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-Contending for God’s Heart (Part 4)ruconsumed.orgEncountering the Passionate Heart of God
Review
Fast and pray because we have God’s approval.
Prayer is essential. Fasting/consecration
is a way of emptying our hearts.
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Faithfulness
I believe that your usefulness to God is strongly related not to your talent but to your faithfulness.
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Gen 49:3-4 KJV Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: (4) Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
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Sin Distractions Emotions
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“As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God…Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You” (Ps 42:1,5-6)
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“But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” (Ps 131:2)
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Impatience with results
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1Co 3:6-7 NASB I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. (7) So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
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Gal 6:7-9 KJV Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (8) For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (9) And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
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Sin Distractions Emotions Impatience with results
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