a lot of people areon these streets asking for no
Lord, please break offgenerational curses.
And the curse sits with youbecause your heart is tied up in
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hate.
You can't let things go.
So it's really important thatyou understand that the position
and the posture of your hearthelps you with how you reconcile
or how you restorerelationships and how you
interact with people around you,and I don't just mean people in
your community, I mean peopleall around you, people on the
(15:37):
job, people at the store, peopleat the church, okay.
People at Target, people atWalmart, literally, how you show
up, your heart shows up in theway that you speak, your heart
shows up in the way that youinteract.
People can see your heartcoming, whether you believe it
or not.
So if you're someone who islooking and trying to figure out
how do I do this, just knowthat I am not on here by myself.
(16:01):
Okay, I am a woman of God.
I give everything, all andeverything that I do is because
of the Holy Spirit in me.
There are days when I mean look, my heart isn't.
I'm not perfect either.
We're all learning, and even attimes when I've been hurt y'all
hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt.
(16:22):
Okay, and needed to have thatposture I had to go back to the
Lord and ask for help.
Give me the strength, lord,give me the strength.
Right, give me the strength.
Yes, exactly.
Somebody in Facebook sayingletting go gives you a peace of
mind.
Yes, blessing, grateful.
Exactly.
And it you know the level ofstress and anxiety that I used
(16:43):
to have.
I don't have stress and anxietyanymore because I have let it
go and I give it to the Lord andhe's got it covered, okay.
And when you let it go and giveit to the Lord, don't take it
back, let Him.
Let Him deal with it, okay.
So that's so.
That's what I wanted to share.
So I'm going to lead us into aclosed out prayer.
Before we go, y'all, we have anevent coming up, if you're here
in Georgia, called Come Out ofthe Wilderness Women's Retreat.
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If you're interested, theinformation is usually in our
description on one of our manychannels.
If you can't find it, ping meon LinkedIn under Shelley
Jeffcoat and I will get it toyou.
We'd love to see you there inperson, and that is October 21st
, from, I think, 830 to 1.
It's going to be an amazing,amazing event.
So y'all come on out.
So, lord, we just thank you forgiving us another opportunity to
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hear your word from you, thankyou for your guidance, and I
thank you for leading us closerto you and helping us to
understand the position and theposture of our hearts.
So, lord, we position now andask for your forgiveness, lord,
for everything that we havethought or said or done, things
known and unknown, the way thatwe've responded to others, what
we say and how we show up atwork or how we show up in our
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families or God, ask that youwill just forgive us.
Now, lord, God, and we come toyou with humble hearts and ask
for you to just, lord, give us afresh start.
And you start today, and wethank you that the word says
that you will remember our sinsno more, and for those of us who
are truly humble and truly askme for forgiveness, we thank you
for that blessing.
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Now I pray, lord, over everyonewho is under my voice, whether
it's the live or the replay,wherever they're chiming in from
Lord God, that you will heartheir hearts and understand
their needs.
And I pray especially for thosewho are broken in spirit, lord
God, and those who are reallychallenged in this season and
seeking comfort and seeking yourstrength and they don't know
(18:34):
what to do or where to go, orthose who are looking for jobs
or having health issues orhaving issues within the family.
Lord, all of us standing needof your help.
And, lord, I pray that you willglorify yourself for me, so
that they see you and not me,and that the Holy Spirit will be
demonstrated in their lives insuch a special way that they
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will know that you are real Lord.
I know that we will.
I will never be put to shamebecause of who I am in you, and
I just ask now that the samegrace that you give me that you
extend to everyone under myvoice and that they will see
blessings beyond belief in thisday.
Thank you, lord, for anotherweek.
Bless every single one who'shere and again, especially those
who are catching us on thereplay.
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Know that this prayer reachesyou as well.
In Jesus' name.
Amen, wasn't that good?
Y'all?
We've got work to do.
We have work to do.
We have work to do.
Just remember that we have workto do and we're doing it
together.
All right, so y'all have anamazing rest of the week and I
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will be back next Thursday.
