Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV) 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.
To keep, is to cause to continue in a specified condition, position, course, etc. It means to have or retain possession of.
Diligence means careful and persistent work or effort.
So, keeping our heart with all diligence is simply conditioning ourselves with His word to continue to be doing the things of God with every bit of our heart.
Knowing His word will cause us to be more aware of what God would want us to do regarding any given situation, even keeping us at times from sinning against Him.
Psalm 119:11 (NKJV) 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.
Everything we say, we think, or do comes from our heart.
If our heart constantly remains in the same condition that it was in before we met Christ, we will still think, talk and do wrongly. It will continue to defile us.
Matthew 15:18-19 (NKJV) 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
As we become a believer, we have to make every effort to learn God’s way. We must be taught. And we must let it take root and fix that heart of stone.
Keeping our heart right by staying connected with God’s word will help us to do the very things that bring life and goodness to ourselves and others around us.
Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443
401-439-3780
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