give us clean hands and give us pure hearts

Give us clean hands and give us pure hearts free#

It is not obtainable by works but rather it is a work of His Spirit. Purity is not merely the appearance of walking in Biblical morality purity is what is within your heart, your mind and your motives. I pray that every person who is being exposed will fall on their faces when n humility and repentance and pray for clean hands and a pure heart. The prayer in Psalm 51:10-12 will be on the lips of His people like never before. I believe that a deep longing for purity is arising from the exposure of darkness and sin that has been hidden in the church. I believe that God WILL have a bride without spot or wrinkle! I believe that a generation of purity will (and is!) arising completely dependent upon His Spirit to do this work within their hearts and lives. As this happens we find great freedom and alignment with the character of Jesus creates a “face to face” intimacy that is like nothing we can imagine.

Yet, there is a process that must occur of in the lives of every believer that involves purification, the renewing of our minds and cleansing of the motives of our hearts. It is worth fighting for and pressing in for.Īgain, the blood of Jesus lacks nothing in allowing us to stand before the Father as ones who have been made as white as snow. I’m not only grieved because these lives were made for so much more but because I want them to see God! The pursuit of purity is one of the greatest pursuits you will ever engage in because it is the pathway to intimacy and unhindered oneness with God. It was the treasure that was worth the journey and the search.Īs we are living in a time where the exposures of darkness and sin are becoming a common occurrence I find my heart grieved. Yet, it was not by might, not by my power but by the work of His Spirit that He began to renew my mind and purify my heart…as this happened I began to see God. In my early days (as new believer) gospel singer, Keith Green, had a song that was written from this verse and I remember driving in my car singing it with tears streaming down my face wondering if my heart would ever be pure.

Give us clean hands and give us pure hearts free#

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit…” (Psalm 51:10-12) Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me. “Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit within me. While gifting a can allow you to be used of God, purity allows you to see God! But how do we have our hearts cleansed, our minds renewed and our souls set free of the defilements of the world? For me, it was a constant prayer out of Psalm 51 that I prayed and cried out for, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” I loved the verse from Matthew 5:8 that says, For me, impurities were like stones in my soul that blocked my view and caused me to stumble or have to navigate my way around until they were removed. Though I was pure and clean in the Father’s sight through the righteousness of Christ, I still dealt with many things that I knew grieved they heart of God because they were things that blocked my view of His beautiful face. Yet, I had to want it enough to value purity like a treasure of great worth that I had to find. The process didn’t defile me because I was covered by His blood and clothed in His righteousness (not my own!). Though my outward actions changed fairly quickly the motives of my heart, the manipulations of my soul and the developing of a clear conscience was a process. I asked for clean hands and a pure heart. So…I began to pray that He would make me pure as He is pure. So when I discovered the meaning of both of these names they Lord said to me, “I created you to carry purity and that threatens the enemy more than any other call on your life.” I knew that the enemy had fought long and hard to defile what God had put within me. The interesting thing is that both of these names have the same meaning, “Pure One.”Īs a new believer I would look back upon my first 18 years and I realized they were anything but “pure!” I would do anything for love and often did. For the first three days of my life I was called Karen but on the third day my parents had a visitor who said that I looked like a “Kathleen” and they fell in love with it and changed my name (calling me Kathi for short). In those days moms and babies stayed in the hospital for three days after a birth. When I was born my parents named me Karen. It is something that when I first came to know the Lord as a young 18 year old, felt was out of reach! I didn’t fully understand how the blood of Jesus makes us whiter than snow but also how there is “a process to purity” that we must desire and partner with.

Purity brings peace and a clear conscience. There is something deep within most people that long to be clean.