“As prophetic intercessors, we understand that the real advantage of prayer is for it to be sent ahead to program the future or engineer atmospheres in the spiritual.” Pst Lakers. 

 

 

Psalms 90:12

So teach us to number our days,

That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

 

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

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

 

Proverbs 23:7

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

“Eat and drink!” he says to you,

But his heart is not with you.

 

 

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.

 

 

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. 

 

 

2. Search my heart ohhh Lord.

 

“Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.” John Wesley. 

 

Psalms 26:2

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me;

Try my mind and my heart.

 

Proverbs 27:19 “As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects man.”

 

3. Cleanse our hearts ohh!

 

Jeremiah 17:9-10

“The heart is deceitful above all things,

And desperately wicked;

Who can know it?

I, the LORD, search the heart,

I test the mind,

Even to give every man according to his ways,

According to the fruit of his doings.

 

“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 51:10-11

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Do not cast me away from Your presence,

And do not take Your Holy Spirit from 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.”

 

5. 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. 

 

“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 Packer.