WEDNESDAY 21st
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
NIV (v6) – ‘These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.’
ESV (v6) – ‘And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.’
Following on from yesterday I will use todays devotion to share some Scriptures which refer to the word heart. Take some time out today to meditate upon them as a means of a spiritual heart health check.
Jeremiah 17:9–10
‘The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.’
1 Chronicles 28:9
‘And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought.’
Proverbs 4:23
‘Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.’
Proverbs 21:2
‘Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.’
Proverbs 23:26
‘My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.’
Psalm 51:10
‘Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.’
Ezekiel 11:19–20
‘And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them.’
2 Corinthians 4:6
‘For God, who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.’
Ephesians 1:18
‘. . . having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints . . .’
1 Kings 8:61
‘Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.’
1 Thessalonians 3:13
‘. . . so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.’
Psalm 27:14
‘Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!’
Psalm 90:12
‘So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.’
Romans 10:10
‘For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.’
1 Peter 1:22
‘Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart . . .’
Proverbs 3:5
‘Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.’
Matthew 5:8
‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.’