Bye.
Good morning, good morning y'all.
This is going to be a reallygood one.
Not all good, but I am so happyto be back here.
It's Thursday, which means it'stime for Come Out of the
Wilderness Prayer, and I'mShelly, so before we get into
the word, I just want to say aquick thank you and a shout out
to everyone who's watching.
(00:37):
We're on multiple channels, soall of the folks in our three
different Facebook groups andLinkedIn and YouTube and Twitter
, and especially the folks thatare watching us live on Prairie
Deck TV live.
So welcome back.
If this is your first time here,I'm here every Thursday at 7
o'clock and I share scripture,we do prayer and we have a
(01:01):
little bit of conversation.
So feel free to drop yourcomments and that way I can kind
of see who's here.
And please don't forget to likethe video so that that helps us
get the video out to more eyesand ears who need it.
All right, I think I dideverything that you're saying.
Good morning, laquita.
I think I did everything I'msupposed to do, admin wise.
(01:25):
So now we're going to get intothe word and this y'all so
matters of the heart is acomplex.
This is going to be a complexone.
I think we may have to do acouple of cycles of it, but if
you saw the description that Iprovided when I share this out,
it's really talking about theheart being the metaphor for the
(01:48):
seat of our emotions and ourdesires and our feelings, and so
I'm going to break this downinto three parts.
But the reason I'm doing thisis because there is such a
yearning within the body ofChrist to have a better
relationship with God, but noteverybody's yearning for it.
Okay, a lot of folks have kindof stepped away from the heart
(02:12):
of God and how we're usingthings that are happening here,
you know, here within the earth,right, things that are
happening around us, toinfluence or sometimes
manipulate what we want, fleshlythings that we want.
And so we're going to talkabout how the heart shapes our
actual spiritual journey.
So I'm going to talk throughsome notes that I have, but I'm
(02:35):
going to obviously take us backinto scripture to show you what
the Lord says about it, not whatShelley says about it, and then
we're going to close withprayer.
So the first thing is thinkingabout it from a physical
perspective, which is verysimple, right, the heart is
something we can't live without.
So just from a physicalperspective, the heart is an
(02:56):
incredibly important organ.
So we'll start there right.
So that's that.
We all agree with that.
Come argue over it.
We all agree that the heart asan organ is very important, but
the other area that I want toshift into is the emotional
aspects of the heart, and wethink about the heart.
We talk about the heart when itcomes to even believing God,
(03:18):
and how do we posture our heartso that we are humble and we're
forgiving?
How does that help us in ourfaith?
So I'm going to share anexample of the heart emotionally
and then I'm going to go intothe word and show you why the
heart is important spiritually.
So I had this dream last night.
(03:38):
I had this dream last nightthat it was a fight between
myself and my daughter.
My daughter is at this point,even in the dream, she's 14, so
it's current.
She looks like she looks, Ilook like I look, but for some
reason my daughter wanted tomove out of the house and she
wanted to go live somewhere, andin my head it was like on the
(04:00):
streets, because you know,you're 14, you don't have a job
where you're going to go.
Mind you all this is a dream,okay, even in the dream my
emotions are stirred up, allright.
So in this dream, because shewanted her independence and I
didn't think that she was readyfor it, I started setting up
situations to not help her getready for it.
(04:22):
So in the dream I was sayingthings like well, you can't take
those shoes, you can't takethat bag, you can't take those
clothes because I bought it.
And I started to strip awaythings that would have provided
her comfort for her becomingmore independent.
And it was because I washeartbroken.
I was heartbroken that therewas this separation that was
(04:47):
happening, and so I started tocreate ways, y'all, I started to
create ways that would make itharder for that separation of
independence to happen.
That is a matter of the heartthat is responding in an
emotional way, and that is whatalmost like what manipulation
would look like.
(05:07):
Except there are problemmothers who would say, oh, I
totally get it, because you knowit's hard for us to break away
from our babies, and Iunderstand that feeling, feeling
.
