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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
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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