5 Signs of a Hard Heart | How to Soften a Hard Heart
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We live in a world that’s in the business of creating hard hearts. Yet the Bible warns against this type of heart. In this video, learn what a hard heart is, signs you have one, and how to soften a hard heart. Enjoy!
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00:00 5 Signs of a Hard Heart
02:12 A Hard Heart is a Prideful Heart
03:44 A Hard Heart is a Misunderstanding Heart
05:40 A Hard Heart is an Unrepentant Heart
07:12 A Hard Heart is an Unsympathetic and Judgmental Heart
08:16 A Hard Heart is an Unforgiving and Resentful Heart
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“Sometimes we hang onto bitterness to protect us from more hurt, but In blocking out the perceived bad that may or may not happen, we block out the good that God wants to bring into our lives (because we harden our hearts)” This spoke mountains to me! Thank you!
In the past I have struggled with a hard heart of unforgiveness. This unforgiveness caused so much sickness in my life and I spent a lot of money with doctors and medicine. I began to pray about it with counseling. One day, the time was right with God. He Holy Spirit worked in me and through me for forgiveness from the other person. On that day it was like a a heavy brick being lifted from my body. The Lord set me free. Amen
What a great illustration! Yes, when we can truly forgive it's like a heavy burden being lifted. I am so glad God allowed you to experience that freedom. Thank you so much for sharing Lynnette!
Guys my heart is hardening😭😭😭😭😭
I’m experiencing a hard heart now. Please keep me in prayer. I’m seeking Him and His healing
I’m so sorry to hear that. I certainly pray you find His peace and healing. Keep seeking Him and I’m sure you will 🙏🏾💜
@@belovedwomen I (my own opinion) think a hard heart is starting to arrogance, because if we becoming arrogant were becoming prideful and if they seeing a homeless and starving they don't care about them instead of giving them a food nor helping them they just ignoring them(not all) and our anger is to much, if your angry to someone you don't want them to forgive, im doing if im angry im telling my self to calm down. Btw (by the way) im starting to pray please pray for me to not surrender and stop praying and to close to God. Thank you if this helpful. God bless who's reading this
@@belovedwomen Please pray for me I have a hard heart.
How are you now?
@@Lee-qy8zs how are you now
Please pray for my hardened heart. I struggle with everything she talked about. Thank you for this video.
Me as well! Time to change my ways of thinking and allow my heart to be softened.
Same 🙏
How are you doing now?
For a long while, I struggled to forgive a teacher who has repeatedly humiliated me in front of the class. During my prayer times, I prayed for him. To my surprise, with time, I started to really mean those prayers and want the best for him. Also, God gave me peace. This just goes to show that when you struggle to forgive someone, pray for him/her. God has a way of changing your heart.
What an awesome testimony! I’m so glad you got peace. Don’t we serve an amazing God!
Its one-sided i dont think thats fair to be honest
@@goodone5590 what do you mean?
Nah you've just accepted the abuse you've received and did nothing about it
@@Shan21. since you know so much about the situation and all the facts, tell me what I could have done. Tell me how I have spoken up for myself and complained to his superior and the superior not only took up for him but scolded me and told me I owed him an apology (which I did not apologize). So again, my explanation that I gave was not really necessary because I don’t owe you or anyone else any explanation……….so tell, what more I need to do? Enlighten me so I can improve.
Please pray for me! My past life of abuse addiction and depression has caused me not to be able to abide by Gods teachings! I am trying to give God my heart but my sinful nature wins over my deep need to change! I’ve been clean for four years now but my anxiety shame and anger still lingers 😢
How are you now?
I do admit that I still see other ways that my heart is hardened. Thanks for not only addressing the problem but also giving the solution.
This was good. I’m sure we’ve all experienced this heart problem. That’s why the Bible instructs us to guard our hearts with all diligence for out of it comes the issues of life. God, if we trust in you with all our hearts then we can be honest without fear. There are people I’m mad at and need to forgive. I’m sometimes indifferent bc I’ve gone through hurt. Give me your heart that puts others first and is not easily offended. You promised a new heart. Do it for all your daughters Jesus!
Amen
Hello Christina! I do not comment often but need to let you know that you glow Jesus!! You are teaching the way, the truth and the life to all who partake. Never stop!!! Truly a Sister in Christ Jesus, Amen & Amen
I am struggling right now because I don't have a hard heart but I am married to someone that does. It's very hard to navigate through this as I want to honor my commitment but recognize this behavior has put such a huge responsibility on me. I even sometimes mirror the same thing because of feeling hopeless after years of trying.
