A stubborn person is a person who is fixed in purpose or condition, resistant to change and unreasonably obstinate. A stubborn person has an inner flaw and this inner flaw doesn't show until they are called to put all they are in the hands of God and walk in obedience. A stubborn person can appear humble, zealous and even exercise spiritual gifts, but there comes a certain point they can't get passed. They can't lay down their inner thoughts of the way things should be done and surrender to God's ways. God will allow a sense of emptiness come into our souls to get our attention. He is looking for a sincere heart to submit to the authority of His Word. When we choose to obey Him the power of sin and decay is cancelled in our lives. The only way out of stubbornness is to HUMBLE ourselves before God.

The moment we were saved the new nature of Christ was put within us. With this new nature of Christ came a deep inner longing and a groan that was put there by God. This inner groaning leads us into the depth of the life of Christ. We groan to become the new creation that God has intended us to be. Satan's most potent tactic against the righteous is to get us to feel that somehow we have fallen into disfavor with God in times of deep inner troubling, when in reality something more deep is going on inside of us. God by His grace will put a groaning in our heart to know Christ in His power and Truth and nothing but CHRIST will satisfy us.

Jesus is on a journey and He is determined to meet every hungry heart that is caught between knowing Him and living in mixture. There is a heart thirst in all humanity and Jesus is saying all who come to me with this thirst I will be a well of living water in you, satisfying every longing of your heart. When Jesus comes to us He will cut through every area of our heart and deal with the issues that cause us to give our strength to unlawful attachments in an attempt to fill a void. Jesus Christ will come to the midst of our Samaria, and will open our eyes to His Cross, His grave and His resurrection.

Are you a merciful person? Are you someone who genuinely cares about the needs and concerns of others? The loving mercies of Jesus Christ are extended to all mankind. God is preparing "His church" in these last days through testing, trials and afflictions so that we are broken vessels for His mercy and compassion to flow through us. Whatever we are going through right now is for a DIVINE PURPOSE. God will allow us to go through trials and afflictions to soften our hearts. It is in this adversity that He will begin to comfort us with His TENDER MERCIES so that His love and compassion will be poured in us and then flow through us onto those around us.