Your heart condition.

Sunday, October  23rd.
Your heart condition.

“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”
Hebrews 3:12

Our opening scripture makes it obvious that before anyone backslides, they would first lose faith. For anyone to lose faith, they would first lose the Word of God. Faith comes from the Word of God. (See Romans 10:17) Where there is no Word there will be no faith and where there is no faith there will be unbelief.

A heart of unbelief is a heart that is void of the Word of God; such a heart does not hold the Word of God as supreme authority, the Bible labels such heart as evil. If you are going to grow effectively spiritually, you must continually examine the state of your heart. Is the Word of God supreme authority in your heart above all else? If it is not, it means that you are in unbelief. If you are in unbelief, it means that you are on the way to backsliding.

Hebrews 2:1(AMP) says, “SINCE ALL this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the truths that we have heard, lest in any way we drift past [them] and slip away.” One of the reasons the growth of the children of Israel was stunted and they could not enter into their rest in God is found in God's word concerning them in Hebrews 3:10b (WNT) “…'THEY ARE EVER GOING ASTRAY IN HEART, AND HAVE NOT LEARNT TO KNOW MY PATHS.'” Therefore if you want your spiritual growth to be effective and dynamic, do not be like the children of Israel whose heart was always going astray but rather keep your mind on God and remain loyal to the Word of God in your heart.

Prayer.
Dear Father, I choose to accept Your Word as final authority in my life, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

For further study, read:
Proverbs 18:21, Jeremiah 17:5, Hebrews 10:38.

Doing the Word.
Remain steadfast in the faith.