{"id":14090,"date":"2016-08-18T00:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/34-pray-with-a-pure-heart\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:47:22","slug":"34-pray-with-a-pure-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/34-pray-with-a-pure-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"34 PRAY WITH A PURE HEART."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>My prayer is pure.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2014Job 16:17<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Jesus teaches us, \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\u201d (Matthew 5:8). To see the invisible requires purity in heart. To see into heaven so that you can pray what\u2019s in heaven to earth demands purity, holiness and a first-love for Jesus.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Purity speaks of moral uprightness. Stop watching, reading, or looking at immoral things. Tear down pornographic vain imaginations. \u201cTherefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded\u201d (James 4:7\u20138).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Purity speaks of being clean. Cleanse your life from dirty thoughts, actions and works. Stop telling unclean jokes. Resist listening to violent and impure things in music or on TV. Get clean. Stay clean.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Without the purity that comes from repentance and walking in the light, your prayers will be vain and ineffective. Here\u2019s the process: Confession, repentance, cleansing, walking in the light, seeing God. Pure prayer initiates the process.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>Purify my heart, my walk and my life, O God. Amen.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My prayer is pure. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2014Job 16:17 Jesus teaches us, \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\u201d (Matthew 5:8). To see the invisible requires purity in heart. To see into heaven so that you can pray what\u2019s in heaven to earth demands purity, holiness and a first-love for Jesus. Purity speaks of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/34-pray-with-a-pure-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;34 PRAY WITH A PURE HEART.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}