I will turn your religious feasts into mourning & all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth & shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an an only son & the end of it like a bitter day. (Amos 8:10). God Almighty, I thank you for Jesus. Thank you for hearing & answering all my prayers. I ask you God to relent from making this harsh judgement on us. Have mercy on us. Let your mercy locate us & speak for us. Wash us clean by the blood of Jesus. We confess our sins & repent of them. Restore us Lord in Jesus name, Amen. Heaven Rules.
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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