THE HEART
With our heart, we want to pray and ask God to search it. In life we may experience trauma, heartbreak and hurts that we never really address. The problem with this is that we end up becoming triggered by outside things that in turn cause us to lash out at others without really knowing why. This is because we have unaddressed “heart issues”. Let’s cast our cares on God and use The Word of God to heal us!
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.ty
Matthew 5:8
8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
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