Call on the Lord out of a Pure Heart, having No Impurity but being Focused on Christ

2 Timothy says that we need to call on the Lord out of a pure heart and pursue Him with those who call Him out of a pure heart; a pure heart is fixed on God, free from any impurity, not mixed, and focused only on the Lord.

May we be those who call on the name of the Lord out of a pure heart and pursue Christ as righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart!

As believers in Christ, we aspire to be vessels unto honor; we do not want to be a dishonourable vessel or a vessel unto dishonour but vessels of mercy unto honor and glory.

For this, we need to be constituted with the divine life and nature, have the redeemed and regenerated human nature, and also cleanse ourselves from any unrighteousness and from vessels of dishonour.

May we be the open vessels whom the Lord can fill and be expressed through.

If our vessel is open, God can fulfil His purpose; however, if our vessel is closed, God’s purpose is frustrated.

The apostle Paul was an open vessel, and the Lord could shine in him and through Him.

Christ is the treasure in our earthen vessel, and He is the precious content of our human vessel.

He wants our vessel to be conformed to the treasure, but for this, we need to be cleansed, open, and transformed to be the same as He is.

We need to pursue Christ as righteousness, faith, love, and peace.

Christ is the righteousness of God, and He is our righteousness also.

He is working Himself into us so that we may become the righteousness of God in Christ.

Christ is our faith; He infuses Himself into us to become our very believing ability, our subjective faith.

Without Christ, we cannot have faith; when we see Christ, when we see His preciousness, we are infused with Him and we simply believe.

Christ is our love; God is love, and the love of God has been poured into our heart to become our love.

We simply need to remain under the divine dispensing of God as love, we will become the same as God in Him being love, and we will love God and man.

If we pursue and gain Christ as righteousness, faith, and love, we will spontaneously have Him as our peace, for the peace of God will be in us. Amen!

And the best way to enjoy Christ and pursue Him as righteousness, faith, love, and peace is by calling on the name of the Lord.

When we call on the Lord’s name, when we just call on Him from deep within, we enjoy Christ as righteousness, faith, love, and peace.

May we give ourselves to love the Lord and call on His name, and may we call on Him out of a pure heart!

We need to be Those who Call on the Lord out of a Pure Heart, Focusing only on Him

Calling on the name of the Lord is one of the most wonderful practices we have today in the church life.

However, we need to not only call on the name of the Lord; we need to call on the Lord out of a pure heart (2 Tim. 2:22).

Calling on the Lord is not just with our lips; it has to be from the depths of our being, even from our pure heart.

Our heart is very important in calling on the Lord. We need to be those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

What does it mean to have a pure heart? What is a pure heart?

According to the Bible, to be pure means to be only for God.

For us to have a pure heart is for us to have a heart that is fixed on God (Matt. 5:8).

The Lord said that, on the day of judgment, many will come and say, Lord, didn’t we call on Your name and did great works of power in Your name? And the Lord will tell them, Depart from Me, I never knew you.

It is easy to utter, O Lord Jesus, but it is not so easy to have a pure heart.

To have a pure heart is to have a heart that is only for God.

A pure heart is a heart that is fixed only on God. Amen!

However, we all have to admit that our heart is so mixed; we love God but we also love something else.

We want to focus on God, but we have other things that we like and we pay attention to.

Check with yourself: is your heart mixed? Does your heart love other things?

Are there many other things fighting for your attention, and do you struggle to give the Lord your full attention? Are there things competing for our heart?

In serving the Lord, we should be purely for the Lord and not for anything else; we believers in Christ should be wholly for God (1 Thes. 5:23).

Our focus should be only calling on the name of the Lord and having a pure heart. Oh Lord Jesus, our heart!

It is good to come to the Lord about this matter and check with Him concerning our heart.

Our heart is drawn about by so many things, just as Martha was busy with many things but missed the Lord’s presence and the revelation of His heart’s desire.

We may have the Lord’s presence here and there, and we may be quite busy with things concerning Him, but we may not be fully focused on the Lord. Oh, Lord Jesus!

We have to admit that so many times when we call on the Lord, our heart is not that pure.

There are other things in our heart.

There are other loves, other thoughts, and other opinions that are not focused on the Lord. Our heart needs to be pure.

We need to be purified in our heart. We are blessed if we are pure in heart, for the pure in heart will see God (Matt. 5:8).

When we are pure in heart, we will see the Lord face to face, and we will behold Him and also reflect Him.

May the Lord save us from being mixed in our heart.

May we open to the Lord and allow Him to shine on us to expose anything that does not correspond to His nature.

May we even say Amen to His shining, letting Him to expose and purge any mixture in our being.

Our unique focus must be calling on the Lord, and we must call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Our heart is truly troublesome, of it is easy to focus on other things and lose sight of the Lord. May we open to Him.

May we open our vessels to Him. May we call on His name until He has a way to purify our heart.

May we ask the Lord to make us those pure in heart so that we may see God and enjoy God whenever we call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Lord Jesus, we love You and we call on You out of a pure heart. Purify our heart. Cause our heart to be purified, free from any mixture. Oh Lord Jesus, make us those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart! We want to be with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. May our heart be fixed on God. Shine on our heart, Lord, and expose its intentions, desires, thoughts, and decisions. Bring our heart on Your way. Bring our heart in line with Your heart. Cause our heart to focus on You. Oh Lord, we want to focus on nothing else but You. May our heart be only for the Lord. Draw us, Shine on us, expose what is dark in our heart, and cause our heart to focus only on You! Oh Lord Jesus, we want to call on Your name and have a pure heart! May our heart be pure and open toward You. We open our vessel to You, dear Lord. Come in. Cleanse us. Fill us. Live in us. Be expressed through us. We want to be pure in heart for You, calling on Your name with those who call on the Lord’s name out of a pure heart!

