Proverbs 4: 23 - 23 How to Guard Your Heart - Prov. 4:23 Heart - The seat of the affections. What you are passionate about. What constitutes your primary purpose, priority and perspective. The thing you hunger most for. 1. Prov. 4:23 - Keep your heart with all diligence for from it flows the issues of life. To be diligent means that we are hard-working, care and show great concern for all aspects of our motives, methods and message. 2. Prov. 3:5,6 - Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insights, but in all your ways acknowledge Him (as Lord of your heart) and He will direct your paths. TRust God with your heart as He is the one who made you and know you temperament, abilities and personal strengths and weaknesses. 3. 2 Chron 16:9 - The eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the whole earth that He may strongly support those who hearts are fully committed to him. The Lord looks for those whose affections are on Him, His will and His kingdom. He goes to extra measures to support them and provide what they need for accomplishing His purposes. 4. Jer. 17:9 - Be cautious about a deceitful heart. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked who can know it. Even Jesus did not trust men because he knew what was in men. Exercise great caution about trusting your own heart as it is very clever in deceiving a person about what is true, noble, right and excellent. 5. I Tim. 4:7,8 - Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness as it is profitable for all things. Believe that the Lord wants you to discipline your heart with devotions, self-control and spiritual disciplines so you can experience the profitability of godliness in all things. 6. KNow that God is the heart knower. He searches the heart of every person. Man looks on the outward appearance but God looks at the heart. (Prov. 7:9) God searches the mind and heart to see what is in it. 7. 2 Kings 4:4 - Avoid the problems of letting your heart get turned away from God and His priority kingdom purposes. "It came about when Solomon was old that his wives turned his heart away from God, as his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord God as the heart of David his Father." 8. Avoid getting to the point where even the Lord will harden your heart because of persistent rationalizing of sin. Josh. 11:20 says, For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel." The Hivites were so reprobate that God hardened their already perverse hearts to attack Israel. God can use the wrath of man to praise Him. 9. Matt 15: 7, 8 - Recognize and remove any forms of hypocrisy of the heart. Jesus said, "You hypocrites draw near to God with your mouth and honor me with your lips but your hearts are far from me." 10. Luke 10:27,28 - Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, strength and mind and your neighbor as yourself." Develop a sensitive heart to God. 11. Phil. 4:6,7 - Pray about everything and the peace of God will guard your heart and mind through Christ Jesus." Jesus is the best guarder, restorer and sustainer of our heart. 12. Psa. 73,25,26: - KNow that sometimes our heart will grow weary, but let God be the strength of your heart and your portion forever. Find your strength through the praise God’s attributes. Be willing to weep with those who weep. 13. Rom. 12:9,10, - Let your love be without hypocrisy , abhor what is evil and cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love, giving preference to one another in love, serving the Lord. Rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Realize that a loving heart is best cultivated in the fields of service to the body of Christ and the lost. 14. Luke 24:32 - Let your heart burn for Jesus Christ and His passion for the seeking first of His kingdom and His righteousness. The disciples said, "Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke to us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us." Let the word of God fill you up with His positives and replace all the negative things of the world, the flesh and the devil with what is good. Do not be overcome with evil but pro-actively overcome evil with good. Share the word of God with others in every way.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:09:46 +0000
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