Because of severe depression at one point in our marriage where I had no energy or motivation and slept for days on end I missed some important years with my wife and children. Because of this their hearts have hardened toward me. I have recovered and constantly beg their forgiveness but am only met with anger and bitterness. And am now in the final stages of divorce after 30 years together. It really hurts that a hard heart does not allow it's host to see the pure hearts in others. I am hoping for and miracle and know that we don't wrestle against flesh but against the negative spiritual forces that strive to hinder us from God's best.
I have shared your channel with my family many times but don't know if they have tuned in. I do hope they hear this one somehow. Please pray for us. Thank you.
I know this is an old comment and you may not see it but it stood out to me immediately. My husband is a combat veteran with PTSD, TBI, and depression. Even as I write that I realize how I have attempted to minimize it to myself to make it manageable. I held my own feelings inside through no fault of anyone’s but my own. I thought it was important to try to focus on my husband but unfortunately I only enabled him by trying to manage his emotions for him rather than helping him draw them out himself and identify, express, manage, etc.
I have allowed myself to become hardened toward my husband just as your own wife did. The saddest part is I felt the Lord warn me this would happen but I was so angry I told Him I did not care. I fear my heart will never be softened even though I want it to be. I don’t know how to undo what I’ve done. It happened slowly over time so I suppose that will be how it’s undone.
I miss the free spirited joyful person I used to be. I find myself critical and judgmental, constantly assuming the worst.
The point I guess is… You are not solely responsible for the dissolution of your marriage. It was your wife’s choice to remain bitter and resentful just as it is my choice. We can convince ourselves “I can’t help it. Too much has happened” but it’s a lie from the devil. We are each responsible to hold our thoughts captive and it takes effort and persistence to undo the pride, criticalness, and hardness of heart I have allowed to creep in.
My heart goes out to you. I sense my husband shares some of your pain. I’m praying you and your wife can reconcile. God is the God of the impossible.
@@reesewitherfork6142 God bless you. He had already begun the softening at the time you wrote this. I pray your journey is continuing to grow in Him. We can only move forward one day at a time and let His Word be a lamp to our feet and light to our path.
How are you now?
That would be me! It's an area of my life God is working on in my new heart. I had a tower around my heart that was closed. I vowed to never let any9ne ever get close enough to me to hurt me again. I was the unknown concubine, Tamar, Dinah, Job, woman at the well, child sex-trafficked survivor, and David.
I had no pride left, I forgave everyone but myself.
I could not feel anything (love, hate. compassion or sympathy) and blamed God for all the horrific things that happened to me so listen to her because she is so accurate! When I received a new heart, I have to work very hard to keep it aligned with God.
Bless you sister, your doung a good thing. ❤
Amen, that is exactly how I live, people will always tell me I'm too soft hearted and everybody is walking over me!
I have been a Christian since 1981, and I have never heard such a practical, applicable message in my life! I had no idea after all these years, that was my issue. Thank you so much for sharing. You hit the nail on the head!
I need Prayer for my heart.
Yes I have experienced an unforgiving heart until God showed me in Scripture that I was hurting myself instead of the people I was mad at and that gave me the courage to forgive them, so that I could heal. So grateful to God for His loving care ❤
Waooooh, what a teaching today . Big lessons learned servant of God. May the lord soften our hearts today. Create in me a clean heart oh God so that your words may find a resting place in. May the lord God bless and Favor you and your ministry in Jesus Mighty Name.
Yes im going through this right now hence why Gods put this on my screen Glory to God and Hallelujah Gods just amazing and can do anything ❤❤❤
Please pray for my heart, to heal.
Please pray for me, I'm so broken and full of fear.
GOD BLESS YOU BEAUTIFUL WOMAN OF GOD THANK YOU FOR THE BIBLE STUDY THIS MORNING A VERY EXCELLENT WORD FROM THE LORD,
Thank you! 💜💜💜 God bless you too Pam!
@@belovedwomen YOU ARE WELCOME BEAUTIFUL LADY,
This message is amazing to me as well as women. Healing is difficult, necessary, and wonderful. Thanks!
This was so good! Thank you so much! I am praying that my harden heart be made soft, in Jesus name! 🙏🏾
What a wonderful message for me today... thank you so much! I could tell that I needed this message about hard hearts because I noticed that my words lately have not loving or patient... but “snarky” and frustrated. The Lord gave me Prob 3:5-6 as my focus verse this year, and I am going to spent time this morning praying about the condition of my heart. God bless you Christina, and thank you for your ministry!
Please pray for my girlfriend. She has a wall around her heart that I feel is preventing her from presenting her true self to me.
Aw man this made me cry after thinking about how angry I’ve been, thank u for this!
