WHOLE HEART

Jeremiah 17:5-18< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

ÒThen I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.Ó (Jeremiah 24:7) Ask God today to give you a heart that He has promised to give you. Ask Him for the heart that will never be accessible to Satan anymore and in anyway. The same Jeremiah described the heart in Jeremiah 17:9-10, Ò The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? Without any doubt, the heart seems to be the prime target for the enemy to take over the life of a man. How are you keeping yours from becoming a victim of Satan? Once, Ananias, having sold his possessions in the spirit of blessing fellow believers, he allowed Satan to enter his heart. Acts 5:3, ÒBut Peter said, ÒAnanias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?Ó Satan is a trick master and is always after the heart as his playground. Thank God we have the Truth master in Jesus, and He is always in place for us when we call on Him. It was also reported that Satan entered Judas, ÒThen Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. 4 So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.Ó (Luke 22:3-4) There is no other place that Satan could have entered in Judas that could have been more effective than the heart. Both Ananias and Judas died an untimely death because their heart became the victim of Satan. GodÕs promise of giving a new heart included the fact that after giving a new heart, there shall be a return to Him with a whole heart.  A whole heart is what it will take to get to His Promised Land; a whole heart is what it will take not to doubt Him, a whole heart is what it will take for man not to complain against Him, a whole heart is what it will take not to die in the wilderness journey. Whole is all that made Caleb not to confess negative after spying on the Promised Land and it is also what gave him life where thousands of people failed to get to the expected end. There is no man that can follow God fully except if the heart is guided against the moves of Satan. A heart that follows God fully is a whole heart and whole heart is what God has promised to give. Caleb followed Him fully because of his whole heart and God testified in Numbers 14:24, ÒBut My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.Ó Ask Him to give you a heart to be whole in Him.