Date: 30-Mar-2023
Name: Michael Ngethe
Topic: THE MAN + THE HEART.
Content:
The heart of the matter.
Psalms 63:1-2
O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.
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Mark 12:30 “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Matthew 12:34-35
Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
Quotes on the heart.
“Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God.” Mother Teresa.
“We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.” – William Law
“God sees hearts as we see faces”. George Herbert.
“It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.” Billy Graham.
“ Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love” Mother Teresa.
“You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart”. Charles Spurgeon.
“My heart is Yours completely
My heart is Yours totally
You love with no reservations
You're not looking for perfection
And there's no need in me pretending
I'll give You everything
I'll give You everything, oh”
Have my heart by Maverick City.
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1. Incline my heart!
Psalms 119:112
I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes Forever, to the very end.
“The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.” A.W. Tozer
“The testimony of the lips indicates the state of the heart.” Harry Ironside.
Prayer Points:
Prayer Point.
Lord search my heart, examine my mind and my heart and lead me in the way everlasting.
3. Cleanse our hearts ohh!
Jeremiah 17:9-10
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
But I, the LORD, search all hearts
and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards,
according to what their actions deserve.”
“While we cannot know a person's heart, we can see his light. Allowing sin to go unconfessed can dim God's light and hinder the effectiveness of a life's testimony.” Paul Chappell.
Psalms 51:7-10
Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Oh, give me back my joy again;
you have broken me—
now let me rejoice.
Don’t keep looking at my sins.
Remove the stain of my guilt.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
Prayer point.
LORD, search all hearts
and examine secret motives. Lord cleanse me from all unrighteousness and create in me a clean heart/ renew a right spirit in me.
4. The heart of Christ.
“May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.” A.B. Simpson
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Luke 6:45 “The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
Prayer point:
Lord give me the heart of Christ that loves the lost world. Remove the heart of stone and replace with a heart of flesh.
Finally Brethren, Guard your heart.
Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart above all else,
for it determines the course of your life.
“Keep your heart as you would a prisoner”.
Thomas Watson.
“Soft heart and thick skins” Pst Mark Varughese.
“We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.” JJ
Prayer Point.
Lord help us to guard our hearts above all else for it determines the course of our lives. Give us soft hearts and thick skins!