I'm really struggling please pray for me.
I'm a male preacher and I extremely enjoyed this. It's helpful to me to hear a feminine perspective on Scripture.
Thank you Christina! 🦋🪻
My ex-husband has hardened my daughter's heart toward me. Please pray for her. Her name is Tyler. We've both been abused and manipulated by him and he planted seeds early on in the separation and divorce that caused her to mistrust trust me and question the very basics of who and what I am. Because of her responses and attitudes towards me and the ugliness that everyone experiences as your teenager goes through adolescence I responded in a not healthy way. In short both of us took Satan's bait and now there is a huge Rift between the two of us.
Thanks for your teaching WOG. God bless you
I am 11 I want to have a powerful relationship with God and I have about 4 of these hard hearts.I need to repent so I can live eternally with God.
Very encouraging! Thank you!
beautiful channel,
glad i stumbled into it !
I’m experiencing all these. This video gave me confirmation that I need God to soften my heart
I received your message 🙏🏽✝️❤️🔥
Beautifully said woman of God
I think I may have hard heart I was molested as a child my parents were alcoholic I never really had parents growing up I want to be close to Jesus please pray for me
Thank you.
I have experienced #5 and find it hard to not let go for fear of being taken advantage of.. pls pray for me that I can trust God and give to him
I needed this
God loves me most soft for his love 💕 to comfort and guide me 🙏🏾
I forgave and let go, without re rentering any more relationships from the past God freed me of
Thank you so much. I was searching for a solution and found this. God bless you 😇❤️
Amen! Thank you very much for this. Honestly I notice whenever I do something that isn’t loving or kind, my heart begins to feel different and I guess harder. I need this and I want to thank God for using you for this! Keep going strongly!
This was absolutely great teaching! Helpful to me and seeing how to pray for someone who is hard hearted towards me.
Praise Gos for this video it’s really helpful
Fanstastic video, sister! I have been suffering from this for a couple weeks now and it is very alarming.
I now gave evil desires and thoughts I cannot seem to get rid of.
Thank You For This Blessing ❤️
Really needed this,thank you
Has your heart been softened now? Would be great to know!
You just gained a new subscriber. God bless
Thank you so much. I liked the way you explained the causes and solutions towards hard heart. I actually got my heart hardened due to the toxic people around. I surrender my heart to the Lord to soften it. Thank you
Thank you 💜
Excellent work; love you very good and xo
Praying for a soft ❤️
God bless you madame
Hello I recently am have the worst spiritual war far that I've ever have had and I've grown super hard twards god. I don't want to prise him I don't want to worship him and I don't know how to get back to my original soft heart that I've started with. I can't feel or hear god at all. Please pray for me
please heal this person in your mighty name Jesus, amen❤
God bless you. I’m set free
Even though I asked forgiveness for sin I still sometimes don't feel free. I felt bitterness coming over me because I couldn't understand why i couldn't get free. It's the only way I know to explain it. Please pray for me, Scott, for true repentance and forgiveness. Thank You And please pray for my son Chase for a soft heart and salvation. Thank You!
How are you now?
@@DaughterofkingJesus1993 how are who?
I've had a hard heart since January 3rd 2021. I keep getting hard hearted Everyday I'm trying to believe in God in really trying and trying and trying but my heart feels hard every good thing I say about God trying to pray for others who are suffering please help me soften my heart I've been watching videos how to get a normal soft heart of flesh but it's not working no matter how hard I've tried. I've tried repenting for my sins but my heart hardens every time I try to repent and I'm worried I might go to hell for for sins trying my best to repent for my sins I'm trying so hard to repent and believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ but my heart won't let me. I keep getting intrusive negative thoughts that won't go away. Please help me with my heart it's hard as rock sometimes I get a comfortable heart but It's not usual.
I used to have great faith in God but I have back slided my faith that God is real has been damaged and my heart has hardened a little bit please pray for me! I need it!
HOW ARE YOU NOW? YOU COMMENT WAS NOT SO CLEAR
How are you now?
You're a beautiful sister ❤️
Amen
Please prayer for me to be able to let go of all this and give to God ❤❤❤
I know this a woman's channel but I had to see what was going on. at this time I'm trying to learn wat the HEART is, I've been told it's about the emotional center. This is something that is truly hard to understand let alone connect with it. I have tried prayer and reading but I continually fail to keep it up. I have all the signs of a hard heart. At 69 and living my life on self-will, I can't seem to get out of my will. I want to change but I know I'm in the way. I know I'm in resentment towards myself but I don't know how to get out of it. I'm in need of and mind change so that I don't do what I shouldn't.
