MOLD ME LORD!

MOLD ME LORD!

‭Jeremiah 18:3-10 NLT‬
[3] So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. [4] But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over. [5] Then the Lord gave me this message: [6] “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.

– My heart’s desire is that the Lord strips away the parts of me that are my flesh, (my desires of sinful nature) and mold me into the person he desires me to become. This is what surrenderence looks like. Submitting our lives over to the kneeding of our Maker. Where we say, “Here I am Lord, do with me as you may!” Then he forms us as he see’s fits. For he knows the true motives of our hearts!!! –

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[7] If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed, [8] but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned. [9] And if I announce that I will plant and build up a certain nation or kingdom, [10] but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it as I said I would.

– The Lord is looking for humble, submissive, and obedient children. He wants us to be strong IN him, he wants us to ABIDE IN HIM. He wants us to succeed THRU Him! He wants to build HIS kingdom thru US. He wants to have willing and usuable vessles! He doesn’t want us telling HIM what HE should do. He wants us to take HIS WORDS and DECLARE it! We do have authority, but it’s only BY HIS SPIRIT and THRU HIS NAME Jesus! We have a job to do and it’s to examine our hearts and keep it pure! Be the PURE BRIDE of Christ with our oil lanterns FULL.

‭Jeremiah 17:9-10 NLT‬
[9] “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? [10] But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”

– He knows whether what we do on the outside relfects our motives of our hearts or whether it is out of a place of selfish ambition. LORD, I ask that you strip away all selfishness in me and use me to carry out your plan, will, and ways!!!