Hebrews 4:12
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

How to Develop the Heart for God:
The Heart is developed when the Spirit of God, the Word of God and your own Human Spirit work together to

into the Heart the Realities of God for you.

A Broken Heart can lead to a Bruised Heart –
Something outward can go

The ultimate purpose of the adversary in the
Broken
Bruised
And Angry heart
Is to get you to the place where your Heart is

When your Heart is Offended,
You begin to

on the offense.

SYMPTOMS OF OFFENSE:
Number One:
Your heart begins to

to the things of God

Secondly:
As your heart hardens, your

begins to cool

Zeal:
Zeal is what causes you to step out of your

Third:
As you heart hardens
The things you GET TO do become things you

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do.

Number Four:
As your heart hardens:
All of a sudden
Where you were making Spiritual Decisions,

enters in.
Now
You don’t know what to do.

Because you have that Wound on the inside of you – Offense is now

you

The problem with Offense is:
You cut everything in your life from the

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Number Five:
As you heart continues to become hard:
The eternal element connected to Living for God begins to become

When you are Offended:
That eternal element becomes locked up
And
You’re

to live your life in an Eternal Perspective

Symptoms of Offense:
A Broken and Bruised Heart Left

will become:
Offended
Violated
Victimized
Caused to Stumble or Fall

Symptoms of Offense cont:
An Offended Heart Sees Everything in Life only from the

of the Offense.

Symptoms of Offense cont:
An Offended Heart is very

and can affect you even though you have never suffered the trauma of the event

Symptoms of Offense cont:
An Offended Heart is

Galatians 6:1
1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 AMPC
2 A wise man’s heart turns him toward his right hand, but a fool’s heart toward his left.

Luke 17:1-4
1 And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin] are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
3 Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Luke 17:5
5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

Luke 17:6-8a
6 And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
7 “Will any one of you who has a servant[c] plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’?
8 Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me…

Whatever the event was that so Broke your Heart
It lies in your