I am grateful for your video. Do you have a mentorship for young ladies?
Please keep me in your prayers
Holy Spirit at work: this is sound teaching.
I need lots of prayers for what I’m going through. My heart does not feel conviction or fear of god and I want to feel conviction but my heart physically feels like stone. I’ve even cried several times and prayed asked for forgiveness but I still feel no conviction or godly sorrow in my heart. I know that sounds confusing since I just said I cried several times but I don’t feel it like I was. Please pray for me and help me if you can! Thanks and God bless
Are you okay now? How is your walk with him now? i am currently going through this same thing.
@@rickiaherbin1614Do you understand the true gospel?
@@andreav1706 hi, yes
@@rickiaherbin1614 Many Christians are misled about the gospel just as long as you understand you can’t earn your way to heaven through works or being good enough but resting in Jesus death and resurrection, He paid your penalty, meditating on that daily is important, not to say we can live in willful disobedience but salvation is by Grace. Hope you are doing better now. God Bless
I just wanna start saying GOD LOVES YOU so much, and I Guarantee you if you keep trying GOD will DEFINITELY grow closer ,he doesn't want you dealing like this but wants you to have JOY and PEACE in his SPIRIT so keep on trying and repent often cause sometimes sin gets kn the way of lots of things❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Please pray for me! I’m very worried that I have a hard heart, I’ve been a Christian for 11 months and ive been doing so bad I feel horrible and I feel like I can’t keep going anymore. Please pray so I don’t blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
I don’t know if anyone will see this, but I’m pretty sure that I have a hard heart. I’m scared because I don’t want to spend time with God because of it. I want to change, but I feel so weak in my faith to believe that it’s even possible. So, if you see my message, please pray for me. Thank you so much for your time.
Someone pray for me.
Thank you for this video! I can see how my heart has hardened from watching this video. However, I know God has not and will not protect me from being hurt by other people. since some pain is too much to bear and takes a lifetime to heal, I feel obligated to protect myself at whatever the cost. My peace is important to me and that’s why I keep my distance from others at this point.
Trust God sweetie, not your own ability to protect yourself. He is your refuge and present help in trouble. Jesus is not a high priest who cannot sympathize with your hurts and weakness. Remember, He has gone through all that and more for us. You can cast all your care on Him because He cares for you. Remember what people mean for evil, God can turn around for your good. Not saying you should continually be toxic relationships but coping by trusting yourself to protect yourself is not the way to go either.
I am speaking to you because I am in one of those hard seasons. Lately, God has been putting on my heart to really focus on Him and His character. I am dealing with many hurts that I have experienced from other people. What I am telling you is how I am coaching myself (along with repenting) so that I can get rid of the bitterness I have allowed in my heart and to keep even more bitterness from coming in. It’s a hard battle we have to endure sis, but God will strengthen us if we would just trust and depend on Him. I am in that process of breaking down the wall of protection I have created to protect myself.
@@dorotheadixon9294 Thank You!
@@arie7687 🤗 you’re welcome
Please pray for me, i dont feel much when i sin, but i know it is wrong.
Please pray for me too :)
Hi good morning, very interested in your book. Is it on audible
Please help me. Im struggling with a hard heart. I feel like at times i dont want to speak about god nor read the bible anymore. After watching some christian videos today i just layed in my bed crying. I feel scared and dont know what to do. I want to be a christian but everything is taking me away from it and i just feel so unsecure. Please help me. Any advice please.
I’ll pray for you, don’t give up, I am on the same boat but I can’t even cry which is probably worse. We can’t give up keep seeking him and it’s good you want to be Christian. God bless
@@arold4928 hw are you
I'm a boy but Im 99.9% I have a hardened heart, I don't feel convicted when I sin at all, I Don't Care About reading my Bible, I don't Care if I go to hell I keep praying the sinner's prayer and for God to soften my heart
I say this in love, stop repeating the sinners prayer over and over. Believe that Christ died for your sins was buried and rose again on the third day. Go to God about all of this. Read just a verse and study on that verse. Look up verses that deal with what you're going through. Brother the devil is a liar and will mess with our feelings. Do not go by feelings, study what a kind and loving Father we have. Ask God to soften your heart and help you. You writing a comment and watching videos that have concerned you about these issues is an indicator God is working. I pray this helps. I love you and am praying for you❤❤❤
@@Brokenwings20, I am praying for you also❤❤❤
@@cassielitton753Thank you for this, i’m experiencing the same situation i get so prideful it’s hard and i don’t want to harden my heart towards God
Pray for me. I feel im being oppressed or possessed. As a Christian I went into occult I told God to leave me alone. I since I have repented. But I'm being attacked. Afraid I lost my salvation. I feel dead inside Please pray for me. I feel I 😪 grieved God too much and He left me Please pray that I can receive the mercy of the Lord. I'm afraid I have wondered too far. Pray that His mercy will reach me. I heard Him say He will not always strive with man. I am scared
I'm struggling with this😪 I feel like I cant hear him
I’ve been really worried and I feel like my heart may be sick, right now. I want a better relationship with God, but school is pulling me every which way. How can I prevent hardness of heart? I don’t want my heart to get to that state, and I’m concerned that it may be getting there 😭😭😭
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Please pray for my heart I am trying but I feel far from God and I feel I’m not absorbing his word and not connecting in prayer
As a Christian, how do you have a soft heart in a country that hate you
Understand their mindset. The hate and persecution. Just imagine and it's sad it's like they don't understand their own wrong doing.
