The Power of Repentance Part 1 02-18-26

Do you need to fast so that you can take your attention off of the material things and be more sensitive to the voice of God? It's a time to hear from him. You won't know what his direction is. You won't know what what your individual manual is if you can't hear from God. So as you spend more time in the word, as you prepare your vessel so that you could hear from God more readily, and then you make a commitment to respond to what you hear consistently. I'm here to tell you my beloved, you will make more progress in the next forty days than you've you've made in many many months. [00:17:19] (45 seconds)  #FastToHearGod

No matter what you do, it might appear as though a change happens in one juncture of time, but that's just how it appears. Just like when you're watching the Olympics and you see those figure skaters or those see those people going down the slalom and what have you. They look fantastic, but they put so many hours in when nobody was watching. They were getting themselves ready for the moment that everyone else would see. And so when it comes to repentance, it is not a natural work, but it is a spiritual work, and more specifically, it is an exercise of the heart. [00:03:10] (43 seconds)  #RepentanceIsPractice

And my beloved, what will happen in our life is we will put more effort in, and we'll put more money in, and we'll put more time in, and we'll make our connections, and we don't get ahead because we're missing a critical piece, and that's because we're operating by the manual of the world instead of the manual of the word. [00:10:05] (22 seconds)  #ManualOfTheWord

Therefore, my beloved, I maintain that the Lenten season is a time for you to decide what your treasure is. It's a time to make a shift, a shift of desire at the heart level. And this purification, this redirection, this fortification that allows us to have this new genuine burning desire for God is what can change the entire trajectory of your life going forward. [00:05:27] (40 seconds)  #LentHeartShift

And therefore, would say to you, my beloved, that we all want to change something in our life. I mean, repentance is change. It's saying you're going in a direction and things aren't working out quite the way you know they should, and you wanna change something, but you just don't know how to change it. And so we just jump in, and then we spin our wheels, we work hard, and we press, and we invest, and then we just don't seem to be getting anywhere. And I think often it is because we are forgetting about the need for preparation. [00:02:26] (45 seconds)  #PrepareForChange

That change requires a motivation and a movement of the heart. Now what is with the heart? The heart is our seed of motivation. The heart is our burning fire, the engine that makes us go. It is the seed of our initiative. And therefore, we could be moving in mind and moving in body, but if we're not moving in heart, then we don't get to where we know we need to be because we just aren't burning in desire genuinely for that destination that we want to at least believe that we really wanna get to. [00:03:53] (48 seconds)  #MoveFromTheHeart

He's giving us the manual. What he's saying is that if you store up for yourself treasures on earth, it might look like you're getting ahead, but you're really not. And he said, but if you store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, it might not look like you're getting ahead to everyone else, but you really are. [00:10:39] (21 seconds)  #TreasuresInHeaven

We do it because it is pure and it is holy and it is right and it is of God. And that's the only reason why we're doing it. That is how we begin to store up treasures in heaven. And it says that the more we do those things for the right reasons in the right way, the more our heart becomes more acclimated and associated to the point where we are now plotting ourselves a pathway into the kingdom of God. [00:12:21] (30 seconds)  #PureIntentions