But this is an example of howthe heart, as an emotion, kind
of takes over your common sense.
Right, because the head mighttell you objectively don't do
(05:28):
such a thing.
But the heart has feelings andI don't care how smart you are,
once the head and the heartstart to argue, you're gonna
fall towards the heart more thanlikely, because we all wanna go
for the feeling of what it isthat we want.
So that's an example, and it'sa horrible example because as a
mom, I don't wanna ever putmyself in a position where I am
(05:53):
causing that kind of turmoil.
But it literally was just anexample that came in a dream and
I just wanted to share y'all areal life, y'all An example of a
heart's desire, right, cause alot of people throw that out all
the time.
The heart want what's the heartwant, okay, and your head will
help you convince your heartthat that's what you should do.
So that's an example of it, allright.
(06:14):
So now I'm gonna shift tospiritual and I'm gonna bring up
my Bible gateway.
Just bear with me.
I think this is gonna helpy'all.
So if you don't have your word,don't worry about it.
But this is Matthew 15, verses18 through 20.
This is coming from the Lordand this is the ESB version.
Y'all know that's how I rock,cause it's easier and the word
(06:36):
says but what comes out of themouth proceeds from the heart,
and this defiles a person.
Let's just pause right there.
What's coming out of your mouthproceeds from the heart, and
this defiles a person.
You know what you're actuallysaying is coming from your heart
, and so there's a lot of folksthat will say things and it's
(06:57):
actually just reflecting what'sin your heart.
Right, there's a connection inyour mind and your heart.
So what comes out of your mouthproceeds from the heart, and
this defiles a person.
Verse 19, for out of the heartcome evil thoughts.
Murder, adultery, sexualimmorality, theft, false witness
(07:19):
, slander these are what defilea person.
But to eat with unwashed handsis not defile anyone, and the
Lord was.
He was making reference to someof the physical laws that were
set up back in the Old Testamentabout washing hands, et cetera.
So it's not about, you know,unwashed hands or those physical
(07:41):
things, right Things that we'veestablished as a law.
This is talking about what'scoming out of our hearts.
So, if you notice this and Ithink a lot of Christians get
this really confused in verse 19, where it calls out for out of
the heart come evil thoughts,and people tend to separate.
Well, if it's in your head,it's not really coming from your
heart, but your heart feedswhat you're thinking, your heart
(08:03):
feeds what you're saying, yourheart feeds your action and your
perception.
There is a connection there,and so that's why having a pure
heart is so important.
So I'm gonna stop sharing.
In Psalm 51, when we talk aboutthere's a prayer, that I use
this prayer all the time, psalm51, for you know, when I am
(08:24):
going into confession or I'm ina season where I just, you know,
listen, I need to, I need to, Ineed to pure heart myself.
So in Psalm 51, it talks aboutthe Lord, the sacrifices of the
Lord, is a broken spirit and acontrite heart.
I'm just paraphrasing because Idon't have it in front of me.
(08:44):
But a broken spirit and acontrite heart is the posture.
It's going before God humbly.
It's not going to God, like youknow, like you even deserve to
be here right, it's being humblewhen you're going to ask for
forgiveness, and so that postureof the heart is something that
we all do if you're trying totrying to work out your
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forgiveness and all those things.
So the heart is so important.
You know, this is again, youknow, when I meet Christians who
are hard heartened, who arejudgmental.
Okay, you know who are reallyquick to judge, who are really
quick to gossip.
You know there's a lot ofChristians and y'all Christians,
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y'all, y'all are what ishappening.
You know, when I hear aChristian and then I hear hate
come out of their mouth, hatefor one another, hate for a
neighbor, hate for someone whodoesn't look like them, just
pure hate, I can, I tell.
I know what's on your heart,because I can hear it coming out
of your mouth and that doesn'tplease God.
I'm telling you right now, Ionly please you and your friends
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, but that doesn't please theLord.
Okay, that is a matter of theheart, that you have to go back
to the Lord humbly and ask forforgiveness, but he, he, he is
not the kind of father that.
That that's okay.
