Good Day
Everyone!
This week we’re
looking at cleaning our natural and spiritual heart. God is such an awesome God to give us this
opportunity to lay our hearts out before him and do a spiritual check to see if
we’re in compliance with His Word.
The
heart is one of the most important organs in the entire human body. It is
really nothing more than a pump, composed of muscle which pumps blood
throughout the body.
FACTS
ABOUT THE HEART:
·
It beats
approximately 72 times per minute
·
It
pumps the blood, which carries all the vital materials which help our bodies
function and removes the waste products that we do not need.
·
The
brain requires oxygen and glucose, which, if not received continuously, will
cause it to loose consciousness and the heart, helps with that…..
·
Muscles
need oxygen, glucose and amino acids, as well as the proper ratio of sodium,
calcium and potassium salts in order to contract normally.
·
The
glands need sufficient supplies of raw materials from which to manufacture the
specific secretions. …..so….If the heart ever ceases to pump blood the body
begins to shut down and after a very short period of time will die.
·
The
heart works on the "All -or-Nothing Law". That is, each time the
heart contracts it does so with all its force.
NOW TAKE THIS AND LOOK AT YOUR HEART SPIRITUALLY!!! WOW
Day One
Psalm 51 -
(AMP)
1 Have mercy upon me, O God,
according to Your steadfast love; according to the multitude of your
tender mercy and loving-kindness blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly [and
repeatedly] from my iniquity and guilt and cleanse me and make me
wholly pure from my sin!
3 For I am conscious of my
transgressions and I acknowledge them; my sin is ever before me.
4 Against You, You only, have
I sinned and done that which is evil in Your sight, so that
You are justified in Your sentence and faultless in Your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth
in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived
me [and I too am sinful].
6 Behold, You desire truth in
the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart.
7 Purify me with hyssop, and I
shall be clean [ceremonially]; wash me, and I shall [in
reality] be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and
gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins
and blot out all my guilt and iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart,
O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from Your
presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of
Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13 Then will I teach
transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You.
14 Deliver me from
bloodguiltiness and death, O God, the God of my salvation, and
my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness (Your rightness and
Your justice).
15 O Lord, open my lips, and
my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16 For You delight not in
sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in
burnt offering.
17 My sacrifice [the sacrifice
acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart
[broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such,
O God, You will not despise.
18 Do good in Your good
pleasure to Zion; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then will You delight in
the sacrifices of righteousness, justice, and right, with
burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then bullocks will be
offered upon Your altar.
Day Two
Hebrews 10:22 (KJV)
Let us draw near with a true heart
in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Joel 2:12-13 (AMP)
12 Therefore also now, says the
Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with
weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken
fellowship is restored].
13 Rend your hearts and not your
garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of
evil [when His conditions are met].
Day Three
Proverbs 3:5
AMP - Lean on, trust in, and be
confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not
rely on your own insight or understanding
KJV - Trust in the Lord with
all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Matthew 22:37 - KJV
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Day Four
Psalm 37:4 - AMP
Delight yourself also in the Lord,
and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
Psalm 139:23-24 (AMP)
23 Search me [thoroughly], O God,
and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there is any wicked or
hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Day Five
Ezekiel
36:26-29 (AMP)
26 A new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart
out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and
do them.
28 And ye shall dwell in the land
that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29 I will also save you from all
your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay
no famine upon you.
Proverbs
4:23 - AMP
Keep thy heart with all diligence;
for out of it are the issues of life.
Day Six
Jeremiah
17:9-10 (AMP)
9 The heart is deceitful above all
things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick!
Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and
mind]?
10 I the Lord search the mind, I try
the heart, even to give to every man according to his ways, according to the
fruit of his doings.
1 Peter 3:4
AMP - But let it be the inward
adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible
and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or
wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.
KJV - But let it be the hidden man
of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and
quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Day Seven
Ephesians
5:26
KJV
26 That he might sanctify and
cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to
himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but
that it should be holy and without blemish.
(AMP) –verse 27
That He might present the church to
Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that
she might be holy and faultless].
1 Samuel
16:7 (AMP)
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look
not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused
him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward
appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
