Understanding the Heart Biblically: A Journey of Self-Reflection
Delve into the essence of the heart as depicted in the Bible through verses like Matthew 22:36-40, Proverbs 4:23, and Jeremiah 31:31, 33b. Uncover the profound truth that the heart is one's true self, governing thoughts and actions, yet complex and subject to God's judgment. Reflect on the importance of guarding the heart and its pivotal role in our spiritual journey and relationship with God.
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Developing a Heart That Can Stand Alone in Babylon Wes Woodell 2018 Campus Ministry United Workshop: Thriving in Babylon
Matthew 22:36-40 36 Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law? 37Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Proverbs 4:23 23Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Jeremiah 31:31, 33b 31 The days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah 33b I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts
Biblically, what is my heart? My heart
Biblically, what is my heart? My heart 1) is my true self who only God can see.
Biblically, what is my heart? My heart 1) is my true self who only God can see. 2) governs EVERYTHING I think and do.
Biblically, what is my heart? My heart 1) is my true self who only God can see. 2) governs EVERYTHING I think and do. 3) is complicated and deceptive.
Biblically, what is my heart? My heart 1) is my true self who only God can see. 2) governs EVERYTHING I think and do. 3) is complicated and deceptive. 4) is going to be judged by God.
Biblically, what is my heart? My heart 1) is my true self who only God can see. 2) governs EVERYTHING I think and do. 3) is complicated and deceptive. 4) is going to be judged by God. 5) can be willfully hardened toward God.
FIVE KEYS TO G.U.A.R.D. MY HEART G Get into God s Word Properly
Matthew 13:10-13 10The disciples came to him and asked, Why do you speak to the people in parables? 11He replied, Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
Matthew 13:14-15 14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. 15For this people s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.
Deuteronomy 6:6 6These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Deuteronomy 11:18a 18aFix these words of mine in your hearts and minds Job 22:22b 22b lay up his words in your heart. Psalm 119:11 11I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Proverbs 4:20-22 20My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. 21Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; 22for they are life to those who find them and health to one s whole body. Proverbs 7:1-3 My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. 2Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. 3Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
FIVE KEYS TO G.U.A.R.D. MY HEART G Get into God s Word Properly U Uncover my Greatest Desire
Jeremiah 29:11-14 11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, declares the LORD, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.
1 Chronicles 28:9 9 And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.
FIVE KEYS TO G.U.A.R.D. MY HEART G Get into God s Word Properly U Uncover my Greatest Desire A Ask God for Help Continually
Jeremiah 24:7 7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart. Jeremiah 32:39 39I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them.
Ezekiel 11:19-21 19I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. 20Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God. 21But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Ephesians 3:16-19 16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the Lord s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
FIVE KEYS TO G.U.A.R.D. MY HEART G Get into God s Word Properly U Uncover my Greatest Desire A Ask God for Help Continually R Rely on God s People
Hebrews 3:12-13 12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin s deceitfulness.
Hebrews 10:22-25 22let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
FIVE KEYS TO G.U.A.R.D. MY HEART G Get into God s Word Properly U Uncover my Greatest Desire A Ask God for Help R Rely on God s People Continually D Deal Quickly with Divided Devotion
Psalm 86:11 11Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
Matthew 6:19-24 19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Colossians 3:1-4 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Psalm 19:14 14May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
FIVE KEYS TO G.U.A.R.D. MY HEART G Get into God s Word Properly U Uncover my Greatest Desire A Ask God for Help R Rely on God s People Continually D Deal Quickly with Divided Devotion
