Pure In Heart

[Gary Sigler]

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8).
How many times have you thought, “Oh, if only I could see God!” Seeing God is a promise made to the pure in heart. Thank God it’s a matter of the heart, and not the intellect or emotions. Sometimes I just don’t feel like doing what I should, but my heart will lead me in the right direction. The gospel of Jesus is a gospel to the heart. Thank God, it doesn’t depend upon how we feel. If our heart is truly seeking God, we will be able to take control of our feelings.

Touching God in Our Spirit
This can be illustrated by electricity. Electricity is a type of God. You have a base station where the energy is stored, and you have the lines through which the energy flows. Then you have a plug in your home. All the power of electricity is available to you, but you must plug into it to benefit from it. You cannot light your house with a lamp unless you plug into the electricity. God the Father is the source of divine life. God the Son is the course through which the life flows. Our spirit is the plug through which we make contact with the divine life. We have the flowing of God with His divine essence and ability available to us in our spirit. When we touch God in our spirit, we immediately sense the energizing life-giving power of His Spirit, just like you would be charged with electricity if you touched a bare wire. You can have electricity transmitted into you simply by a touch. There are testimonies of thousands of people who can say, “One day I received a touch from God.” I can remember so vividly the day when I first felt the touch of God. When the divine electricity was transmitted into me, I didn’t understand what had happened to me for quite some time. I didn’t know why I would begin to weep when I would walk into an Assembly of God’s people. My mind could not understand the things of God.

When you understand that to touch God is always a matter of your spirit, then your mind cannot cheat you out of touching God when you feel depressed, or you miss God, or do something wrong. Always remember that touching God is not a matter of the mind or the soul exercising its power, but a matter of you touching God in your spirit. No matter how bad a life you live, if you stick your finger in an open light-socket you will be energized with electricity. God’s principle is the same. No matter how many times you miss God, no matter how bad you are, if you will turn to God and exercise your spirit to touch Him, you will be energized by His divine electricity. Jesus came to show that God is available to you regardless of your condition. We can put our finger in the light socket, regardless of our outward condition, and have God flow through us. If you really understand this, you can always get to God. Your condition does not matter. We do not have to try to adjust our outward condition to get to God. Every time you seek after God and touch Him, you get the divine electricity transmitted into you and that will adjust your outward condition. It is not what you can do in your own strength, but it is a matter of getting to the power source. When you realize the value of the forgiveness, you can immediately enter into the Spirit and touch the divine electricity, and that will cleanse you and adjust your walk. When touching our divine source we are no longer separated from God in our consciousness, because His divine nature and ability rise up within us

Those Who Are Pure in Heart Will See God
The pure in heart shall see God. God is visible today, but because of the blindness of men’s hearts they don’t see Him. Today it is very easy to see God if your heart is pure, if you are being sanctified by the Spirit. Most people think that sanctification is instantaneous, and it is, but it is also a process. When Jesus comes into you, you are sanctified, set apart for God, but His character must be worked into you. We must be transformed into His likeness and image.

The only place you will ever find or see God today is in humanity, unless He raises your vibration to see into the spiritual realm. To really know God, you must know Him from within yourself. You must grow in His life until you can say with the Apostle Paul, “It is no longer I who live but Christ Who lives within me.” When people see the pure Spirit of God flowing from a person, they are attracted to them. God never condemns; He reconciles and forgives. God is love, and when you truly love people, they sense God within you, even though they may not know what it is. The average person in our country today has not turned away from God. They are turned away from a religious system that has given them a false concept of God. The system of Christianity is very confusing and not conducive to attracting people to a God who loves them unconditionally. As spiritual beings, we must ask ourselves what impression we give others about God through our actions. We may say a lot of the right things, but our actions are what impress people.

