He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear What the Holy Spirit Says to the Church

Associate Pastor Mireya San

Has Your Heart Grown Faint?

There are moments when the heart loses strength. What once brought enthusiasm begins to feel burdensome. Prayer decreases, the desire to gather with other believers fades, and spiritual matters no longer hold first place.

The problem is not always a lack of time. Many times, it is a discouraged heart.

The Word of God warns us:

“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is… and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”
(Hebrews 10:25)

If your heart has grown weak, this is not the time to move farther away. It is time to return to God.

Where Are Your Eyes Focused?

God says:

“My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.”
(Proverbs 23:26)

When the heart becomes discouraged, the eyes begin to look in the wrong direction.

You look at people.

You look at their mistakes.

You look at what they did or failed to do.

You look at your circumstances.

And little by little, you stop looking at Christ.

But people were never your way.

Jesus said:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
(John 14:6)

Do not fix your eyes on people when Christ is the One who can bring you to the Father.

When You Stop Praying, You Lose Communication

Prayer is not simply a religious activity.

To pray is to talk with God.

When you pray, you speak to Him. You open your heart, listen to His Word, and recognize that you need His direction.

So you must ask yourself:

If you are no longer praying, how are you maintaining your communion with God?

In Gethsemane, while Jesus was going through one of the most important moments before the cross, His disciples could not stay awake.

Jesus asked them:

“What, could ye not watch with me one hour?”
(Matthew 26:40)

Weariness overcame them.

Today, there is also a spiritual sleep that can cause a person to stop listening, understanding, and paying attention.

It Is Time to Wake Up

Jesus did not simply point out the problem. He also gave the answer:

“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.”
(Matthew 26:41)

We are living in times when we cannot afford to be spiritually asleep.

To watch means to remain alert.

To pray means to remain in communication with God.

When you neglect both, you become vulnerable to discouragement, temptation, and deception.

So, wake up.

Do not allow discouragement to make your decisions for you.

Do Not Abandon God Because of People

One of the greatest mistakes we can make is to focus on people and then blame God for what they have done.

Some say:

“There are hypocrites in the church.”

“There are people who lie.”

“They disappointed me.”

Someone may have failed you.

But that person is not God.

God is not a hypocrite. God does not lie.

Scripture declares:

“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent.”
(Numbers 23:19)

Do not allow someone’s poor testimony to destroy your relationship with the One who has never lied to you.

The Gospel Still Has Power

You do not need everyone around you to be perfect in order to draw near to God.

You need to receive the Gospel.

Paul declared:

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation.”
(Romans 1:16)

Take your eyes off people and look back to God.

The power that transforms your life does not come from the behavior of others.

It comes from God.

Do You Have Strength for Everything Except God?

This is a question we need to examine seriously.

Some people have strength to work.

They have strength to go out.

They have strength for a party.

They have strength to spend hours attending to other matters.

But when it is time to pray, go to church, or listen to the Word, they say:

“I’m tired.”

Then we must ask ourselves:

Is it really a lack of strength, or has the heart lost its desire for the things of God?

When the heart grows cold, spiritual things begin to feel like a burden.

Do Not Exchange the Fountain for a Broken Cistern

God confronted His people by saying:

“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
(Jeremiah 2:13)

A broken cistern promises to hold water, but eventually it becomes empty.

The same happens with many things that try to take God’s place.

People.

Entertainment.

Human ideas.

Religion without relationship.

Distractions.

Nothing can permanently fill the place that belongs to God.

You can drink from many sources and still remain thirsty.

But Christ continues to be the Fountain of Living Water.

The Truth Makes You Free

Discouragement can lead you back into places of bondage from which God had already delivered you.

Old habits.

Old thoughts.

Old relationships.

Old ways of living.

But Jesus declared:

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
(John 8:32)

Do not return to what Christ has already set you free from.

True freedom is not simply leaving something behind. It is remaining close to the One who made you free.

Do Not Let Your Heart Grow Faint

Perhaps you were disappointed.

Perhaps you became tired.

Perhaps someone hurt you.

Perhaps you stopped praying and slowly drifted away.

But you can still return.

The Word says:

“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”
(Psalm 27:14)

God is not calling you to remain on the ground.

He is calling you to rise again.

Trust in the Lord.

Be courageous.

Do not be discouraged.

Pray again.

Gather with other believers again.

Fix your eyes on Christ again.

Lift Up Your Heart Again

Do not allow the mistakes of other people to determine your relationship with God.

Do not exchange the Fountain of Living Water for broken cisterns.

Do not have strength for everything else while allowing your spiritual life to die.

If your heart has grown faint, today it can rise again.

Christ is still the Way.

Christ is still the Truth.

Christ is still the Life.

And God’s truth still has the power to set you free.

Christ is coming soon.

“Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.”
(2 Timothy 2:7)

👉 Today is the time to wake up spiritually. Take your eyes off people, turn your heart back to God, and restore your communion with Him. Do not allow discouragement to steal what Christ has already done so that you can live in freedom, hope, and faith.