Odedeyi Emmanuel

And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.

And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.

Ezekiel 36:26-27 (NLT)

I was stunned to read an article recently that reported that about 3,500 heart transplants are performed every year with about 800,000 people having heart defect and need a new organ. I used to think that it was only possible to transplant other organs of the body from one person to another or species but not the heart.

Heart transplant is a surgical procedure that may involve taking a working heart from a recently dead donor and implant into a patient whether as a replacement or to support the patient’s heart.The Heart-Makers (2007)

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald

Hmm!!! I could not help but to take a deep breath and give thanks to God for life as I read more and more about the process involved in surgical heart transplantations. In 2006, a medical breakthrough was attained when the first transplant of a ‘beating heart’ was made from a donor to a patient. However, generally heart transplants are with varying complications and infections with the average post survival period put at about 15 years.

Before, I bore you with more of medicine, from the above scriptures it is clear that the Surgeon General- God Himself also carries out heart transplant but without complications. He says, “I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart”. Halleluyah!

In 2011, God is willing to enthrone many but this also means that others may have to be dethroned as was the case between Saul and David. God is always looking for men (and women) after His heart;

· who will stand up for Him out of the crowd;

· who will not compromise their stand with Him;

· who will not follow multitude to do evil;

· who will not sell out their birthright for a morsel of bread;

· who are men of integrity;

· who will choose not to curse God like Job;

· who will choose not to defile themselves like Daniel;

· who will do His will.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

David was a man so blessed in scriptures such that he did not lose any battle being the most embattled king. What happened?- He had the right heart. The scripture says, ‘But God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do. Acts 13:22 (NLT)

In 2011, God is looking for men after His own heart with responsive, tender, broken, obedient heart and even if their heart is not yet right, He could carry out a heart transplant on them to take away the defective, stony, worldly and hardened heart and replace with a new heart.

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.- T. E. Kalem

Guess what, God does not need to stop any heart from beating like the doctors to carry out the heart transplant because Jesus Christ is the Chief Donor. He already donated His heart about 2000 years ago for you and the average post survival period is put at ETERNAL LIFE without any complications or infections. Praise God!

God is willing to do great things in your life in 2011 but your heart needs to be put right first. How? He says, O my son, give me your heart. Proverbs 23:26 (NLT)

Shall we pray;

Lord, give me the right heart to fulfil your will for me in this New Year. Amen