In Proverbs Proverbs six, verse16, I was looking at this this
morning.
I don't have it on the screen,I'm just going to share it with
you.
Proverbs six, 16 through 19.
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Y'all can go back and checkthis out and it talks about the,
the, the.
There are seven things that arean abomination to the Lord.
There's six things that theLord hates.
Yes, he does hate me.
Okay, there are six things thatthe Lord hates seven that are
an abomination to him.
And to list them out Lottieeyes, lime tongue, hands that
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shed innocent blood, a heartthat devises wicked plans, feet
that make haste to run to evil,a false witness who reads out
lies, and one who sows discordamong brothers.
Okay, and so when I come backto verse 18, again, a heart that
devises wicked plans.
You know when you're when you're, when you're trying to get your
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own way and you're trying tocome up with a way to take
somebody down.
Or you know, literally, youknow believers who are jealous
of other people if they'regetting promoted or they're.
You know things are happeningon the job and it's not
happening to you.
And so now you're, now you'reupset that that's not happening
to you, or God is, is elevatingmen and women of God around you,
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and you're upset because whenis when, is it going to be my
turn?
That's a matter of the heart,and the heart corrupts, and so
what's seated in the heart isgoing to come out of your mouth,
and so a lot of us are speakingdeath into all of our
situations based on the, thecraziness that's going on in our
heart, right?
So forgiveness and the postureof the heart is important.
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Our relationship with God andwith others is important, right,
really thinking about how we're, how we're healing, bringing
healing into our own lives, isimportant, and it stems from the
heart.
It really stems from the heart.
So there's three things that Iwant to leave with you guys, and
then I'm going to close thisout in prayer.
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Like I said, this is such athis is such a huge topic, and I
don't want to rush through it,but I just want to make sure
that I did a good job, a fair tomiddling job, in the same
America, to make sure that youhave at least some guidance, and
obviously, I want y'all to goback into the word and learn
more.
There's just three things thatI want to leave with you, and
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the first one is that our heartsinfluence our faith and our
capacity, or our ability, toextend and receive forgiveness.
First of all, it's impossiblefor you to believe and have
faith in a God that you cannot.
I'm just doing air quotes forthose who are going to listen to
this on podcast audio.
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But, though, for it'simpossible to have a a faith
walk, it's impossible to have arelationship with God if your,
if your hearts aren't in theright place.
You're not even open toreceiving that kind of love.
That's the first thing.
But then your ability toreceive that love and and then
build on that forgiveness andthen extend and show forgiveness
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you know, forgiveness whenyou're not getting anything back
, do you understand?
So our hearts are the, and theposture of our hearts influence
our faith, our beliefs in Godand our ability to extend, to
give and to receive forgiveness.
Okay, that's the first thing.
The second thing I'm going todrop it here in the chat is
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really, really simple, and itbasically says this that a
forgiving heart brings healingto our own lives.
A forgiving heart bringshealing to our own lives.
And what is a forgiving heart?
So someone did me wrong and I'mnot looking to.
You know, I'm not seeking arecompense, I'm not seeking to
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go after that person and when Iforgive someone, you know it's
it's, it's that, it's therelease.
Also, it's forgiving andletting it go and not holding
onto it like a, like a prizefrom.
You know, back in 1978, when Iwas in high school, this person,
you know, this person reallyhurt me and I can't let it go.
Let it go, let go.
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Okay, let it go, but know thata forgiving heart brings healing
to our own lives, all right.
And then the last one I want toshare with you is really, really
important, especially for a lotof folks who are, you know,
asking God for help withgenerational curses.
You hear this all the time andagain I tell people that listen,
I have no curses.
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I stopped saying that over mylife.
My family's blessed, I'mblessed, and that's that Okay.
But the last one is that havinga heart postured to Christ, it
helps us with our reconciliationand how we restore the
interaction with people aroundus.
You cannot have solid, healthyrelationship when you have a
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heart that is just buried inhate, is buried in unforgiveness
, is feeding your thoughts?
Okay, you cannot.
