This document outlines a 10 week challenge to transform one's heart through daily prayer. It encourages praying for wisdom and revelation to know God better, and for one's heart to be enlightened. Participants are instructed to monitor their hearts by watching what they say, identify sources of impurity, and develop plans to eliminate them. Emphasis is placed on forgiving others to be free from unforgiven wounds that keep the heart in chains like bitterness or anger. God's word says forgiveness is important for being forgiven and is required for worship. The challenge is to honestly face any unforgiven wounds enslaving one's heart and believe through God's power and love, one can forgive and be healed.

1. Lesson 5: April 15, 2015

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3. Jesus
Becoming like Him

4. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
28 days in/
42 days to go

5. Ephesians 1:17 – 18
17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you
may know him better.
18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart
may be enlightened in order that you may
know the hope to which he has called you,
the riches of his glorious inheritance in the
saints, and His incomparably great power for
us who believe.

6. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
28 days in/
42 days to go

7. Romans 8:27
And he who searches our hearts knows
the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
intercedes for the saints in accordance
with God’s will.

8. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring
what is coming out of our mouths.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
28 days in/
42 days to go

9. Matt. 15:18-19…But the things that come
out of a person’s mouth come from the
heart, and these make a man unclean. For
out of the heart come evil thoughts—
murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft,
false testimony, slander.

10. The Ten Week Challenge
Identify the sourceof impurity in ourlives.
Expose them to God.
Prayerfully develop a plan to
eliminate these sources.
28 days in/
42 days to go

11. of the heart…

13. The Ten Week Challenge
Monitor the attitude of our hearts.
How merciful are we?
28 days in/
42 days to go

14. The Ten Week Challenge
Monitor the attitude of our hearts.
How merciful are we?
28 days in/
42 days to go
How much do we truly desire God’s
righteousness?

15. Remember…

16. We are in a war!

18. Eph. 6:11-12 – Put on the full armor of God, so
that you can take your stand against the devil’s
schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh
and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities, against the
powers of this dark world, against the spiritual
forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

19. What from the past can stand in
the way of transforming our
hearts?
Un-forgiven Wounds

20. Un-forgiven
wounds chain
the heart…

21. How do they keep us in chains?
resentment
bitterness
anger
hatred
grudge

22. Psalm 139:23-24 - Search me, God, and know
my heart; test me and know my anxious
thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in
me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

23. How can we know the truth?
There is only one source of truth:
the
word
of
God
What does the word say?...

24. Matt. 6:14-15…For if you forgive other
people when they sin against you, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you. But
if you do not forgive others their sins,
your Father will not forgive your sins.
Why is this subject so important?
What did Jesus say about it?
It’s part of being forgiven…

25. It’s more important than giving…
Matt. 5:23-24…Therefore, if you are
offering your gift at the altar and there
remember that your brother or sister has
something against you, leave your gift
there in front of the altar. First go and be
reconciled to them; then come and offer
your gift.
It requires honesty…
It requires action…

26. Mark 11:25…And when
you stand praying, if
you hold anything
against anyone,
forgive them, so that
your Father in
heaven may
forgive you
your sins.”
It doesn’t require an apology
It’s more important than worship…
This is not an option.

28. We must
seek to
understand
the power
of God’s

29. We must seek to understand its
importance to…
…our
Freedom
Forgiveness
and our

30. What un-forgiven wounds are we
letting affect our hearts today?

31. We must be honest with God and ourselves.
We must identify the un-forgiven
wounds that are enslaving our hearts.
We must pray for the faith
and strength to face them.
We must believe that through the
power and love of God, we can forgive.

32. Do any of us have a heart that needs to
forgive someone and be healed?

33. We must ask God to lead us to
the freedom of forgiveness.

34. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring
what is coming out of our mouths.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
28 days in/
42 days to go

35. The Ten Week Challenge
Identify the source of impurity in our
lives.
Prayerfully develop a plan to
eliminate these sources.
Expose them to God.
28 days in/
42 days to go

36. The Ten Week Challenge
Monitor the attitude of our hearts.
How merciful are we?
28 daysin/
42 daystogo
How much do we truly desire God’s righteousness?
Pray for God to search our hearts and show us
wounds that need to be forgiven.
Next Week…

37. Ten Steps to
Forgiveness…