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Discover the importance of guarding your heart as it shapes who you are, guides your actions, and determines your eternal destiny, referencing biblical verses. Learn what Satan tries to put in your heart - lust, covetousness, envy, anger, and pride. Understand how Satan tries to fill your heart with idleness, influences, and trials. Find out how to win the battle by watching what you watch, being careful of what you hear, and keeping God's word in your heart. Protect your heart diligently, for it is the source of life and seek a clean heart and steadfast spirit in God.
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The Battle for Your Heart Acts 5:3; Ephesians 6:12
The Importance of the Battle for Your Heart The condition of your heart… • Determines who you are • Proverbs 27:19; Luke 6:45; Jeremiah 11:20 • Guides your thoughts and actions • Mark 7:21-23; Matthew 15:18-19 • Determines your eternal destiny • Matthew 5:8
What Satan tries to Put in Your Heart • Lust • 1 John 2:16; Prov. 6:25, Matthew 5:27-28 • Covetousness • James 4:1-4; Acts 5:3 • Envy • James 3:15-16; Proverbs 23:17 • Anger • Ecclesiastes 7:9; Ephesians 4:26-27 • Pride • Proverbs 16:5
How Satan tries to Fill Your Heart • Idleness • 1 Timothy 5:113-14 • Sights & Sounds • Matthew 6:22-23; 12:34-36 • Tribulation & Affliction • 2 Corinthians 12:7
How to Win the Battle: Guard Your Heart! • Watch what you watch • Psalm 101:2-4; 119:36-37 • Take heed what you hear-- Mark 4:24 • Be careful about what & whom you admire -- Psalm 141:4-5 • Keep God’s word in your heart • Psalm 119:11, 112; Proverbs 2:10-13 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. -- Proverbs 4:23
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. -- Psalm 51:10