MATTERS OF THE HEART

“I place great importance on the MATTERS OF THE HEART. I highly value the MOTIVES of your heart. WHY do you do what you do? Are you motivated by your LOVE for Me and a desire to PLEASE Me or are you trying to IMPRESS people and focus ATTENTION on yourself? I AM the REFINER and PURIFIER of hearts and if you will welcome My Spirit’s SEARCHLIGHT into your heart, I will show you where your heart needs to be TRANSFORMED so that My will becomes your will and My ways become your ways. Wrong motives come out of UNMET NEEDS and not knowing HOW MUCH I LOVE you and am FOR you. I AM able and willing to MEET your unmet needs, and I long for you to know how much I love you—for WHO YOU ARE and NOT for the ‘to do’ lists that you accomplish. I made you so that we could ENJOY each other. The Blood of My Son cleanses your sins and My Holy Spirit is ready to transform your heart and your motives and to bring you into UNION with Me. The deeper your union with Me, the more SATISFIED your heart will be and what you do will ARISE from your love for Me and your love for others. When you SURRENDER the MATTERS OF THE HEART to Me, you will live out of My LOVE and GRACE for you and that is what you will EXTEND to others. It’s a beautiful exchange: self-promotion for identity in Me, a lust for wealth and power satisfied in the riches of My love, and perverted desires to heart wholeness in Me—nothing missing and nothing broken. It all comes down to SURRENDERING it all to Me, in faith, believing that My love will flow through you to draw people to My heart. You will have a life that is full and well-lived when you surrender to Me the MATTERS OF THE HEART.”

Diana Larkin

A Watchman’s Journal