“Create In Me A Clean Heart, Oh God
Scripture: Psalm 51:1-11,17
In Psalm 51, we find David\’s repentance after being confronted by Nathan the prophet, over taking Bathsheba and killing her husband. David asked for the mercy of his covenant. He acknowledged his transgression and his sin against God. He cried out for an inner cleansing that the covenant of Sure Mercy offered. As he approached the core of his outcry in intercession, he said, “Create in me a clean heart, Oh God. And renew a steadfast spirit within me.” It is one of the greatest outcries that appears in all the Psalms. When it is uttered in sincerity, it brings God down to do it. Any time we are entering the judicial realm with the Lord, we need to know that we are doing it from a place of a clean heart. Psalm 51 is one of the greatest passages in the Bible to bring us into that place. We need to read it and heed it, like David did, even though we may already have a clean heart, just the utterance of it before the Throne brings us into the qualification of verse 17, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart—These, O God, You will not despise.” Psalm 51 is a key to the Throne-Room and we better make sure that we live there before praying judicially!
The 98 % uncoded DNA contains latent switches that are waiting to be triggered
What triggers them?
- Nurture
- Trauma – Our emotions are affected by all the trauma, all the hurts, all the betrayal, all the abuse: disappointment, pain, and rejection we have felt and experienced. And we have to admit we have hurt other people as well as being hurt by them. If you are feeling anger or withdrawal or depression, all those things arise from emotions we have not dealt with
- Environment and Sin.
Generational behaviour
+ Christian’s standards, morals and guidance based on love
+ Non-Christians instincts based on self-protection, self-preservation, or self-gratification.
Pray about what you want to pass on to the next person in your family or the next generation?