In Ezekiel 11:19, God says he will replace the Stony hearts in his people with new hearts that are sensitive to his touch. When we give our lives to God, he puts a sense of right and wrong deep within our conscience. But if we rebelled against our conscience too many times, we can become hard-hearted. If that happens, we need to let God soften our hearts so we can be spiritually sensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. I was very hard-hearted before I really truly accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and having a relationship with Him. Being in his presence regularly developed the new heart in me the new heart that Jesus died to give me. Without a heart sensitive to God's touch, we will not recognize many of the times He is speaking to us. He speaks gently, in a steel, Small Voice, are with gentle conviction about a matter. Those who are hard-hearted and busy "doing their own thing" will not be sensitive to God's voice. I am grateful that He has softened my heart with His word, because a hard-hearted person cannot receive the blessings God wants to give.

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