A Willling Heart

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Good afternoon and welcome to Healing String Waters Daily Dosage. It's an honor, it's a privilege to be here today sharing with you another prescription out of the Word of God. And today's dosage is coming from Isaiah, the first chapter in the 19th verse. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. And the subject that I want to be with you today is a willing heart. And so when we think about a willing heart, uh we don't always have the right answers. We don't always have all the answers. It doesn't mean that we're all the time right. We will make mistakes, but be willing, be quick to repent, be quick to try something, even if you don't understand it. And so my dad and them used to sing a song that God wants clean people to testify of his word. It's not that we're not gonna sin, it's not that we're not gonna make mistakes. For the Bible says that even if we do sin, he we have an advocate, he knows our frame, yet um we're not to continue in sin, that grace may abound, God forbid. But if we're willing and obedient, if we try, the Bible says we will eat the good of the land. And I reminded of the weather and Canaan, they was at the party, it was at the wedding, and they had ran out of wine. And they asked Jesus. Well, his mother asked him, no, she didn't ask him, she told him that they needed wine. But Jesus of doing miracles and doing things before we know not to uh analyze because we're paralyzed by analyzing because we want things from God, we want things to happen for us in a good way, but the questions, the doubt, the if you believe the Bible says that we ask in faith, nothing wavering, because don't think you're gonna receive anything if you waver, because you can't be in and out, up and down, not sure one day, sure today. You have to be certain because God is a just God, he's a faithful God, he's a committed God, he's a sure God, and so he likes to be believed. He said, We that come to him must believe that he is God and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and without faith, it's impossible to please God. So when asking God for something, expecting to receive, we must be willing and obedient according or pertaining to the things that we want God to do, those prayers that we want to answer. We have to step out in faith, believing God and doubting nothing. They wanted wine, and so the instructions that Mary gave them, she said, Whatever he tells you to do, do that. You have to be willing to do that which is necessary, that which is conducive to the results that you are expecting. If you want a flower garden, if you want a vegetable garden, whatever it is that you want, there is some things that you must do. You must prepare the ground, you must turn the ground over. We have plows that we turned the ground over with. Then we had holes, holes um where we and shovels where we dug and made a place that we was gonna put the potato slips in or the uh the tomato, whatever we was planting, before we could get that thing, we had to prepare the ground for our harvest. He said, if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the fat of the land. Do what God tells you to do. He said, No good thing will I withhold from them that walk right before him. He has a curriculum, he has a formula, he knows just what to do, he knows how to handle every situation that you bring before him. But we got to obey the instructions that he tells us to do. If it's love, we must love, if it's forgiveness, we must forgive. Whatever he tells us, if it's have more patience, be long-suffering, have faith, be joyful, these are the fruit of the spirits, and these things we must have, and we must uh attribute, we must possess the things that is necessary for what we are believing God for. If we are willing and obedient, it's both of them, it's not one by itself. Willing, that's a heart posture. What is your heart saying? Because the Lord said, We honor what a lip, but our heart is far from it. Our heart has a language of its own. It is evil, it can be really evil. We don't know the heart. The heart will lead us into things that it can be good, but it's not a God thing, it sounds good, it appears good, as the serpent did to Eve. He said, Have not did God not say if you will eat of the fruit, you're gonna die. That's not what he meant. He just means that your eyes are gonna become open and you're gonna be like him. He don't want you to do that, and so we're drawn away of our own lust, those things that we desire and that we want. God is not in the business of withholding any good thing from you, but sometimes delayed don't mean denied, not now doesn't mean never. God always have a way out for you. You cannot be prepared or ready for that that you're asking God for, but if you're willing to wait on the Lord, he said, wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he will strengthen thine heart. Those that wait on the Lord, you will mount up with wings as an eagle, you will walk and not faint, you'll run and not get be wary. If you do it God's way all the time, all the time, all the way. If you're just willing and um obedient, follow the plan and the will that he has for you, you will make out all right. Let patience have his perfect word, so that you will be entire and wanting nothing. There is no lack to them who trust in God. So we have to believe God with our whole heart, our soul, our mind, and might. He said, young lions do lack, but they that want any good thing that belongs to him, you you don't have to lack. There's no lack and no slackness in God. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not his benefits. He has some benefits in him for us. He died for it, he sealed it with his own blood, so that we'll have a right back to the tree of life if we are willing and if we obedient. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, not our own righteousness, not doing our own thing, because the 55th chapter of Isaiah said, His thoughts is not our thoughts, his ways are not our ways. As far as the heaven is from the earth, and as far as the east is from the west, that's how different our ways and God's ways are. But if we are willing, if we're willing to try what that God has planned for us and the road he has for us to go, because he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. If we depend on him, if we trust him, if we take him at his word, his word is forever settled in the heaven, and where he can swear by none else, he swore by his word, his name, and his word is above his name. Be willing today and put the action behind it because faith without works is dead. But if you're doing all this activity, it profits you nothing if you don't have a willing heart and you're not doing it the way God has for you to say. He said, Forgive, he said, not just love your neighbor, he said, love your enemies, even those that uh curse you, even those that persecute you. We ought to love them. Mind not high things, but condescend to look men of low estate, of whore that which is evil, cleave to that which is good. Your enemy hunger, feed him if he first give him drink. For in so doing, you will heap coals of fire on his head. This he said, Be ye transformed by the renewing of our minds. Don't be conformed to this world, because the world is doing things the way they want to do. We are not to be conformed to the world, because our kingdom is not of this world. We're at a higher standard, and our requirements is different. God said, Be ye holy, because I am holy, holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. If you want to see God in your land, if you want to see God in your home, in your finances, and wherever you your feet go, be willing and obedient, and you will eat the fat of the land. This is healing stream waters, daily doses. Please, ma'am, please, sir, don't live beneath your privilege. He died that you may have it. The prayer of the bed said, Enlarge my territory, strengthen your states, stretch out your borders, as much as you can see it, I'll give it to you. Wherever your feet should try, I'm gonna give you the land. So, blessed will you be in the city, blessed will you be in the field. If you're just willing and obedient, you will, you shall eat the fat of the land. God loves you, and I love you, and there's nothing you can do about it.