It Was In Your Heart

1 Kings 8:18 But the LORD said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
1Kings 8:23 and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart


Is He in your heart? Do you thirst for the true knowledge of God? Do you proclaim His glory to the world? He holds the universe in His hands! He holds you in His hand! Do you know the fear of falling into the hands of the living God?

1 Kings 8:37-40 
37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 
38 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, 
39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), 
40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.


If, in your heart, you ask for mercy, God forgives!

1Kings 8:57-61, 9:3 
57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us, 
58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers. 
59 Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires, 
60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other. 
61 Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day."
3 And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.


Faith, mercy and patience...


Heb.11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

1Tim.1:16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

Awesome God of my heart, forgive us! We do not really grasp Who You Are!! Give us a thirst for You that can not be satisfied! Help us to teach and show you to the world! Amen