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The theme for our church this year has been "A Heart for God." My husband has been preaching messages about having a heart for God on Sunday mornings and applying that to different areas of our lives. One morning someone asked him, "How do I know I have a heart for God?" After some study, my husband found these truths in the life of David, a man after God's own heart. When I have a heart for God . . . The priority of my life will be my relationship with God. The Psalms are full of David's desire to be close to God. When my heart is fixed on God, I'll make time each day for Him by having a quiet time of devotions. I'll make time each week to go to church. I'll communicate with Him in prayer and allow Him to communicate with me through His Word. My top priority will be keeping myself in fellowship with God. "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." Psalm 55:17 The place of my trust is i...

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Matthew 13:44 I read of a lady recently who had been putting off cleaning out an old purse. When she finally cleaned it out, she found $100.00 and a gift card to a department store that was about to expire! It had been right under her nose every day while she had gone right by it, cleaned around it, and thought about it. She found a treasure that she didn't even realize was there! The man in this verse may have walked past this particular field every day for years. He didn't pay much attention to it, because it was just like every other field, full of rocks, weeds, briars, trash; but little did he know that there was treasure to be had in that field. And when he finally stumbled across that treasure, he went and sold all that he had to buy the field, so he could have that treasure. It must h...

I've been asked to join in writing for the KJV Blog Directory , a group of bloggers of like faith. This entry is cross-posted there. Thanks, Deb, for allowing me to join in with you ladies! Prayer [9] Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. [10] For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. (2Cr 7:9-10 KJV) I saw an application of these verses several years ago that was a help to me. The primary interpretation of these verses is pertaining to salvation, but the application I'd like to make is in how we respond to sin in our daily lives. How many times have you had to go to God for forgiveness for the same sin? Did you feel frustrated and hopeless? Or did you find peace with God? Were you freed from the guilt of that particular sin? The difference in your reactions may be the...

Saving Grace Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency. Vance Havner