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Proverbs 4:20-23; I Samuel 16:1-7; Proverbs 23:26; Luke 6:45; Proverbs 23:7; Matthew 12:31-33; Proverbs 23:26; I Timothy 1:5; Matthew 23:27, 28; Philippians 2:5; Psalm 119:10, 11; Psalm 1:1-3; Matthew 6:19-21; Psalm 27:14; 73:26; 86:1-12; 119:2, 7, 10, 32, 34; II Thessalonians 3:5; Proverbs 4:20-23

Our hearts can guide our decision when we do not know what we should do. When we remember we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings and are saved by grace, our hearts are where they should be so we can walk in the good works God would have us to walk in.

Proverbs 4 tells us that out of the heart come the issues of life. All our decisions will come from our heart. God does not judge a book from the outside but looks on the heart. God wants our whole hearts.

Everyone understands the importance of the heart. If our physical heart is not beating, we are dead. Our spiritual heart is the same. If we shut our hearts off from God by not putting the Word in our minds, our spiritual hearts are dead which will be evidenced by what comes out. Our lives will give testimony of what is our hearts.

We are responsible to guard our hearts by guarding our minds. Proverbs 23:7 says as a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he.” We are the sum and substance of our thoughts. We must put God’s Word in our thoughts and hearts to manifest God’s Word. No one can do that for us. We each must do it ourselves.

Who we spend time with also affects our lives. God wants us to seek Him with our whole hearts. We must meditate on God’s Word which takes discipline. Guarding our spiritual hearts begins by feeding upon the Word of God. When we give our hearts to God, He requires that we change our hearts by our freedom of will. But God will also help us do this.

We must ask ourselves, “Where are our hearts?” God cannot be fooled and neither can we. It is up to each of us to put God’s Word in our minds and hearts.