After Gods Own Heart

After Gods Own Heart

On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I met a wonderful worship leader called Vincent. He had written, with a couple of others, a new worship song that I think may well become the revival anthem for Holland – maybe even wider. This man is, I truly believe, a man after God’s own heart. He worships, we follow, and the anointing just floods the place.

David was another “after God’s own heart” as we see in 1 Samuel 13:13-14 (NKJV)
“And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you. For now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.” That man was David who was anointed as the next king of Israel. “

Later we read that David, as he worshipped, danced before the ark of the covenant in 2 Samuel 6:13-15 (NKJV) “And so it was, when those bearing the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, that he sacrificed oxen and fatted sheep. Then David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was wearing a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.”

David danced before the Lord ‘with all his might’. As I listened to Vincent leading the worship the other day, I realised that he and all those with him were worshipping the Lord ‘with all their might’. This is what God is seeking today – men and women after His own heart who will worship Him, and live for Him, ‘with all their might’. It will only be such people, who will be holy before God, who will see the coming revival, who will reach the unsaved, who will focus the world’s attention upon Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords; as saviour for all who will acknowledge Him and receive him into their hearts and lives.

Neither the proud nor the haughty, not the unforgiving nor the liars, none of those with no love for their neighbours – not one of these will see anything that is for those who love the Lord. They have their reward in the applause and attention of this world and there is nothing else to come for them – except hell. Jews, Christians and non-Christians alike are lined up on the edge of eternal damnation because of either their refusal to come to Jesus, or their refusal to obey His commands about loving one another and their neighbour as themselves. Shepherds and flock alike will all be “thrown into the fire”. (Matthew 7:19 “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”)

Yes, those with a heart after God’s own heart will all bear good fruit and even they will be pruned and refined further. These are they who will inherit the Kingdom of God – those who worship the Lord ‘with all their might’.

Lord, give us all a clear view of how we stand with you and a heart after God’s own heart. Call us to repentance and forgiveness and heal our land. AMEN?