THE HEART OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING   “Above all else guard your hearts for out of it flow the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23   “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” Matthew 15:18   Hear God’s Word and Take It Seriously A. We should act on God’s word immediately B. The Devils mission is to steal God’s word from your heart C. Jonah could have become People focused again rather than mission focused Embrace God’s Word with Fasting and Humility A. “fasting and uncomfortable dress represented self-denial to the Ninevites B. Fasting can be me an act that gets our hearts to a place of humbleness to embrace God’s Word. 
 Authentically Call Out to God with Brokenness  “God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.” Vance Havner “God does not bring about brokenness in our lives because He is ruthless, cruel, or hard-hearted. He does not break us out of some perverse desire to injure, maim, or destroy. God is breaking us to get our attention and to deal with some aspect of our lives that keeps us from experiencing the fullness of what He has planned for us.” Charles Stanley   Reject Lifestyles of Ungodliness Trust in God’s Ability to Show Grace   “God’s not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9   “You need not be a Christian to build houses, feed the hungry, or heal the sick. There is only on thing the world cannot do. It cannot offer grace.” Gordon Macdonald