The Holy Spirit this morning in our fellowship time impressed on me to share further on what we need to do after we have boldly come into the holiest place where God dwells. The importance of the posture our hearts must take and be in to fully maximize the benefits we have been granted by God.

We need to remember that everything we gain from the Father God and Jesus depends on the stance our hearts take and how and where our hearts go will determine the progress or failure we experience.The Holy Spirit constantly puts emphasis on where our hearts are in any matter because the heart position will determine the outcome we receive in spite of what God promises.

So let us dig further into Hebrews.10:22 which reads let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

We notice firstly that we must draw near to God with a true heart meaning that if we come with a false heart we will not be accepted. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth so in order to embrace His help and support we must desire to know the truth and eradicate lies from our hearts. Our hearts must love truth because only knowing the truth will make us free from deception and its consequences which are death.

So in order to draw near to God our hearts must embrace the truth in full assurance of faith. What is full assurance of faith and how do I walk in that you would ask. Does it mean I need to be perfect and have no faults? Well that is a tall order you will say, and no one can be that and do it. Let us examine that concept of full assurance of faith and see how to use it in our hearts so we can benefit from it to better our experience of God’s best for us in the now.

Full assurance of faith is not dependent on you but on your heart believing what God has already done on your behalf. Your heart must choose to believe what the Lord has accomplished for you and receive it as fact. Your heart must be resolute in believing that what God has said, He will do, and what He has spoken, He will perform or accomplish.

Full assurance of faith is that your heart believes implicitly and confesses what God spoke as if it is so in the now and refuses to believe or accept anything other than that fact. The woman with the issue of blood is a clear example of this fact. She had never met Jesus, never attended any of His meetings, and studied His ministry.

She had only heard witness stories that Jesus heals the sick and on the basis of that fact decided in her heart that if she just touched the hem of His garment she would be healed and kept confessing that fact until the day she was in His vicinity and touched the hem of His garment and experienced what she had said over and over again from her hearts belief that Jesus possessed the power in Him that when she touched Him she would be whole and it happened just as she believed.

Jesus confirmed this truth as He went on to say to her in the presence of everybody present that your faith has made you whole. Not my power but your full assurance in heart of my ability has given you this miracle while those near me have received nothing because they are waiting for Me Jesus to do something rather than approaching Me with an assurance in heart of what I said I came to do in Luke.4:18&19,21 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me [i]to heal the brokenhearted,To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind,To set at liberty those who are [j]oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” 21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

From that moment Jesus said this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing any person who drew near in full assurance that what Jesus said and believed it in their hearts could receive by their confession all Jesus said they could have of that promise. This is so not because they are perfect but because they chose to believe what Jesus said they could experience because of Him.

This is how you draw near in full assurance of faith with a true heart and embrace all the Holy Spirit has available for you and receive it because of what Jesus did, not your ability or righteous acts. You have no place to boast about this because you only received it because of what Jesus did to make that possible when you engage your heart.

This assurance of faith then works to sprinkle your conscience from evil works and washes your body with pure water that presents you acceptable to God.

I pray that as you hear this truth the grace flowing from these words will be poured out on you to see it manifested in your life and you walking in the place of full assurance of faith in Jesus’s ability to do everything He promised you can partake of through His sacrifice for you.

Permit your heart only to believe and confess what Jesus said and not the opinions of men and their fears or concerns about God’s ability. Only believe what Jesus declared and live your life resting your heart on what He said and go ahead and experience all the benefits of drawing near to God in full assurance of faith in His ability to do exceedingly abundantly and above all you could ask or think according to His power at work in you in Jesus name . Amen.