But Your Empty!!!!!!

You give me your tithes and offering but your heart is far from me.

You go to church to show your face but your heart is far from me.

You do all these things but where is your heart?

God desires pure worship and NOT watered down praise (Isaiah 1:18-20)

Last night as I was reading the book of Isaiah, the above words are what I received when I got to verses 18-20. My prayer for you and me today is that we don’t get stuck.

DISCLAMIER: READ ALL OF WHAT IM ABOUT TO WRITE BEFORE YOU JUDGE!!!!!!

Don’t get stuck in the motions of church. We all go to church for different reasons. Sometimes we really do want to be in the presence of God, but we also go just to pay our tithes, to show our face because we have been going and we don’t want people to think that were not saved, or because we are made to go. Ladies and gentlemen there are many more reasons as to why people go to church and it’s sad that we don’t all go for the first reason, JESUS!

Where is your heart Child of God? Going to church and not listening will do nothing for you. Going to church just to show your face is not pleasing to God. Going to church just because it is a holiday wont do much for either. After all, is it better to please God or man. Forget about those people and find Jesus! Have you ever really met him? Yes he wakes you up and he blesses you, but have you met him? How much time do you really spend with God? God does not desire for you to be empty. The woman that God met at the well was empty. The Pharisees were empty. You can have all the knowledge in the world and still be empty. You can even pay your tithes like you’re supposed to and still be empty. You can go around praying for people all day and still be empty. You got all that Holy Ghost and yet you’re empty. Works do not get you into heaven but it is by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8).

Blair wingo, who is now Blair linne, has a great poem called Don’t add on. People, stop adding on to what Jesus has already done. Stop adding on to the heaviness of the cross. People do everything they can just to get to church and then they have to come in and deal with your judgmental behind!Don’t add on! People are coming into the church to see God, don’t add yourself into the mix!!!

Let’s stop being stuck in our own ways! Let’s began to pray for the true heart of God!

NEWS FLASH! The filled seat, the first seat nor the best seat gets you into heaven. Don’t add on to the cross and lets be the church that Christ has and still is calling us to be.

I got the above picture from http://idpm.me/2011/11/27/january-13th-2010/ it says so much about us as people.Lets try to help people instead of breaking them, especially when we are already broken..

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