Heart is Scripture’s name for the inner person
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the well of thought, will, desire, and worship.
Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
The Lord looks on the heart.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart.
A new heart is gift, not self-repair.
The heart is not only what you feel.
It is what you are before God.
Hebrew and Greek do not park the heart in the chest as a mood organ. It plans a way. It speaks when the mouth is quiet. It believes unto righteousness.
- Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
- Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, theft, slander.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the Lord search the heart and test the mind.
- David was a man after God’s own heart and still needed Create in me a clean heart.
- Pharaoh’s heart was hardened.
- Lydia’s heart was opened.
- Ezekiel promised a heart of flesh for a heart of stone, and the Spirit within so that we walk in His statutes.
The new covenant writes the law on the heart. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Circumcision that counts is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit. Guard it. Do not trust it unconverted. Ask for the one He gives.
- Heart is the control room, not a soft extra.
- God reads it when man reads the face.
- All your heart is the first commandment’s measure—not a fraction for Sundays.
- Stone and flesh is the real split. Education cannot perform that surgery.
- Treasure locates the heart. Follow the pile and you will find the shrine.
- Create in me is prayer because the sick heart cannot heal itself.
- Purity of heart is for seeing God, not for collecting compliments.
- The Springs – From it flow the issues of life.
- The Search – The Lord looks on the heart and tests the mind.
- The Sickness – Deceitful; desperately sick; factory of evil thoughts.
- The Command – Love with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength.
- The Gift – New heart, new spirit, law written within.
- The Treasure – Where the store is, the heart moves in.
- The Pure – They shall see God; create in me a clean heart.
- Proverbs 4:23 – “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”
- 1 Samuel 16:7 – “For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
- Jeremiah 17:9-10 – “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.”
- Deuteronomy 6:5 – “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”
- Mark 12:30 – “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
- Ezekiel 36:26-27 – “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. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.”
- Psalm 51:10, 17 – “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
- Matthew 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
- Matthew 6:21 – “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
- Matthew 15:18-19 – What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart… For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
- Luke 6:45 – Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
- Romans 10:9-10 – If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. With the heart one believes and is justified.
- Romans 2:29 – Circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter.
- Hebrews 8:10 – I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts.
- Acts 16:14 – The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.
- Joel 2:12-13 – Return to me with all your heart… rend your hearts and not your garments.
- Psalm 19:14 – Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight.
- Proverbs 3:5 – Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5 – The Lord will disclose the purposes of the heart.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Man looks on the outward appearance. The Lord looks on the heart.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick. I the Lord search the heart.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart.
I will give you a new heart and a new spirit. I will remove the heart of stone.
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. With the heart one believes and is justified.
Do not decorate a stone heart. Ask for flesh. Rend the heart. Trust Him with all of it. Guard the springs. He already reads them.
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