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.

 

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.

 

Mark 10:21-22

Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”

But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

 

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.

 

https://youtu.be/U3Skc4MQlqU

 

1. 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.

 

Psalms 139:23-24

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Point out anything in me that offends you,

and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

 

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

 

 

Prayer Point.

Lord search my heart, examine my mind and  my heart and lead me in the way everlasting.

 

2. 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.”

 

1 John 1:8-9

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

 

“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.

 

3. I 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 Point.

Lord i incline my heart to perform your statutes forever to the end. I receive the grace, strength, wisdom and May the voice of the Holy Spirit to be clearer/loudest.

 

4. Turn the heart of loved once. 

 

Ezekiel 36:26-27

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. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

 

Malachi 4:6

And he will turn

The hearts of the fathers to the children,

And the hearts of the children to their fathers,

Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

 

Prayer point.

Let’s pray for our family members that the Lord will turn their hearts back to him and to each other. Pray for broken relationships. 

 

5. 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

 

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.”

 

Matthew 28:18-20

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

 

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.

Prayer Point.

 

2. 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.

 

 

3. Lord i incline my heart to perform your statutes forever to the end. I receive the grace, strength, wisdom and May the voice of the Holy Spirit to be clearer/loudest.

 

4. Let’s pray for our family members that the Lord will turn their hearts back to him and to each other. Pray for broken relationships. 

 

5. Lord give me the heart of Christ that loves the lost world. Remove the heart of stone and replace with a heart of flesh. 

 

6. 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!