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When our Hearts Back to God

Discover the importance of seeking God wholeheartedly and the consequences of broken alters. Explore the themes of compromise, corruption, confusion, and competitors that draw us away from God. Learn how to restore your alters through unity, consecration, and centered hearts on the Word and sacrifice. Witness the power of God as the fire falls and transforms hearts.

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When our Hearts Back to God

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  1. When our Hearts Back to God II Kings 18

  2. I Kings 1837 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

  3. The Heart – “Seat of your Will, Intellect, and Emotions!” • Mark 1230 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart… • The Most important thing and the most godly thing we can do is to Seek God like with ALL OUR HEART!

  4. Broken Alters • v 30 and he repaired the Alter of the Lord that was broken down. • It was a Moment of Awakening that they had stopped seeking the Lord! • When we stop seeking the Lord, It becomes a life of great misfortune, great sorrow, and full of grief!

  5. Broken Alters • “Compromise” – Obediah • 9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? • 25% of Christians do not believe in a biblical God!

  6. Broken Alters -Corruption (Ahab and Jezebel) • 17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? • 18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim. • “We Love God, we just live each day like he doesn’t exist!”

  7. Broken Alters - Competitors • 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. • Nature abhors a vacuum, when you take God out of your Heart, you worship something else. • Pleasure, Love, Money, Power

  8. Broken Alters - Confused • 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. • James 1:8 – Doubleminded • Rev. 3:16 – Lukewarm

  9. Restored Alters • 30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. • Unity • Seeking God

  10. Restored Alters • 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. • Consecration – “Its not a better version of you, but a new you!” • “Don’t come to the alter to be fixed, come to see the places that are broken!”

  11. Restored Alters • 33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. • 34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.

  12. Restored Alters • Water: We need our hearts centered on the Word of God (20 % of Christians) • Sacrifice: We need our hearts centered on the Lamb of God Jesus Christ! • Hebrews 928 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

  13. When our Hearts turn- Let the Fire Fall • 38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. • 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.

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