It's not sustainable.
And again, a lot of people areon these streets asking for no
Lord, please break offgenerational curses.
And the curse sits with youbecause your heart is tied up in
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hate.
You can't let things go.
So it's really important thatyou understand that the position
and the posture of your hearthelps you with how you reconcile
or how you restorerelationships and how you
interact with people around you,and I don't just mean people in
your community, I mean peopleall around you, people on the
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job, people at the store, peopleat the church, okay.
People at Target, people atWalmart, literally, how you show
up, your heart shows up in theway that you speak, your heart
shows up in the way that youinteract.
People can see your heartcoming, whether you believe it
or not.
So if you're someone who islooking and trying to figure out
how do I do this, just knowthat I am not on here by myself.
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Okay, I am a woman of God.
I give everything, all andeverything that I do is because
of the Holy Spirit in me.
There are days when I mean look, my heart isn't.
I'm not perfect either.
We're all learning, and even attimes when I've been hurt y'all
hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt.
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Okay, and needed to have thatposture I had to go back to the
Lord and ask for help.
Give me the strength, lord,give me the strength.
Right, give me the strength.
Yes, exactly.
Somebody in Facebook sayingletting go gives you a peace of
mind.
Yes, blessing, grateful.
Exactly.
And it you know the level ofstress and anxiety that I used
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to have.
I don't have stress and anxietyanymore because I have let it
go and I give it to the Lord andhe's got it covered, okay.
And when you let it go and giveit to the Lord, don't take it
back, let Him.
Let Him deal with it, okay.
So that's so.
That's what I wanted to share.
So I'm going to lead us into aclosed out prayer.
Before we go, y'all, we have anevent coming up, if you're here
in Georgia, called Come Out ofthe Wilderness Women's Retreat.
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If you're interested, theinformation is usually in our
description on one of our manychannels.
If you can't find it, ping meon LinkedIn under Shelley
Jeffcoat and I will get it toyou.
We'd love to see you there inperson, and that is October 21st
, from, I think, 830 to 1.
It's going to be an amazing,amazing event.
So y'all come on out.
So, lord, we just thank you forgiving us another opportunity to
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hear your word from you, thankyou for your guidance, and I
thank you for leading us closerto you and helping us to
understand the position and theposture of our hearts.
So, lord, we position now andask for your forgiveness, lord,
for everything that we havethought or said or done, things
known and unknown, the way thatwe've responded to others, what
we say and how we show up atwork or how we show up in our
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families or God, ask that youwill just forgive us.
Now, lord, God, and we come toyou with humble hearts and ask
for you to just, lord, give us afresh start.
And you start today, and wethank you that the word says
that you will remember our sinsno more, and for those of us who
are truly humble and truly askme for forgiveness, we thank you
for that blessing.
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Now I pray, lord, over everyonewho is under my voice, whether
it's the live or the replay,wherever they're chiming in from
Lord God, that you will heartheir hearts and understand
their needs.
And I pray especially for thosewho are broken in spirit, lord
God, and those who are reallychallenged in this season and
seeking comfort and seeking yourstrength and they don't know
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what to do or where to go, orthose who are looking for jobs
or having health issues orhaving issues within the family.
Lord, all of us standing needof your help.
And, lord, I pray that you willglorify yourself for me, so
that they see you and not me,and that the Holy Spirit will be
demonstrated in their lives insuch a special way that they
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will know that you are real Lord.
I know that we will.
I will never be put to shamebecause of who I am in you, and
I just ask now that the samegrace that you give me that you
extend to everyone under myvoice and that they will see
blessings beyond belief in thisday.
Thank you, lord, for anotherweek.
Bless every single one who'shere and again, especially those
who are catching us on thereplay.
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Know that this prayer reachesyou as well.
In Jesus' name.
Amen, wasn't that good?
Y'all?
We've got work to do.
We have work to do.
We have work to do.
Just remember that we have workto do and we're doing it
together.
All right, so y'all have anamazing rest of the week and I
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will be back next Thursday.
Bye.
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