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1. hat… is in your heart? Proverbs 4:20-23/Matthew 12:35 A Warriors Guide to a Better Life

2. What is in your heart? • WHAT? • WHAT is in your heart? • WHAT is in your mouth? • WHAT is in your hand?

3. What is in your heart? Whatever is truly in the HEART…..EVENTUALLY comes out of our MOUTH • Whatever comes out of our MOUTH ….CREATES or DESTOYS….Life/DESTINY Whatever is truly in the HEART….is manifested by the hands ….(decisions/behavior/actions/fruits) • Whatever is manifested by the hands… DEFINES YOUR LIFE (who you truly are)

4. What is in your heart? The Heart -the source to our WHY’s • Why we say what we say • Why we do what we do

5. What is in your heart? • What is the Heart? • καρδία (kardia) -The heart: the central core to a person. • In Hebrew psychology the heart is the center of moral consciousness and the seat of the affections • The heart consists of the inner self that thinks, feels, and decides. • Purpose, Intention, and Will are all activities of the heart. • The heart represents a person’s true character or personality. • The heart is the seat of one’s entire mental and moral activity, containing both rational and emotional elements. • It is the seat of feelings, desires, joy, pain, and love. • Smith, J. E. (1996). The wisdom literature and Psalms (Pr 4:20–27). Joplin, Mo.: College Press Pub. Co. • Hayford, J. W., & Thomas Nelson Publishers. (1995). Hayford's Bible handbook. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

6. What is in your heart? • Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life. (Prov. 4:23). • Keep(nāṣar) I,watch, guard- The etymology of this root is illustrated in the Akkadiannaṣāru “watch over, protect.” • The Arabic cognate naẓara means “keep in view,” “look at.” • Diligence (mišmār) guard- The root of this word means “to exercise great care over”. • Issue (tô∙ṣā∙ʾôṯ)- starting point, source, wellspring,Origin

7. What is in your heart? • A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. (Mt 12:35). • Treasure/Treasury (thesaurus)-the place in which good and precious things are collected and laid up; where valuables are kept. • 1b) a treasury. 1c) storehouse, repository, • Strong, J. (1996). (electronic ed.) (G2344). Ontario: Woodside Bible Fellowship.

8. What is in your heart? • Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. (Ps 51:5). • …the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth… (Ge 8:21). • Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every  intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Ge 6:5).

9. What is in your heart? • Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow... … Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me (Ps 51:7-9,10 -KJV)

10. What is in your heart? King Saul & David

11. What is in your heart? Saul’s Deposits -Disobedience -Impatience -Stubbornness -Noncompliance -Jealousy -Envy -Pride

12. What is in your heart? David’s Withdrawals -Anger -Rage -Jealousy

13. What is in your heart? • And they will go there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. 19 Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within 5them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, 20that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them;  and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. 21 But as for those whose hearts follow the desire for their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God. (Eze 11:18-21).