Daily Huddle - Sat Apr 4, 2020 Something Learned

Love you all, praying for you. 
 
God reminding me recently,  Proverbs 22:11 – He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.   There is no place on earth where it is not a distinct advantage to have the king as your friend.  This is talking about the King of kings, and the LORD of lords.  He or she who...  There’s always that question, are you the who?  Much of God’s Word does not apply to everybody, just the ones who….  He who loves a pure heart.  Loves – to have affection for, to be drawn to, long for, never want to be without.  A pure heart.  Unmixed, unstained, undefiled, not multiple, but singular.  Separate from all extraneous matter, clear, free from mixture.  A heart which is after God’s Word, God’s Will, and God’s Ways.  Singular – undistracted, untainted, undeterred.  They will have the King as their friend.  God will be their friend.  So how do you love a pure heart?  First purify it, then keep it clean, and you’ll learn to love it.  Some people don't love a pure heart - because they don't know what it's like to have one.  If anything in your heart is mixed.  Confess, repent and turn from it.  Of course you can’t by yourself – that’s what God gives Grace! Divine power to say "No" to anything that wants to get "mixed in".  Once you confess and repent, believe He has forgiven you.  You might as well, because it's true.  He said it, and if He didn’t He would be a liar.  And if you think your sin is too big for him to forgive or cleanse, or your heart is too dark for him to make clean – that’s just ignorance, and arrogance.  And once He sweeps it clean.  Keep it unmixed by filling it with the pure Word of God.  You’ll never love a pure heart – until it's pure and you keep it pure for a while.  First live it then you’ll love it.  The one thing that purifies your heart – keeps your heart pure - is The Word of God.  How shall a young an cleanse his way? by taking heed according to your word.  That’s why PRISM is so important those five things you can do in every day in God's Word!   God will reveal himself to you– the pure truth, the One and Only God.  Increase your dose of PRISM – and fill your heart with your own mouth.  The Holy Spirit will help you, God promised.  Every choice to come back to His Word – to keep it in your mouth, on your tongue, so it’s in your heart – is what makes a pure heart, a clean heart, an unmixed heart – your default.  It’s how you get the KING as your friend.  And He can make things happen – on your behalf.  He has the power to work things out in your favor.  The more you do PRISM – and do it out loud, the more your heart is pure, stays pure, and the more you learn to love a pure heart.  The other half of His WORD is action.  And whose speech is gracious…  they always use words that are kind, favorable, beautiful, pleasant, grace-filled, benevolent, merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and impart unmerited blessings.  What do your words say?  First what you say to yourself, because what you say to yourself – you will say to others.  Do you love a pure heart? (a heart completely focused on God’s Word, His Will, and His Way?)  And are the words you say, kind, merciful, forgiving, pleasant?  It is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance.  Do your words indicate you speak for Him?  PRISM will change your words, and fill your heart.  It will purify it – it will get rid of the foreign mixtures.  The Holy Spirit will convict you – inviting you to things better.  What you used to say and be drawn to – become foreign, because all the foreign items in your heart – have been purified out!  PiVAT will have you doing God’s plans for you each day – and PRISM will confirm what He said – and purify your speech as well as your heart.  Romans 12:1-2.  The more you walk in His ways – the more His will becomes known.  Your obedience brings evidence.  A pure heart – unmixed – a heart after God.  This will position you for His power, His counsel, His provision, His blessing, and the close relationship reserved only for those “who…”  The ones closest to their Father always know him the best, they are the most confident in His love for them, and they always get the most of everything He has.  Praying that His Word – is your greatest affection – that it purifies your speech and your heart – so you get so used to an unmixed heart that you begin to love it.  So you can come to see what your friend the KING can do as your heart is joined with His.   
 
Love you all,
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