"I will run the way of Your commandments, when You shall enlarge my heart." Psalm 119:32
The Word of God is full of precepts�but we are totally unable to perform them in our own strength. We cannot, without divine assistance, perform the precept with a single eye to the glory of God�from heavenly motives�and in a way acceptable to the Lord, without special power from on high. We need an extraordinary power to be put forth in our hearts�a special work of the Spirit upon the conscience, in order to spiritually fulfill in the slightest degree, the least of God's commandments. None but the Lord Himself can enlarge the heart of His people. None but the Lord can expand their hearts Godwards, and remove that narrowedness and contractedness in divine things which is the plague and burden of a God-fearing soul. When the Lord is absent�when He hides His lovely face�when He does not draw near to visit and bless�the heart contracts in its own narrow compass. But when the Lord is pleased to favor the soul with His own gracious presence, and bring Himself near to the heart, His felt presence opens, enlarges, and expands the soul�so
If we live in sins, God does NOT live with us! He abandons us!
That is why to live with God, we need to ABANDON our sins and TURN ot God from them to live in righteousness!!! :angel:
Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the LORD our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well with us, for we will obey the LORD our God."
Jeremiah 42:6
Deuteronomy 5:29
Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5:33
Walk in obedience to all that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
Jeremiah 7:23
but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.
Romans 7:7,13 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness :angel: to everyone who believes.
If you live in sins and NOT with Christ who created the universe then you live WITHOUT God!
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." :angel:
He has saved us and called us to a holy life:angel:--not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time
2 Timothy 1:9
For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy:angel: life.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
1 Peter 1:15
But just as he (GOD) who called you is holy:angel:, so be holy:angel: in all you do
I will eagerly pursue your commandments because you continue to increase my understanding.
I run in the path of your commands, for you have broadened my understanding.
I eagerly race along the way of your commands, for you enable me to do so.
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.
When thou shall enlarge my heart; with the knowledge of God:angel:, his word, ways, worship, and ordinances; with his love more fully made known, and with an increase of love to him; with the fear of him, and a flow of spiritual joy and peace; and when delivered from straits and difficulties, from weights and pressures, and everything that may hinder walking or running; and being in circumstances which may lead and encourage to the one as to the other; see 1 Kings 4:29, Isaiah 60:5.
Not every heart can be ENLARGED.. It is not possible. Why?
Because in order for man to be able to comprehend "enlarge", he has to have "harden", "shrink back" as a contrasting mechanism, other wise he would not be able to comprehend.
The Word of the LORD, is not written to all mankind, but to those chosen before time:
"Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Matthew 25:34
Thus, there are those who shall be enlarged, and those who will be used as "contrasting mechanisms", whose hearts will be hardened.
This is what Paul was referring to, when by the anointing he wrote:
"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" Romans 9:21
One man shall be used as a vessel of wrath~
One man shall be used as a vessel of mercy~
One man is born to be sanctified (set apart) as a vessel of mercy. These experience the Water Baptism, and are received of, and dwelled in by the Spirit of the Father from birth:
"But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's bosom. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly." Psalms 22:9-10
One man is born to lie and be estranged as a vessel of wrath. These men will not ever comprehend the things of the Holy Spirit of God:
"The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." Psalms 58:3
