“She has caused the heart of God to prevail over the silence of God.” From The Silence of God by Helmut Thielicke The Syrophoenician woman did this in Matthew 15, and so did Jacob in Genesis 32. Both would not let God go until He blessed each one in their personal predicament. Zach Williams sang a song, “There’s only Love in the Heart of God. “How so? Romans 10:10 reveals heart, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;” (The righteousness that is of God by faith.) Proverbs 23:26 reads “My son, give me thine heart.” Is “heart”, then, a place of faith? The heart of God is a broad topic, but a vital one. When we consider the heart of God, we must consider the mind of God. That mind is manifested throughout the pages of scripture which we read and try to comprehend. Dr. Carl H. Stevens defined…
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Then he sent her (Hagar) away with their son, and she wandered aimlessly in the wilderness of Beersheba. When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush. Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards away. “I don’t want to watch the boy die,” she said, as she burst into tears. But God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “Hagar, what’s wrong? Do not be afraid! God has heard the boy crying as he lies there…. Then God opened Hagar’s eyes, and she saw a well full of water. She quickly filled her water container and gave the boy a drink. And God was with the boy as he grew up in the wilderness. Whose concubine despairs? Whose woman of incidental association bursts into tears? Nobody knows her, but God knows…