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  TRANSFORMING THE HARD HEART
  by John Henry Jowett
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Summary: God's love has the power to transform even the hardest of
hearts, restoring them to a right relationship with Him.

Topics: "Heart Transformation", "Gods Grace"
Scripture References: Isaiah 35:1, Ezekiel 36:26, Romans 5:20

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John Henry Jowett preaches about the transformative power of God, using
the analogy of turning flint into a fountain of waters. He emphasizes
how even the hardest of hearts can be softened by God's love and grace,
leading to a profound change in character and behavior. Just like
Zacchaeus and Matthew experienced a radical transformation, no one is
beyond the reach of God's compassion. Jowett encourages bringing our
hardness and brokenness to the Lord, trusting in His ability to bring
forth new life and beauty even in the most desolate places.

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_The Lord "turned the flint into a fountain of waters."_

--PSALM cxiv.

What a violent conjunction, the flint becoming the birthplace of a
spring!

And yet this is happening every day. Men who are as "hard as flint,"
whose

hearts are "like the nether millstone," become springs of gentleness and

fountains of exquisite compassion. Beautiful graces, like lovely ferns,

grow in the home of severities, and transform the grim, stern soul into
a

garden of fragrant friendships. This is what Zacchæus was like when his

flint became a fountain. It is what Matthew the publican was like when
the

Lord changed his hard heart into a land of springs.

No one is "too far gone." No hardness is beyond the love and pity of
God.

The well of eternal life can gush forth even in a desert waste, and
"where

sin abounds grace doth much more abound." Let us bring our hardness to
the

Lord. Let us see what He can make of our flint. When we are dry and

"feelingless," and desire is dead, let us bring this Sahara to the great

Restorer, and "the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose."

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