22 Bible Verses About Opening Your Heart to God



  • Acts 16:14 says “The Lord opened her heart” of Lydia, a woman who already worshipped God, so that she listened to Paul.
  • Revelation 3:20 is part of a letter to the church in Laodicea and follows a call to be zealous and repent.
  • Psalm 62:8 and Lamentations 2:19 both tell people to pour out their hearts before God.
  • Joel 2:13 asks for torn hearts rather than torn garments and grounds the call in God being gracious and merciful.
  • In Ezekiel 36:26-27 God promises a new heart and his Spirit, and it is the Spirit that causes the people to walk in his statutes.

The Bible describes the heart being opened to God from both sides. God opens it, as with Lydia in Acts 16:14, and promises a heart of flesh for a heart of stone (Ezekiel 36:26). People are also told to open it themselves: to open the door when Christ knocks (Revelation 3:20), to pour out the heart before God (Psalm 62:8), and to return to him with all the heart (Joel 2:12-13). A third group of passages says the heart is…

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