A HEART THAT ENDURES
Why is the heart topic so important?
A GOOD HEART GIVES SUCCESS & PRODUCTIVITY
How the heart facilitates and births OR prevents and aborts
Matthew 5:8- Blessed are the pure in heart, for THEY will see God
Proverbs 4:23- Above all else, guard your heart, for out of it flow the issues of life
The success of your destiny and micro-destinies (which are your smaller, individually broken down daily assignments) hinges on the condition of your heart….A good heart is able to accomplish its goal by the grace of God….a compromised heart struggles to endure.
Luke 22:24-46 Deals with several examples of how men’s heart issues bring us to failure points in moments of battle.
THE HEART STORES UP AND BRINGS FORTH
Luke 6:45- A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
THE HEART BELIEVES
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Hebrews 11:6- Without faith it is impossible to please God.
Romans 10:10-For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
“If our hearts are designed to store and manufacture and reproduce and imitate the God kind of faith—to host the God of Hope that Romans 15:13 describes- then it is our responsibility to keep the epicenter of God’s operation apparatus clean and orderly and efficient. This is God’s laboratory. This is God’s creative facility where He’s manufacturing and engineering and wiring you and writing your story. And some of us have this internal work space so cluttered that we can’t even find a paper clip. We feel so burdened and weighed down by cares of life that we can’t even find a clean corner to fall on our knees to cry out to God for help and deliverance! Some hearts in here are so cluttered and weighed down –you need some organization. You need some de-cluttering
2 Peter 1:3-4 His divine power has granted unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him (Jesus) who has called us by HIS OWN EXCELLENCE AND VIRTUE- through these he has given us very great and exceeding precious promises that by these promises we might become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Circumcised Hearts precede victory:
Hebrews 10:19-25 NIV
A Call to Persevere in Faith. (A CALL TO A CLEAN HEART IS A CALL TO PERSEVERANCE)
19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.