You Cannot Serve God and Self

There comes a time in every Christian’s life when the Holy Spirit will shine on the motivations of his heart. We seek God but we also seek self-satisfaction. We have shared in the past on Mystery Babylon, the great harlot in The Revelation. Mystery Babylon is produced through a mixture of serving God and being concerned for self at the same time. If you are trying to reserve anything for yourself, you need to drop it. I have heard it said, “I tithe my money; I do everything I know to do, yet God is just not blessing me.” This is very subtle, but this kind of thinking is blaming God for not meeting your needs. I have even heard people say, “God is not keeping His part of the bargain!” If you are truly seeking God from a pure motive, you can be thrown into the street or have any number of things happen to you and it will not cause you to question God. It will cause you to open to God and say, “Where have I missed it?” A pure motive will always say, “God, I know I have missed it because your Word says, ‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you’ (Matt. 6:33), so there must be an area of my heart that is not seeking you first.” If you are a Christian and your needs are not being met, why question God? You need to search your heart and pray for the light of God to expose any hidden areas such as unbelief, rebellion, or such.

The Door to Our Being

The only way God can flow out of your spirit is through your heart. Our hearts can be described as the center of our focus. Your heart is wherever you have your attention. Whatever your attention is focused on is where your heart is. The gospel is not just for the spirit. It must become the center of our attention and focus. Our goal should be centered on becoming like Jesus.
“O, generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things” (Matt. 12:34-35).

“But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile a man” (Matt. 15:18).
Our heart is the door to our being, and everything that comes into us or flows out of us must go through the heart. The message of the gospel is not just an intellectual gospel to the head. The gospel of the Kingdom is for the heart. If you are just a religious person, and go out and try to convince people to come to Jesus, giving them historical facts that would convince them intellectually, and it goes no further than that, you have done them a great disservice. Our churches are full of people who are convinced that Jesus is their Savior. Most people think that is enough. It is good to have an intellectual knowledge of the gospel, but without the born again conversion experience; we have only an intellectual gospel and are still lost. It is not enough just to believe that Jesus is Savior and died for our sins, YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN! You must seek God until He begins to rise up in you with His life and nature. The gospel must reach past the head and enter into our heart.

Our heart truly is the gateway to our being. Whatever you set your heart on, and whatever you allow to come into your heart, is what you will become. A lot of people never go on with the Lord because they do not understand this principle. No matter how far into the mind you get, no matter how messed up your emotions get, no matter how far you feel God is away from you, you can turn your attention to the Lord and exercise your spirit and touch Him. When I turn my attention to spiritual things, and I turn my heart to seek after God, then regardless of how I feel, I can enter into the presence of God and touch Him. Do not let your failures or your sin stop you from turning to God. No matter how many times you fail God, He is still available to you if you will but turn your heart toward Him. You have another life and nature on the inside of you. That is why you want to be changed into His likeness. If you do not want God and do not want to be conformed to Him, and you do not want to learn obedience to Him, and you do not have a desire for the things of God, then you need to ask Him to stir up His life in you. It does not matter how much you know about God, if there is no inner heart conviction and no conversion, then you must seek God until you are regenerated in your spirit.

A Pure Heart
To be pure in heart means to be unmixed. Something that is pure is unmixed with anything else. If you have pure gold, it is unmixed. The problem today with most of us is that our heart is not pure; it is mixed. We seek God, but we also seek many other things. To have a pure heart for God is to have a heart that seeks only God—a heart that is free from anything that might lower the quality of God’s life within you. To be pure also means to have a singleness of purpose. If you have more than one main purpose in life, then your heart is not pure.
Most of us have a mixed heart. We love God; we seek God; we are regenerated; but our heart is still divided. We still seek many other things besides God. James says that the “double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” To be double minded is to have a divided heart.

“Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walk in thy truth, unite my heart to fear thy name” (Psalm 86:11). Why does he say here to unite my heart? Because most of us have a divided heart. We are not single in purpose, and we are mixed with the things of the world. We need to pray, “Lord unite my heart.” The one who has a divided heart is like the man in Romans 7. He delights to do the law of God in his inner man, but he finds another law at work in his members bringing him into captivity to the law of sin and death. Here is a man who is born again, who is seeking God, who has a regenerated spirit that is crying, “O wretched man that I am.” He is a divided man, because his heart is divided and is not yet single. “Whenever the heart shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away” (2 Cor. 3:16 Many times, when you meet with the saints you feel so much spiritual strength. Because of being united in worship, prayer and praise, you feel like David, who said he could “run through a troop and jump over a wall” (Ps. 18:29). However, when you get home, sometimes you immediately get into a fight with your husband or wife, because the heart is not centered, not single, and has not been trained to keep focused on the Spirit of God within. God must have our full attention and focus to be able to possess us.

