Open the Windows of Your Heart

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A mustard seed of faith is infinitely closer to being a mountain of faith than it is to being no faith. There is an infinite difference between a spark and no spark.

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0:00.0	March 8.
0:02.0	Open the windows of your heart.
0:05.0	A bruised reed, he will not break
0:08.8	and a faintly burning wick.
0:11.3	He will not quench Isaiah 42, 3.
0:18.0	Probably the most encouraging words
0:21.5	I have heard in weeks come from a prophecy
0:26.1	in Isaiah 42, 1 through 3, about how Jesus
0:29.8	will use his spiritual power.
0:33.0	Do you feel like a bruised reed?
0:37.3	Like one of those big, top heavy Easter lilies
0:40.9	whose stem has been squashed so that the flower
0:45.3	flops to the ground and gets no sap?
0:49.6	Do you feel like your faith is just a little spark
0:53.8	instead of a flame like that little red dot
0:56.9	at the end of the wick after you blow out the birthday candle?
1:01.8	Take heart.
1:03.0	The spirit of Christ is the spirit of encouragement.
1:06.7	He will not snap off your flower.
1:09.0	He will not snuff out your spark.
1:12.6	The spirit of the Lord is upon me
1:14.6	to proclaim good news to the poor Luke 4.18.
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