{"id":47586,"date":"2022-10-01T02:57:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preparing-the-highway-of-our-heart-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:57:58","slug":"preparing-the-highway-of-our-heart-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preparing-the-highway-of-our-heart-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing The Highway Of Our Heart &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient times, conquering kings gained access to newly acquired territories through elaborate highways built for their troops. The prophet Isaiah had this in mind when he declared:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Make straight in the desert a highway for our God<\/strong> (Isaiah 40:3).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The mission of John the Baptist was to call people to repentance in order to prepare the way into their hearts for the arrival of King Jesus (Matthew 3:3; cf. Luke 1:57-80).<\/p>\n<p>The question we need to ask ourselves from time to time is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>What preparation needs to be done to allow Jesus unhindered access to the highway of our heart?<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Do we harbor any bitterness in our heart that needs the elixir of forgiveness? (1 John 1:9). Are there valleys of complaining that need to be filled with contentment? (1 Timothy 6:6).<\/p>\n<p>We cant afford to neglect these deficiencies  let us begin preparing the highway of our heart for the King<strong> today!<\/strong> (2 Corinthians 6:1-2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Impact Of Attitude On Life<\/li>\n<li>Our Greatest Ability<\/li>\n<li>A Willingness To Change Our Religious Beliefs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient times, conquering kings gained access to newly acquired territories through elaborate highways built for their troops. The prophet Isaiah had this in mind when he declared: Make straight in the desert a highway for our God (Isaiah 40:3). The mission of John the Baptist was to call people to repentance in order to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preparing-the-highway-of-our-heart-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing The Highway Of Our Heart &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586","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=47586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}