“O that there were such a heart in them that they would fear Me, and keep all My commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever” (Deut. 5:29).

It is hard to understand why Christians get upset when you start talking about keeping the commandments of God. The very fact that Christians would oppose keeping the commandments of God shows that there is something wrong on the inside. Now we realize that the natural carnal man is incapable of keeping God’s laws. However, the Christian has within him the life and nature of God to enable him to walk in all the righteous requirements of the law. That’s the good news of the gospel. It is no longer a case of man’s efforts or self ability. It is a matter of centering your heart on Jesus until He comes alive on the inside of you. We need to cultivate a desire to be like Him in all things.
The Lord said that the fulfilling of the whole law is to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind, and then to love your neighbor as yourself. A person who loves the Lord with all of his heart does not want to fall into disobedience. A man who loves his neighbor as himself would never commit adultery; he wouldn’t steal or do anything against his neighbor.

How to Obtain a Pure Heart
There is a divine progression to obtaining a pure heart.
 1. It must begin in our thought life.
 2. It must then become what we speak.
 3. What we speak will become our actions.
It is our thoughts, what we think about, that will begin the divine progression of purifying our heart.
“Finally brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of a good report, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things” (Phil. 4:8).

Imagine what is going to happen to you if you bring your mind into subjection to these verses. The very first step in purifying your heart is to begin to set your mind on the things of God. The Apostle Paul says in Romans 8 that to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace. The mind set on the flesh is death. If you begin to think only on truth, honesty, justice, lovely things, good reports, virtue and praise, it will cause the divine flow of God’s life in you to begin to stir.

Out of the Abundance of the Heart

Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matt. 12:34. You will begin to speak according to what you put into your heart. It is not very hard to discern where someone is spiritually when you hear them talk. Out of the abundance of your heart, what you have been focusing on and thinking about is what you will speak about. If you want to be a mysterious person and not have someone be able to discern you, if you don’t want them to know what you are like, just don’t talk.

We first train our minds to always focus on positive things. This will renew our minds and change our conversation so that we speak according to the Word and principles of God. Then the words that we speak have the creative ability of God to bring our actions into line with what we are thinking and speaking. What you are thinking and speaking you will become. Thoughts, words and actions will purify your heart, or keep you in the darkness. When you find yourself thinking the wrong kind of thoughts, STOP IT! When you begin to speak the wrong thing, STOP IT! This is very simple, but not so easy. Try some time when you’re angry at your spouse not to say the wrong thing. If you will pray for them instead, and set your mind on the things of the spirit, you will become purified in that area.
A singleness of heart, a pure heart, means you seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. You become undivided in your quest for God. We sometimes put many things before seeking God. For some it’s an occupation, for others it is entertainment, or it may be any number of things.

I have seen many people give up everything to follow the Lord. I was in a church in Southern California for a few years where God was flowing like a mighty river. This was a place where you could walk in and be delivered without anybody touching you or praying for you. In the praise and worship, there would be alcoholics and mainline addicts delivered. I have seen many people come to a meeting like that from all over the country and many times they would go home, sell all they had, give up retirement and everything to move to California to be a part of that move of God. These people had their priorities right. They were hungry for God. God will always provide for those who have such a heart to seek Him.

Our heart is like a large house with many rooms. Each area in our heart must be cleansed and purified. This is a process, and if you will put these truths to practice in your life, God will purify every area. If you have bitterness and anger and hate in your life, these areas all must be transformed. Let us all seek for the purity of heart that will allow the Spirit of God to arise in us, so that we too can see God come alive and be manifested within us. When all of our impurities become washed out, then there is nothing left but the Spirit of the living God, Who has been birthed on the inside of us. He has filled our mind and our emotions and subdued our will so that we are conformed to Him in all things and are living in the anointing and presence of God. That is when we are a carrier of His presence, a New Testament priest on the earth.

[Hno.Bro. Arturo Bravo]

Amen brother and thanks for being and sharing with us! It is so confortable and resting to have you here in this your site... Blessings and receive from God His pure bless from our hearts...