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What to do about a bad heart?

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I would strongly advise you to not heed this advice.
Whatever you say to God, it better be from your heart
and you had better mean it.

Otherwise, you will find yourself in even more trouble than you started.

God told me He hates flattery. And it is disrespectful.
I think we praise God because He is worthy of it. If we believe that then we are not being hypocritical if we praise when we don't feel like it because it is done out of obedience despite our emotions.
 
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I believe that God is too pure and holy to create evil. I think it came from Satan's rebellion towards God and was brought to earth by Adam and Eve's sin in eating the forbidden fruit.
Who do you believe created the word "evil"?
 
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I think we praise God because He is worthy of it. If we believe that then we are not being hypocritical if we praise when we don't feel like it because it is done out of obedience despite our emotions.
I praise my God out of my love for Him.
He is worthy of all my love.

Well, He is far more worthy than all of my love.

Let's see now?

He is worthy of
all my attention.
all my affection.
all my faith.
all my obedience.
all my time.
All my thoughts.
All my everything.

He worthy of all my life
everyday
all day long.

What is your God worth to you?
 
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Who do you believe created the word "evil"?

I praise my God out of my love for Him.
He is worthy of all my love.

Well, He is far more worthy than all of my love.

Let's see now?

He is worthy of
all my attention.
all my affection.
all my faith.
all my obedience.
all my time.
All my thoughts.
All my everything.

He worthy of all my life
everyday
all day long.

What is your God worth to you?
Thanks for your thoughts but I don't want to derail this thread ftom the OP's issues.
 
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Yeah. I feel scared to trust God bc i fear if I give him all my hearts desires or hand them over I'll get nothing and just lose everything. Who all counts as counsel?
Question: Who discipled you in the Faith?
 
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After reading all this the first thought that came to my mind about you,
how do you account for the wrath of God that is upon all sinners.
Did it evaporate into thin air?
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


Trying to put God's wrath on a Child of God who Christ died for is evil and taking Satan's job of being the accuser of the brethren (Revelation 12:10).

John 13:35
By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.

God is love, not wrath (1 John 4:8), and while the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10), those who fear God are those without Christ (John 3:36), not those with Christ (John 5:24). God is love, and a person in Christ that has fear of God's wrath is not made perfect in His love (1 John 4:18).

God didn't say the world would know we are His disciples if we preached His wrath on the Earth, but to repent and believe in Christ that they may be saved by His great and powerful love that He poured out on the cross. Christ did tell people to repent to be saved from Hell and made it very clear Hell is real, but He did not go around holding men's sins against them, but forgiving them all (Matthew 9:2).

The goal is love (1 Timothy 1:5), not wrath or hate, and God says if you don't don't have love then you are absolutely nothing, void, empty, useless... (1 Corinthians 13:2).

To cast those under God's grace (Ephesians 2:8) under condemnation when Christ paid for their freedom is unacceptable and working for the other team (John 3:17).

Luke 7:47
Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.


The scriptures are clear, and abundantly so, that God is love and taught us to follow His Son's example on the cross who was pleading for forgiveness for the people who were murdering Him(Luke 23:34). He was not preaching wrath on the cross, and if God set such an example that He would plead on behalf of people murdering Him, I don't think we fully comprehend how powerful His love really is.

Christ did not walk this Earth preaching wrath, but repentance (Matthew 4:17) and to believe on God's Son (John 6:29).

His mission was to restore a relationship with us (Matthew 9:13), and put His love in our hearts (Ezekiel 36:26), not to preach wrath and condemnation (2 Corinthians 5:19).

1 John 4:7-8
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

This is patterned across the entirety of the New Testament in very clear and unmistakable terms for anyone who dives deep into God's Word, and if it is not clear to them then they simply have more reading and praying to do. (Romans 8:29 - 2 Timothy 2:15)
 
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