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Is your heart powerless, excited but rootless, anxious or fruitful?

Catalina Island

ROAD - A powerless heart

From a powerless, indifferent, sterile, and defenseless heart that is not able to keep your Word but leaves space for the Accuser to snatch it from it, deliver us, Jesus.

ROCKS - An excited but rootles heart

From stirred and excited but rootless heart which seeks short enchantments to feed the hunger for emotional high but under external pressures or desires appearing as fascinating hops to the next newest attraction, deliver us, Jesus.

This is a plague of our times: we talk in terms of having passion, getting excited, having fervor and we aim at producing those things at our meetings, yet not in the hearts of those who are close to us.

Our effort to ignite the fervor ends shortly after our input is given, be it a well organized meeting, great talk etc. our efforts don’t bring much fruit bc the hearts of people are weak and restless from seeking continual triggers to get satisfied.

We want to be fascinated by the effects of God’s grace so much that we might end up as those who pursue holiness, pursue wholeness, pursue integrity, pursue supernatural, pursue virtuous life, pursue noble causes, pursue social Justice, but not Jesus Himself, not God the Father Himself. Our roads to Him are empty of Him, they have rocky sides and we like to sit there instead of moving toward Him, they have plenty of thorns growing all over and we don’t even mind it anymore. The vision of Jesus is obscured on the road. We don’t even see that He is hiding in a plain site.

Big Bear Lake

Big Bear Lake

THORNS - An anxious heart

From an anxious and troubled heart that is choked by the overpowering pleasures, overcome by deadly temptations, wearied from worry, deliver us, Jesus.

RICH - A fruitful heart

We ask for a heart that is bruised but content, softened by your Word and moistured by our tears, forgiven and forgiving, still and aroused at your Voice, peaceful enough to be content with one thing and radical enough to follow you to Gethsemane and the tomb, beautiful enough to run with you from the empty tomb and committed enough to do mundane tasks which hide the glory of your Presence.

We ask for the impossible because we want to walk the road of freedom.

A parable about the sower. Matt 13, Mark 4.