Being Pure in Heart is Necessary to be Useful to the Lord but Impurity will Kill our Usefulness

It is easy to serve the Lord if we love Him, but it is not easy to be pure in heart when we serve Him.

We need to not only serve the Lord but even more, be pure in heart.

We need to not only call on the name of the Lord but also be pure in heart and call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Paul said that he betrothed the believers to one husband to present them as a pure virgin to Christ, but he was a bit worried, for the enemy can cause the saints to be distracted from Christ (2 Cor. 11:2-3).

We need to deal with our heart before the Lord.

Only those who are pure in heart can find the way during the desolation of the church.

During these days of the degradation of the church, many cannot find the way because their heart is impure.

If our heart is impure, we are not able to discern the nature of things.

In the Lord’s work, we need to be pure in heart.

Our nature must be gold and silver, not wood and straw, and our motive in working for the Lord should be pure.

If we have a cloudy, impure motive, we will suffer loss.

We may work something for God, but eventually, our work for the Lord will be destroyed. Oh, Lord!

Paul said that some preached Christ because of envy (Phil. 1:15).

Some today may be zealous for God and even obtain good results, but if you look at their motive, you will realize their heart is not pure. Oh, Lord Jesus!

May we be those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

We need to be pure in heart and we need to be with those who are pure in heart.

When we are pure in heart and seek the Lord, call on His name, and pursue Him with a pure heart, we will sense when others are pure in heart, and we will attach ourselves to those who are pure in heart.

Those who are pure in heart will stand together to maintain the Lord’s testimony, walk in the Lord’s way, and do the Lord’s work because inwardly their hearts are pure! Amen!

Those who are pure in heart are willing to be martyred for the Lord because they love Him with a pure heart.

May the Lord shine on us and show us what our heart is and what is in our heart.

May we let Him expose any impurity and may we come to Him to call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

When we’re pure in heart, we seek only God, and in our prayer, there will be nothing of the self.

To pray is to allow the Lord to do everything according to His way and not according to our own opinion.

If we do things according to our opinions and our human methods, we don’t need prayer.

To be pure in heart is to stop the activities of the self, the cleverness of our natural man, the methods of the flesh, and the wisdom of the self. Oh, Lord.

Do we submit ourselves to the Lord? Do we seek His leading or do we insist on our opinions?

Do we seek the Lord’s leading and do we submit to Him, or do we insist on our own ways and opinions?

If we are not pure in heart in our calling on the name of the Lord, He cannot appear to us, and He cannot infuse us with what He is.

He is hindered by our impurity.

Even more, in our service to the Lord, if we are impure, our function will be killed.

Impureness in the church life and in the Lord’s work is the basic killer.

If we are impure, the first victim is ourselves, and then those around us will also be victims.

We need to be in fear and trembling before the Lord lest we are impure in making decisions about certain things, especially in the Lord’s work.

However much we say we’re in the central lane and in the Lord’s service, if our motive is not pure, we are off – we’re not in the central lane. Oh, Lord!

For us to be pure in heart is to be single in our heart.

Our heart needs to be pure and single toward God so that it can match the sense in our spirit.

The most important thing related to our heart is to be pure, because only a pure heart longs for God and pursues Him.

If our heart is not pure, if our heart seeks something besides God, then it is of little use for our spirit to be hungry and thirsty, for the heart is not coordinating with the spirit.

We need to pray that the Lord will purify our heart.

We need to be before the Lord concerning the motives in our heart, the interests we have based on our pride, ambition, or contentiousness. Oh, Lord!

On one hand, we need to exercise our spirit; on the other hand, we need to deal with our heart so that our heart may be pure before the Lord.

Our heart and our spirit need to coordinate together so that, when we call on the name of the Lord, we would call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

These days as we endeavor to be ready for the Lord’s coming and be prepared as the bride for Him to rapture when He returns, we need to take care of the condition of our heart.

We need to deal with many things in our heart.

If our heart is not right, the law of life cannot work freely, for it is obstructed by the impurity of our heart.

Though God’s life has a great power, this great power is controlled by our small heart.

May we open to the Lord concerning our heart and ask Him to cause our hearts to turn to Him and be pure.

May we never stop exercising to open to the Lord and ask Him to purify our heart so that He would have a way to do what He wants to do.

In all the situations, in all the things we’re involved, and in all our circumstances, we need to open to the Lord to deal with our heart, purify our heart, and make us those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Lord Jesus, we open to You. We stop our being and we open to You again and again. We do not presume we’re open; we simply come as we are and we ask You to help us open our whole being to You! Purify our heart. Cause our heart to be pure in seeking You. May our heart be pure in following You and serving You. Amen, Lord Jesus, purify our heart so that we may be part of Your pure bride. Oh Lord, we turn our heart to You. We want to be those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. May we have a pure heart seeking God. Grant us to have companions that are pure in heart, seeking the Lord. Amen, Lord, we stop all the activity of the self and submit to You and to Your leading. We do not insist on our opinions and we don’t want to push our opinions through. We simply want to open to You and submit ourselves to You, seeking Your leading in all things. Amen, Lord, we need You. Purify our heart. Cause us to love You more.

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers in the message for this week, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1956, vol. 2, “Three Aspects of the Church, Book 2: The Course of the Church,” ch. 6, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Being a Vessel unto Honor, a Fully Equipped Man of God, by being Empowered in the Grace which is in Christ Jesus to Fully Accomplish our Ministry in the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy (2024 April ITERO), week 6, Being a Vessel unto Honor, and Pursuing Righteousness, Faith, Love, Peace with Those Who Call on the Lord out of a Pure Heart.
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