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How’s your Heart rate?

How’s your Heart rate?. More than just a physical organ, the heart symbolizes the very center of our being. I Samuel 13:13,14. “How foolish!” Samuel exclaimed. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you.

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How’s your Heart rate?

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  1. How’s your Heart rate?

  2. More than just a physical organ, the heart symbolizes the very center of our being.

  3. I Samuel 13:13,14

  4. “How foolish!” Samuel exclaimed. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you.

  5. Had you kept it, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

  6. 14 But now your kingdom must end, for the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart.

  7. The Lord has already appointed him to be the leader of his people, because you have not kept the Lord’s command.”

  8. What does it mean to be a person after God’s own heart?

  9. How do we cultivate a “Heart after God?”

  10. 1. There is complete honesty about sin.

  11. II Sam 12:13

  12. Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan replied, “Yes, but the Lord has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.

  13. Prov. 28:13,14

  14. People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

  15. 14 Blessed are those who fear to do wrong,but the stubborn are headed for serious trouble.

  16. 2. There is a deep sensitivityto being obedientto God’s instructions in our life.

  17. Acts 13:22

  18. But God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart.

  19. He will do everything I want him to do.’

  20. II Chron. 16:9

  21. The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

  22. What a fool you have been! From now on you will be at war.”

  23. I Sam. 16:7

  24. But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him.

  25. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

  26. 3. Continually seek God for a new heart

  27. Eze. 11:19

  28. And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart,

  29. Jeremiah 29:11-13

  30. For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

  31. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

  32. APPLICATION:

  33. The heartof the matter is the matter of the heart

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