Get your heart right

"My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh."    

Proverbs 4:20-22

Speaking the right words will cause God's life to dominate you and keep you in health. What are you then going to do to maintain such quality of life? The Bible says in Proverbs 4:23, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 4:23 in the Good News Bible says, "Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts." The way you think decides what you believe, and what you believe is what you will say, and what you say, decides what happens to you.

Don't only focus on trying to change what you say, focus primarily on getting the Word of God into your heart. So, listen to the word over and over again. Get your Bible out and learn to study it. As you do, you are working on your heart because if your heart is right, your life will also be alright. But if your heart is defiled and evil, your life will also go in that direction.

Mark 7:21-23 says, "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murder, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." What defiles a man comes from his heart.

Knowing this, you have to lay up the Word of God in your heart and let those words permeate your heart. When that happens, your life will only reflect the Word because your life reflects the state of your heart. When I look at your life I can immediately tell the way you think. When you think that life is difficult, that will consequently be your experience. It will show up in your life. But when you begin to think the way of prosperity and abundance as revealed to us in the Bible, your life will begin to go in that direction.

Prayer.

Dear Father, I thank you for a release of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you even as I submit my heart to the influence of your Word and the Spirit in Jesus Name. Amen.

For further study read:

Proverbs 7:1, Proverbs 23:19, Luke 11:28, Job 22:22, Psalm 119:11.

Doing the Word

Take out time to meditate on the Word of God every day.