Obedience to God: Prepare the Heart For

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1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
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Obedience to God the Way to Faith in Christ.
... themselves, if they could, that strict obedience is not ... Instead of labouring, under
God's grace, to change ... purify their hearts, and so prepare themselves for ...
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First, I am to Consider what the Keeping of the Heart Supposes and ...
... is removed by faith; self-love, by the love of God; self-will, by subjection and
obedience to the will of God; and self ... " If thou prepare thine heart and ...
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For they Loved the Praise of Men More than the Praise of God. John ...
... is evident from the fact, that they will yield obedience only to ... not spend half an
hour in her closet, to prepare her heart to appear before God in his ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/for they loved the praise.htm

The Helpless State of the Sinner under Condemnation.
... the very end of thy life all were as complete obedience as the ... Isa.55:8,9) Have mercy,'
therefore, upon me, O God, according to ... O prepare my heart to receive it ...
/.../chapter vii the helpless state.htm

The Everlasting Covenant of the Spirit
... that the possibility of a life of obedience, with the ... Come with that need; it will
prepare and open the ... to that humble and entire dependence upon God in His ...
/.../murray/the two covenants/chapter vi the everlasting covenant.htm

Obedience: Its Place in Holy Scripture.
... me try in this first chapter to prepare the way ... opportunity given him of showing
what is in his heart. ... God's commandment, and yet is not the obedience God asks ...
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The Obedience of Christ.
... (3) As our Head, to prepare a new ... So He died, too, to show us that His obedience
means a readiness to obey to the uttermost, to die for God; that it ...
/.../murray/the school of obedience/ii the obedience of christ.htm

"Now the End of the Commandment is Charity Out of a Pure Heart ...
... And do ye not go about them in obedience to God ... and curse as messengers sent by mercy,
to prepare you, and ... What should be terrible to you in all God's word and ...
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Note F. --Chap. xviii the Whole Heart
... That assurance will prepare us for turning to the Omnipotence ... if you could wish to
give God anything less ... Him with a wholehearted love, that obedience is within ...
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Love of Religion, a New Nature.
... to live in obedience to God, than in obedience to Satan. ... alone are perfectly happy,
for they do God's will perfectly, yet to prepare ourselves for ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon xiii love of religion.htm