I’ve Had an Open-Heart Transplant Surgery!
As you know…or may not know, I have been helping out raising money for children/adults who are in need of open-heart transplant surgeries at Penang Adventist Hospital here in Penang, Malaysia(See blog:“GOD Heals, We Help…for more details)for my final month of ministry before I come home. And during this time, I’ve been thinking to myself about how excited I am about trying to raise as much money as we can for these children/adults who are need of these open-heart transplant surgeries! Then it hit me…GOD gave me a revelation concerning this! And thatrevelationis…just as the doctors who perform these open-heart transplant surgeries on these children/adults…that’s what GOD has been performing on me for the last 11 months on this World Race. HE has been performing open-heart transplant surgery on me….changing me from the inside-out…WOW!
Some of the ways that GOD has performed this surgery on and in my heart is as follows:
· Removing my “in the BOX” heart mentality of HIM (not limiting HIM in what HE can do)…so HE can be in the center of my heart & my life in all I do ;
· Carving out pride, self-righteousness & legalism…those of which that have caused me to try to
become the so called “perfect” Christian;
· Fusing thankfulness into my heart…not waiting until there is something to be thankful for…
thank you GOD for my new heart J;
· Puncturing my heart with compassion for the needy, poor, orphans and the lost;
· Incisioning a deeper desire into my heart to take time to be still, to be with HIM & to listen to HIM
more;
· Injecting into my heart a joy to serve HIM & to serve others;
· Recovering my heart to love HIM more & to love people more….unconditionally
(Not to judge, but to love);
· Discharging a passion within my heart to see HIS will be done in order to see HIS Kingdom come!
So…don’t be surprised when I get home. You may recognize me by my outward physical appearance, but probably not by the inward physical appearance within my heart. GOD has performed an open-heart transplant surgery on me and has given me a new & healthier heart…thank you GOD!
“I (GOD) will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I (GOD) will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”
And I’m not so foolish to think that just because GOD has given me a new heart during these last 11 months, that it won’t get infected or may fail from time to time. But if this does happen, then I know HE will be my healer because I know that GOD wants me to have a heart like HIS… and so do I! Therefore, I come in agreement with and am thankful for the promise of
HIS Word…
“For I am confident of this very thing, that HE (GOD) who began a good work in you (me) will perfect it until the day of CHRIST JESUS.”
So, my question(s) to you is…
Will you allow GOD to do an open-heart transplant surgery on you? And will you let HIM do whatever it takes to bring healing to your heart to let it become more like HIS?
If so, you will be glad you did…
So you too can have a healthy, lively & growing Heart for JESUS!”
Thank you GOD that ” in CHRIST you have made me complete“…
for when “I was dead in my sins and in the uncircumcision of my flesh,
YOU made me alive with CHRIST
forgiving me of all my sins”…amen!
(Colossians 2:10, 13)
