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Heart Transformation from a
Group Leaders Prospective
- Why Heart Transformation - to help
encourage people to discover a passionate love for God
- Nothing really changes unless
the heart changes (people honor me with their lips, but their
hearts are far from me)
- We are living a numbed down,
dumbed down spiritual experience from what the Lord identified
- We are chained to sin (wrong
desires), we are not free (Rom. 6)
- We are not overflowing with
hope, joy, love, power and thanksgiving
- We are not doing the things
than Jesus did (Jn 14:12)
- Because the "body" is not
focused on building the Kingdom
- Because we are weak in faith
- What is a Transformed Heart
- Loving with "all" our heart
(Luke 10:27)
- Trusting Him fully: His plan and
in His promises
- Desiring/experiencing His
continual presence
- Being "full" of Spirit of God
(not drunk w/wine but full)
- Experiencing the abundant life (Jn
10:10b) and rec. 100x's as much in this present age & in the age
to come (Mk 10:30)
- Learning the partnership
experience between us and God
- Bearing fruit (John 15)
- Exhibiting overflowing
- What is the disconnect between Heart
Transformation and how we live life?
- We are lukewarm and don't know
it & therefore aren't experiencing the abundant life God
promises (John 10:10b)
- We have impure hearts and
sometimes don't know it or deal with it (James - mirror)
- We have wrong motives - every
inclination of man's heart is only evil (Gen. 6:5)
- We are holding back, we only
surrender part of our life and heart
- We deny the truth and don't take
it literally, don't deal with issues we would rather just keep
moving on to the next thing/lesson/point (mirror)
- We really don't believe God has
a better plan
- Influenced by our culture more
than we know / compare ourselves to man's standards vs. Gods
- We assume that more "knowledge"
will change us, if that were true the Pharisees would have been
in great shape
- We each have footholds by which
the principalities and powers distract us from a right heart
focus
- We live a "transferred life"
believing it's a "transformed life"
- Pilgrim pitfalls & traps - gates of
opportunity for growth
- To whose voice do I listen -
stop the noise & listen
- Doubt & fear - not believing the
impossible
- too little/lacking faith
- not entrusting Him or His plan
- Whose glory - it's really about
me not about His Kingdom
- Not seeking His refuge &
protection
- Pride - who is great
- thinking: I can do it with some
of Your help
- Footholds - personal
vulnerabilities
- heart is unprotected
- justify sin in my life - old
habits and patterns
- Without dependence on Him
- Not praying, not worshipping Him
- ineffective prayer
- Not expecting radical change
- not looking for or expecting
soul surgery
- should be responding
counter-culturally vs. the same old way
- Doing my will, not His
- not desiring what the Spirit
desires
- not joining Him in what He is
doing
- Blindness to my sin, not
teachable
- Unwilling to do what He says now
with urgency
- Downplay or minimize His message
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