NEW LIFE…NEW HEART

Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
18  “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19  See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.

Jer 17:9 -10 ESV
9  The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10  “I the Lord search the heart
and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”

“We do not cause the new birth. God causes the new birth. Any good
thing that we do is a result of the new birth, not a cause of the new
birth. This means that the new birth is taken out of our hands. It is
not in our control. And so it confronts us with our helplessness and
our absolute dependence on someone (namely, God) outside
ourselves.” – John Piper

WHEN GOD GETS OUR HEART….
1. TRANSFORMATION TAKES PLACE.
“Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!” — D.L.
Moody
2. PEACE FLOODS OUR LIVES.
“God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself
because it is not there. There is no such thing.” C.S. Lewis – Mere
Christianity
3. OUR INNER WORLD SHAPES OUR OUTER WORLD.

Proverbs 16:9 NIV
9  In their hearts humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps.