Heart Surgery
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Our Daily Bread Ministries
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Some years ago, after exchanging heated words, Carolyn and I resolved our conflict through compassion and love for each other. I confessed my wrongdoing, and she prayed for me, referencing Ezekiel 36:26: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” I sensed that God was conducting a form of spiritual heart surgery on me, taking away my fears and bitterness as He enfolded me in His love.
God delights for us to engage with the Scriptures as I did back then, but it’s important to note the passage’s original context. Ezekiel spoke on God’s behalf to His people with the promise that He would cleanse them. Why? “It is not for your sake . . . I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name” (v. 22). God would do His purifying work among His people so that all the nations would revere Him and know that He is God.
God works His purposes in our lives not only to help us flourish and grow, but so we would bring Him honor. Even as He gave the Israelites the promise of a new heart and a new spirit, so through the inward work of the Holy Spirit, God replaces our cold and hardened hearts with those that receive and share His love and life.
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| 0:00.0 | I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. |
| 0:05.2 | Ezekiel 36, verse 26. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:14.1 | Heart surgery was written and read by Amy Boucher Pie. |
| 0:22.1 | Ezekiel chapter 36 verses 22 through 28. |
| 0:27.4 | Therefore say to the Israelites, |
| 0:30.4 | this is what the sovereign Lord says. |
| 0:33.3 | It is not for your sake, people of Israel, |
| 0:36.1 | that I am going to do these things, |
| 0:38.8 | but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone. |
| 0:45.7 | I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, |
| 0:51.5 | the name you have profaned among them. |
| 0:57.1 | Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I am proved wholly through you before their eyes. |
| 1:04.6 | For I will take you out of the nations. I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. |
| 1:11.6 | I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. |
| 1:17.6 | I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. |
| 1:22.6 | I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. |
| 1:28.3 | I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. |
| 1:34.3 | And I will put my spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. |
| 1:41.3 | Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors. You will be my people and I will |
| 1:48.8 | be your God. Heart surgery. Some years ago, after exchanging heated words, Carolyn and I |
| 2:00.4 | resolved our conflict through compassion |
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