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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
\na broken and contrite heart, O God,
\nYou will not despise.
\nPsalm 51:17<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

God is looking for men and women who are willing to come to the point of accepting their wrongs, their sinful nature…and repent.<\/p>\n

This psalm is a repentance psalm which was cited after David saw that he had missed the track and wanted to get back to God and to renew their relationship. David knew, \u201cIf I am to prosper and walk in God\u2019s abundance of blessing I need to reunite myself with my God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even today, what God wants us to do is to reunite ourselves to Him. \u00a0And for our relationship to be intimate. \u00a0If you love someone you will do what that someone wants you to do. \u00a0We can tithe, we can give love offerings, we can give firstfruits, we can sacrifice our time in prayer and fasting; but if our hearts are not clinging to the mind and will of God then we lose out and there is nothing we can gain.<\/p>\n

Check out the following Scriptures where God is explicitly saying He doesn’t need our sacrifices but, rather, our hearts. \u00a0Let us give our all to Him!<\/p>\n

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The multitude of your sacrifices\u2014what are they to Me, says the Lord, I have more than enough of burnt offerings or rams and the fat of fattened animals….
\nIsaiah 1:11<\/p>\n

…For I desire mercy not sacrifices and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
\nHosea 6:6<\/p>\n

Even though you bring Me burnt offerings, I will not accept them.
\nAmos 5:22<\/p>\n

With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings….
\nMicah 6:6<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I therefore pray that we yield ourselves to Him and be righteous rather than give sacrifices that the Lord does not receive.<\/h4>\n

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Father, I thank You that You hear us when we pray. \u00a0We thank You for the revelations in the Scriptures. \u00a0By Your grace, Lord, cause us to seek You more and do Your will and please You rather than offering sacrifices that are useless in Your sight. \u00a0We pray for forgiveness of our sins and iniquities. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. Psalm 51:17 God is looking for men and women who are willing to come to the point of accepting their wrongs, their sinful nature…and repent. This psalm is a repentance psalm which was cited after David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[7363,3188,3367,1287,425,7319,7364,7365,7362,3540,7366,3174],"class_list":["post-21880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-amos-522","tag-ann-mwafulirwa","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-wants-our-hearts","tag-hosea-66","tag-isaiah-111","tag-micah-66","tag-psalm-5117","tag-sacrifices","tag-seeking-him-devotional","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-5GU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21882,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions\/21882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}