The Spiritual Temple

The Heart Transformation & Indwelling

Blessings brothers and sisters,

            Now that you are allowing the Holy Spirit to bear witness, I pray that you will have eyes to see and ears to hear. 

            For in Revelation chapter 3 Jesus (Yeshua) states, 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 
22 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”.”

            Once we wholeheartedly accept Christ’s invitation, we are ultimately giving Him permission to perform heart surgery on us. As the Great Physician and Healer, He knows that we are in desperate need of a change of heart.

In Jeremiah 17, The Word says,

“The heart is deceitful above all things,

And desperately wicked;

Who can know it?

10 I, the LORD, search the heart,

I test the mind,

Even to give every man according to his ways,

According to the fruit of his doings”.

This is why it is vital for us to acknowledge our need for Him. We must be willing to accept his invitation because we cannot save ourselves. As we allow the Lord to search our hearts, we will begin to experience a complete transformation of the heart, renewal of the mind and ultimately the revival of our spirits.

This transformation of our hearts and revivals of spirits has been articulated eloquently in the 36^th chapter of Ezekiel.

In this chapter the prophet proclaims The Word of the Lord, 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

Theses scriptures allow us to understand our need for Jesus our Great Physician and Healer. Therefore, by allowing Him to perform heart surgery in our lives, we will learn how to allow His glory and will to be manifested in our lives.

This week’s Prayer: Psalm 51:10-12

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.

Let the Spirit bear Testimony: Receive the Living Water

Greetings brothers and sisters,

            Are you allowing the Holy Spirit to bear witness to you, that you are indeed children of El Elyon the Most High God (Romans 8:16 paraphrased)?

            Remember, it is the spirit who gives life and the flesh profits nothing (John 6:63). A perfect demonstration of this was when Jesus (Yeshua) was speaking to the Samaritan woman at the well with whom He offered living water. He (Yeshua) told her, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:24).

            As believers we have all been extended a personal invitation by the Messiah (Ha – Mashiach) to receive this living water. In the seventh chapter of John, Jesus (Yeshua) continues this invitation by stating, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John7:37-38).

            Brothers and sisters the living water Jesus (Yeshua) offers us is his Holy Spirit, as articulated in verse 39 of John 7. We are to allow the Living Water to transform us because He (the Holy Spirit) bears witness within us to the truth and power of Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha-Mashiach) and who we are in Him. Ephesians 1:17 clearly states, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him”.

            Having the wisdom and revelation of the Messiah (Ha-Mashiach) allows us to overcome this world. In the epistle of 1st John we see a lucid depiction of the certainty of the witness and power of God’s Holy Spirit, John states,

“5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 6 This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one” (1 John 5:5-8).

           

This week I encourage you to allow the Holy Spirit to bear witness to your inner man (heart, mind and soul). If you have time study John 5:30-47 and 8:12-59, these verses depict Jesus giving account of the Holy Spirit who bears witness in Him. Allow the power and the truth of the living water to flow forth and watch the beauty of God’s testimony shine forth in your life. 

This week’s Prayer: 1 Corinthians 1:4-9

            4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5 that you are enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony of Christ is confirmed in you, 7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Scripture to Reflect on this week

Hebrews 10:15 But the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, 
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.