I do experience that all you shared. Miss, I wanna tell you that it feels like an offense against me when God tries to correct anything in my life. He starts doing good to me after a long bad phase, then initially I feel relieved but suddenly my ego comes into the scene and I start fighting with God not to give me anything and rather KILL ME and I start telling Him that KILLING ME WILL GIVE YOU EVEN MORE HAPPINESS, GOD. AND I JUST HATE YOU OK. GIVE ME MORE BAD YEAH MORE AND MORE BAD.
Can God forgive a hardened heart?
I feel like I keep hardening my heart but I can’t stop it and I’m concerned that I might commit the unforgivable sin
You won’t dude
I’m praying for you man
I have OCD rn and imma be honest
OCD is worst thing to have in a Christian lifestyle. I got it from blasphemous intrusive thought. If I keep freaking out about a thought saying I don’t want it over and over. It gets stronger and it’s harder to stay on course. I am very often acting out on these intrusive thought that I freak out so much when I say it because I don’t mean it. I think I’m believing tons of lies. It came to the point where my heart was so hardened to the point where I felt hopeless and faithless but I still had it in me and w a couple prayers I came back strong thanks to the amazingness of the Holy Ghost. But I keep backsliding. Imma say this. If you don’t hate sin but are praying that you desire to hate it or desire to desire to hate sin. You are going in the right track. You have not lost it. You’re good man. God is amazing beyond infinite
@@mikes4nity82 yeah I know how you’re feel, I also have OCD
@@mikes4nity82 me too I have ocd can we talk messenger
@@mikes4nity82 hi can we talk old messenger
@@larrykang2586 hi how are you now?
“Better a hardened heart than a hardened brain.”
-Matt Dillahunty
Him punishing them might fix that but he care about them more, that's apparent. Why do I get the damage and then I get the chores of fighting the fight of fixing my heart.
Take your child and let someone kick the daylights out of him. After you have watched this go on for awhile because you are a parent of patience and mercy. Then look at your child with the broken bones and bloodied flesh and tell them they will receive no mercy or healing until they first forgive his ambusher and pray that Gods blessing will rain down on him. Why care about anything? Why didn't God punish David instead of a baby? Because he has his favorites.
Guess I have a hard heart.
I hate to admit it, but I will never forgive anyone who's humiliated me and wronged me.
I have enough reasons to hate humanity and the evil nature of the average person
Walk away from sin and stay away from tv and media
Please pray for me fellow Christians. the devil is tormenting me. He says I have blasphemed the Holy Spirit and it is too late. I want to go to heaven. Please allow Christ to soften my heart
That is an old lie the devil uses. He used blasphemy on me too and thousands of other Christians. He wants you to say oh well I've blasphemed it's all over for me, and give up on God. But you have NOT blasphemed the holy spirit. It's a TRICK as old as time that he's used on plenty of us. Fight the good fight!
You have not blasphemed against the Holy Spirit 💜💜💜
Hw are you
I am a hard hearted guy. I skipped this video coz of the intro music. Too long and sounded like and ad.
The holy spirit depart from me 12 months ago I feel numb and no remorse no feeling no conviction no nothing. Holy spirit kept leaving it probably left for good permanently maybe reprobate and conscious seer with a hot iron maybe I blasphemy too I can't even cry or repent, I didn't trust God unbelief and not reading the Bible or pray complaining laziness
Are you okay now?
@@rickiaherbin1614 no
@@shirleymaycox4977 Your still Going Through the same thing?
@@rickiaherbin1614 yes I made it worse by disobedience wen I had a tight but of hope
@@shirleymaycox4977 do you feel condemned?
to soften a had heart ---Start going to a Holy Ghost filled church!!!!!!!
Im experience a hard heart rn please pray for me