Good Morning Sunshine! It’s Time To Rend Your Heart! 

Joel 2:12-13 NKJV ~ Now, therefore,” says the LORD, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” [13] So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.”

This is your place to repent and return to God, and to not just outwardly express sorrow but an inward expression of love. God is merciful and you need to know it! 

I’m in a prayer community, and Prophetess Kenita shared this profound message with us. “You may think that you are ready for the next and then you realize that you have found yourself still in the same place and not knowing why you can’t move forward. It could be that you have not repented, thus contaminating your heart, (your inner you, is your enemy) that is preventing the hand of God from moving on your behalf. It’s time to Rend your heart and Repent so that you don’t die in the place of complaining and not knowing because you think you have your business straight!”

You don’t have time to guest about this, you need to be sure, so that when Jesus comes back, you are ready! Whatever you don’t fix and change before you die, you surely can’t fix it or change it when you die! Every day that God gives you breath, He is giving you an opportunity to live before you die! Choose wisely, and not just in word, but you need to choose indeed Joshua 24:15!) this is a perfect time to rend, repent and confess your faith before the one and only true and living Savior, Jesus Christ! 

Today, don’t tear your clothes as outward sign of repentance, this is an inside job that starts with your heart to show God that you are sorry, and repentance is unto Him, for He is the only One that can do anything about it! Repentance is how you return to God, for you serve a merciful, compassionate, God who is slow to anger, who wants and can forgive you! 

Stop doing things for a show, the people that you are performing for can’t do anything to help you. You see your outward sorrow isn’t enough, you must be clean from inside out! Again, it’s an inside job! It’s time to make a true, heartfelt confession and repentance to restore the communion that you once enjoyed with God before you sinned. 

This scripture is really, good news. It is not only showing you but telling you that God is gracious and merciful. The God of the universe who you sinned against has given you a way to repent and to see and to know His Grace and Mercy works in your life and in your favor! He is slow to anger, and He is abounding, He’s full of overflowing and steadfast love for you. Because God relents, He doesn’t pour out the judgment and the wrath that you deserved when you were sinning. 

It is time for you to turn away from your sins and return to God. It’s time to repent and return to Him with all of your heart, with fasting, with weeping with mourning, and being humble before God, in light of your sin, it is the rending of your heart, you are coming clean before God and laying bare before God and asking Him to renew you and change you and restore you! You are choosing to be humble instead of being humbled by God! 

God delights in renewing, changing, restoring, redeeming, saving, and transforming you. God delights in you when you turn away from sinning to surrendering to Him. God loves it when you turn to Him and experience His forgiveness at that moment you turned from you to Him and you put all of your trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life, He relented the wrath that you deserved, and He reconciled you back to Him! 

God is so concerned about your heart, and you genuinely loving Him and desiring to be in a relationship with Him that will last for eternity. God does not want you to lose your heart to things of the world and become false, and only giving lip service to God instead of giving Him you. God wants you to love Him and serve Him with all of your heart and you are not just by going through the motions. It is time for “U to surRENDder YOUR HEART (read the caps)- Joel 2:13” (Prophetess Kenita)! 

Let’s Pray:

Thank You Father, thank You for forgiving me. Father, today I’m rending my heart to you and I’m repenting and turning away from sin. Father, I pray that you would help me to continually turn and return to You, and that You will forgive and save me from sin because of what You did for me in the Cross. Father, I trust in You as Lord of my life. Father, I pray that I will continue to experience Your Grace Your Mercy and Your steadfast love. Father I praise You for Your word that tells and shows me how you gracious and merciful and slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love You are. Father I offer my praise up to You today and I’m thankful for Your forgiveness and for not bringing Your wrath upon me that I may walk in intimacy with you. In Jesus Christ Mighty Name. Amen!

Blessings…

Love, Minister Jean