Title: The Importance of Our Heart
Text:
Proverbs 16:1-9 (NLT)
1 We can make our own plans, but the LORD gives the right answer.
2 People may be pure in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their motives.
3 Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed.
4 The LORD has made everything for his own purposes, even the wicked for a day of disaster.
5 The LORD detests the proud; they will surely be punished.
6 Unfailing love and faithfulness make atonement for sin. By fearing the LORD, people avoid evil.
7 When people's lives please the LORD, even their enemies are at peace with them.
8 Better to have little, with godliness, than to be rich and dishonest.
9 We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.
Observation:
I spent quite a bit of time last Thursday focusing on our focal passage. I allowed the message of this passage to find a place in my heart.
Today, I want to focus on two truths I find in this passage; it is the connection between what's in our hearts, and our actions; how we behave. What we say with our mouths, what we do with our hands, and where we go with our feet matter. Notice the connection in these two verses:
Proverbs 16:1 (NLT)
1 We can make our own plans, but the LORD gives the right answer.
Proverbs 16:9 (NLT)
9 We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.
O how we need the words of this hymn to be a reality in the way we live our lives. We can't know and do God's will unless we spend time with Him in His Word, and in prayer.
"O the pure delight of a single hour
That before Thy throne I spend,
When I kneel in prayer, and with Thee, my God,
I commune as friend with friend!"
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Thy most holy and righteous name; the name that is above every name on earth and in heaven.
Father, O how grateful I am to know that my times are in Your hands; that as one of your children I have access to the throne room where you rule and reign, and where needy souls can find direction for our life, and peace for our troubled hearts.
Father, draw us closer to you so that we may experience your presence, and receive your wisdom and power to live our lives, and to live them more abundantly. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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