God has divine favorites. A repentant heart is key if one is to be a divine favorite. God wants people who do not harbor sin, but who confess & repent of it. Consider king David. He committed adultery & murder, but still God regarded him as a man after His own heart. Why? How on earth could He do that? Because king David was a repentant person. He never justified or defended sin. When challenged of his sin, he would repent. As a king, he had the power to kill Nathan for confronting him of his sin with Bathsheba. Kings, president's, prime minister's today do that. They abuse their power. But king David never did that, even where he had the best opportunity to do so. He had several opportunities to kill king Saul, but he never did so. He would not touch the Lord's anointed. Let us be repentant Christians. Let our lives produce fruit in keeping with our repentance. Let us pray His will always & obey God & His Word in total. Let us seek His righteousness & live a life of holiness. The Lord will make you a divine favorite. God bless you all.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds & write them on their hearts. I will be their God, & they will be My people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10-11). If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant & difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live the Christian way. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wanting to obey God. With new hearts, hearts of flesh & not hearts of stone, we will find that serving God is our greatest joy. Under God's new covenant, God's law is inside us & not outside, ie, on a tablet of stone. No, it's written in our hearts. It is no longer an external set of rules & principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our ...
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