{"id":3170,"date":"2026-06-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:13:10","slug":"the-heart-of-the-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of the Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Proverbs 23:26 \u201cMy son, give me thine heart\u2026\u201d
<\/strong>We serve a God who is all sufficient. He is in and of himself sufficient. God does not have any needs at all. He owns all things. He created all things. By him, all things consist. God does not have needs, so I cannot meet his needs, but I do believe God has a want. I am convinced that there is something that God desires. There is something that God longs for, and I can provide it for him! God meets my needs. He puts food on my table and clothes on my back. He provides for my family and gives my body its life. He meets my needs faithfully. I cannot meet God\u2019s needs, because he does not have any, however I can meet God\u2019s want! It is clear in this Proverb that the Father desires the heart of the Son. Notice that there was already a relationship. He was already the father, but he desired more than to have a son; he wanted to have the heart of his son!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe we can make an application here. I am convinced that God wants my heart. He wants my desire and my dreams. He wants my aspirations and my thoughts. He wants my devotion and my love. It is interesting that the father did not ask for the son\u2019s hands, his feet, his eyes, his ears, or his tongue. I believe the father knew that if he truly had the son\u2019s heart, the rest of the son would come in the package. If the father had his son\u2019s heart, he\u2019d have a better son. May we not be quick to declare our hands for God or our feet for his service and neglect to offer God what he wants the most! The best gift we can offer God is our heart!

\u201cTake my will and make it Thine,
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart, it is Thine own,
It shall be Thy royal throne.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Justin Cooper | Pastor
Gospel Light Baptist Church | Walkertown, North Carolina
https:\/\/glbcs.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proverbs 23:26 \u201cMy son, give me thine heart\u2026\u201dWe serve a God who is all sufficient. He is in and of himself sufficient. God does not have any needs at all. He owns all things. He created all things. By him, all things consist. God does not have needs, so I cannot meet his needs, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"no-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"0","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_food_recipe":[],"enable_food_recipe":"0","food_recipe_title":"","food_recipe_description":"","food_recipe_serve":"","food_recipe_time":"","food_recipe_prep":"","food_recipe_level":"","food_recipe_keywords":"","food_recipe_category":"","food_recipe_cuisine":"","food_recipe_yield":"","food_recipe_calories":"","enable_print_recipe":"0","ingredient":[{"item":""}],"instruction":"","jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_podcast_option":{"enable_podcast":"0","podcast_duration":"","upload":""},"jnews_podcast_series":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[526,640,336,643,642,591,317],"jnews-series":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-the-yp","category-youth-truth","tag-gods","tag-heart","tag-justin-cooper","tag-provides","tag-suffficent","tag-will","tag-yplife"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/the-heart-of-the-matter-1024x576.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/the-heart-of-the-matter-300x169.jpg","large":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/the-heart-of-the-matter-1024x576.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"jnews-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjnews-series&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}