Title: How About Your Heart? (1)
Date: Saturday, 17th October, 2026
Text: Hosea 10:12; Proverbs 4:23
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Imagine an abandoned farmland left uncultivated for three or four years. Gradually, unwanted and dangerous creatures—snakes, scorpions, and other wild animals—may make it their habitat. When the land is not deliberately cultivated and maintained, unwanted growth takes over. In the same way, an unattended heart becomes fertile ground for destructive thoughts, ungodly desires, and sinful imaginations.
The heart of an unregenerated person is like fallow ground: hard, cold, unteachable, unforgiving, and unreceptive to the transforming power of God’s Word. When the heart is not cultivated by the Word of God, its thoughts and desires gradually become contrary to the character and teachings of Christ. What occupies your heart eventually influences your words, decisions, relationships, and conduct.
However, God does not desire anyone to remain in this condition. His Word commands us in Hosea 10:12, “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.” This is a call to repentance, spiritual renewal, and a deliberate pursuit of God. Through genuine repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, the hardened heart can be transformed, renewed, and made fruitful.
Beloved, how is the condition of your heart? What thoughts are you entertaining? What attitudes have you allowed to take root within you? Do not leave your heart unattended. Break up the fallow ground through repentance, prayer, and the consistent study and application of God’s Word. A heart surrendered to God becomes a dwelling place for His truth, righteousness, and love.
Prayer Nugget: Father, search my heart and expose every ungodly thought, attitude, and desire within me. Break up every fallow ground in my heart, renew my spirit, and make my life fruitful in righteousness, in Jesus’ mighty name.
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