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. This is why God shows us how to maintain such quality of life in Proverbs 4:23 which says, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." The Good News Bible renders it this way, "Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts." This shows that the way you are thinking decides what you believe, and what you believe is what you will say, and what you say, decides what happens to you.

This is why it is important for you to get the Word of God into your heart until it influences your thinking. This is the first thing you must do. If you are going to change what you say, you must change what is in your heart. Therefore, I encourage you to habitually study the Bible and listen to messages over and over again until your heart is flooded with the Word. As you do, you are working on your heart, and if your heart is right, your life would also be alright but if your heart is defiled and evil, your life would also go in that direction.

Mark 7:21-23 say, "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.” So, what defiles a man comes from his heart. Therefore, lay up the Word of God in your heart and let it become your meditation. When that happens, your life would only reflect the Word because your life reflects your heart.

For instance, if you think that life is difficult, that will, of necessity, be your experience, 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. Therefore, when I look at your life I can immediately tell the way you think.

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.