Olive Tree Blessings L137

Stop focusing on those that refuse to hear your heart and start sharing it with those that are waiting for you.

We all have our own home. It is our heart. They say that home is where the heart is but we all tend to put our hearts outside of ourselves. Some of us put in on our sleeves. Some of us give it to another person. Some of us put our hearts into material things. We wonder then why we feel lost. We feel lost because we have given our hearts away instead of caring for them.

We have forgotten that Home is within us. Our home is our heart. Our home is the love within us. Our home is our heart.

Home is where the heart is. Look inside. Look deep inside. Stop giving yourself away. Stay steady within yourselves. Remain within yourselves. People will see your love and mistake it for the opportunity to steal your heart. They will try and grab it right from out of our chests! No. No more. Everyone is responsible for their own hearts. Everyone is responsible for their own thoughts. There are multiple paths to take but there is only one choice. The choice is of the heart. What are you choosing? What are you blaming? Why are you stuck in blame? Why are you not moving forward? Trust God to be the avenger. Trust the gifts that He has placed within you to save you from violent people. Trust. God says it is easy. It is very easy to use the gifts that He has given us.

Stop doubting yourself. Put your heart back into your chest. Right now. Stop wasting time on things outside of yourself.

I was speaking to someone the other day about our Creator, our God. I had the Word out. The wind was taking it as it were and where it was to go. As all things should be. We have to stop trying to control each others hearts. That is not our purpose. That is not why we were born. Stop stealing the hearts of others. Keep your hands to yourself.

Stop.

Remind yourselves that you are not what others have said or what they believed. This is something we need to do daily until we are completely rooted in it.

Stop.

Read.

Grow in Christ. Grow in Truth. Love from the Truth of Christ.

Stop focusing on those that refuse to hear your heart and start sharing it with those that are waiting for you.

“John 7:32-53

NKJV

Jesus and the Religious Leaders

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him. ³³ Then Jesus said ^[f]to them, “I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I go to Him who sent Me. ³⁴ You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come.”

³⁵ Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What is this thing that He said, ‘You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

³⁷ On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. ³⁸ He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” ³⁹ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those ^[g]believing in Him would receive; for the ^[h]Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Who Is He?

⁴⁰ Therefore ^[i]many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others said, “This is the Christ.”

But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴² Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?” ⁴³ So there was a division among the people because of Him. ⁴⁴ Now some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

Rejected by the Authorities

⁴⁵ Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”

⁴⁶ The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!”

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus (he who came to ^[j]Jesus ^[k]by night, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹ “Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

⁵² They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet ^[l]has arisen out of Galilee.”

An Adulteress Faces the Light of the World

^53 [m]And everyone went to his own house.”

Stop focusing on those that refuse to hear your heart and start sharing it with those that are waiting for you.

in Jesus’ name. Amen.