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Guarding Your Heart & Mind Series: God Gives Us a New Heart, Not a New To Do List | Tuesday Devotional · Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation

• 0:04
  Pastor Robert Young: Today's scripture is coming from the book of Ezekiel, chapter thirty-six, verse twenty-six, where it says, I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you.
• 0:21
  Pastor Robert Young: I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
• 0:33
  Pastor Robert Young: God never asked us to fix our own heart.
• 0:38
  Pastor Robert Young: He never expected us to force ourselves into spiritual maturity through willpower.
• 0:45
  Pastor Robert Young: He knows the human heart is limited, fragile, and easily overwhelmed.
• 0:52
  Pastor Robert Young: So instead of demanding that we change ourselves, God promises to give us a new heart and a new spirit.
• 1:03
  Pastor Robert Young: This is not self-improvement.
• 1:06
  Pastor Robert Young: This is divine intervention.
• 1:11
  Pastor Robert Young: Where our humanity fails, God steps in with supernatural help.
• 1:17
  Pastor Robert Young: He replaces what is hearten, tired, or resistant with something alive, responsive, and renewed.
• 1:28
  Pastor Robert Young: We don't become who God calls us to be by trying harder.
• 1:33
  Pastor Robert Young: We become transformed because God does in us what we cannot do for ourselves.
• 1:46
  Pastor Robert Young: Let's take three minutes to reflect on the following question.
• 1:53
  Pastor Robert Young: Where do you feel like your heart has grown tired, hardened, or discouraged, and needs God to renew it?
• 5:15
  Pastor Robert Young: God is giving me a new heart and a new spirit.
• 5:20
  Pastor Robert Young: I receive his transforming help.
• 5:24
  Pastor Robert Young: Again, God is giving me a new heart and a new spirit.
• 5:31
  Pastor Robert Young: I receive his transforming help.
• 5:38
  Pastor Robert Young: Our closing prayer.
• 5:41
  Pastor Robert Young: Father, thank you that you do not leave me to struggle with an unchanged heart.
• 5:48
  Pastor Robert Young: Where I am weary, renew me.
• 5:51
  Pastor Robert Young: Where I am heartened, soften me.
• 5:55
  Pastor Robert Young: Where I am discouraged, breathe new life into me.
• 5:59
  Pastor Robert Young: I cannot transform myself, but you can.
• 6:05
  Pastor Robert Young: I receive your new heart today.
• 6:07
  Pastor Robert Young: For Christ's sake.
• 6:10
  Pastor Robert Young: Amen.